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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for convincing me that we should always keep a nanny/housekeeper around, even after the kids are in school FT! I would rather spend quality time after work than rushing to clean. And the lunch options PPs have mentioned are nutritionally deficit. No thanks![/quote]

My kids are 11 (twins) and we still NEED the nanny.  It makes a massive difference to our quality of life and more importantly the kids quality of life.  We have had to transition to a different nanny though and now have one who bills herself as a nanny/household manager.  She does all the kids’ laundry and folds all of our towels and sheets and runs all of our errands and does grocery shopping and sweeps and vacuums and mops and makes the kids jeep their stuff clean and handles all the random kid paperwork (permission slips, reading logs, box tops, etc. etc.) and keeps on top of the kids’ wardrobes and cooks a nightly family dinner and packs lunches and schleps the kids to activities and helps with homework and provides backup care for sick days and teacher work days and winter break and in the summer they do a few weeks of camps, a family vacation and a few weeks of Camp Nanny.

And when you really do the math on how much it costs to have schoolyear aftercare, housecleaner, markup on groceries via delivery service, the cost of eating out more or buying packaged convenience foods vs. having a home-cooked meal, full-day camps with before and aftercare for school breaks, last-minute backup sitters, having to pay full-price for all their clothes because I don’t have time to shop around for bargains, etc., the nanny is not ad much of a luxury as one might think.[/quote]

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