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eats-the-stars · 3 months ago
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hate my sister's shitty good for nothing boyfriend. can you imagine being a 30yo man with two kids who won't even scramble an egg. Not for his kids, not for his girlfriend, not for himself. literally if my sister doesn't leave out pre-made meals when he's watching the kids he will rip up bread or pour them dry cereal or open a granola bar and make himself microwave dinners. like, lowest effort possible. but if i mention this to my sis, she'll be like "no he's definitely cooked for the kids! he scrambled an egg for them once! i watched him do it!" but it's like...so he scrambled one egg in the last five years. just to like, prove he can? at your direct insistence? should we all clap? like seriously. hate this guy. had to really hold back recently because he had someone over and he was interacting with the kids more than usual for appearances, and he had to keep asking me and my sis what the 5yo was signing because he barely bothered to learn his own son's primary form of communication. i was so tempted to say "that one means 'go home' but you wouldn't know that because you don't take them anywhere." so hard to hold that in. If I had to describe this man in two words they would be these: Low Effort. Not quite bare minimum, but JUST enough to convince my sister that it would be too much hassle to get rid of him. he's stupid as fuck, but just smart enough to quickly stop shit like screaming obscenities at the kids for doing normal kid things. and he once stomped on my headphones and broke them in a fit of rage, but gave my sister money to replace them so it was "fine." Like, my sister thinks that he's just struggling with his anger issues, because he had a bad childhood, blah, blah, and oh he would never actually hurt her or the kids. and like, good for you, but i don't trust like that. genuinely hoping he gets struck by lightning and dies instantly.
#my sister and i do all the hard stuff and most of the easy stuff too tbh#cooking and cleaning and sorting out benefits and insurances and getting the kids to school and events#doctor's appointments and medications and dentist appointments and taxes#we get the groceries and care for all the pets and kids and household things#we both have jobs#i actually have 3 jobs#good for nothing boyfriend makes $12 a year plus some under the table cash as a “private trainer”#which means between that and selling his plasma and borrowing money from his mom he can...pay his super cheap tiny part of rent#and occasionally hand my sister like $20#he doesn't buy groceries or diapers or household supplies or clothing or toys or literally anything#literally the only household chore he does is fold laundry#that's it. and it's not “DO” laundry. it's just folding the clean and dry stuff#you know. the chore my parents would have us do when we were like 10 so we'd feel helpful#the 5yo is medically complex and we frequently make trips to a slightly distant hospital with him#and they literally asked us to stop bringing my sister's boyfriend along because he was disruptive and confusing#which was a polite way to say 'obnoxious and stupid as shit'#do you know how many times in one visit w/the same doctor he would ask 'so when does he get superpowers?'#he also obviously didn't know how to answer basic questions like 'how many times does he poop a day on average'#and 'how often has he been eating and what has he been eating day to day?'#like bro this man can go days without changing a diaper and will not even heat up a can of spaghettios to feed his own kids#he cannot answer those questions with any kind of accuracy#also i'm saying boyfriend because my sister desperately wanted to at least be engaged so she could say fiance in front of ppl#but just like marriage this was apparently a 'waste of effort'#not even the cheapest ring or the most underwhelming proposal or a courthouse wedding was worth his energy so...#yeah glad she hasn't married this waste of air. and i'll be praying for that lightning strike
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sevman49 · 4 years ago
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I promised myself to write about my pilgrimage south to meet the woman I believe I now belong to. The Woman I Believe I Belong To. Sounds like the title of a country song. I'll write it later. I'm inspired. I went to meet her and planned on spending the weekend if we hit it off. That was my hope. I ended up staying two and a half weeks.
I'd like to tell you more about her, how beautiful she is, how well off she is, how she became so well off, describe her elegance and the environment she inhabits. But I'm not allowed to. I can't tell you her name, not that you would recognize it if you aren't a local. She knows I will write about her, and will allow it only if my discretion is absolute. I understand why it's necessary, I just can't tell anyone else why. I'll just refer to her as She and Her. I can't even describe her house or it's location, that would give her identity away. She is known and she is important. And powerful. And secretive.
As I wrote earlier, she wanted a wife, she's not gay, she wanted a male wife. A companion who would handle all the so called wifely duties in the household. Keeping it clean, doing the laundry, do the cooking and serving, be her confidant and company, amuse and entertain her, obey her, be her sexual toy and tool, keep my mouth shut and my opinions to myself, and most importantly, be prepared to be fucked, battered, trampled and physically and mentally womanhandled when she returned home every evening. I had no problem with that. And one last thing, be invisible to the outside world. I would never accompany her in public and when she had visitors, I would be locked away in a very private room built just for that purpose.
So, what's in it for me? In no particular order, these are my benefits. I would be fucked, battered, trampled and physically and mentally womanhandled by this exotically beautiful, lithe, flowery but firm gynarchistic minded female every day and night. I would be her very secret, forcefully confined, oft beaten, heavily disciplined wife who sucked her dick ( or the female version of that) any time she snapped her fingers. I would live well and be well taken care of by her and be monetarily rewarded on a monthly basis. All I had to do was whatever she said and keep it all to myself and her.
I would maintain my own residence back home and live my normal life there whenever she traveled for business purposes, which would intermittently add up to about to about 6 months out of the year. When she departed I would slip out in my new sports car in the morning darkness to drive home and slip back in the same way upon her return. We have it all worked out. It's doable and I'm excited about it. I'm to give her my final assent when she returns home in 3 weeks. I already know yes is my answer. But there are things I need to think about before I sign the contract regarding our nondisclosure agreement and the financial terms I would agree to.
Har! I would do it for nothing! But I won't tell her that. I DO need income of some sort after all! Might as well consider this my dream job. I should ask about insurance benefits also. I could get hurt doing some of the things she has in mind for me. Again, I'm ok with that!
What things, I imagine anyone asking? I shouldn't say, but, fuck it. Let's talk about the last two and a half weeks. During this part, I'm going to reveal how I came to be as submissive as I am. Why it's a part of me I couldn't change if I wanted to. And I don't want to. It's who I am, as long as I remember, and I'm most at home and comfortable in this state.
No one who knows me now knew me when I was growing up. My life before my college years was a thousand miles away from here. My father, before he passed away when I was 7 years old can best be described as a reclusive yet hugely successful financial genius. He saw trends others didn't and invested in what are now universal corporations with well known brands and worldwide recognition. With his blossoming fortune and his disdain for populated areas, he bought the land others considered wilderness and built an estate for his family where our nearest neighbors were 60 miles away. The everyday items people shop including food and substance were delivered to us on a weekly basis. There were people employed to take care of things so we had contact with these people but otherwise we lived by ourselves, like rich pioneers in uninhabited areas. There was him, my mother, then in a 6 year period 3 children. My older sister two years my senior, then me, and two years later my younger sister. We were all born into isolation and it's all we knew. We had all the amenities other kids grew up with except television, we just didn't know the other kids. We were diligently home schooled 3 days a week by Miss Kerr, a young teaching assistant who had a room of her own in our home who stayed with us Monday through Wednesday teaching us about scholarship and society in a variety of subjects.
Now for the facts of life about what made me who I am today. My mother was a beautiful woman even by today's standards, and she was an early day Female Supremist. My earliest memories are of her as the boss of our household, the absolute ruler of my father, who did whatever she told him to do and if he didn't, she was quick to punish him physically and mentally. Not behind closed doors but in the presence of my sisters and I. Father never complained, he just took his punishments and apologized for angering her. Mother was a slapper and a spanker. She never forgave a misstep by him and took no pushback nor excuses. Just instant correction we witnessed a thousand times. Mighty slaps that sent him staggering backwards apologizing while she advanced on him landing WHAP after WHAP like a well trained prize fighter. This was everyday life for us. My sister's and I couldn't even imagine a world where a male was even equal to his partner. We all knew my future role in this family. My sister's sure did and they would strive to be the woman my mother was. They just needed the go ahead from Mom. They got it when Father had a heart attack and was gone in the blink of an eye. After a week of mourning and services Mom called us into the parlor for a family meeting. I knew my life had changed by the seating arrangement she dictated to us. Her and my sisters on the couch on each side of her, and me on the floor sitting at their feet facing them. I wasn't shocked, what else did I expect? My life as a male was about to take shape. But there was, indeed, a surprise I never saw coming. And she led off with that. My sister's were equally caught flatfooted. But, it meant something different to them, and it made them smile when it was spelled out to them.
"Stephen", she began, " You are now the man of the house. You've always been like a son to me (well, of course, thought I) but the time has come to tell you this. You are my adopted son. We love you as if you were born to me but we adopted you at birth and raised you for this very situation, in case your father , your adopted father, passed on. When Kate was born, we decided to adopt a male to serve her and for her to train as she matured. We were certainly glad we did when Cindy was born two years later. She also needs a male to train. You are sitting at our feet for a reason, Stephen, do I have to spell it out any further?"
There I was, a seven year old boy, receiving the news of the world, that my whole existence was a lie, that I was brought into this family to become a servant for my sister's when the time came, and that they really weren't my sister's. Imagine the shock and trauma I should have felt. Here's what I felt instead. I'm sitting on the floor with 3 females sitting over me, each now putting their feet on me and none of them are related to me. I remember that as my first intentional sexual hard on in my life.
"No, maam, I get it" Ex-mom smiled and told me she was proud of me, that she always knew I was a good boy. My older now stepsister had her foot resting on my shoulder and I asked her if I could lick her feet. She nodded, pleased as punch, and covered my face with both feet. I did that to mess with my 5 year old stepsis. She was actually gonna be tougher than her elder sister. In time.
There's a lot to tell about the path my life took for the next 10 years.but, I digress. That's another story and I'm anxious to relive it as I look back on how it shaped me. And led me into the life of servitude with a remarkable very respected socialite that no one, not even you know about yet.
I could keep on and tell you what I expect, but I'm heading back to her tomorrow, so I'll just let the realty dictate from here. I hope I have a good story for you.
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whatjobsjobs · 2 years ago
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What are the striking peculiarities of German Babysitting jobs?
Germany, located at the heart of Western Europe has the fourth largest economy in the world. It is one of the strongest countries with a great industrial base and bags the position as the third-largest exporter. Otherwise known as the land of poets and thinkers, the nation has high levels of employment. In 2016, over 50 percent of people from 15 to 64 years of age were in salaried positions. These represent about 43.3 million people, and unemployment has fallen to a historic low of 4.2 percent.
The German job market is in good condition, with low unemployment, high labor force participation rates, and moderate pay growth. The job market has also proven to be exceptionally resilient to regulatory initiatives, such as the implementation of a national minimum wage, as well as negative demand shocks, like the Great Recession.
The notion of babysitting was unfamiliar in the German-speaking world just a few decades back. With the introduction of online and regional child-care services in Germany in the 1990s, the concept of employing a person not from the family to care for the children became increasingly prevalent. Nowadays, as a hired sitter in Germany, one can make a decent living.
A babysitter is a person who looks after one or more children when the parents are not at home due to any reason. It is a temporary task and the responsibilities normally do not involve doing chores like cleaning or cooking. This is in contrast to nannies who are entitled to longer-term child supervision. 
