well - I clean the kitchen before our cleaning lady comes - because otherwise she spends her time in the kitchen and doesn't get anything else done (depite repeated instructions that the kitchen is the LAST thing she is to tackle - only if she has time)

Guess the sight of a dirty dish offends her or something. (Not that she *DOES* the dishes - just restacks them in the sinks and the dish strainer. Yup - she rearranges the dishes in the drying rack. Why I don't know.)