i once worked as a live-in nanny for 3 small kids in hawaii. the parents were burnt out and didn’t really like parenting. they had 2 nannies covering 7am-8pm 7 days a week. the dad worked a few hours a day and the mom didn’t work. years later i saw the dad had started a blog about parenting and financial independence. in the blog he said that self-employment was important to him bc it allowed him to spend all of his time with his kids. he said that in over a decade of parenting, he’d never so much as hired a babysitter for his kids. anyway, there’s a good chance ppl trying to sell you some lifestyle thing are lying thru their teeth.

the dad’s wealthy parents came to visit and tried to intercept me using the washer and dryer saying i didn’t have permission to use them bc the electricity was too expensive. i was like “i literally live in this house what are you talking about?”