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<p>People who clean other people&#39;s homes professionally discover a lot more than just gnarly dust bunnies under the bed. Cleaning someone&#39;s homes is a window into the darkest corners of their lives. So if you have a housekeeper, tip them well. They know <em>all</em> your secrets.</p><h2>Someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fegzlq/housekeepers_of_reddit_what_do_you_know_about_the/" target="_blank">asked</a> housekeepers of Reddit: &quot;what do you know about the owners of the houses that they don&rsquo;t know you know?&quot;</h2><h2>They know about your lies...</h2><p>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/LtLacie/">LtLacie</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>One family had a metric f**kton of money, but it was obvious that the husband was hiding it from the wife; they would argue about how the bills were getting paid, yet the bank statements I kept having to clean up from the study showed that bills should never have been a problem.</p> </blockquote><h2>They know how much money is in the bank...</h2><p>2.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>Moms a housekeeper. The answer is everything. From what you had for breakfast to who you&#39;re having an affair with. She even knows how much money is in the bank.</p> <p>Note: she doesn&#39;t snoop, you just gradually learn stuff when cleaning for people for an extended amount of time.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>They know what your kids do when you&#39;re not home...</h2><p>3.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>The man in house A. cheats on his wife when she goes on her private vacation/shopping spree in Vegas. She constantly suspects him and they have explosive fights that leave water stains on the walls. Also, she has a shopping addiction.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Oh, and to the parents in house B. Your children are cretins who throw parties when you&#39;re out of town that we&#39;re obliged to cover before you get back. Your son is a douchebag with a drinking problem, and your daughter and her friend sleep with guys in her childhood playhouse.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>The woman in house C.. hoards tons of money and isn&#39;t straightforward on her taxes. Since her private business is being sued, she&#39;s scrambling to get her papers in order and seeing where she can skimp on the truth.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>They know about your bad habits...</h2><p>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/laniferous/">laniferous</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I know you drink A LOT. I know you&#39;re in financial trouble (creditors leaving messages all day). I know you claim to be healthy but really, you and the kids seem to eat nothing but junk food ( tsk tsk, you&#39;re a pediatrician ).</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I know you&#39;re having an affair, and you don&#39;t even care that I know, I guess.</p> <p>I&#39;m quiet and efficient, and you forget I&#39;m around. I hear and see everything :)</p> </blockquote><h2>They know about your gardening hobby....</h2><p>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TheFckestUpest/">TheFckestUpest</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Your kid is growing pot in the basement!<br /> Kindly, the dog walker</p> </blockquote><h2>They know about your sex life...</h2><p>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PocketSpaghettis/">PocketSpaghettis</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Your sex tapes and pictures. I know where they are. Always.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>They know about your self love...</h2><p>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/spankygrrl/">spankygrrl</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I know who pees in the shower. I notice when the number of toothbrushes changes (who&#39;s getting some and who&#39;s breaking up). Depending on the knicknacks I have to dust, I can learn a lot about people -- awards, tastes in music/books/movies, obscure 80&#39;s toys. One client has a naked picture of herself on her dresser, which she specifically asked me to dust...</p> </blockquote><h2>They know about your..... creativity.</h2><p>8.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>I work as a personal assistant for a well to do lady in her fifties. She it totally computer illiterate and part of my job is transferring and organizing her iPhone pics to her computer. One day while I was going through them I stumbled upon a naked selfie of her... She was topless and had those fake Groucho Marx glasses on her boobs. Hard to look at her or those glasses the same.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>They know what you do for fun....</h2><p>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FLaBandMe/">FLaBandMe</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I know where the &#39;toys&#39; are .. it was kind of an &#39;eewwww&#39; moment the first time it happened. I was organizing the closet, pulled this basket off the shelf and they fell on my head =/</p> </blockquote><h2>They know about what you do for &quot;work&quot;....