Help: who travel to Stockholm Oct.22-Oct.30?

sabrina_fi · Post by **sabrina_fi** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:53 am

My baby is 4 month, to buy a baby car siter for her in Finland is too too expensive for us. My best friend will have a business trip from Asia to Stockholm from Oct. 21-Oct.22. She can buy a baby siter in Asia and bring to Stockholm. The thing is baby is too small and coughing this week, we are unable to travel to Stockholm pick it up. I am desperately wondering is there anyone who will travel to Stockholm between Oct 22 and Oct. 30, who can help us to bring the baby sitter back to Finland. We are living in Helsinki/Espoo. We can pick the baby sitter up from the Helsinki airport and drive you back home. Any other suggestion is welcome too. Thanks so so much.
Sabrina,
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biscayne · Post by **biscayne** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:27 am

Ok, I KNOW I'm going to hell for this, but, wasn't this poster on the Nanny to Finland post saying about how she would hire 2 nannys, one for the baby, one for the housework? But buying a car-seat in Finland is too expensive???? Ok, you can all blast me now.

Mölkky-Fan · Post by **Mölkky-Fan** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:44 pm

biscayne wrote:Ok, I KNOW I'm going to hell for this, but, wasn't this poster on the Nanny to Finland post saying about how she would hire 2 nannys, one for the baby, one for the housework? But buying a car-seat in Finland is too expensive???? Ok, you can all blast me now.

You are going to HELL

No seriously, do we get a share of the profits of this drug smuggling operation? Asia to Helsinki with a 'baby seat' and they need a courier for the last leg

sabrina_fi · Post by **sabrina_fi** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:35 pm

Dear Biscayne,

This is sabrina_fi, I just find time to check the reply in the forum, and I will share my opinion on the nanny topic next week.
But one thing is, in my previous post, I said in my home country, most of my friends and relative afford hire a full time baby sitter, some of them even have 2, one for baby sitting and one for the cleaning. The reason is labour cost is soso cheap, under 300 euros for one. I didn's say I can afford 2 nanny in Finland. This is the reason I feel unconvienent here. Will write more when I have tine next week. (BTW, to hire a cleaning woman per hour is 1 euro in my home country. I did hire one before, but not nanny, I didn't have baby beofore coming to Finland, I was not showing off. It is nonsense)

Thank you so much for helping me bring the care sit. I PM you the details.

With best Regards,
Sabrina

biscayne · Post by **biscayne** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:27 am

Well, we were just joking around and no offence meant to anyone. We all know it's normal to have help in the form of nannies or cleaners in countries where the labour is cheaper. In Finland it just wouldn't be so normal, though there are really rich people in Finland too, and I'm sure they don't do their own cleaning

We bought a house and I was away when the building was finished, tried to get someone in to do the cleaning of all the building dust etc., no chance, couldn't find anyone to do it. Even students didn't answer the ad, and was offering 15 -20 euro per hour for probably 2 days work, no takers. Had to leave all the stuff in the garden under plastic while I did it myself and then moved the stuff in. The concept of "doing for" other people isn't big in Finland.................

onkko · Post by **onkko** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:42 pm

biscayne wrote: We bought a house and I was away when the building was finished, tried to get someone in to do the cleaning of all the building dust etc., no chance, couldn't find anyone to do it. Even students didn't answer the ad, and was offering 15 -20 euro per hour for probably 2 days work, no takers. Had to leave all the stuff in the garden under plastic while I did it myself and then moved the stuff in. The concept of "doing for" other people isn't big in Finland.................

Problem is finnish support system, it punish you if you do something. If you are on income support then you get 20% of salary or max 150e/month (varies betveen cities how they read this) so after that all lower your income. So if you pay 20e/h someone in income support gets 4e/h

+ all paperwork has to be done...
And if youre in dole only it takes about 50% of salary so 15e is 7,50e + paperwork etc..
Friend of mine was stupid enough to take 1 week job while on dole, it backfired so he was withouth income 2 months because someone in bureaucrasy wasnt happy with his papers.

sabrina_fi · Post by **sabrina_fi** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:00 pm

Biscayne,

We decided to buy a car seat from UK, the price (same brand and same model) I found is 1/3 of Finland.

Anyway, thanks.

Sabrina

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