Bit of babysitting for old mindee How much??

[jellyjelly]

Going to be looking after old mindee for 2 hours a night and feeding him for 3 nights on the trot. Mum knows it sitting and not minding as i gave that up. She has said just let her know how much to charge.

any ideas dont want to take the mickey as the cash will be useful but dont want to be walked over.

Ideas please.

hiya, is this who i think he is? what did you used to charge when you worked for sitters?

sorry, is this at YOUR house once you've got ds from nursery?

yeah at mine for all the toys and yes it is the nice child.

Used to charge 350 for minding.

used to get paid 550 from sitters i think but that was 4 hours minumum and with traveling.

I'm sure there are people who charge £7.50 an hour round here too. Would she provide meals like she used to lunch or would it be you buying food?

I will be doing the food but it will be simple things like beans on toast which i will have to buy.

An easy pasta dish? or maybe cauli cheese? Will pick him from nursery

bump- ideas of fees please

£10 per day and a couple for food?

As it's at your house, better make that 1 hour and 59 minutes

At least double what minding fee was, if not triple - in my view. After all, if I was babysitting, it would cost the mother £30 per night, and she would be providing the food as it would be at her home.

I would go with the sitters rate and add a £1 for food (beans on toast or a sarnie aren't terribly expensive are they?).

Whilst sitters do have a minimum charge, equally you would have travel to the other house and would not be able to look after your own children at the same time and would not be in your own home. I think this balances out the lack of minimum charge IYSWIM.

So I would say £11 (2 hours babysitting) and £1 for food.

I just wonder that she might try to argue the cost as i only used to charge her i think £3.50 per hour whilst minding. I know this is different. Have told her its sitting not minding as i dont do that now.

The sitters rate is misleading, as it is not the rate charged to parents, but the rate the childcarer gets. Sitters adds on Membership fee (£12.75 per 3 months which I've heard is auto-rebilled, any parents able to confirm that) and booking fee of £4 per time.

So for 3 occasions, I make that £24.75 in fees, before then adding on the hourly rate, which is a minimum of 4 hours, so that's £22 (£5.50x4) per night. So Sitters would cost (£22x3)+£24.75 = £90.75 - Anyone disagree?

Just thought, that means I'm cheaper than sitters in this particular case... as my fee would be £90. Ok, so it's 75p difference, but I'm still less

Jelly, she can argue the cost all she likes. You are no longer minding, so it is no longer minding rates. You can give her comparisons of the cost of other services, such as Sitters and Myself.

thankyou i will. I send you a mail but check whenever.

I'm with Sitters as well. I think they are £5.20 per hour here (or maybe more now, as I haven't done any sitting since dd2 was born). If other people ask for me to babysit at their house, I charge £5 per hour, that's without extras.

i think that could have been one of the prices but havent been with them for ages.