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Just learned my parents paid my babysitter $30 an hour back when I was little. No damn wonder she loved us so much
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Anonymous 9w

$30 an hour in 2012 to watch two well behaved elementary schoolers? Hell yeah. Good on my parents

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Anonymous 9w

I “baby sit” a 8th grader and freshman bc their parents were concerned abt them getting to school safely so I drove them. I did nothing but wake them up and watch tv for 2 hours doing my HW and got $40 a day it was literally fucking wild that family was so tight on them girls

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Anonymous 9w

So uh your parents still need babysitters? I’ll babysit a plant shit I’ll stare at the hardwood floor for 30 an hour

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Anonymous 9w

Hell yeah wtff especially when the kids r fun to watch over omg

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Anonymous 9w

my parents did $15-20 an hour 😭 their dinner parties were like 4/5 hours i WISH i could score that

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

My parents were super strict too and they only trusted that specific babysitter. If she wasn’t available, they weren’t leaving. Me and my sister were super quiet and my babysitter would just sit and FaceTime her husband the whole time lmao

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

Like it makes sense she was paid that much, absolutely deserved it, she was a daycare teacher to begin with. But I just googled it and that translates to $42 an hour now. When I start my RN job I will make less 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 9w

You could babysit my father he needs supervision more than us half the time

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