It seems to be limited to the wrappers, socks, and smudges, though. I hired the maid, and my people still make the bed, dust the furniture, do the laundry, and do all kinds of cleaning actions. They seem not to be aware that they HAVE a maid.

If you hire the maid, do the items still count towards your goals?

Hi ajuma, the items that the maid cleans up will go towards

I hired the maid. Most times, when I start up the game, the doorbell rings, the maid walks in, and she gets to work. But one time, the maid didn't come, and I had to drop my people on the wrappers, socks, and smudges.

It was dark out the time that the maid didn't come. Does she not come at night? Or is this a bug I should be reporting?

The maid will only come during the daytime. You've probably noticed that the maid is a different person each day, and they are sent to your house by the agency that employs them as day help.

Okay, thanks!

I've hired a maid for both of my families and I like it. This way I can concentrate directly on my family without having to send them all over the house to clean up first.

I haven't bothered with a gardener, though. There's really never that many weeds to worry about it *AND* they don't have to run clear across the yard to the outdoor garbage bins anymore to throw them away, so yard work is much easier now. In the first version, I purchased weed bomb anytime it was available and would hold onto it until the weeds were abundant, then zap them all in one shot because it was sooooooo boring dropping my peeps onto the weeds, then waiting for them to make the long trek across the yard to throw them away, especially if I had a peep that was particularly slow.

One thing I'm a little baffled by is that there's no patio furniture available. What's the point in expanding your patio if you don't have anything to put out there for them to enjoy it? A BBQ grill maybe, sure... but nothing to sit down on, unless you wanna throw an old couch or a beanbag chair out there or something.

I'm baffled by the lack of patio furniture too actually.

question: If you buy the upgrades and they take longer to complete the work cycle does it help with advancing in their career level as well?

Also, a suggestion for developers if they read this, is to have a new version that we can add on to the game we already have, sort of like a continuing saga that can be downloaded