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Inexpensive babysitters added to the endangered species list
What does a woman have to do to get a date night in this city??
Has anyone else noticed the extreme lack of reasonable, reliable babysitters? I remember when I was a kid, my parents always had a plethora of teenage neighborhood girls who would happily come and watch my sister and I for an entire evening. I know my parents, and I KNOW that they were not paying those girls $15 an hour.
In fact, I remember as a teenager being PLEASED to get $20 for a night of babysitting.
So what happened to all the teenage girls?
From what I can tell, we parents have two options when it comes to date-night:
Option 1: Pay a highly qualified college student (or older) $12 and up PER HOUR (more for multiple kids)
Option 2: NEVER GO OUT
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE our babysitters. It’s just that we’re trying to save money, and that’s hard when an average evening out costs upwards of $100 BEFORE the dinner bill. Which means… we rarely to NEVER get to go out. And that’s really too infrequent for me.
Is it just me? Or are good, cheap babysitters becoming an endangered species?
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