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[quote=Anonymous]I am more shocked at how appalled and nasty people are at things that "rich" or event moderately rich people do.  Based on what I am about to post, there are people on DCUM who would be outraged, and say "why in the world can't you do that yourself."  Of course I CAN do these things, but we can afford to pay someone, and it allows time for me to do other things.  For what it's worth, most of my friends in the Bethesda area have all these things also.  Our HHI is under 300K.

I had a baby nurse for 2 weeks.  It was great.  About half of my friends had full time baby nurses, and many had night nurses a couple nights a week.

I have a cleaning person once a week.  We have someone else mow the lawns.

I SAH, but when my kids were little I had a nanny come 2 days a week so I could go to appointments and run errands.   (Where I live, many SAHMs have some help).  I do not have family in the area able to babysit on a weekday.  This set up made it so I could go to the dentist without a screaming one year old, and it's not so easy to find mid-week babysitters you trust with your kids.

We do not go on crazy vacations, and when we do we often use points or miles.  We stay at Marriott level or less nice hotels, not Ritz or Four Seasons.  We drive 2 cars, but they are toyotas not BMWs.  We live comfortably, and we now in the grand scheme we are well off, but we are not at the level where we are private jet, exclusively luxury hotel people.  But in DCUM world, we will get slammed for being rich and clueless, and how dare I not be a martyr for doing absolutely everything in the home since I am supposedly a useless excuse for a human living off of my husband.  [/quote]

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