Babies: 9 - 12 Months

Have you ever used sittercity.com or know anyone who has?

Good? Bad? Would you recommend it? It's pretty expensive. We only need sitters for a weekend night here and there (date nights), and I'm trying to justify spending $35 for a membership. Perhaps we should just stay home....again. This is the 2nd weekend we've tried to find a sitter. No luck. Zip, zilch, nada. So frustrating.

 Also, if you have paid sitters, what do you usually pay? We really only need someone from 7:30 - midnight or so, and DD will be asleep the whole time. I'm curious as to what the 'going rate' is.

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Re: Have you ever used sittercity.com or know anyone who has?

  • I tried it because it's free for military families.  Out of 5-6 people I contacted, only 2 replied to me, and only one of them worked out.  I really liked her.  She is a 22-year-old substitute teacher, and charged $15/hour.  I only ever had her come while DS was awake.  I might try SitterCity again in the future, but only because it's free.  I thought it was too much trouble to sift through the sitters and actually find one that was still looking for jobs. 
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  • Sorry to hear it didn't work out as expected. Thanks for your input, hopefully it won't be such a PITA in the future.

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  • My sister is on sittercity as a babysitter. She's had a lot of people contact her and it always seems to work out nicely. She's also on care.com, which I have used and its really user friendly and they allow you to do background checks! GL!
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  • imageAshleygoo:
    My sister is on sittercity as a babysitter. She's had a lot of people contact her and it always seems to work out nicely. She's also on care.com, which I have used and its really user friendly and they allow you to do background checks! GL!

     Too bad your sister doesn't live in Dallas, I'd even give you a finder's fee! Wink Thanks for the care.com info, that's a new one for me. Going to check it out now...

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  • I was just going to post this exact thing.  We also live in the Dallas area and I'm having a hard time too.  Seems I'm only finding women who want full time or part time weekly work.  DH and I just need a night out every once in a while.  We don't have any family that lives near us and none of our friends are a good fit either.  I'm going to have to check out care.com too.
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