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I need advice!

carriesu2003carriesu2003 member
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So I am going to be doing a nanny share with my co-worker and her daughter.  We will be splitting the cost of our sitter.  She is great and so is her kid, so it never occurred to me that her house would be an issue.  It is filthy.  I mean straight up filthy.  I never in a million years thought this is how she would keep her home.  I had never been to her home until we made the agreement to do a sitter share.  I don't know what to do.  How do I let her know that she needs to keep things tidier without offending her?  Moving it to my house is not an option and I start back at work soon so it is too late to find someone else.  Ugh so awkward!
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  • jllmb79jllmb79 member

    Get her a cleaning lady?

    If you are not a happy now it will get worse when your LO is crawling around her dirty house. 

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  • pitterpatter129pitterpatter129 member

    If you think it's dangerous to your kid dirty, then maybe you can get in a center until you can find someone else?  I doubt there is really any good way to let someone know their house is so nasty that you don't want your child there...I guess you just have to say it. :(  You might lose a friend over this one.  Why not your house?

     

     

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  • carriesu2003carriesu2003 member
    Its a commute issue for my friend.  Her house isn't dangerously nasty just gross and no I am not by any means a neat freak.  But it's dirty enough to make me uncomfortable.
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  • ShabutieShabutie member
    Not sure if this is an option, or if the nanny wouldn't think this is totally rude, but I would mention the concern to the nanny to try and see if maybe I could get her to mention it to your co-worker. Kind of like an "I can't work efficiently under these conditions" type thing.. Or see if she can come up with something. She has probably encountered this problem before

    Or you can just ignore me because I honestly don't know what I would do in this situation...just pondering
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  • pitterpatter129pitterpatter129 member

    imageBNHarris8:
    Not sure if this is an option, or if the nanny wouldn't think this is totally rude, but I would mention the concern to the nanny to try and see if maybe I could get her to mention it to your co-worker. Kind of like an "I can't work efficiently under these conditions" type thing.. Or see if she can come up with something. She has probably encountered this problem before

    Or you can just ignore me because I honestly don't know what I would do in this situation...just pondering

    That could work.  Pay the nanny extra to clean??  Maybe don't even mention to your friend that you are doing that.  Sneaky, but a solution.

     

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  • ShabutieShabutie member
    imageKatieKarasin:
    One concern of mine would be that people typically tidy their houses before guests come over. So what you saw could have been her house at it's best....


    I didn't even think of this, and it's totally true. Scary.
    I hope you find something that works.
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