My Cleaning Lady Threw Away A Perfectly Good $23 Bar of Expensive Shampoo And I Think She Should Pay For It
My Cleaning Lady Threw Away A Perfectly Good Bar of Expensive Shampoo And I Think She Should Pay For It
Ayla bought an expensive shampoo bar. All natural, no chemicals, organic shampoo bar to wash her hair. The cleaners that she hires to come and clean her house every month threw away the bar thinking it was soap. Now she wants to know if she should contact the company and tell them about it, or just let it go.
Here’s Ayla’s Shampoo Dilemma
Ayla: Today’s panic button is a broad question, but with a very specific person telling the story. And that person is me. The question is, if you are paying for someone to come into your house to clean that house, do they have a right to take matters into their own hands and throw away your belongings. So that is what happened to me on Wednesday. Once a month we hire a cleaning company to come in and do the all the places that mama doesn’t want to get on her hands and knees for.
You know, the bathroom, the kitchen floors, the basement stairs. So we pay a company to bring in a cleaning crew a once a month to do that for us. And I am a little hippie dippy when it comes to my shampoo and body wash and care like that. So I don’t use traditional shampoo that comes in a plastic bottle. I use what’s called a shampoo bar. You might be like, what is that?
So a shampoo bar is literally something that comes in a metal tin. The one that I had purchased was all natural, organic, no chemicals, pretty expensive. It’s 23 dollars. I mean $23 for, a circle bar of shampoo.
I noticed that it wasn’t totally gone, but it was starting to get thinner and it had broken into three separate pieces. One’s kind of thick, the one inch thick bar now looked basically done. But it wasn’t basically done. And that’s my that’s the point I want to stress right now is that these shampoo bars last for a long time. I probably could have gotten another month and a half, two months out of these three individual pieces that had broken off.
Jim: If you say so.
Ayla: I do say so because it’s happened to me before. I went to wash my hair yesterday, and I noticed that all three broken pieces of that bar were gone. The cleaners had taken them. They had probably thought, oh, this is trash. That’s not a full bar of soap. I’ll throw it away. And I was like, where’s my shampoo?
I don’t have other shampoo in my shower. That’s what I use to shampoo my hair. I know I sound a little diva-ish, but that’s what I use. It’s gone now. And so I said to my husband, Is it petty? That they took my shampoo and they threw it away. And he goes, no, it’s not petty, but it would be petty if you contacted the company and said something.
And I looked at him. I said, that’s exactly what I want to do. I don’t want to get anyone in trouble. I really don’t. No one should be fired over this. Let me just say that. But that was something that I used and was going to continue to use on my hair for two months. Does someone have the right to throw your personal belongings away because they might think it’s trash?
So that’s today’s panic button. I am in a crossroad right now where personally, I have not contacted the company. I want to though, but my husband thinks, and I think, Jim, you would agree with my husband on this.
Jim: Yes, that is super petty.
Ayla: Yeah, it’s only a $23 shampoo bar. You can go and buy another one. Girl, you will be okay. First world problems. Okay? Yes. However, the other driveway on this crossroad leads me to a place of, what if I just call the cleaning company and say, I don’t want to get anyone in trouble? But if you don’t mind, can you just tell your employees not to throw away stuff that they might think is trash?
And I was home the entire time. They could have said, hey, is this trash? Do you still want to keep this? And I would have said, please don’t throw it away. I use that every day.
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