Neighborhood kid picks up poo and mows lawn weekly. Cleaning person every other week. During the school year a nanny shared with another family picks up the kids from school and supervises homework then play til dinner two days a week.

I hire someone 4 hours a day to hang out with my mom in her nursing home too - so she’s not as lonely or bored.

Honestly the young kid phase exhausting. There’s no medal for being the most burned out. Lots of people have help from family. Lots of people have a stay at home spouse. Lots of people hire help. Lots of people must just be really tough. Everyone seems to be exhausted.

Someone cleans our house every 2nd Friday. That's it.

I qualify for AARP and am closer to "GET OFF MY LAWN" age than diapers, but thanks for asking!

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DFL > DNF > DNS

You post really young though

😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

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DFL > DNF > DNS

Quit flirting. She's probably 30-40 years older than you are.

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Ditto.

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clm
Nashville, TN
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https://www.everyplate.com/


We had been doing HelloFresh, mostly would sign up with different emails to get their intro offer then cancel a few weeks into their regular plan because it was just too expensive - around $70 for three meals. This one is identical in quality, zero difference imo. Slightly less variety, and they don't package things quite as well--all the food comes in a big box that needs to be sifted through to organize one meal, but it's a tiny inconvenience given the affordability. If it catches on it very well may increase in price but we're loving it so far.

Absolutely none.

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Harry: "I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this."
Loyd: "I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver's full of shit, man."

Ok, you're the one with 4 young kids, right?

What's your schedule like? You're the type of person I want to hear from!

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Long Chile was a silly place.

Are you going to ask every female poster that until one lies and says yes?

Considering there's only a handful of the womens in this forum, yes, that is precisely what I intend to do.

Now go back to telling Sally how young she posts.

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Long Chile was a silly place.

My husband got a roomba when I was gone for a particularly long stretch flying.

x3
you are my twin brother..

We have an Au pair that lives with us, A nanny that shows up at 6am to get the kids up and ready for school. The cook shows up at 7 to have breakfast prepared. Wife and I are out the door by 8. Nanny takes kids to daycare. Cleaning service shows up each day at 10 cleans till 2. Once a week we have a lawn mowing service, and the Gardner works about 3hrs a day 7days a week. Nanny picks kids up from afterschool daycare at 4 and brings them home by 5. Chef has a light snack ready for them. Tutor comes over at 6 tutors kids till 8. Chef has dinner ready at 8 wife and I get home some nights by 8 for dinner. Au pair reads to kids and tucks them in by 9. at least a few nights a week wife and I are home by 9 but some days we just need a break from the kids and house work so we meet up at a bar for drinks those nights we get home by 11 (only 2 or 3 times a week) Anyhow, if we are home by 9 we go into the kids bedroom and give them a kiss good night.
Then we head downstairs for a few drinks, as having kids and running a household is so much work.

Of course weekends are different our chef wont do lunches, so we make the Au pair feed the kids, so we don't have to leave the gym or spa to come home and make them a meal.

So i guess you could say we have a little bit of help, but I am sure others have far more.

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Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

No real disagreement here, but in the D the Polish cleaning crews are....well I would like to say organized but more in a RICO way.

We pay for trust. We want someone in our house that will do a very good job, and won't steal from us. And in my experience, that is a 1:1 contact, not some guy who is ferrying 20 women around in a passenger van every AM.

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"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." John Rogers

So your Au Pair does nothing basically....pics or it didn't happen..

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"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." John Rogers

So do I. I only use people for everything that I have gotten a personal referral for.

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clm
Nashville, TN
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Our's is 60, big house with dogs. We've told her she doesn't charge enough, she says she is fine. Every now and then we give her more, she says it is too much. Gave her a Christmas bonus, she cried.

That is the only help other than online grocery shopping. I really enjoy gardening and spend multiple nights a week and weekends doing that. Wife enjoys mowing, but she is shitcfor doing the trimming (all of it) so I have to do that.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

Nanny in the summer (his cousin)
Housecleaner every other week
Dog walker/sitter as needed when I Will be gone all day.
Landscapers treat yard, trim bushes, trees etc. I mow and weed whack.

I think he forgot the pink; otherwise the au pair is for when wifey is too busy to be a wife and tucks him into bed. It worked for Schwarzenegger...until it didn’t 😉

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Yep, that’s me. Kids are 10, 8, 5 & 2.

