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Since the United States is a do-it-yourself country, we generally carry our own bags, take our laundry to the Laundromat, stand in line at the grocery store, or shine our own shoes, whoever we may be--lawyer, professor, bank president, or corporate executive. Anyone who can afford the extremely high cost of service in this country, and wants to pay for it, may. But there is absolutely no social stigma in doing one's own daily chores, no matter how menial. In fact, Americans take pride in do-it-yourself accomplishments and may devote a great deal of their leisure time to projects around the home. As noted earlier, huge warehouse stores have been built throughout the country which cater to do-it-yourself tasks.

Many Americans who could afford household help or a driver or a gardener do not employ them. They prefer family privacy, independence,and freedom from responsibility, all of which are at least partially lost when one has help in one's home. Others would rather use their money for travel, sports, or in some other way instead of paying high American wages for domestic help. For the most part, household help has been replaced by easily operated appliances, prepared or packaged foods, wrinkle-free fabrics, and other such labor-saving developments. This doesn't mean that no one employs domestic help;many people, for example, hire a cleaning person for a few hours per week, especially if the adults in the household work full time.

People employed in this service industry and their employers are subject to the same government and business regulations as anyone else in a job. Employees share Social Security paymenst with their employers, for example, and jobs such as cleaning person, gardener, and chauffeur are jobs like any other to Americans, with salaries often equal to salaries of office workers or clerks or waiters.