You can seek traditional sources of job searching like glancing at local newspapers or from your neighborhood. However, using an online agency increases your chances of getting reliable, experienced babysitting work. The majority of online agencies enable you to use filters while searching for jobs by setting your preferred location. A babysitter's fee ranges from €8 and €15 per hour, based on a variety of criteria such as the sitter's expertise and the number of kids being watched.
It is critical for the parents and the babysitter to equally understand the obligations of a sitter and that the payment charged is determined by numerous criteria. It includes the age of the child or children and also the number of kids being watched. Also, whether they are sleeping or not when the babysitter comes, if the sitter must also give entertainment to the kids, whether conveyance is necessary, and more. If you are asked to sit afternoon, it means collecting them from nursery or school, bringing them back home, watching them, and ensuring their safety till the parents arrive.
Though it is allowed to work as a freelance babysitter in Germany, you may require a local small-business license to do so lawfully and also pay the proper taxes. Working via an agency provides you with credibility and some sort of assistance. Your hourly salary will often vary between €10 and €15, based on your expertise and the babysitting requirements. Another benefit is that the agency handles insurance, invoicing, and payments.
If you do not operate with an agency, be certain that you are abiding by the law. In Germany, babysitting often comes within the legal category of marginal employment, sometimes known as a 450-Euro-Job or mostly known as Minijob, indicating the monthly maximum income permitted or €5,400 annually. The employer is accountable for paying the coverage, but, the employee gets no healthcare coverage or other incentives.
There are a lot of online job portals which you can use to find jobs in Germany. But, are you unsure where to start looking for jobs online?
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f-udo-blog · 7 years ago
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Nyx and Akira ; aka I'm here for the laughs and suffering tbh
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ULTIMATE SHIP MEME + @sarusu //  Accepting ~
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General:
Rate the Ship -  Awful | Ew | No pics pls | I’m not comfortable | Alright | I like it! | Got Pics? | Let’s do it! | Why is this not getting more attention?! | The OTP to rule all other OTPs
How long will they last? : I’d say a pretty long time, I see Nyx purposely bothering him and thwarting his plans often.  Something similar to a hero having an arch nemesis doing random encounters.
How quickly did/will they fall in love? : Love??  Figuratively speaking, I don’t think Nyx is capable of that.  Akira would need a really good reason to breach past his disdain to demons, so more like — enemies with benefits sort of deal?
How was their first kiss? : They didn’t have one. 
Wedding: --- Not possible, Nyx isn’t capable of that.
Who proposed? : 
Who is the best man/men? - 
Who is the bride’s maid(s)? -
Who did the most planning? - 
Who stressed the most? - 
How fancy was the ceremony? - Back of a pickup truck | 2 | 3 | 4 | Normal Church Wedding | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Kate and William wish they were this big.
Who was specifically not invited to the wedding? -
Sex:
Who is on top? : Akira, she would need a really good ‘push’ to do it otherwise. Given his demonic influence, others under the banner of demonology would feel the need to submit; Aka, thank you Amon.
Who is the one to instigate things? : Probably Nyx to be very frank.
How healthy is their sex life? : Barely touch themselves let alone each other | 2 | 3 | 4 | Once a couple weeks, nothing overboard | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | They are humping each other on the couch right now
How kinky are they? - Straight missionary with the lights off | 2 | 3 | 4 | Might try some butt stuff and toys | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Don’t go into the sex dungeon without a horse’s head
How long do they normally last? - Pretty long, around three hours give or take.
Do they make sure each person gets an equal amount of orgasms? - First come, first served.  Whoever gets to it faster.
How rough are they in bed? -  Softer than a butterfly on the back of a bunny | 2 | 3 | 4 | The bed’s shaking and squeaking every time | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Their dirty talk is so vulgar it’d make Dwayne Johnson blush. Also, the wall’s so weak it could collapse the next time they do it.
How much cuddling/snuggling do they do? - No touching after sex | 2 | 3 | 4 | A little spooning at night, or on the couch, but not in public | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | They snuggle and kiss more often than a teen couple on their fifth date to a pillow factory.
Children:
How many children will they have naturally? -  Only by mistake, Akira wouldn’t plan on having any with a demon.
How many children will they adopt? - None.
Who gets stuck with the most diapers? - If it were to happen, her without a doubt.
Who is the stricter parent? - I’d probably say Nyx, given her ruthless nature.  Akira would have some pity on the child.
Who stops the kid(s) from doing dangerous stunts after school? - Akira, no need to even go deeper into this.
Who remembers to pack the lunch(es)? - Probably Akira.
Who is the more loved parent? - Probably Akira again. ( Nyx needs to get some humanity. )
Who is more likely to attend the PTA meetings? - Akira would, Nyx wouldn’t waste time with this bullshit.
Who cried the most at graduation? - No one, Akira doesn’t cry and Nyx doesn’t attend.
Who is more likely to bail the child(ren) out of trouble with the law? - Akira without a shred of doubt.
Cooking:
Who does the most cooking? - I’d say Nyx, if she cooks at all.  Akira would just prefer take-away or to visit a buffet.
Who is the most picky in their food choice? - Nyx lmao, picky with human food.
Who does the grocery shopping? - Akira.
How often do they bake desserts? - Never really.
Are they more of a meat lover or a salad eater? - MEAT.
Who is more likely to surprise the other(s) with an anniversary dinner? - Forget this, teach Nyx to practice humane deals first.
Who is more likely to suggest going out? - Akira would.
Who is more likely to burn the house down accidentally while cooking? - Nyx, did you get insurance with that house?
