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| 10-30-2015 09:38 PM | |
| Dixie Wrecked |
This is me with lawn guys.  It's a lawn and you mow it and I pay you. How hard is that? I went through six before I got my current one who has annoying traits but is pretty good.
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| 10-30-2015 06:37 AM | |
| PunkassPie | We have a neighborhood FB page and post their availability and ask for sitters all the time, see if you can try that? |
| 10-30-2015 06:31 AM | |
| SquigSoup | I feel like I already spent money on sittercity.com, I don't know that I want to pay for care.com also. But I will if I have to. |
| 10-30-2015 03:37 AM | |
| califred |
My mom is a nanny and uses care.com to advertise. Now she mainly watches old people bc she only likes babies but check on there too. |
| 10-29-2015 08:15 PM | |
| Pollyanna |
I had unreliable but competent young secretary (who eventually moved away), ree-ree-ree crazy secretary who quit moments before I wanted to fire her, and now sweet/reliable but less competent secretary who has health issues. (I use grandparents for after school care - my parents and inlaws - that can be it's own bag of crazy) |
| 10-29-2015 06:54 PM | |
| Anastasia |
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Seriously, though, I don't even know how I would FIND a granny.
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| 10-29-2015 02:01 PM | |
| SquigSoup |
You guys! I posted an ad on sittercity.com, someone applied, and then the next day said she couldn't do it (before even meeting us). The babysitters are networking. They're telling each other about us. "Don't sit for them! They're awful!" Seriously, though, I don't even know how I would FIND a granny. |
| 10-29-2015 09:48 AM | |
| cheeky | reliable = teenager, yup that sounds right. |
| 10-28-2015 06:21 PM | |
| REDSOXMAMA |
I listened to a woman complain about a 15 yo homeschooled child (not related to her) who is her main babysitter during the day for her 4 yo. Turns out the 15 yo is unreliable. Hmm. Weird. Also, not CPR certified - why do you ask? 
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| 10-28-2015 04:09 PM | |
| Naomi |
College kids are cheap and plentiful but if you keep one for more than two months you're doing pretty damn well.  If you want a sitter who will stick around for the long haul you'll need to pay significantly better than you probably want to and they'll be a lot harder to find.It's like the "pick two: cheap, fast, accurate" thing. Except it's more, "cheap, easy to find, reliable." |
| 10-28-2015 10:50 AM | |
| SquigSoup | I know, I really want a granny, but college kids are plentiful. |
| 10-28-2015 09:14 AM | |
| seeya | All I can say is: Good help is hard to find. |
| 10-27-2015 09:18 PM | |
| REDSOXMAMA |
I think that if you want a long term sitter you need to find a nice 45-55 yo lady who doesn't have grandkids yet, misses running her own children around. She will adore your children and like the extra money in her pocket. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
| 10-27-2015 08:40 AM | |
| SquigSoup | It's because I've never let you see a photo of my hands; I was able to keep this under wraps. |
| 10-27-2015 07:43 AM | |
| Express66 | And here we all thought you were one of the normal ones! You have hidden your crazy pretty well for the last 13 years!!! |
| 10-27-2015 06:19 AM | |
| SquigSoup |
OMG you guys, I'm seeya I've been using after school sitters since 2011 to pick my kids up and drive them to their stuff, and I swear, I'm starting to feel like I have seeya's secretaries babysitting for me. We have been through SO MANY sitters. Individually, they all pretty much left for legitimate reasons (such as, "I graduated from college and am moving to Illinois," "My father had a stroke and I am dropping out of school," "I, personally, had a UTI that went septic and I was in the hospital for three weeks and am now transferring to Iowa State.") Collectively, however, I'm starting to get a complex. Do you think my kids are doing nasty things to them when I'm not home? Frogs in the bed? Pepper in their tea? |
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