SAHPs- how much do you spend on household help/childcare?

[Anonymous]

I’m a SAHM and drowning since I had my second kid. We have biweekly cleaners for about $350 a month. Am contemplating getting a part time nanny/housekeeper to help but it also feels like a luxury to have help around the house when I already don’t work. For those in similar boats, how much do you spend?

[Anonymous]

zero

[Anonymous]

Personally if I couldn’t have one day off a week (so at least like 9-3 with no kids), I’d prefer to work full time and use childcare. I don’t hesitate to pay for it. Relative affluence is part of why I’m a SAHP in the first place. But the amount is only important in relation to your budget, so I wouldn’t focus on what anyone else spends or thinks is “reasonable.”

[Anonymous]

Zero. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to and we can afford it. But the processing of finding a reliable cleaner that actually does a good job has turned me off. I’m sure they exist, but after I’ve had bad luck enough times that it just isn’t worth the hassle for me.

[Anonymous]

If you can afford it, why not? I’d prioritize a break for you and help with laundry. Other cleaning help is negligible w super little kids.

[Anonymous]

37K

[Anonymous]

I spend about $500/week on housekeeper. She used to be our nanny when I worked but now she helps with cooking, cleaning and laundry. We live in a 12,000sf house.

[Anonymous]

I spend about $400/wk ($20k/yr) on a housekeeper who does laundry, cooking, and regular straightening up. Every other week she cleans the house the way your cleaners do. I hired her through a print ad in the newspaper. I have a 3500 sq ft house

[Anonymous]

$0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I spend about $400/wk ($20k/yr) on a housekeeper who does laundry, cooking, and regular straightening up. Every other week she cleans the house the way your cleaners do. I hired her through a print ad in the newspaper. I have a 3500 sq ft house

How many hours is this per day? This would be perfect

[Anonymous]

Also, zero. I don’t know any SAHP that has a nanny. We’re the nannies! And housekeepers.

[Anonymous]

When my second was born, my oldest was in preschool 2 mornings a week. It was a co-op, so pretty cheap, maybe $200/months? I eventually added one morning of childcare a week - a neighbor whose youngest kid was in preschool didn’t need their nanny full time, so I hired her for $20/hr here and there, to stay with the baby when it was my turn to co-op at preschool or to be with both kids so I could go to the doctor or run an errand alone. Having one morning a week without kids really saved my sanity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I spend about $400/wk ($20k/yr) on a housekeeper who does laundry, cooking, and regular straightening up. Every other week she cleans the house the way your cleaners do. I hired her through a print ad in the newspaper. I have a 3500 sq ft house

How many hours is this per day? This would be perfect

Four hours a dayz. 8-noon. She puts dinner in the refrigerator, and I heat it up in the evening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I spend about $400/wk ($20k/yr) on a housekeeper who does laundry, cooking, and regular straightening up. Every other week she cleans the house the way your cleaners do. I hired her through a print ad in the newspaper. I have a 3500 sq ft house

How many hours is this per day? This would be perfect

Four hours a dayz. 8-noon. She puts dinner in the refrigerator, and I heat it up in the evening.

Oh, and 4 days a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I spend about $500/week on housekeeper. She used to be our nanny when I worked but now she helps with cooking, cleaning and laundry. We live in a 12,000sf house.

With that size house and money at least pay her a decent salary.