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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also assume you don't have family close by or a nanny/housekeeper.

We have a 3 year old.

We outsource cleaning.

Our laundry falls by the wayside (we don't get to it until the situation is dire -- aka there's little in terms of clean clothing left). We also don't cook for ourselves as much as we should. DD eats balanced meals, but goes to bed before DH is done working, so we eat afterwards. Too often we eat whatever is around or we order in.

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We outsource weekly house cleaning, windows cleaning, car regular maintenance, lawn weed service (DH cuts it himself), DC's sports and art classes and tutoring in foreign language, sometimes grocery delivery.

What we don't outsource is meals. We try to limit eating out and I cook fresh dinners practically every day.  I supplement some of DC's school work. We keep up with laundry OK. DH does small handyman jobs himself as well as some work on cars (because he likes it).

We need to outsource landscape work because it's starting to fall through the cracks.  It would be nice to outsource driving DC to after school activities but I don't know how.

But in general we have plenty of time for everything, we work 40 hour weeks with short commutes. Sometimes we have too many social events and I have to watch for that.[/quote]

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