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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one cleans your house and sits your kids for a room. How can any parent be that stupid? That mother is a real bimbo, if I ever saw one.[/quote]

Not to start trouble or anything, because I don't know this families arrangement with this woman, but I used to trade childcare for a room without salary back about 4 years ago. I used to live in my own house that I was trying to sell and I was caring for some kids part-time for about $200 a week (just mornings with a different family in the afternoons). One day a guy sent my realtor an offer for my house of full asking so I took it without having anything lined up. I asked the family if we could work out a live-in scenario and we did. They stopped paying me, I stayed in a room upstairs near the kids, I still did my normal morning routine with them and I also babysat very occasionally for them without any extra pay.

Could I have commanded more $ than the trade was worth if I had searched around? Maybe, but they were there to help when I needed it, I already knew and loved the family and the kids, and I felt safe living with them for 6-7 months until summer while I found a new house in a nearby town.

So, basically just wanted to point out that depending on the amount of childcare and housework I'm sure you could find a number of nannies that would consider such an arrangement. In my situation there was no stay at home parent, but in the article the MB said she is a stay at home mom, so there likely might not have been much too do at all.

If this elderly woman wasn't a crook and just couldn't work a 8-10 hour day, it might be beneficial for her to trade a place to stay for some minor help around a house. If she can't make enough to cover rent elsewhere on her own comfortably I don't see why this wouldn't be a good idea.[/quote]
At least you were a nanny. She wasn't. [/quote]

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