Chores:
Who cleans the room? - Nyx, Akira wouldn’t stay in the same room.
Who is really against chores? - Nyx, unless she wants a pigsty. Not that Akira wouldn’t do them, more like, he wouldn’t BE on the premises most of the time.
Who cleans up after the pets? - They wouldn’t have pets, but Akira probably if they did.
Who is more likely to sweep everything under the rug? - Akira.
Who stresses the most when guests are coming over? - None of them.
Who found a dollar between the couch cushions while cleaning? - Nyx, he wouldn’t go that much in-depth cleaning — unless persuaded.
Misc:
Who takes the longer showers/baths? - Nyx, I’d say.
Who takes the dog out for a walk? - Akira, Nyx would probably just kill the thing.
How often do they decorate the room/house for the holidays? - Akira wouldn’t bother, not unless there was someone significantly important under the roof. If so?? Three or four times per year.
What are their goals for the relationship? - Hard to say, their relationship would mostly consist of raw actions and — that’s it?
Who is most likely to sleep till noon? - Akira hands down.
Who plays the most pranks? - Nyx, obviously.
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michellelewis7162 · 5 years ago
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 Basically, a move out/ relocate cleaning company is needed when a certain lessee leave from another area to one more. This is where a cleansing business will certainly grab the mess of a brand-new or old building. Cleaning solution of step in/out differ relies on the dimension of the area. If you are beginner in using this sort of cleaning company, you may want to start in little work. Usually, job dimensions vary in floor dimension of the facility. For small sized job, begin supplying relocation out/in cleaning service to houses as well as houses Relocate Cleansing Providers.
 If you prepare to offer move in/out cleaning services, you much better beginning calling property management firms. Liing in residential or collage community is useful for you as there will certainly be no problem of job lack. If your firm has actually been cleaning up commercial structures prior to, there will be no question that several customers will seek for your services if they are in need of action out/in cleaning company.
 For a great begin, it is much better to accept on-site correct supervisor so that you will have the ability to estimate the time you require to invest in cleaning up the entire structure. After you and the onsite residential or commercial property manager have constructed a great relationship, rather than providing estimated fee for cleaning up service, you will certainly simply allow your cleansing time billed. Your clients will primarily likely need specific cleaning company like carpeting cleansing, floor tile scrubbing up as well as flooring sprucing up. This is where you can charge them individually as a result you can have added earnings.
 The rates of the cleaning service of relocation out/in that you can use to your clients may vary relies on the kind of the facility you are mosting likely to tidy. One of the most optimal cost for cleaning up service is $20 - $25. Mostly, houses and also homes are less rewarding since proprietors require to stick in the minimal allocate cleaning up solution. They typically prefer their cleaning service charge to be flat rate. This is where you require to be mindful while bidding process as you may understand that you're shedding profits due to the fact that you have actually been ignored the timeline Relocate Cleaning Providers.
 No matter if you the structure you are going to clean is domestic or commercial, there are some handy steps and also steps you might intend to think about while using an action out/in cleaning service. These actions will assist you assure the satisfaction of your clients.
 1. Figure out just how big the cleansing team that the building requirements. If the structure needs a small number of individuals to obtain cleaned up like small apartments or homes, 2 to 4 workers can be excellent.
 2. Assign personnel that has specialized abilities when it comes to certain cleaning job to ensure that the cleaning procedures might be done much faster and easier. For a circumstances, a specialist home window cleaner ought to be assigned in cleaning home windows as well as glass panels.
 3. The Cleaning group leader would certainly be liable in bringing and collecting all the devices and tools utilized in cleansing the building prior to and also after the cleaning proceedings.
 4. Prior to you start, inspect the utilities of the structure. Obviously, to clean up the floors as well as floor tiles, you need water. To make the vacuum working, you need electric power. Thus, you require to see to it that every one of these aspects exist prior to you begin with the cleaning job.
 5. Begin your cleaning procedure by grabbing all large and also hefty garbage to make sure that you can vacuum the room/ room with no problem and disruptions.
 6. Vacuum cleaner the building effectively. This is extremely important in action out/in cleaning services. It is recommended to make use of a backpack vacuum cleaner as it can make the job much faster and also easier. Remember to start vacuuming from the top to low along with walls, light fixtures blinds as well as windows. Instead of cleaning cupboards and cabinet tops, better vacuum them for faster as well as less complicated cleaning process
 7. Beginning cleansing the stuck dust and also gunks in the wall and also various other surface areas after you have finished vacuuming the room. You can use chemicals and also cleaning agents in cleaning up furnishings, floors and wall surfaces. It is much better to use concentrated chemical as opposed to ready-to-use chemical as you can save more money from them.
 8. For heavy spots and also dirt, spray focused fumes. Just make certain that the space is properly ventilated so that they will certainly stay clear of taking a breath the sprayed fumes. Employees need to put on appropriate safety equipment to stay clear of any suffocation or breathing issues.
 9. Usage proper cleansing supplies like paper towels, microfiber towel or terry fabric rags.
 For dust, use microfiber clothe that is color eco-friendly; color blue for windows as well as other glass surface areas, red and yellow for bathrooms and also counter tops specifically.
 10. For easier sink as well as floor tiles scrubbing, make use of brush of various kind. For tiles and ceramic surfaces utilize cement brush. For faucets, it is suggested to make use of toothbrush.
 11. Finally, tidy the flooring. This is where all the dust and also dust from the tops are going for that reason make use of a backpack vacuum to eliminate them all. Clean all the remaining spots as well as dirt utilizing a fabric with chemical.
 What Cleaning Solutions Can a Specialist Cleansing Business Deal?
