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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have as much sympathy for those with 7 figure HHI as I do for Will Smith and his wife's Alopecia.  She can buy a wig.  You can hire all the help you need.
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Many of you are acting like a 7-figure income is license to throw your money around. It doesn’t actually go that far in the DMV, if you have a nice house and pay for private school. You can have a FT nanny *or* housekeeper but not both unless you don’t want savings.[/quote]

Hmmm… we have 3 kids in private school (120k a year) a part time nanny (30k a year) and a nearly full time housekeeper (45K a year). That’s 195K a year. On a 1M+ income, that still leaves us a ton of money to live very well. Taxes (for better or worse) are not quite 40% once everything is deducted, but even if it were, it’s still PLENTY. I appreciate that all of those perks are not always as fancy as they seem but saying you can’t have both is nuts. You might CHOOSE more savings than more help, but many do not! Unless your “7 figure income” is barely 7 figures and you are on the older side and retiring soon…[/quote]

I think it’s great you have the employees to help your life run smoothly and I’m not in any way being snarky, but could you explain a bit about how your housekeeper fills all those hours?  I assume if she acts as a cleaner that would take a solid full day out of the week.  What is she doing those four other 8-hour days?  Even food prep and laundry and straightening up wouldn’t that long.  Or do you just recognize you are paying way more hours than you actually need her to work?[/quote]

We initially didn’t want somebody for as many hours but found it was easier to hire someone for 30+ hours a week - they need the stability. Our housekeeper enjoys ironing, and she’s good at it. So now she irons all our sheets (four sets) every week (so crisp!) and washes and presses all of DHs work clothes that we used to take to the cleaners. She irons a lot of my clothes as well, and I’ve noticed how much nicer and put together I look when my clothes are perfectly ironed![/quote]

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