</h2><p>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/adcas/">adcas</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My mom used to clean upscale houses in a big city. Once, she found a trash bag in the closet with like $500,000 in loose cash.</p> </blockquote><h2>They know about what you do in the bathroom....</h2><p>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BlueberryKind/">BlueberryKind</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>The weirdest thing after 4 years cleaning in a elderly care centrum is that when i walked in the house the elderly couple was in the bathroom the man was on the toilet and the woman was reading a book next to him. Not even to him, just reading it. All the doors where open and the apartments are small so yeah. And further i can know basely everything about my clients. I can read there medical history and when they had visitors and everything.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>They know about what you do in your man cave...</h2><p>12.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>I worked as a maid during college in really lavish homes. There was this one place with a really big b*tch of a stay at home trophy wife who would always pick apart our work and call our boss and complain. This one particular day she asked us to vacuum underneath the cushions on all of the sofas in the house. If we found anything under them we had to leave it on the kitchen table.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>My coworker that was doing the vacuuming calls us into the husbands man cave which was towards the back of the house a little while later. She had found a huge stash of adult magazines under the cushions. We immediately gathered it all up and left it in a beautiful arrangement on the kitchen table. Coincidentally our boss never got a complaint from her that day or any time after that.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>They know about your infidelity...</h2><p>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/addicted-to-spuds/">addicted-to-spuds</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>One client&#39;s wife is clearly cheating on him, long distance, with a guy from her bible ministry thing in South America. We&#39;ve seen her chatting with him via Skype, all giggles and blushes and hushed tones, trying to play it cool when she notices one of us in earshot.</p> </blockquote><h2>They know......everything.</h2><p>14.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>I work in this industry. We always know the following: how much sex you are having with your husband/wife, how the marriage is going (where clothes end up, if the guest bed is always being used, where your toothbrush is etc), whether you are an absent parent and your financial situation (for example a lot of unpaid toll fines in the mail usually mean the client is financially unstable). You get to see the way people operate and can make assumptions from there.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>These assumptions are usually backed by comments made by one party or the other. I am always amazed at how much sensitive crap clients pass to housekeepers. Much of it is unnecessary, but I think a lot of people have no other outlet. It&#39;s hard on the housekeepers because they feel a lot closer to the clients - so when the client quits the service the housekeeper takes it hard.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Finally, women are usually so angsty about getting help in their homes and think all their friends are super women who don&#39;t get help.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

14 housekeepers share the dirty secrets they discovered about their clients.

People who clean other people&#39;s homes professionally discover a lot more than just gnarly dust bunnies under the bed. Cleaning someone&#39;s homes is a window into the darkest corners of their lives. So if you have a housekeeper, tip them well. They know all your secrets.Someone asked housekeepers of Reddit: &quot;what do you know about the owners of the houses that they don&rsquo;t know you know?&quot;They know about your lies...1.) From LtLacie: One family had a metric f**kton of money, but it was obvious that the husband was hiding it from the wife; they would argue about how the bills were getting paid, yet the bank statements I kept having to clean up from the study showed that bills should never have been a problem. They know how much money is in the bank...2.) From [deleted]: Moms a housekeeper. The answer is everything. From what you had for breakfast to who you&#39;re having an affair with. She even knows how much money is in the bank. Note: she doesn&#39;t snoop, you just gradually learn stuff when cleaning for people for an extended amount of time. They know what your kids do when you&#39;re not home...3.) From [deleted]: The man in house A. cheats on his wife when she goes on her private vacation/shopping spree in Vegas. She constantly suspects him and they have explosive fights that leave water stains on the walls. Also, she has a shopping addiction.  Oh, and to the parents in house B. Your children are cretins who throw parties when you&#39;re out of town that we&#39;re obliged to cover before you get back. Your son is a douchebag with a drinking problem, and your daughter and her friend sleep with guys in her childhood playhouse.  