I wonder if she cleaned the bathrooms and they didn't mention it in the article. What they do list doesn't sound worth $75. I suppose it'd be a little bit creepy to come home to find a stranger had been in the house, but nice that it was cleaner.

CLEVELAND (AP) - An Ohio woman dubbed the "cleaning fairy" after she broke into a home, cleaned it and left a $75 bill has been put on probation for one year.

A judge sentenced 53-year-old Susan Warren of Elyria (eh-LEER'-ee-uh) on Monday in Cleveland on her guilty plea to attempted burglary. She also must do 20 hours of community service.

The woman told authorities she was driving by the Westlake house and "wanted something to do." She broke in, washed some coffee cups, took out the trash, vacuumed and dusted inside the house. Then she left a bill written on a napkin and included her phone number.

Warren says she owns a cleaning business and sometimes enters homes, cleans them and leaves a bill.

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Speaking of the cleaning fairy, my cousin's annual Christmas letter came via email today. This is the one that I call the Best Worst Christmas letter ever. Here is an excerpt:

"Craig and Deb ____ gave me 13 days off, April 15-April 24. In the meantime, I took on a house cleaning job. On April 4, April 18-22 I put in 31 hrs. and 40 min, cleaning the walls of the rooms and the window sills. I cleaned inside and outside kitchen, bathroom and utility room cupboards. I also cleaned the counter tops to the kitchen and the two bathrooms, and vacuumed the carpets of the 3 bedrooms. I cleaned inside and outside of their refrigerator, swept and hand mopped the kitchen, bathroom, and utility floors, vacuumed the living room, cleaned three glass doors and some mirrors. I hung some clothing of the three youngsters plus some of their parents' clothing on the kids' bathroom tub shower rod and in their folks' closet, to make room for cleaning purposes, had to pick up a train set, other toys, games, and belongings and move them to their kitchen space, empty a linen closet and kids' closets, and wipe them down. I moved the personal belongings from the closets to the kitchen linoleum floor because a professional shampoo cleaner was to come and clean the bedroom and living room carpet. I loved the job because I could do it at my own time plus didn't have to clean the ceilings or the windows. Then I returned to ______'s on April 25 night to finish up with a dozen cows to calve and lambing of the 2nd bunch of ewes till finally I had May 8 off. I trained a gal from Newell that had no experience but I needed three nights off for rest. Since most of the yearlings and two year old ewes were not tame, they had to be sheep hooked and dragged to their small pens. It was a long 3 1/2 months on the job. Hopefully J____ will be back to work for the full time seasonal job and not quit this year. I'm getting too old or not a spring chicken anymore. I also accepted a housecleaning job for an elderly man southwest of Vale on June 13, 2012. I clean every other week one day at his home."

She didn't tell anything about what their family did this year, just what she had done to earn money. From other sources I know that her husband lost 100 plus pounds and took up tatting decorative edges for handkerchiefs. One of their sons lives not far from us in Las Vegas - the one who is a professional poker player, and the other one who is a pHd candidate in statistics is getting married next June. They had a huge garden, and grew all these squash: