If wishes were magic, I would have a clean house

[pegkerr]

It may be politically incorrect, but dammit, I want a house elf.

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[naomikritzer]

Me, too.

I swear my mother has one.

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

Me three. Desperately.

(though... my friend gsteemso is visiting for a couple of days, and can be... useful that way :) )

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

Agreed 100%.

[king-tirian.livejournal.com]

"The handiest thing to take along on a picnic is a butler. This has more uses than a Swiss army knife. A butler can, for instance, direct the footmen where to place the tables and chairs, and supervise their setting out the linens, silverware, and stemmed glasses before unpacking the food hampers. (Now is the time for letter writers to inform Miss Manners, with some indignation, that many people nowadays have neither butlers nor footmen.... Why it is that people who cannot afford footmen think they can afford children, Miss Manners does not know. In the long run, they are a great deal more expensive.)"
-Miss Manners, Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

me too. It would make life so much easier. Or a ghost who cleans.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

It's not politically incorrect if you give him clothes.

[aome.livejournal.com]

This is what people should register for. Instead of all that baby paraphernalia that parents declare we can no longer live without, we should be pooling money with other friends/family and giving several years' worth of butler (or at least maid) service as a baby present!

God only knows we could use one. Assuming I wasn't too ashamed to let a dignified butler into my house. :P

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

For the love of Claus, ME TOO.

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

I hear you. Sometimes things get so bad that it's not just the "clean house" that I want, it's the "organized house." Less stuff, better systems for organizing the stuff we do have, more space for the systems... A sparkly clean kitchen counter or toilet just isn't enough sometimes. I also recently discovered that spending giant swacks of cash at The Container Store doesn't magically result in an organized house either. House Elf for you, Bag of Holding for me.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Me, too. I'd be content to have Samantha's power to wiggle my nose and have the work be done by pure magic.

[ambar.livejournal.com]

I have a bag in the back of my car with *gasp* unwanted books.

As God Herself is my witness, one day I will own more shelf space than books to use it. But it'll take a while at this rate.

(Of course, I don't have a packrat husband or two lovely daughters, so the mess is all my own, for better or for worse. :-)

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Heh. With the shape my apartment's in, I need a tame house ogre...