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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends...
My summertime family regularly leaves dishes piled up from the weekend, clothes all over the finished basement where the playroom is, and other messes around the house. Because it's so common I've learned to ignore it; however, occasionally I'll go above and beyond if I know it's been a particularly stressful week. 
My school year family leaves messes so rarely that I always clean then up when it happens. They believe in leaving the house for me the same way they want to come home to it which is So wonderful. [/quote]

+1 from an MB. If they are generally slobs and usually leave their messes for you to clean up then don't do it. If this is unusual I think it would be nice of you to do it. I always try to leave the house perfect and clean when the nanny arrives but I also know that because I do that she wouldn't hesitate to clean up a mess that happened when she wasn't there. We have a great relationship with the nanny and I think it's because we work as a team. We both just do what needs to be done regardless of whose watch something happened on. The other day she walked in while I was in the middle of cleaning up the babies diaper explosion. She immediately took the dirty clothes to rinse them while I finished cleaning off the baby. Likewise, if I come home while she is putting the children down for a nap I will clean up the dirty dishes from lunch that she didn't get to yet. [/quote]

+2 from a nanny. I have the same relationship with my NF as pp MB describes and am always willing to jump in and help with things that aren't technically part of my job because we do work as a team. If I didn't feel as respected or felt like everything was being left for me, I'd probably do a lot less to maintain appropriate boundaries and limit job creep.[/quote]

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