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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate this attitude. I'm as well off as I am because I am thrifty and NOT wasteful.  So I think you should have a talk with her about "Please feel free to help yourself to the filtered water rather than plain sink water, but these cases of bottled water are us in case of storms or power outages."  "Please use up all the art supplies before asking me to spend money on more. You're so creative I'll bet you can think up something wonderful!"  "DH and I would appreciate if you would be mindful of costs when using supplies and playing with the kids. It's a skill we feel is important to learn and we'd like you to enforce that with them."[/quote]

I agree with this. However, you just sound fed up with her and like you don't really want to resolve the problem. You should part ways.

With the next nanny, make sure all the house policies etc are clear. Our nanny is great and we couldn't be happier with her but she was leaving all the lights on all the time when going out with the kids, even though this is actually something that is mentioned in the contract (i.e. that we try to conserve energy and that includes turning off lights - sounds picky I know, but it is in the contract because we have had this issue before - we even had a live-in nanny who would leave the TV on in her suite all day when she was working). When the lights were still being left on, I asked her to get the kids involved in turning out the lights every time they go out, which works really well. [/quote]

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