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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who knows if OP is still here, and I'm not quite sure how this got to 7 pages, and I've only read a few pages, but I'm throwing out my input too -

I would also post on neighborhood listservs and ask locally.  I think you are looking for a someone who has nannied for a family for a long time, and the kids re older and in camps/school during the day, but the family doesn't want to let them go - they want the nanny to work from 2-6 or so to pick up kids, take theme to activities, etc.  So what that family needs is someone to split the job.  What you need is a nanny who likes the housework part, and would be willing to do the housework during the day and nanny in the later afternoon.

It can be a real win win.  But, it really depends on making a really good match and being flexible on all sides.  The housekeeper family probably has to let the nanny-ing take precedence.  [/quote]

This is the answer. Our neighbor had a long-time nanny/housekeeper that didn’t really have enough to do once their kids got older, and they were happy when we hired her to do things. I didn’t use her for laundry, but it would have been an easy thing to have her come over a couple of mornings a week and do laundry & tidy up while the laundry is going.

The other alternative is to hire each job individually. I had a neighbor who had a bunch of kids, and they had a lady that came to do nothing but laundry. [/quote]

+1. Exactly this.  We ended up moving from where we were when our kids were young but if we hadn’t we would have sought this type of share and our ex nanny would have been interested in having two stable sources of income. [/quote]

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