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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, some of you outsources must not be saving very much money! We net about 55k a month after taxes and retirement, etc. which is about where I assume the OP shakes out. I wouldn't dream of thinking we are too rich to clean up after ourselves! I can't believe people are telling her to hire a housekeeper so she doesn't have to do her own dishes or clean up the crumbs after dinner. That's some Kardashian level shit imo.

And if I was going to splurge, I'd much rather splash out on an amazing once-in-a-lifetime bucket list level trip for the whole family for the kind of money ya'll are spending on housekeepers. Something you can EASILY do on your own. Takes 15/20 minutes to wipe down the counters, load the dishwasher, pack food away, and sweep the floor.

If you make 1-2M a year or more? Than yeah sure outsource away. But 750k with 2 kids in private and college to pay for someday is not rich enough for that type of lifestyle.[/quote]

This. There's a reason people making this much money are making this much money...it's because they're not idiots who would pay 150k+ a year for someone to clean up their dinner dishes. [/quote]

No one is going to pay you a doctor’s salary to clean their dinner dishes.  It’s a part time job, and not a highly paid one.  At most, you might get $30k/yr, but it’s probably going to be half that.  
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If you know someone who will do things for $15k/yr give me their email address. Seriously. [/quote]

The problem with part-time help is that it's hard to find and keep, not that it's expensive. 2-3 hrs/week for someone to make dinner, clean, and fold laundry is going to run just about $15,000/year.  But you have to look to find the person who wants that kind of job and will stay in in for more than a few months.  [/quote]

Right. Which is why I say—if you know someone who will do it, tell me now. Because it IS ultimately expensive, because you have to “over hire” on hours to fill the job.

I need 15 hours a week of childcare (one hour in the morning 2 in the afternoon) but I have to hire a full time person to get the care I need because no one will accept a split schedule and also no one will take a 5 hr/week morning job or a 10 hr/week afternoon job. I really doubt it’s any easier to find a housekeeper willing to do quirky very part time work. [/quote]

It’s much much easier.  Because you aren’t looking for exact hours or a split schedule.   
You can hire a former SAHM who comes over after she gets her own kids off to school and gets home in time to get them off the bus.  And then if a child is sick, she takes that day off and comes a different day that week.  It’s very different than needing someone to commit to being there at 7:30 every morning.  [/quote]

How would a SAHM coming for a couple hours midday clean up post dinner?[/quote]

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