03.11.07
A Welcoming Bathroom
This is part of the series:
- The Ideal Maid
- Why isn’t Your Current Maid Perfect?
- Why Is My Maid So Bad?
- How to Have the Best Maid
- What do You Want From Your Maid?
- Laundry and the Maid - not
- How Often Do I Need A Maid?
- What Kind of Maid -
Cleaning Services? - Which Maid to Hire - The Family Service?
- Which Maid to Hire?
- Networking Your Way To A New Maid
- Maid Contest from Lysol
- Nannies are Not Maids
- The Interview For A New Maid
- Salary for the New Maid
- Cleaning Supplies for the New Maid
- The Maid and Her Mop
- Cleaning Fluids
- Preparing For The Maid’s Arrival
- It’s Important Not to Let Your Kids Torture the Maid
- Training the Maid
- Trash and the Maid
- Does a Maid Destroy Your Child’s Character?
- Potty Talk - Cleaning the Bathroom
- Rules for the Maid
- Penni’s Story
- Cleaning the Bedroom
- Is My Maid Stealing?
- More Trash and the Maid
- A Welcoming Bathroom
- Another Dee Story - Children Terrorizing the Maid
Most bathrooms can be improved with three simple steps.
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Have a guest basket.
Having a maid tends to make you reduce the clutter that is out and about. (Even if you’re the maid.) Reversing this and putting everything a visitor might want in a bathroom in a basket greatly increases your visitor’s enjoyment of their visit. A broken nail or dry eyes may not rise to the level of needing to speak to the hostess at a dinner party, but if your guest can take care of the problem promptly, they will be more comfortable.
My mushroom-basket contains:
- spray deodorant (I think it is a teenage need, but someone sure uses it),
- anti-cling spray,
- dry eye drops (individual packets are available at the super stores),
- small clear pouch with nail clipper and tweezers,
- small sewing kit - needles thread & safety pins (although my skills make a stapler more appropriate),
- toilet paper roll,
- additional hand towels,
- hand lotion
- small baby powder
- small mouthwash (probably for teenagers, my husband kisses me as soon as he finishes the garlic bread)
- sunscreen,
- bug spray,
- a zippered pouch with sanitary supplies,
- tissues and
- hair spray (my guests use it for ink stains, not hair, as far as I know)
It’s technically not in the basket, but I also put a box of wipes on the floor by the toilet to clean anything that might not be up to my guests standards (What I really hope is that the males in my family use it - see Stephanie’s comment on the last post).
- Empty the medicine cabinet
- Wash your toothbrushes, cups, etc in the dishwasher on sanitiary cycle
There are absolutely appalling statistics* on the number of people who go sight-seeing through other people’s medicine cabinets and even worse stories about people pilfering prescription medicines from their neighbor’s homes. I moved all my aspirins, etc. to a high shelf in the kitchen. A locked first aid kit attached to a kitchen closet wall might have been better. (I’m fortunate that, unless you’re a dog, my medicine cabinet is pretty sparse.)
*Everyone cites a 40% at parties snoop statistic but there doesn’t seem to be any real research available on this.
I normally haul everyone’s toothbrushes, cups, and other oral hygene stuff down to the dishwasher once a week. If anyone has a cold, I do it once/day. This may have no discernable impact in a house of adults but I’m reasonably certain that if I put my son’s toothbrush under a microscope before & after there would be a discernable difference.
