looking for a housekeeper

[DonJuane]

Not criticizing your quest at all, but this reminds me always how different I am than everyone else. I recall renting my first house in San Miguel for a couple of months about 12 years ago and by the end of the stay, I paid off the free included housekeeper to take the rest of the rental time off and not show up again. What a relief for me not to have someone "popping in" every week.

By the time you work your schedule around someone coming and going and by the time you do a pre-pickup on scheduled days and with that you lose the ability to manage your own activities for those days every week, or by the time you lose your "get away from me, I'm spending the day lounging around in my underwear and I don't feel like hosting anyone today", for me it's easier just to set aside a non-scheduled semi-frequent tornado-like self cleaning session through the house where I don't have to depend on anyone and thus I'm on my own schedule and living my life as a series of random events which I most enjoy about Mexico. With a maid, at least from my own experience, it's like all of a sudden I am a restaurant owner or now worrying about paying the proper salary, bonuses, taxes, etc.

So in brief the message I share (for those amused enough to pay attention) is I came here to do nothing and I have found that doing everything for myself is actually the easiest way to accomplish doing nothing, or at least a little less than if someone is helping me :-)