New Years Eve Babysitting charges.

Blimey Uwila you can be aggressive at times. Having re-read my post after your angry outburst I found no reference telling you to stay in!

All I was saying is that it is supply and demand, which explains why all businesses make extra money at New Year. Which usually compensates the staff enough for having to give up their own celebration that night.

Of course you have the right to an opinion, but so have I and there it was. Anyway, this really is not an important enough issue to have a row over is it?

ill leave this

"so it seems its acceptable for everyone else to ask for more money on NYe..."

No it isn't. They piss me off too.

so it seems its acceptable for everyone else to ask for more money on NYe but the not the people looking after someone elses precious children while they go out and have fun?..why is it always different for a child care provider?

Dp is working NYE so I may babysit if I can earn that sort of cash

god i cant spell today................im blaming the keyboard!!!

i wasnt suggesting that i would charge £35 per hour, im saying that when I sit for more tahn one child then i charge more. 4 children are not the smae work as one.
i dont know what your sitter does but when i sit for people they get damm good value for money..............a 35 yr old fully qualified in childcare with almost 20 yrs experience,i take games and puzzles with me to entertain the kiddies,usually a choclate treat, when in bed i check them every 20mins and i dont expect parents to provide food for me when im there....i take my own!

i charge £5 per hour for one or two child and £7.50 3+ children.

if i did by some miracle decide to abandon my own children on nye to care for someone elses then i would certainly not do it for less than £15 per hour!
you get what you pay for!
i also would not suggest taht the people who do pay ridiculous amounts of money for sitters on nye are abnormal! its personal choice!

Not in my neck of the woods (West Londonish -- a bit west of West London really). I don't know anyone who would pay £35 per hour for babysitting. Nobody. This is not for normal people.

If we are talking £10 per hour then okay. A bit steep for me, but I can see that some people would pay it.

I've never had anyone ask me how many children I have when I ask them what they charge.

£6 or £7 per hour for a babysitter is what normal people pay.

uwilla these ARE normal prices that normal people pay in the real world if they CHOOSE to go out on news years eve,whether you think its right or not doesnt change the fact that it happens, thats life!
people/buisness' put their prices up all through the year for SPECIAL occasions....valentines,easter,xmas lunch,nye. thats the way it is!
and babysitting is a service that is charged by the child also and not just by the hour, i would not sit for someone with 4 children and expect to be paid the same as for one child.unless they wanted me to sit on my arse all night doing nothing?!

Babysitting is not generally rated on a per child basis. The babysitter comes to your home, and they work for you like a temporary employee for the night. You pay them per hour, and they do as you instruct.

This thread is about what is and isn't a reasonable rate to pay for babysitting on New Years eve. I am entitled to share my views, and they do not warrant you telling me to stay in on New Years Eve (hence implying that I should leave the conversation). I think jacking up your prices on New Years Eve is a dirty trick, and if my usual babysitter did that, I would remember it throughout the year whenever I needed a babysitter and be inclined to hire someone else.

I see these threads on Mumsnet every year. But I don't know anyone in RL who pays these rates or charges them. Perhaps that is because I don't know anyone who lives in Mayfair? These are not normal prices that normal people can afford.

It's only one night per year uwila. If you feel strongly about not paying over the odds, then just don't book a babysitter. It is a market of supply and demand - if people could get someone cheaper, they would. If someone prices themself out of business for that night, then that is their hard luck.

Taxi drivers, restaurants etc all work on the same principle. I don't see why babysitters shouldn't be any different - no-one is forced into getting a babysitter and going out on NYE!

I think £9/hr/child is not bad - surely some of them will go to bed for some of the time? I do not go out on NYE. The average rate seems to be £20/hr for a babysitter - so say 8.30-12.30 would be £80, plus taxis, plus other expenses. We could have a night away in the spring and send the kids to their grandparents for that money.

What we have done the last two years and will probably do again is this - book a table at the local Italian which does not change menus/prices for early on in the evening - maybe 6.30 and take the children. They have crackers and party poppers and are great with the children who are also good in restaurants, so it is nice. Then when the children have gone to bed I will sit with DH and drink a bottle of wine and play a game. I will get dressed up and get the children dressed up to go out.

£35 per hour...

I'm in the wrong business.

almost £9 per hour per chiild..still not a lot, but when its per child for those hours thats when it addds ups!..they must have the money!?..your friend must be very!

dont know what your all moaning about....if your not intending to go out and see nye as just another nite then why bother moaning about what people charge or how much it is to get into a pub?

Oh man. You got stuffed. So all the prices everywhere are inflated on your birthday.

Sorry you have to spend it alone and pregnant.

"just cos it happens to be 31st Dec"

I don't think you understand what an important date this is. It's my birthday!

If anybody is in the Alan Partridge area (Norwich if you've missed the thread), I'll babysit for almost free. I charge a gingerbread man and unlimited cups of tea.

I'll be pg, DH works till 1am on NYE and I'll only be sitting at home...

hated going into pubs and bouncers jungling thier buckets manachinly to you in a "give us a quid or you go to back of que" kind way!

me to uwila, that why i wouldnt work, but Christmas Eve and new years Eve are special to me and my family and i would only work if extreme emergency

Ditto Uwila - we go away for a night or two for valentines but we never go on the actual night/weekend - what a rip off!

I hate being ripped off.

NYE is a night like any other. It's just a night. I can go out any night so why would I pay 3 times as much as I would the day after!

More money than sense springs to mind.

I wouldn't pay anything. I'd rather stay in than pay silly prices just cos it happens to be 31st Dec. God, it's just a night like any other night. I really couldn't care less about it. Paying to get into a pub aswell - what the F is that all about?

Nope, I'm staying in.

Or they hire someone with more reasonable rates who isn't going to raise the rates just because it's New Years.

BTW, my comment here apply to all business. Restaurants do this too, and I'd fr rather just go the next weekend for half the price.

i wouldnt babysit on NYE, even tho i prob wont go out, but if i was persuaded, i would only have overnight here and thats normally 5.50 per hour, i would at least double that!..i get £3 an hour every other day and we run our own business' so people either pay it or dont and stay in with their little ones