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[Anonymous]

Why wouldn't laundry be practical? I have three kids of different ages, and our nanny manages to do their laundry once a week. They all nap/do quiet time, and can help a little. The whole laundry process doesn't take that long altogether.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't laundry be practical? I have three kids of different ages, and our nanny manages to do their laundry once a week. They all nap/do quiet time, and can help a little. The whole laundry process doesn't take that long altogether.

That's one household. Nanny would be doing laundry for two households and for infants at that. Nanny shares are completely different than working for one family with multiple kids. It's more of a pain trying to keep two sets of parents happy (especially first time parents) and juggle two babies being raised two different ways.

[Anonymous]

We paid $18/hr. in alexandria but with health insurance that was about $250 a month. I don't think the rate is entirely unreasonable but on the high end. If you like her though, and then she is a good fit then I would say go for it. The difference of saving a couple of dollars an hour is not worth it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't laundry be practical? I have three kids of different ages, and our nanny manages to do their laundry once a week. They all nap/do quiet time, and can help a little. The whole laundry process doesn't take that long altogether.

Laundry in a share involves doing laundry from two different households (is someone going to haul over dirty laundry each week?) for children of Tue same age, and nanny would have to sort and fold all of it, somehow keeping track of which kid each tiny white sock belongs too, or whose white ones is this is. She then also has to figure out some system for helping the non host family haul their clean folded laundry home. I've done, and its a pain in the ass.

OP also wants her nanny to prepare all of the kids meals, which is another pain when dealing with 2 households. Who provides the food? Will the kids eat the same thing every day? Does nanny need to do the shopping? $23/hour for an experienced nanny and this workload is high but not insane. OP could counter with $20 and leave room for raises.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't laundry be practical? I have three kids of different ages, and our nanny manages to do their laundry once a week. They all nap/do quiet time, and can help a little. The whole laundry process doesn't take that long altogether.

Laundry in a share involves doing laundry from two different households (is someone going to haul over dirty laundry each week?) for children of Tue same age, and nanny would have to sort and fold all of it, somehow keeping track of which kid each tiny white sock belongs too, or whose white ones is this is. She then also has to figure out some system for helping the non host family haul their clean folded laundry home. I've done, and its a pain in the ass.

OP also wants her nanny to prepare all of the kids meals, which is another pain when dealing with 2 households. Who provides the food? Will the kids eat the same thing every day? Does nanny need to do the shopping? $23/hour for an experienced nanny and this workload is high but not insane. OP could counter with $20 and leave room for raises.

Excuse the typos, I'm on my phone.

[Anonymous]

We pay $23/hr base for 50 hrs in DC for a 2 infant nanny share. 20 years experience -- not required by us, but very nice to have found. I think the rate sounds normal for DC proper tbh.

[Anonymous]

We paid $19/hr in upper NW DC in 2011. Worked out to about $1700 per family per month with taxes.