15 Stories From Housekeepers That Truly Stunned Us

we were not to take the sheet off. Apparently, it was a crystal ball that gives off positive energy to anyone who looks into it. But if too many people look into it, it sucks the energy dry. So only she can look into it. © sweetlemongrass / Reddit

• Helped my mother-in-law, who was a maid once, with a very large mansion — a beautiful house with amazing architecture. They traveled the world all the time. The kitchen had old appliances from the 70s, and the wife’s bathroom had a broken toilet seat that was duct-taped together. The wife did not rewear her underwear. 
  We were not to go into the basement. I peeked down there, and there were clothes three feet deep in the basement where she took them off and just threw them down there. Thousands of pairs of underwear. Very weird people. © 2greenToes / Reddit

• Cleaning houses, it just seemed the richer the people were, the weirder they were. I think the worst was the people living in a $2 million house full of nice antiques, who just let their dog poop all over the dining room floor. 
  And they bought processed, off-brand food almost exclusively. Cheap, unhealthy, and probably not very good. If it were some name-brand, unhealthy, but really tasty stuff, I could kind of get it. Just, why? © henbanehoney / Reddit
• Used to clean my mom’s boss’s house on the weekends with her. She had this old hutch in the corner of one room stocked with dishes she wanted us to move and clean. It smelled a bit weird while we were doing it, and we eventually found the source at the back of the hutch — a butter dish with butter circa 1984 (this happened in 2014, by the way). 
  I told her about it, and the first thing she asked was “Did you save the butter dish?” My mom and I then went out and dug this sour-smelling piece of porcelain out of the trash. Later on, we found it being used in the fridge again… © NikkyB123 / Reddit
• Some people take advantage of having a cleaning service and live like absolute slobs. The idea isn’t that I should have to unclog your toilets, pick up tissues or underwear off of the floor, or wash two weeks’ worth of dishes while I am there. It’s expected that people keep their houses tidy enough that I don’t have to work around their garbage. Some people don’t get it. © PrincessPikapoo / Reddit

Bonus

• A family once took me on vacation with them, so I could watch their kids while they’d go out and explore the area. That week, my bed was the couch in the living room. It’s late at night, the kids are sleeping, I’m laying on the couch and the parents get back. The dad says, “is she sleeping” referring to me? I didn’t say anything, so apparently he assumed yes. He then started farting very loudly. © sisof2 / Reddit