Husband who works ridiculously long hours so I’m pretty much mom and dad rolled into one, but thankfully I don’t work.

I’m up around 6:00/6:30 when the first kid wakes up and usually in bed by 8:30, asleep between 8:30 and 10:00. It’s really hard to get moving again after getting 4 kids to bed in the dark. Easier to just go to bed myself.

Outside work - there’s not much to be done right now. We’re renting, and the owner takes care of the dandelion forest that is supposed to be the yard, and in the past we’ve lived in condo complexes where the HOA does the exterior maintenance. In winter, all the major snow removal is taken care of by HOA’s or the owner but we had to dig out our parking spot and walkway. 2 winters ago it was no big deal, this winter was unreal. We didn’t even see any grass until the very end of May. Then we got 6” of snow. Lots of shoveling by me. Husband would sometimes help if he wasn’t too late or if he needed to decompress, but I did most of it. Kids did as much as they could, but they built more snow forts than shoveling. The neighbor took pity on me and used his front end loader or his bobcat snowblower 3-4 times after monster storms to clear our parking spot. Without him, it’d have been a lost cause. We paid him in beer and gas money for the heavy equipment.

Inside - I do at least 1 load of laundry every day, often 2, some days 4. Depends on what’s being done. Dishes pile up and get done before I start dinner usually. My oldest is getting into helping with dishes, he’s just not independent with them yet. The 2 older boys have started cleaning toilets and sinks, basic bathroom stuff because I got sick of cleaning their pee off of all surfaces. How is it possible to miss so badly when you literally have a hose to pee from?? They are getting better (at cleaning, not aiming) but I still have to go over and hit what they missed. Sweep daily, vacuum when necessary (if not daily, every 3 days), mop when there’s a huge mess.

We live in a small house, so toys, LEGOS, stuffed animals and books are a problem.

Condos have always been small and overrun by kid stuff. It’s everywhere and I just don’t notice it much, but it’s sad. We’ve got 3 boys in one room, and my daughter sleeps part time in our bed and part time on a mattress on the floor in our room. So the bedrooms are nothing but beds and clothes. We do the best we can, but it’s messy. Even when we clean and organize it’s just cluttered.

We are building a proper house (haven’t lived in one since I lived with my parents) after living in small condos for the last 20 years (except for one winter), and we cannot wait. We’ll have 4 good size bedrooms and a dedicated playroom. Closets for kids clothes, and room for dressers and beds. It’ll be a new house, so I’m hoping to hire cleaners to help keep it nice. I hate cleaning! Only thing here that seems to be decently priced - $20-25/hour. Snow removal will be on us (time to buy a blower and hire a roof crew), but no lawn, just a wildflower mix (it’s whats on the lot along with trees).

I’ll be honest and say our house is always a mess. It just is. The second we sweep or vacuum, there’s crumbs on the floor. After you pick up all the LEGOS- you step on one, stuffed animals and blankets are everywhere. And I don’t t care. 6 people in less than 1000 sq ft is just messy.

I do lunches, walk kids to school, drive them or put them on the bus - depends on where we live honestly (we’ve been moving around a lot since October 2017). I get them home, do homework, cook. If my husband isn’t home yet I get kids ready for bed and get them to sleep.

There’s more, but it’s past my bedtime and a kid just woke up. Gotta go!

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Harry: "I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this."
Loyd: "I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver's full of shit, man."

I am retired, and Mrs RG still works PT, so I am the Household Concierge (housekeeper, gardener, cook, shopper and bottle washer. And I still have time to exercise as much as I want... or not.

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RayGovett
Hughson CA
Be Prepared-- Strike Swiftly -- Who Dares Wins- Without warning-"it will be hard. I can do it"

I can sympathize with that last point. Some services where I live (Florida) are skyrocketing in cost right now (e.g. landscaping).

I'm single and live alone in small house. Work full time and travel a lot for work. I have a landscaper and a pool cleaner. Everything inside the house I do on my own. My community has an HOA which maintains the common areas which have a lot of landscaping so I'm hyper-aware of those costs.

House cleaner every other week.
Use a lawn service just to do the spring clean-up of the yard.
Luckily my 15yr old like to mow the lawn.
Everything else we do ourselves