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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry but it’s crazy with two helping kids, [b]full time jobs (ie you are out of the house all day) and a maid twice a week, that you are still drowning in chores[/b].  Something feels really off about this!  [/quote]

LOL. If you are out of the house the whole day, working a 9 to 5 job, you really don't have too much time to do all the household chores in a non-stressful way. When you get back from work, you are dealing with dinner and taking care of the kids needs also.  Do you think that working women have self-cleaning homes or that stay at home women mess up the house because they are home?

Running a household takes time.  Raising kids takes time. Going to work 9-5 takes time.  As a sahm, I also outsource and have an involved DH,  and becuase I am home we are able to run our household smoothly, raise the kids to our satisfaction, focus on relationships and our health - without overwhelming stress.  If I was working also life would have been frantic for all of us.

You don't understand that?

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OP has a housekeeper twice a week.  So, its just laundry and cooking.  You can have food delivered.  I am a SAHM and outsource nothing.  You are privilaged.  Most of us don't have your or OP lifestyle.[/quote]

No, I am not.  DH and I worked our butt off at school, college and our jobs.  We saved and scrimped and were able to reap the benefit of good financial decisions when we became parents.   You must have goofed off and that is not my problem. Making good decisions (not drinking, smoking, partying and hooking up)  and making best use of public resources (public school, state college) does not make you privileged.  Have you heard the fable of the grasshopper and the ant?

Also, I would rather invest in buying myself and my family time and good organization rather than get a spa treatment or live in an expensive neighborhood.  My being at home with my kids, gets them a college educated mom as caretaker and mentor.  I am an asset for my kids, so why would I spend time and energy doing domestic chores that wears me out? How is that smart?

We are able to afford a good lifestyle by keeping COL low.  And I would never feed my kids delivered food because why feed some overprocessed crap to your kid.  We invest our efforts in good nutrition. [/quote]

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