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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope, keep one person full time as housemanager (NOT housekeeper) and pay for a monthly deep clean from a service that will be in and out in 3 hours.

Schedule the nanny 12-8.  12-3 is grocery shopping, errands, looking up camps, household laundry, prepping your dinner, etc.  3-8 is teaching the kids to tidy up after themselves, cooking and feeding kids, taking them to after school activities, helping with homework, etc.

You REALLY want to keep one person full time.  PT has an extremely high turnover, and you want consistency more than anything else.

If you're not concerned with homework help, language barrier, or possibly needing someone willing to slide hours earlier for sick days and scheduled days off school, a housekeeper who can just drive kids after school and otherwise focus on the house could work.[/quote]

Can you tell me more about the "housemanager" expected duties?  Makes sense to keep the cleaning service.  My current nanny will vacuum the kitchen at the end of the day sometimes if they've been really crumby from the kids.  She always empties the dishwasher and cleans the stove top after its been used, regardless of who used it.  She mainly doing cooking and food prep for the kids, and maybe 1x/wk doing something that could be a family meal (ziti, for example).  Is that kind of thing still considered part of the "housemanager" role?[/quote]

A house manager can schedule and let in repair personnel.  They can take your car in for maintenance.  Full dishes, laundry, and cooking every night could be part of it, depending on the person.

A house manager can completely take over all the kids' clothes, your meal contribution when your child's friend's mom is put on bedrest, purchasing and wrapping birthday presents (you'll still take them to the weekend parties), all the camps and activities, all the household ordering, dry cleaning runs, etc.

However, a house manager is not a housekeeper.  She can do the normal kid cleaning, but don't ask her to dust the tchotchkes, clean the toilet, or wash the windows.

The whole point is that they manage the household.  Anything you are comfortable turning over, do it.  But managing a household does not mean cleaning the house.[/quote]

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