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Originally Posted by Sliver
$350 a month is nothing. Somebody making minimum wage earns that in less than three days. You're not going to keep a 45 year old person out of the workforce so you save $350/month. That doesn't even make sense.
Also, we don't get the cleaner in weekly. It's every second week. We clean on the in between weeks.
But yeah, I know about laundry, groceries, property care, etc. because my wife and I do all those things, too. We do EVERYTHING a homemaker does and waaaaay more.
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Right, which is why I said it answers a portion of your question. You've already deemed that a portion of your house work is worth $350/month. So you're already assigning value to that. If you were a household who also assigned value in other areas of house work, with the intention of maybe keeping evenings and weekends more open and free of house work, then you'd add that on top of the $350. Some people hire out cooking and grocery shopping. Some people hire out before/after school care. Etc.
I know many people who's household is double high income earning and see value in a nanny to run a house (with school aged children) so they can work. I also know many people who choose the opposite.
But a Sliver thread rarely follows honest debate, so I know what I'm getting myself into here
