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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our nanny has stayed past the toddler years and is a full time household manager type. Like today she washed and organized everyones ski clothes, packed them away, re ordered replacements as needed, and also took one kid to a mid day orthodontist appointment. Everyday is different and i trust her to organize her duties as she sees fit, she works 4/5 shorter days or 3 long ones, whatever works for her and us. She cooks maybe 2 nights, does 90 percent of the laundry and cleaning, and also helps maintain our cars (like she took my car one day last week and got oil and filters done). Runs kids around, helps walk dogs, can run stuff to my elderly parents mid day on a whim, etc. It seems excessive but when i say there’s ALWAYS something to do, it rings true. I have 4 kids in 3 schools and 2 districts and DH and I work about 45/50 hours a week. Its a large expense for us (about 78k on a 490 combined salary) but our mortgage is very low (paid down significantly before i went in house) and i dont desire to level up or have nice vacations…not more than i desire the third adult!!! Shes a treasure and i respect and love her immensely.[/quote]

Congratulations, pp. Sounds like a gem![/quote]

+1.  Regular UMC people (with 2 working parents) regularly use a full-time nanny when the kids are little.  Then this person sometimes transitions into more of a household manager when the kids are older.  Voila - you have a "full-time house cleaner," but that person is so much more.

Our kids are 14, 19, and 21, and we still have our nanny (now household manager) for 22 hours per week.  She is not a babysitter, but instead does laundry, cooking, cleaning, errands, and drives my DD to her sports practices.  (Since DH and I work in the office 3-4 days per week (and WFH the other 1-2 days), she is there after school to provide supervision, and make sure that the kids did not just lay on the beds scrolling on their phones.)

We pay $27 per hour, plus for her phone ($100 per month).  We give her a lot of time off and a $5000 bonus for Christmas.  Our HHI is $495,000 per year, and so perhaps this sounds like a waste of money to many people, but she provides invaluable help to us, and we are so happy she's still willing to work for us. [/quote]

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