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[quote=Anonymous]So, I just found out my nanny drank all the bottled water I had bought for Sandy and future storms this winter.

It's not a big deal and if you ask me if I can afford it, yes. I noticed it was only 3.99 when it is on sale for a pack of 24. Assuming she goes through 1.5 a day, a pack of 24 will last 2-3 weeks and ten dollars a month is not a huge deal. Bigger deal is trying to keep it stocked and hauling it home. (My nanny doesn't do grocery shopping so I have to do it. She says she doesn't think she can handle that and watching my child at the same time but she will go get a few things once in a while).

Her attitude that because we are employers we must be rich and all her spending is a drop in the bucket is what bothers me.

Yes, we can afford the water as well as a lot of other things she is extremely wasteful with at our house. But we have values about money and drink filtered water at home ourselves. We don't say "let's make homemade bubble solution" and go through a whole bottle of dish detergent. Sure, we can afford that $4 bottle of dish detergent too and she doesn't do it every day but a bottle of bubble solution at CVS is sooo much cheaper than my dish soap.

Does this warrant a talk?
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