Cleaners keep moving my things and I can't find them
Cleaners routinely relocate daily items and household goods to random surfaces, other rooms, or different cabinets instead of returning them to their original spots. This forces homeowners to spend time searching for their belongings every time the house is cleaned.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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- 1Doing a scavenger hunt or mini hunt around the home to find moved itemsDid this help you?
- 2Telling the cleaners how you feel and giving them direct feedbackDid this help you?
- 3Accepting that items will be misplaced and handling certain areas yourselfDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“they neeever put things back where they were after.”source ↗
“if you move things off of my vanity to clean it, put them back there don’t leave them on another random surface in the room?”source ↗
“they’re constantly moving them around or not putting them back where they go and I have to go searching.”source ↗
“I have to come home and do a scavenger hunt for my daily items since they’re not where I left them.”source ↗
“When my cleaner started bringing her cousin with her that’s when I had to go on a mini hunt air stuff she moved.”source ↗
“Sometimes we’ll find things in a different cabinet in the kitchen”source ↗
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