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the housekeeper

posted 12 years ago by DeepFriedJello
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I hope they give the housekeeper a BIG raise for having to get up at 3am, to catch a train to come to Connecticut and make Jim coffee at 5am.

[–] jeristudt 12 years ago

I think Gussie usually lived on the premises. They talked about "maid's quarters" when designing the house, and Jim was surprised the night of the rainstorm that Gussie wasn't there (to keep Muriela and Bill from jumping on each other, I suppose). Gussie probably got stuck in town at a friend's house on her night off during the rainstorm. I just hope she ditched her job cleaning toilets for people obviously not as smart as she was once she coined the ad slogan.

[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

May be Muriel's $1250.00 add on flower sink room, where "she didn't do much at all" with the 4 flagstones she found, is going to be Gussie's new pad.

[–] JohnGrant (101) a year ago

She had her own room. Did you not notice that when Mr. Simms showed the Blandings' the blueprints for the new house?

[–] bpollen 9 years ago

She was going to be a live-in housekeeper.

[–] Pete8680 9 years ago

She was given a $10 raise at the end of the film. that is like $75 in todays value.

[–] liscarkat (18541) 6 years ago

$10.00 in 1948 is like $100.00 in 2018. Not a bad weekly raise for then, or even now.