To anyone looking for something to read, I'd very highly recommend Maid for a Month, a five-part series by the [Toronto] Globe and Mail's Jan Wong. Ms. Wong and her two teenage sons spent a month undercover as members of the working poor, so to speak, and put together an admirable read-in-one-sitting version of Nickel and Dimed. If nothing else, it'll make you feel guilty about how dirty your bathroom is.