Nannies, do you do mb's dirty laundry (panties, sheets, etc)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do the family laundry but the cleaners do all the linens. I actually don't mind it as it's generally the quietest moment of my work day. MB has made it abundantly clear that it's strictly a "if you have time" task but I make time for it most days because i know it helps her out. However, folding DB's skid marked underwear is the WORST!

I'm really glad I don't work for the kind of people who would leave used condoms in their sheets. Who does that? Disgusting!

As disgusting as used condoms!

[Anonymous]

I don't. My first nanny job I took it upon myself to move clothes from the wash to the dryer, some of which contained some of the mom's clothes. The mom poked her head out of her office door and asked me to not do that, saying she'd be embarrassed if I did her laundry. I completely understood and haven't touched any parents clothes since. My current family doesn't have a problem with it, they will leave their underwear out on the floor in plain view and in the laundry baskets they know I'm working with, but if I come across a pair of underwear when I'm putting the kids clothes away or something I simply leave it where it is.

[Anonymous]

Only in daycare homes, as an assistant the provider will let 1 person in charge of 7 kids in her home daycare and I would go upstairs and sweep her floor, do laundry, fold her, husband and big daughter laundry, including undies, boxers, bras, etc. I'm never working in a daycare where children is not first. I should've left that job sooner. Because after sweeping, cleaning upstairs I would be so tired to be with the babies. That's why please always give gifts to the assistant, not just the provider. You don't really know what's going on inside her daycare.

[Anonymous]

Its okay, just use gloves if you are doing adults underwears.

[Anonymous]

Once in a while I will fold the parents laundry if it is already in the dryer and I have time. I leave their underwear unfolded in the bottom of the laundry basket. But the other stuff I fold if I have time. That is as involved as I am willing to get with the parents laundry.

[Anonymous]

This cracks me up how parents expect Nannies to do everything. Would you ask your housekeeper to watch your kids? Probably not. The currently family I’m with always has so many dishes. Every morning I come to work and this sink is filled with dishes from the night before piled overflowing their double sink and they expect me to clean it and unload all the dishes they have. It’s so annoying, I just stopped. I should t be responsible for anything from when my time is off. The kids go to bed at 6:30. The parents have ALL NIGHT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do the family laundry but the cleaners do all the linens. I actually don't mind it as it's generally the quietest moment of my work day. MB has made it abundantly clear that it's strictly a "if you have time" task but I make time for it most days because i know it helps her out. However, folding DB's skid marked underwear is the WORST!

I'm really glad I don't work for the kind of people who would leave used condoms in their sheets. Who does that? Disgusting!

Skid marked underwear, period stains, are worse than used condoms. Disgusting to ask anyone to touch bodily fluids/solids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This cracks me up how parents expect Nannies to do everything. Would you ask your housekeeper to watch your kids? Probably not. The currently family I’m with always has so many dishes. Every morning I come to work and this sink is filled with dishes from the night before piled overflowing their double sink and they expect me to clean it and unload all the dishes they have. It’s so annoying, I just stopped. I should t be responsible for anything from when my time is off. The kids go to bed at 6:30. The parents have ALL NIGHT.

I would never have cleaned up this mess the first time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once in a while I will fold the parents laundry if it is already in the dryer and I have time. I leave their underwear unfolded in the bottom of the laundry basket. But the other stuff I fold if I have time. That is as involved as I am willing to get with the parents laundry.

You do realize that if you do this once, they then think it's one of your duties. You do only what is written in your contract. Your job is child care not adult care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:our nanny does sheets and all laundry (at her insistence, not our request). even though i did not ask for it and remind her it's not required occassionally, it is a GODSEND and one of the reasons we are continually reminded she is working hard to help us out and make things in our family run smoother - so helping add to the arguments in favor of keeping her vs. going preschool now that we are past the baby stage.[/quote

Are you still paying her $15/hr? For doing what she does for adults she should be laid $45/hr.]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Do you pay her well? Probably not. "

she makes $800 a week in outside the beltway SS area. it's not exorbitant but relatively high for our near-by area.

$42,000/before taxes. Approximately, $20/hr. Not even relatively high. Just another cheap employer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If DB's laundered underwear is still skid-marked, it's time to throw them out and start over with new ones and a different laundry technique.

I was asked once to do the parents' dirty laundry. DB's undies were skid-marked. I folded them inside-out, tushie out, so the shit-stains showed, blatantly. They never asked me to do their intimates again.

You should have googled "how to wipe/clean your bottom and eliminate skid marks.". How can a grown man not know how to wipe his derriere!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

loudounnanny wrote:Yes, this was actually in my job description. BUT. The laundry is sometimes more than I can handle. due to the fact that they( MB & DB) are BOTH slobs! Clothes on the floor EVERYDAY instead of placed in the hamper. Towels, underwear, panties etc. EVERYDAY! Not to mention that she is just plain old DISGUSTING! Eeewww!

Can't they afford a housekeeper?

For many families, the issue is not whether they can afford a housekeeper; the issue is fairness and spending our hard-earned money wisely. Very few parents are comfortable giving the nanny a three hour paid break each day to read magazines and watch tv while the kids nap, just so that we as parents can come home and, instead of spending time with our kids, scurry around doing the kind of tasks that a stay at home parent would do throughout the day. I expect my nanny to take an hour break each day just for herself, but I expect her to spend the other two hours of kids' nap time on things a SAHM would do: child-related food prep and housekeeping tasks (first priority) and non-child-related light housekeeping tasks (second priority, but required because I just don't have ten hours a week of child-related tasks each week). The latter category includes laundry, plant care, ironing, etc., but never heavy cleaning (b/c the cleaning service does that). We negotiate the specific tasks in advance, but some flexibility is required and I would not hire a nanny who had an attitude about this, unless she could suggest other things she would do during naptime that I felt would benefit my household. Resting so that she'll be a better nanny when the kids wake up doesn't cut it. Any health adult should be able to get through an 8-10 hour day without a 3 hour break.

Yes, I could afford to hire a housekeeper (on top of the cleaning service) to come in for ten hours a week to do this kind of light housekeeping, but I would be financially irresponsible to do that for the sole purpose of making my nanny feel like a respected professional because she gets to sit on her rear end for three hours a day while my kids sleep.

You pay her for availability. If schools are closed she's there for all hours. Otherwise, those three hours that you don't want to psy for means that she can leave house during that time and fo whatever she wants.

[Anonymous]

Why would anyone pull up this nearly decade old thread? I had no idea what “mb” was!

[Anonymous]

Not anymore.