No way would Laura run an ad like that. And she has six young kids.

Ah. You're right!

Jack and Kelly had a nanny/assistant when The Osbournes were on Mtv. Same sort of situation--someone to parent them when their parents weren't there.

Honestly, I think that this position is a two-person job. She could have an honest-to-goodness nanny for her younger kid and a part-time assistant for her older children. Trying to pin on poor human being down to do all of the tedious chores for every one of her spoiled kids is just asking for high turnover and an expose with your family's dirty laundry written somewhere.

From that description, I don't know if there's enough money in the world for that job. It's basically 24/7 for what sounds like a bunch of overprivileged brats (of various ages ... and species).

Oh, I thought of you especially over the weekend, msbelle, as I huddled in my darkened cave. I was watching an episode of The Outer Limits where NF plays the Bogart character in an SF Casablanca (the Nazis are aliens) and he wears lots of smudged eyeliner.

I shouldn't have deleted it.

Speaking of laundry, I remember my dad telling me that when he was in college, everyone mailed their laundry home and they had special boxes for it. Your mom (or the maid) would do it and mail it back to you. There was even a special postal rate for it. I had never heard of this, but it was apparently common practice. Oh, that damn Greatest Generation and their lazy laundry-mailing ways. Why, when I was in school, we had to do our OWN laundry, and carry it there ourselves!

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I remember my dad telling me that when he was in college, everyone mailed their laundry home and they had special boxes for it. Your mom (or the maid) would do it and mail it back to you.

I'm trying to imagine my mom's reaction if I'd tried to do this. I suspect that I would have heard the laughter from 60 miles away, followed by a rain of dirty clothes, drop-kicked back from same.

When I was in college one of the boys would take his laundry home (he had a month's worth of underwear) for his mother's maid to wash (yes, overprivileged). Most had to learn to do their own laundry and, trust me, there are few things more amusing than watching someone having to learn to do laundry for the first time (splotchy colored underwear! often pink!).

eta: when I was in college, my mother would bitch if I brought laundry home to wash myself (mom had pretty much stopped doing laundry at that point, working on the assumption that with two daughters, she could pass that little chore on to the next generation).

Here's an interesting article on the Obama tabloid strategy--how they're using People, Star, Us, etc., magazines to make the Obama family more approachable to the voter.

I'm not sure I want NF in eyeliner. What I was contemplated earlier today was NF having a guest spot on FNL and I nearly LOST MY SHIT.

I remember having to show a dorm-mate how to fold a contour sheet the first week of school freshman year. Her mom had shown her how to do the actual laundry (complete with written instructions), but she was clueless when it came to folding.

I just known Nannies in worse situations. Sadly,from China where they had to flee from there.Lot less money, all nanny/mommy duties and no full days off. Of course I've also known nannies in much better positions.

laundry mail - intriguing