 There are lots of professional cleaning business readily available in London nowadays. Some can supply a general cleaning company while others decide to specialise in areas such as residential cleansing, end of tenancy cleaning services or perhaps commercial cleaning.
 Hiring a cleansing company in London can prove to be a really economical as well as affordable means to obtain your residence, office or details thing, such as a carpet or furniture, cleaned up efficiently Relocate Cleansing Providers.
 Below are a few of the a lot more specialized locations of cleansing:
 Carpeting Cleaning
As you will certainly understand, it is simple to spill a number of various materials on your rug as well as there is likewise the ingrained dirt and also dust that can be hard to venture out. If you require your office or home carpetings to be cleaned completely, then extremely trained carpet cleansers as well as heavy steam specialists can involve the rescue with their contemporary carpeting cleansing techniques.
 Domestic Cleansing
In this quick paced age, it's simple to support on all those vital house jobs such as dusting your home; the restroom as well as cooking area confirmation particularly tough tasks, not to mention the washing up and also ironing. Domestic cleaning company are offered in London to help you out with all these home jobs.
 Office Cleaning
Specialist contract cleaners can clean workplaces and office complex for services of all dimensions. From standard daily tasks such as workplace hygiene in cooking area and washroom facilities to the treatment of home windows, walls as well as the carpets; office cleansers can clean the whole lot.
 Carpet Cleansing
Carpet cleaning specialists can likewise be worked with to care for any rugs that need cleansing. Whether it is an Oriental rug that needs to be delicately taken care of, or an antique carpet, one of the most appropriate method for that kind of carpet can be made use of properly by a rug cleaning service.
 Bed mattress Cleansing
It is important to sleep in a really clean and also sanitary bed, nonetheless, nowadays people rarely cleanse their mattresses, allowing allergen and also microorganisms to grow. This can be harmful, so normal bed mattress cleaning services can clean the bed mattress for you, leaving you to have several a good evening's sleep.
 London Cleansing Company
Lond Cleansing agencies are offered to give a range of residential cleaning services to customers, normally domestic cleaning services to individuals in addition to industrial firms. Cleaning Agencies can be employed to clean a home or office; to a remarkably high standard.
 Cleaning Firms in London
If your office or home needs a great tidy, either on a one-off cleansing or often, you can work with an expert residential cleaning business to fulfill your demands. The adaptable range of solutions a London cleaning company gives can be relied upon to properly cleanse your living or working environment to your complete fulfillment.
 End of Tenancy Cleansing
This is a specialised deep-cleaning solution that can be used to cleanse any type of rented out home all set for brand-new tenants to move in, or to obtain the place looking clean and tidy again so you can claim back your down payment. Regardless, these cleaning company can sanitise the home and make it look clean and welcoming again.
 Furniture Cleansing
If your furniture upholstery and/or drapes want an excellent tidy, there are services available that can see your home or office in London to give a solution. Furniture can be cleansed making use of either the wet or dry cleansing technique that includes stain therapy Move In Cleansing Providers.
 Window Cleansing
It is relatively common to discover that your windows look boring, unclean as well as smudged. This can considerably influence the outside sight. Expert window cleaning services can make certain all the easily accessible home windows in your home or office are left shimmering clean as well as smudge-free so you can value the view once more.
 Ironing as well as Washing
Have you ever desired you didn't have to do all the washing and also ironing that appears to be frequently piling up? Also if you just want a short break from these tasks, domestic cleaning services are available in London that can take care of these obligations for some time. Expert London cleaning services can be hired on a regular and even monthly basis to take away the burden of these necessary residential jobs.
 After Event Cleansing
As soon as the celebration mores than occasionally the mess left over can be a real problem. By using these solutions the rubbish can be cleared, pots washed and the washroom and also kitchen can be returned to regular for you.
 After Home builders Cleansing
The building contractors may have left, but the destruction left in your house or workplace can make you feel anxious. Cleansing services can eliminate all the remaining building dirt and dirt before cleansing, cleaning and scrubbing all the surface areas for you, making the area look habitable once more.
 Celebration Assistance
Cleansers can likewise supply aid at celebrations; whether you require help with the cooking, offering beverages or the general cleaning - both before and also after the occasion.
 Commercial Cleaning Service
 Cleansing services submit a proposal for custodial solutions for one's building or office. Nowadays, there is a big demand for the cleansing company in every company and also they are offered to service your cleansing requires. The administration does not have the moment to either care for cleaning job or hire irreversible workers whose task description is just to tidy, so they work with the solutions of professional cleaners. The decision whether to keep business feature including the cleaning company in residence or outsource them is the most tough choice nowadays.
 Features of business cleaning organisation
 Working with commercial cleaning services is a practical choice for many. Every person needs their home or work environment cleaned up at the very least regular, so industrial cleansing business will certainly never ever be without job. Business cleaning company focus on several kinds of cleansing business that serves for individuals. These cleaning services are either concentrated on a particular type of service like janitorial solution or mix of service. Cleaning up business may cleanse the workplace in someday or they may deal with rotary timetable as established by the employer. One does not require to give them details materials as cleaning services usually bring their very own devices as well as products.
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The Silicon Valley paradox: one in four people are at risk of hunger
Exclusive: study suggests that 26.8% of the population qualify as food insecure based on risk factors such as missing meals or relying on food banks
Karla Peralta is surrounded by food. As a line cook in Facebooks cafeteria, she spends her days preparing free meals for the tech firms staff. Shes worked in kitchens for most of her 30 years in the US, building a life in Silicon Valley as a single mother raising two daughters.
