I mean that is some fancy stuff. From time to time, I help a friends daughter who cleans wealthy folks homes. The property I helped at for 2 days now is some where between 2.5 and 3.5 million. It has 10 bathrooms and 7 bedrooms. Mounted in the kitchen wall is a machine called Thermal something which is programmed to make various styles if coffees. You can even use it on wifi. The lady who owns this home is vacationing in Lima, Peru so it gets cleaned while she is away. The cleaning lady showed me 2 huge closets yesterday full of clothing and many, many pairs of ladies shoes. She slid a shoe box out of a compartment and took out 1 tall heeled dress shoe. That pair of fancy foot wear was priced at $1,200.00. Never in my life have I known someone who buys such expensive shoes. I make a little side money for what seems like simple work. The part I enjoy most about the whole experience is free BLT sammiches and she owns a ageing pair of Irish cream Labs from the same litter. They are such sweet heart dogs and I get to visit them a little. Some folk have a higher life style than others. An amazing property in a very beautiful neighborhood.

Drip coffee is usually made with about 1/15-1/17 (by weight) as much coffee as water.

Call a big cup of coffee 10 ounces (this is almost two “coffee maker cups,” which are 6 ounces).

So two big cups is 20 ounces of water. Let’s call it strong drip coffee and use the 1/15 ratio. That gives you 1 1/3 ounces of coffee, or 0.083 pounds.

0.083 * 65 = $5.42 for two big cups.

That’s only a little more than Starbucks charges for their terrible coffee.

Espresso works out about the same, a double espresso usually uses 16-18 grams of coffee, make two and you’re at a bit more than an ounce of coffee beans.

While I don’t think splurging on expensive coffee beans is necessarily stupid, I think putting them in one of those all-in-one built-in machines is. The ones I have tried have not made great coffee, and putting super-high-end coffee in one is a waste of money and coffee.

That you did the math on that.. . I bet you are pretty accurate on that. I went to look up that machine. Its called Thermador. That sucker is a $4,400.00 coffee maker. I still like my 8'oclock coffee beans better.

The previous owner of my last house had put a similar Miele unit in. It was a pain in the ass to clean and didn’t make good coffee and we just used a $30 French press we kept in the little nook next to it.

With those things, you’re really spending money on the automatic machinery, plus the built-in-appliance markup, plus the fancy-Euro-brand markup, not on the actual coffee maker part.

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That pair of fancy foot wear was priced at $1,200.00. Never in my life have I known someone who buys such expensive shoes.

My hippo skin cowboy boots cost me $1,300 about 8 years ago. I paid in cash. I still wear them almost daily.

I put in fancy machines at work that allowed the user to choose how many beans they wanted ground and how much water they wanted to use. Most users ran with default settings.

I paid $500 for these boots back in 84.

Chippewa boots? I dont think they are Danner. @Balze, I didn't even know boots were made from hippo.

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That pair of fancy foot wear was priced at $1,200.00. Never in my life have I known someone who buys such expensive shoes.

I have multiple pairs of “dress shoes” that are close to, or a little more than $1200 a pair. For five straight years, they were worn daily. Most of them still look new. There are many times I miss not having the opportunity to wear them.

As far as the coffee, you should make a cup and see if it’s tasty.

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I paid $500 for these boots back in 84.

Whites?

amazing boots, I melted a pair years ago. incredibly comfortable

Thermador is a hi end appliance company. I looked at one of their induction cook tops a few years back

I have a Jura coffee machine Giga 6 I bought through the refurb program. has 28 drinks preprogrammed and also bluetooth controllable. last I looked retail was $6500

So the cleaning lady is snooping into areas she has no business in? Pretty sure she's not being paid to clean the inside of shoe boxes.

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So the cleaning lady is snooping into areas she has no business in? Pretty sure she's not being paid to clean the inside of shoe boxes.

My thoughts exactly. If she is going into those places and showing them off to friends, she is not trustworthy.

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Originally posted by mojojojo:
So the cleaning lady is snooping into areas she has no business in? Pretty sure she's not being paid to clean the inside of shoe boxes.

My thoughts exactly. If she is going into those places and showing them off to friends, she is not trustworthy.

Yeah but people like that homeowner probably can’t afford to buy those cameras that let them see what’s happening in their house while they’re away so the cleaning lady is safe that she won’t be found out.

It’s not like nanny cams have been shown on TV.

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... It has 10 bathrooms and 7 bedrooms. Mounted in the kitchen wall is a machine called Thermal something which is programmed to make various styles if coffees. You can even use it on wifi.....

I can't imagine having 10 bathrooms to clean, flappers to replace, etc. but if a house like this is what you want and can afford others to maintain, enjoy it.
Speaking of fancy coffee makers, I used to visit and stay at a friend's swell home in Phoenix and in the mornings he'd make me a cup of instant coffee (they didn't drink coffee). One day I said I need to go out and buy a coffee maker and real coffee, but didn't get around to it and left a couple days later. When we went out the following year he had purchased a different even fancier home which he had just had remodeled. One of the first things he did was show my partner and I the Wolf built-in coffee maker. As he showed it to my partner and I he said "you now can have good coffee in morning". I think he said it was $3,500 but found a deal so paid "much less" LOL. I recall it could make all kinds of coffees but what we set it to do was grind the beans then make a delicious single cup, a huge improvement over instant! I found this image of it being shown to us when we arrived.

You don't need a $3500 coffee maker to grind the beans then make a single delicious cup.

I use a quality burr grinder ($100ish), a quality pour-over ($40ish), and an electric kettle ($40ish), and make single delicious cups of coffee all day long at 1/20th of that price.

I’d be pissed if I found my housekeeper was displaying my stuff to the help. And it would be her last day.

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I’d be pissed if I found my housekeeper was displaying my stuff to the help. And it would be her last day.

Yup.

I also question whether the homeowner(s) knew that the housekeeper was inviting other people into the home. Does she have the authority to sub-contract, for additional help?

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You don't need a $3500 coffee maker to grind the beans then make a single delicious cup.

I use a quality burr grinder ($100ish), a quality pour-over ($40ish), and an electric kettle ($40ish), and make single delicious cups of coffee all day long at 1/20th of that price.

Yes, yes, I know that Rogue, I may have $250 in my Capresso grinder and bonvita thermos carafe 8 cup maker, but my friend was wealthy and spent money on high end toys and his homes. I say "was" because he passed from the damn covid less than a year later.

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Originally posted by mojojojo:
So the cleaning lady is snooping into areas she has no business in? Pretty sure she's not being paid to clean the inside of shoe boxes.

My thoughts exactly. If she is going into those places and showing them off to friends, she is not trustworthy.

She has worked for these ladies for 27 years. Sits at nights for ones elderly mother. I think they know each other well. I had tried to have a small topic of how some well off people live here in part of the State. If you need to turn this into something other than what it is, stay the hell out thank you. Boss might as well lock it because you suck.