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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get rid of the cleaning lady and hire a housekeeper.[/quote]

It sounds like OP needs a 20–30 hour a week housekeeper. Someone who comes every morning or afternoon and handles groceries, meals, cleaning, random errands, laundry, etc. Yes, this is expensive, but that’s the only thing that will make your days bearable. Look into the cost and decide if you feel it’s worth it to spend at least half your raise on outsourcing.

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I posted above about us being double biglaw and I certainly don’t need 20-30 hours of a housekeeper. That’s wild. We have laundry delivery/pickup and twice-weekly cleaners, Whole Foods grocery delivery, and an au pair. I don’t even know what I would use that many hours of housekeeper time for. [/quote]

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DP, but if you add up all the things you get delivery for, plus your twice weekly cleanings, that's easily 20-30 hours/week.  It's a different model: hiring one person who cleans, gets groceries, and does laundry, which combined would take the same length of time you apparently can't conceive of it taking.[/quote]

I will also bet that PP can’t conceive of what a SAHM of school age children possibly does all day… 🙄. I guess if you don’t see the work being done (actually washing the clothes you send out, or doing the shopping at the grocery store) then it only takes as long as the walk from the delivery vehicle to your front door.[/quote]

Dude..many working parents don’t send these things out. We handle it in addition. Being a SAHP to little kids is definitely hard but school age children? Come on - for any neurotypical children this cannot possibly be this difficult. And that’s fine! It sounds glorious to be honest, and also like a reward for surviving the slog of the first 5 years[/quote]

I work PT, rarely during school hours, and I don’t feel that way at all.  My youngest just finished first grade, and my day to day is pretty similar to when he was home, but I do it all alone instead of having my little buddy with me.  I still fold laundry and go grocery shopping and weed the garden, but now I do it all by myself.  There were a few hours a week that I did things just for him that I don’t do anymore.  He had a couple of little classes, and we used to go to the zoo every week, so I have a few hours to do some other things, but it’s nothing like the days before I had children where, even working 60+ hours/wk, I still had hours strung together and even entire days with nothing pressing that I needed to do.  [/quote]

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