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hausboy -> RE: Of Dom/mes and Domestics... (5/11/2011 7:32:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: FelineFae As a D-type, what is your personal standard that you expect your domicile to be maintained ? i am always curious how this differs greatly from person to person. And s-types, have you ever found that your standards of tidiness differ from your D-type's standards ? With Chaos and myself, sometime i wonder if i'm the only s-type told to " Stop cleaning so much and sit down. " [&:] hello FelineFae I have often found that standards vary greatly from home to home. I often find it important to find the "baseline" what that particular Household expects. [man, I hope none of my Households are on CollarMe and reading this.... oh well....here goes.,...] There's clean....and there's CLEAN. For the first time, I always give a thorough cleaning, but I may not give the absolute every nook and cranny, every last spec treatment. Not only does it give them a baseline to work from--that is, do they want me to improve...or want me to sustain my level of service.... but it also helps me gauge just how finicky they are...and exactly how much can slide. I hate to put it that way, but most do not actually appreciate the different "levels" of clean and can't discern the difference. I clean for one Household that is completely happy with my cleaning at the basic level. It takes approximately 3 hours, and they are very pleased. No need to get every single speck. The primary Household that I clean for is the opposite. Because we also have a punishment dynamic (all in funishment, for those who know the difference), it does not matter how amazingly well I clean, I know that he will make sure to find something I missed.....and that means a white cotton glove and magnifying glass may be necessary, but he'll find that one crumb underneath the microwave or in the back corner of the closest. I don't deliberately leave or miss anything--he's quite the sadist, so he carefully looks for any reason to break out the canes. That said, I know he's very pleased with the service I provide. And I enjoy how nice the house looks when I leave. (That, and I usually can't sit down for a week....) The third house I clean for is non-kink. They are close friends of mine, and the husband is a good friend. He has cancer and is undergoing chemo, so not only does he need to be in a clean environment, but his wife is too exhausted and over-extended to clean. Their standards are completely lower than mine--their house was never neat and clean, I spend hours just cleaning their floor and bathrooms and it never really meets MY standard, but they seem to be happy with it. (I'd need a grenade to get the house clean to my standards) It's always frustrating for me--I would rather leave feeling like I've left the house the way I'd want to live, but it's not about me, it's about them. And really, that applies to the kink houses too. As long as I meet the Household standards, then I'm happy.
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