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Originally Posted by whswhs
I actually know someone who has a more pathological version: "I can't hire a cleaner because I can't get things clean enough to have them come in."
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Yes, another effect of the social changes in the early 20th century in the Anglosphere as "everyone (or every couple) should be able to keep their house clean and tidy" replaced "you need money to keep things clean, and if you have a lot of money than tidying is what servants are for."
Although of course, in many aristocratic cultures men would spend their late childhood and early adulthood as servants serving food and drink, tending horses, helping their master dress, etc. so they would likely have at least a default in Housekeeping for the rest of their life.