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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For 2 kids I charge $25/hr right now. And I won't do any household tasks beyond what we immediately use (i.e. I will not do a pile of the children laundry, but I might pre-treat a stain and toss it in the wash if it happened while I was with them. Also I won't do a sink full of dishes but I will wash or load the dishes we used at meal time.) [/quote]

What a rip off.  You sound really lazy.  [/quote]
Wow. She's the nanny, not the housekeeper. What a concept for some of you.[/quote]

YIKES That nanny does sound incredibly lazy. What's always in the back of my mind during all 4 days of my 11-hour workdays, is "What can I do to make these people's life easier?" And if it's appropriate for me to do (I would not, say, do the parents' laundry), and if I have the time, then I do it. This is anything from wiping counters/stovetop, cleaning & tidying up as much as I can, putting kids' clothes away, maybe replacing an overflowing trash bag, etc.) Little things that make a big difference. No I am NOT a housekeeper. But what I've just described could barely be called housekeeping. My family hires a weekly housekeeper as well... and the stuff I see her do I would certainly never do as a nanny!! (Clean toilets, mop floors, vacuum...) There are DIFFERENCES between being a nanny who has manners & likes to help out and being selfish and refusing to help because you're "not a housekeeper." A sinkful of dishes in the morning... you're seriously going to leave that sitting there all day? Just because the parents were too busy to take care of it before you came? I can't believe you are worth $25/hr.[/quote]

Only a truly filthy person can walk around a sink full of dishes.  Also, don't believe that "nanny" is making $25/hr. She's probably an unemployed former Kindercare employee.[/quote]

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