But at home, food is a different story. The regions soaring rents and high cost-of-living means that even with a full-time job, putting food on the table hasnt been simple. Over the years she has struggled to afford groceries at one point feeding her family of three with food stamps that amounted to $75 a week, about half what the government describes as a thrifty food budget. I was thinking, when am I going to get through this? she said.
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In a region famed for its foodie culture, where the well-heeled can dine on gold-flecked steaks, $500 tasting menus and $29 loaves of bread, hunger is alarmingly widespread, according to a new study shared exclusively with the Guardian.
One in four people in Silicon Valley are at risk of hunger, researchers at the Second Harvest food bank have found. Using hundreds of community interviews and data modeling, a new study suggests that 26.8% of the population almost 720,000 people qualify as food insecure based on risk factors such as missing meals, relying on food banks or food stamps, borrowing money for food, or neglecting bills and rent in order to buy groceries. Nearly a quarter are families with children.
We call it the Silicon Valley paradox, says Steve Brennan, the food banks marketing director. As the economy gets better we seem to be serving more people. Since the recession, Second Harvest has seen demand spike by 46%.
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The bank is at the center of the Silicon Valley boom both literally and figuratively. It sits just half a mile from Ciscos headquarters and counts Facebooks Sheryl Sandberg among its major donors. But the need it serves is exacerbated by this industrys wealth; as high-paying tech firms move in, the cost of living rises for everyone else.
Food insecurity often accompanies other poverty indicators, such as homelessness. San Jose, Silicon Valleys largest city, had a homeless population of more than 4,000 people during a recent count. They are hungry, too: research conducted by the Health Trust, a local not-for-profit, found food resources available to them are scattered and inadequate.
These days Peralta earns too much to qualify for food stamps, but not enough not to worry. She pays $2,000 a month or three-quarters of her paycheck to rent the small apartment she shares with her youngest daughter. Even just the two of us, its still a struggle. So once a month, she picks up supplies at the food bank to supplement what she buys at the store.
She isnt one to complain, but acknowledges the vast gulf between the needs of Facebook employees and contract workers such as herself. The first thing they do [for Facebook employees] is buy you an iPhone and an Apple computer, and all these other benefits, she laughs. Its like, wow.
The scale of the problem becomes apparent on a visit to Second Harvest, the only food bank serving Silicon Valley and one of the largest in the country. In any given month it provides meals for 257,000 people 66m pounds of food last year. Inside its cavernous, 75,000 sq ft main warehouse space, boxes of produce stretched to the ceiling. Strip lights illuminated crates of cucumbers and pallets of sweet potatoes with a chilly glow. Volunteers in PayPal T-shirts packed cabbages and apples that arrived in boxes as big as paddling pools, while in the walk-in freezer turkeys waited to defrost.
Inside a warehouse belonging to Second Harvest food bank in San Jose, California, where PayPal staff volunteered for the day. Photography: Talia Herman
Because poverty is often shrouded in shame, their clients situations can come as a surprise. Often we think of somebody visibly hungry, the traditional homeless person, Brennan said. But this study is putting light on the non-traditional homeless: people living in their car or a garage, working people who have to choose between rent and food, people without access to a kitchen.
He added, Youre not thinking when you pick up your shirts from dry cleaning, or getting your landscaping done, or going to a restaurant, or getting your child cared for, is that person hungry? Its very easy to assume they are fine.
Matt Sciamanna is the sort of person you would assume is fine. Hes young, clever, and a recent graduate from San Jose State University. Yet here on campus, he says, food insecurity is a daily problem. Students, and even part-time professors, have been known to sleep in their cars or couch surf to save money. Sciamanna, who works on the Student Hunger Committee, says a survey of more than 4,000 students found about half have skipped meals due to the cost.
His investment in the issue is informed by his own experience. With his parents unable to finance all his living costs, Sciamanna worked in a restaurant while studying full time. But at 20 he was hit with a life-changing diagnosis: multiple sclerosis, a disease that left his grandmother bedridden. Unable to keep up with the pressures of restaurant work, he took a job on campus that paid just $400 a month.
Matt Sciamanna studying. Photo: Jeromy Cesea
My weekly food budget, after other expenses, was $25-$30, he says. Trips to the grocery store became a game of numbers: a bag of apples and bananas cost less than $5 and would last a week. A bag of frozen vegetables, another $5. Sometimes I would see a ripe peach, and I would want it, but then Id think, damn, theyre $1.50 each. Its not like Im asking for a car. Im just talking about a peach. That feeling leaves a scar.
While Sciamanna says his food situation has improved, another fear looms: healthcare costs. His father, a garbage man in San Francisco, has already postponed retirement so that his son can stay on the familys insurance. Without it, Sciamanna says he could face out-of-pocket costs of thousands of dollars a month for his medication. In that scenario, obtaining food would become even more difficult. His parents live in Clear Lake, three hours outside San Francisco, meaning a six-hour daily commute for his father. You feel like youre this dead weight, youre trying to advance yourself but you dont have the money. Its a shitty feeling.
Hunger and the housing crisis go hand-in-hand. In Santa Clara County, the median price of a family home has reached a new high of $1.125m, while the supply of homes continues to shrink. A family of four earning less than $85,000 is now considered low income. These realities mean food insecurity cuts across lines of race, age and employment status.
On a cold, bright afternoon at an elementary school in Menlo Park, kids trickled out of their classrooms and onto the playground. A food distribution was being arranged in the school gymnasium, and adults lined up outside with strollers and shopping carts, waiting for the doors to open. Most were women, many of them mothers whose children attend the school. Once inside they moved slowly and quietly around tables filled with bags of fresh produce, milk and bread, canned goods and beans.
