Confessions of a millionaire's cleaner: The embarrasing, disgusting and weird things I've seen while cleaning the homes of the super-wealthy By An Anonymous Cleaner Published: 11:57, 16 September 2024 | Updated: 12:08, 16 September 2024 e-mail 6 View comments I’m a cleaner – I’ve been running my own business for more than 30 years now – and living in the Home Counties means that some of my customers are millionaires. Yet while the phrase ‘filthy rich’ might be shorthand for wealth beyond your wildest dreams, for me it’s an all too accurate description. I spend my life trying to bring order to their revolting homes.
From rooms full of dog mess to toilets left unflushed – not to mention lots of other things that would turn your stomach – I’ve seen it all. And I’ve learned that the more money you have, the grubbier, and ruder, you are likely to be. I often say I wipe my shoes on the way out of the fanciest houses I work for, not the way in.
Take some of my (now former) customers: let’s call them Mr and Mrs R. The couple live near one of Britain’s top public girls’ schools, which their daughter attends. Yearly fees are about £40,000.
I did four hours a week and worked for them for four years. But as Mrs R very obviously considered me ‘lower class’ she rarely spoke to me, except to give orders. Even worse, her house was utterly filthy.
Every week, I’d leave it looking like a show home and every week when I arrived, it looked like I had never been.