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As it happened, our cleaning lady decided to surprise us by doing the whole house a couple of days prior to our return. She has been explicitly forbidden to enter my stamp room. However, she apparently felt it needed straightening up. I keep 3 waste baskets beside my desk for ease and convenience of sorting: 1 for refuse (damaged stamps etc) 1 for stamps on paper and 1 for kiloware (duplicates). She emptied all of them. She tidied things up into neat piles (hours of sorting gone). She must have wiped down all the hard surfaces since stamps are now adhered to my desk. But it gets better....at some point she had opened the window and neglected to close it. The night before our return we had a torrential downpour with a driving wind. I have a 6 foot table with a special mat for sorting stamps on in close proximity to the window. It was covered with a soggy mass of thousands of stamps.
The upside is that my personal collection is in a different locked room and that very few stamps from my current approval books and auctions were involved with the catastrophe. If any members orders are affected I shall contact you personally.
However, I doubt that I will be listing anything new for several weeks as I sort out the carnage.
And Yes, my wife is interviewing a new cleaning service.
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04:48:24pm
Sorry !!!
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Oh Dennis .... I can't think of anything more she could have done to do more damage. I feel for you!!! You poor guy.
Regards ... Tim.
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05:03:27pm
The only thing you can be thankful for, I guess, is that your good stuff is locked away!! I'm afraid I would have been very pi**** off and probably gone looking for a new cleaning lady. Good luck!!
Joe
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Ouch!
BTW....where was paradise?
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WOW!!!!!
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Ouch!
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My condolences! It's hard to imagine anyone that dense! But stuff like that happens. Years ago one of my favourite "new-gaws" was a classy Danish porcelain Atlantic salmon. It looked real, it felt real. I loved just to touch it, lovely smoothness without the fish goo! We came home from teaching one day, a day that our cleaning ladies "cleaned" our house, to find my porcelain fish with a broken tail. I still miss the fish, but not those cleaning ladies, whose contract was abruptly terminated!
Bob
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To answer bigcreekdad - Paradise for me is anyplace that I can go for a week or more that I do not have to cook, shovel snow or do yard work. On this occasion it was a cruise to Alaska.
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Was the cleaning lady independent, or from a company? You may have a cause of action since you stated that the cleaning lady was told to stay out of that room.
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This is a real disaster, Dennis. I am sorry to hear about it.
Even my pet (pictured in my avatar) is more careful with my collection.
The only time he chewed on a stamp that fell beside him, the stamp only needed a bath and you couldn't tell it was ever in a dog's mouth.
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My wife and I returned from vacation a few days ago with me ready to get back to my stamps. I did but with quite a shock.
As it happened, our cleaning lady decided to surprise us by doing the whole house a couple of days prior to our return. She has been explicitly forbidden to enter my stamp room. However, she apparently felt it needed straightening up. I keep 3 waste baskets beside my desk for ease and convenience of sorting: 1 for refuse (damaged stamps etc) 1 for stamps on paper and 1 for kiloware (duplicates). She emptied all of them. She tidied things up into neat piles (hours of sorting gone). She must have wiped down all the hard surfaces since stamps are now adhered to my desk. But it gets better....at some point she had opened the window and neglected to close it. The night before our return we had a torrential downpour with a driving wind. I have a 6 foot table with a special mat for sorting stamps on in close proximity to the window. It was covered with a soggy mass of thousands of stamps.
The upside is that my personal collection is in a different locked room and that very few stamps from my current approval books and auctions were involved with the catastrophe. If any members orders are affected I shall contact you personally.
However, I doubt that I will be listing anything new for several weeks as I sort out the carnage.
And Yes, my wife is interviewing a new cleaning service.
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29 May 2023
04:48:24pm
re: Back from Vacation - from Paradise to Catastrophe
Sorry !!!
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Oh Dennis .... I can't think of anything more she could have done to do more damage. I feel for you!!! You poor guy.
Regards ... Tim.
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29 May 2023
05:03:27pm
re: Back from Vacation - from Paradise to Catastrophe
The only thing you can be thankful for, I guess, is that your good stuff is locked away!! I'm afraid I would have been very pi**** off and probably gone looking for a new cleaning lady. Good luck!!
Joe
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Ouch!
BTW....where was paradise?
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WOW!!!!!
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Ouch!
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My condolences! It's hard to imagine anyone that dense! But stuff like that happens. Years ago one of my favourite "new-gaws" was a classy Danish porcelain Atlantic salmon. It looked real, it felt real. I loved just to touch it, lovely smoothness without the fish goo! We came home from teaching one day, a day that our cleaning ladies "cleaned" our house, to find my porcelain fish with a broken tail. I still miss the fish, but not those cleaning ladies, whose contract was abruptly terminated!
Bob
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To answer bigcreekdad - Paradise for me is anyplace that I can go for a week or more that I do not have to cook, shovel snow or do yard work. On this occasion it was a cruise to Alaska.
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Was the cleaning lady independent, or from a company? You may have a cause of action since you stated that the cleaning lady was told to stay out of that room.
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This is a real disaster, Dennis. I am sorry to hear about it.
Even my pet (pictured in my avatar) is more careful with my collection.
The only time he chewed on a stamp that fell beside him, the stamp only needed a bath and you couldn't tell it was ever in a dog's mouth.
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