A food distribution taking place at an elementary school in Menlo Park. Bottom right, Vicky Avila-Medrano, a food connection specialist with Second Harvest. Photography: Talia Herman
The Latino community is passing through a hard time, says Vicky Avila-Medrano, a food connection specialist. She runs a program that sends current and former food bank users out into the community, which has been disproportionately affected by the cost-of-living crisis.
Here in Silicon Valley, we have a big problem. This is a beautiful place to live for people in the tech industry, but we are not working in that industry.
Even people who have full-time jobs can find themselves with no way to put food on the table. Outside the gym, Martina Rivera, a 52-year-old mental health nurse, explained that her troubles began when her entire building was evicted last year. (Mass evictions have swept the area as landlords seek higher-paying tenants). Issues in her personal life, which she preferred not to detail, left her separated from her two children and their father. She thought about moving in with family, but worried about the burden. My brother was recovering from a stroke, and my mother is old, she says. I couldnt put more struggle on them. So what I found was my car.
Martina Rivera, 52, originally from Peru, lived in her car for six months while working as a nurse.
She told herself it was only temporary. I work night shifts at a veterans hospital, so I would go to my moms house to shower, and wait until it was time to work. I waited and waited for the storm to pass. Eventually she found a room without a private bathroom or kitchen. She shopped for food at 99 cent stores, ate mainly canned food, and cooked in a microwave. It took a toll on her health, she says; she gained weight.
I was having panic attacks. My body was like the walking dead. But I thought, I need to keep strong. And I never quit my job.
Rivera says that for many working people, pride is a barrier to admitting need. People dont have money to buy food, but they are shy to ask. But there is no reason to feel ashamed.
The day before Thanksgiving, Karla Peralta invited me to her home. She loves to cook, and prides herself on pulling together a healthy meal even when resources are scarce. I have to cook with what I have. Even if I only have a piece of chicken, a little bit of this and that, I am a cook. I make it work.
Karla Peralta, who works in the cafeteria at Facebook, demonstrates in her kitchen how she cooks with ingredients she picks up from the food bank. Photography: Charlotte Simmonds
That evening she worked with ingredients from the food bank: potatoes and chicken, cans of beans, corn and tomatoes. Dignified and good humored, Peralta says her current job is one of the best shes ever had, even though she still needs help.
As we sat down at her kitchen table to share a meal, we talk about her plans for tomorrows holiday meal. Shell be making ham with pineapples, her daughters favorite. There will be turkey and mashed potatoes, and her niece is bringing bread. And we got some rice from the food bank, she said. Ill probably make that, too.
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The Silicon Valley paradox: one in four people are at risk of hunger
Exclusive: study suggests that 26.8% of the population qualify as food insecure based on risk factors such as missing meals or relying on food banks
Karla Peralta is surrounded by food. As a line cook in Facebooks cafeteria, she spends her days preparing free meals for the tech firms staff. Shes worked in kitchens for most of her 30 years in the US, building a life in Silicon Valley as a single mother raising two daughters.
But at home, food is a different story. The regions soaring rents and high cost-of-living means that even with a full-time job, putting food on the table hasnt been simple. Over the years she has struggled to afford groceries at one point feeding her family of three with food stamps that amounted to $75 a week, about half what the government describes as a thrifty food budget. I was thinking, when am I going to get through this? she said.
outside in america
In a region famed for its foodie culture, where the well-heeled can dine on gold-flecked steaks, $500 tasting menus and $29 loaves of bread, hunger is alarmingly widespread, according to a new study shared exclusively with the Guardian.
One in four people in Silicon Valley are at risk of hunger, researchers at the Second Harvest food bank have found. Using hundreds of community interviews and data modeling, a new study suggests that 26.8% of the population almost 720,000 people qualify as food insecure based on risk factors such as missing meals, relying on food banks or food stamps, borrowing money for food, or neglecting bills and rent in order to buy groceries. Nearly a quarter are families with children.
We call it the Silicon Valley paradox, says Steve Brennan, the food banks marketing director. As the economy gets better we seem to be serving more people. Since the recession, Second Harvest has seen demand spike by 46%.
data
The bank is at the center of the Silicon Valley boom both literally and figuratively. It sits just half a mile from Ciscos headquarters and counts Facebooks Sheryl Sandberg among its major donors. But the need it serves is exacerbated by this industrys wealth; as high-paying tech firms move in, the cost of living rises for everyone else.
Food insecurity often accompanies other poverty indicators, such as homelessness. San Jose, Silicon Valleys largest city, had a homeless population of more than 4,000 people during a recent count. They are hungry, too: research conducted by the Health Trust, a local not-for-profit, found food resources available to them are scattered and inadequate.
These days Peralta earns too much to qualify for food stamps, but not enough not to worry. She pays $2,000 a month or three-quarters of her paycheck to rent the small apartment she shares with her youngest daughter. Even just the two of us, its still a struggle. So once a month, she picks up supplies at the food bank to supplement what she buys at the store.
She isnt one to complain, but acknowledges the vast gulf between the needs of Facebook employees and contract workers such as herself. The first thing they do [for Facebook employees] is buy you an iPhone and an Apple computer, and all these other benefits, she laughs. Its like, wow.
The scale of the problem becomes apparent on a visit to Second Harvest, the only food bank serving Silicon Valley and one of the largest in the country. In any given month it provides meals for 257,000 people 66m pounds of food last year. Inside its cavernous, 75,000 sq ft main warehouse space, boxes of produce stretched to the ceiling. Strip lights illuminated crates of cucumbers and pallets of sweet potatoes with a chilly glow. Volunteers in PayPal T-shirts packed cabbages and apples that arrived in boxes as big as paddling pools, while in the walk-in freezer turkeys waited to defrost.