The woman in house C.. hoards tons of money and isn&#39;t straightforward on her taxes. Since her private business is being sued, she&#39;s scrambling to get her papers in order and seeing where she can skimp on the truth. They know about your bad habits...4.) From laniferous: I know you drink A LOT. I know you&#39;re in financial trouble (creditors leaving messages all day). I know you claim to be healthy but really, you and the kids seem to eat nothing but junk food ( tsk tsk, you&#39;re a pediatrician ).  I know you&#39;re having an affair, and you don&#39;t even care that I know, I guess. I&#39;m quiet and efficient, and you forget I&#39;m around. I hear and see everything :) They know about your gardening hobby....5.) From TheFckestUpest: Your kid is growing pot in the basement! Kindly, the dog walker They know about your sex life...6.) From PocketSpaghettis: Your sex tapes and pictures. I know where they are. Always. They know about your self love...7.) From spankygrrl: I know who pees in the shower. I notice when the number of toothbrushes changes (who&#39;s getting some and who&#39;s breaking up). Depending on the knicknacks I have to dust, I can learn a lot about people -- awards, tastes in music/books/movies, obscure 80&#39;s toys. One client has a naked picture of herself on her dresser, which she specifically asked me to dust... They know about your..... creativity.8.) From [deleted]: I work as a personal assistant for a well to do lady in her fifties. She it totally computer illiterate and part of my job is transferring and organizing her iPhone pics to her computer. One day while I was going through them I stumbled upon a naked selfie of her... She was topless and had those fake Groucho Marx glasses on her boobs. Hard to look at her or those glasses the same. They know what you do for fun....9.) From FLaBandMe: I know where the &#39;toys&#39; are .. it was kind of an &#39;eewwww&#39; moment the first time it happened. I was organizing the closet, pulled this basket off the shelf and they fell on my head =/ They know about what you do for &quot;work&quot;....10.) From adcas: My mom used to clean upscale houses in a big city. Once, she found a trash bag in the closet with like $500,000 in loose cash. They know about what you do in the bathroom....11.) From BlueberryKind: The weirdest thing after 4 years cleaning in a elderly care centrum is that when i walked in the house the elderly couple was in the bathroom the man was on the toilet and the woman was reading a book next to him. Not even to him, just reading it. All the doors where open and the apartments are small so yeah. And further i can know basely everything about my clients. I can read there medical history and when they had visitors and everything. They know about what you do in your man cave...12.) From [deleted]: I worked as a maid during college in really lavish homes. There was this one place with a really big b*tch of a stay at home trophy wife who would always pick apart our work and call our boss and complain. This one particular day she asked us to vacuum underneath the cushions on all of the sofas in the house. If we found anything under them we had to leave it on the kitchen table.  My coworker that was doing the vacuuming calls us into the husbands man cave which was towards the back of the house a little while later. She had found a huge stash of adult magazines under the cushions. We immediately gathered it all up and left it in a beautiful arrangement on the kitchen table. Coincidentally our boss never got a complaint from her that day or any time after that. They know about your infidelity...13.) From addicted-to-spuds: One client&#39;s wife is clearly cheating on him, long distance, with a guy from her bible ministry thing in South America. We&#39;ve seen her chatting with him via Skype, all giggles and blushes and hushed tones, trying to play it cool when she notices one of us in earshot. They know......everything.14.) From [deleted]: I work in this industry. We always know the following: how much sex you are having with your husband/wife, how the marriage is going (where clothes end up, if the guest bed is always being used, where your toothbrush is etc), whether you are an absent parent and your financial situation (for example a lot of unpaid toll fines in the mail usually mean the client is financially unstable). You get to see the way people operate and can make assumptions from there.  These assumptions are usually backed by comments made by one party or the other. I am always amazed at how much sensitive crap clients pass to housekeepers. Much of it is unnecessary, but I think a lot of people have no other outlet. It&#39;s hard on the housekeepers because they feel a lot closer to the clients - so when the client quits the service the housekeeper takes it hard.  Finally, women are usually so angsty about getting help in their homes and think all their friends are super women who don&#39;t get help. 

People who clean other people&#39;s homes professionally discover a lot more than just gnarly dust bunnies under the bed. Cleaning someone&#39;s homes is a window into the darkest corners of their lives. So if you have a housekeeper, tip...