Inside a warehouse belonging to Second Harvest food bank in San Jose, California, where PayPal staff volunteered for the day. Photography: Talia Herman
Because poverty is often shrouded in shame, their clients situations can come as a surprise. Often we think of somebody visibly hungry, the traditional homeless person, Brennan said. But this study is putting light on the non-traditional homeless: people living in their car or a garage, working people who have to choose between rent and food, people without access to a kitchen.
He added, Youre not thinking when you pick up your shirts from dry cleaning, or getting your landscaping done, or going to a restaurant, or getting your child cared for, is that person hungry? Its very easy to assume they are fine.
Matt Sciamanna is the sort of person you would assume is fine. Hes young, clever, and a recent graduate from San Jose State University. Yet here on campus, he says, food insecurity is a daily problem. Students, and even part-time professors, have been known to sleep in their cars or couch surf to save money. Sciamanna, who works on the Student Hunger Committee, says a survey of more than 4,000 students found about half have skipped meals due to the cost.
His investment in the issue is informed by his own experience. With his parents unable to finance all his living costs, Sciamanna worked in a restaurant while studying full time. But at 20 he was hit with a life-changing diagnosis: multiple sclerosis, a disease that left his grandmother bedridden. Unable to keep up with the pressures of restaurant work, he took a job on campus that paid just $400 a month.
Matt Sciamanna studying. Photo: Jeromy Cesea
My weekly food budget, after other expenses, was $25-$30, he says. Trips to the grocery store became a game of numbers: a bag of apples and bananas cost less than $5 and would last a week. A bag of frozen vegetables, another $5. Sometimes I would see a ripe peach, and I would want it, but then Id think, damn, theyre $1.50 each. Its not like Im asking for a car. Im just talking about a peach. That feeling leaves a scar.
While Sciamanna says his food situation has improved, another fear looms: healthcare costs. His father, a garbage man in San Francisco, has already postponed retirement so that his son can stay on the familys insurance. Without it, Sciamanna says he could face out-of-pocket costs of thousands of dollars a month for his medication. In that scenario, obtaining food would become even more difficult. His parents live in Clear Lake, three hours outside San Francisco, meaning a six-hour daily commute for his father. You feel like youre this dead weight, youre trying to advance yourself but you dont have the money. Its a shitty feeling.
Hunger and the housing crisis go hand-in-hand. In Santa Clara County, the median price of a family home has reached a new high of $1.125m, while the supply of homes continues to shrink. A family of four earning less than $85,000 is now considered low income. These realities mean food insecurity cuts across lines of race, age and employment status.
On a cold, bright afternoon at an elementary school in Menlo Park, kids trickled out of their classrooms and onto the playground. A food distribution was being arranged in the school gymnasium, and adults lined up outside with strollers and shopping carts, waiting for the doors to open. Most were women, many of them mothers whose children attend the school. Once inside they moved slowly and quietly around tables filled with bags of fresh produce, milk and bread, canned goods and beans.
A food distribution taking place at an elementary school in Menlo Park. Bottom right, Vicky Avila-Medrano, a food connection specialist with Second Harvest. Photography: Talia Herman
The Latino community is passing through a hard time, says Vicky Avila-Medrano, a food connection specialist. She runs a program that sends current and former food bank users out into the community, which has been disproportionately affected by the cost-of-living crisis.
Here in Silicon Valley, we have a big problem. This is a beautiful place to live for people in the tech industry, but we are not working in that industry.
Even people who have full-time jobs can find themselves with no way to put food on the table. Outside the gym, Martina Rivera, a 52-year-old mental health nurse, explained that her troubles began when her entire building was evicted last year. (Mass evictions have swept the area as landlords seek higher-paying tenants). Issues in her personal life, which she preferred not to detail, left her separated from her two children and their father. She thought about moving in with family, but worried about the burden. My brother was recovering from a stroke, and my mother is old, she says. I couldnt put more struggle on them. So what I found was my car.
Martina Rivera, 52, originally from Peru, lived in her car for six months while working as a nurse.
She told herself it was only temporary. I work night shifts at a veterans hospital, so I would go to my moms house to shower, and wait until it was time to work. I waited and waited for the storm to pass. Eventually she found a room without a private bathroom or kitchen. She shopped for food at 99 cent stores, ate mainly canned food, and cooked in a microwave. It took a toll on her health, she says; she gained weight.
I was having panic attacks. My body was like the walking dead. But I thought, I need to keep strong. And I never quit my job.
Rivera says that for many working people, pride is a barrier to admitting need. People dont have money to buy food, but they are shy to ask. But there is no reason to feel ashamed.
The day before Thanksgiving, Karla Peralta invited me to her home. She loves to cook, and prides herself on pulling together a healthy meal even when resources are scarce. I have to cook with what I have. Even if I only have a piece of chicken, a little bit of this and that, I am a cook. I make it work.
Karla Peralta, who works in the cafeteria at Facebook, demonstrates in her kitchen how she cooks with ingredients she picks up from the food bank. Photography: Charlotte Simmonds
That evening she worked with ingredients from the food bank: potatoes and chicken, cans of beans, corn and tomatoes. Dignified and good humored, Peralta says her current job is one of the best shes ever had, even though she still needs help.
As we sat down at her kitchen table to share a meal, we talk about her plans for tomorrows holiday meal. Shell be making ham with pineapples, her daughters favorite. There will be turkey and mashed potatoes, and her niece is bringing bread. And we got some rice from the food bank, she said. Ill probably make that, too.
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