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Ok so my mother in law does daycare also. Shes in MN. Well a couple she does daycare for are on assistance. There assistance ends soon. She called me and began telling me this story on how they told her a social worker told them that if they put their business up for sale they could continue to get assistance. Well apparently that hadnt worked out well for them. So their older child attends preschool, and the dad was able to work out a deal exchanging business for the tuition cost for preschool,well the mother told my mother in law this the other day. Well then yesterday apparently the dcd asked my mother in law if she gave gifts to her daycare parents, she said yeah well he then went on to ask if she would take some of there pottery for exchange for daycare. I laughed the nerve of people, She told me Im sorry but i only get them small gifts and cant afford to do that. I just cant believe anyone would ask that... so i guess my question is what are some of the craziest things you guys have been offered in exchange for daycare???
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A forum thread on daycare bartering. https://www.daycare.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22915 -
My uncle and I bartered for childcare for his daughter when I first opened. I charged $100 per week for her age (4) and he mowed my lawn every two weeks or so. It wasn't a fair deal in my opinion because after he stopped I found someone else that could do my lawn for $60 and he was basically getting $200 childcare for $60. But I always try to help out family and after he moved away he gave me a fridge that was in pretty decent condition for free so I figured we were close to even.
I'm not sure I would do it again, but when I remodeled my garage I tried to find someone that could barter the labor for the conversion for childcare. I had a couple of bites but ended up going with my bro-in-law and just paid cash. I can write it off anyway.
Any offers I would be willing to consider I guess. It depends on how good the offer was and how bad I wanted it before I could say if I would barter anything again.Comment
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I barter a drive to school for my dd from one of my DCD's for a DC discount right now. I offered and he accepted, not the other way around. It works out well for me and it's on his way to work.
I'm not sure I would want to barter fulltime for DC but I don't mind some trade-zee's now and then. I do alot of sewing and I often barter my sewing skills or work for other things I need or want. My bff trades me babysitting time for sewing gifts frequently too. I make a baby shower gift for her and she takes my kids to the movies or something.Comment
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I've been offered Mary Kay, Tupperware, jerkey, flooring labor, painting labor, formula, toys, meals, knitted scarves and hand made quilts. I think that's it. Of course we've never actually gone through with it because I expect to be compensated for what my DC services is worth so for example if I charge $160 a week then I would expect $160 worth of knitted scarves and what am I supposed to do with that many scarves :confused:.
I have however bartered child care for child care but mostly on weekends. I've had some DC parents ask me if I'm available on weekends or evenings and instead of charging them we exchange a day for a day for the same amount of hours. They like it, I like it and I feel comfortable doing it (with certain clients). I havn't done it in a while with clients but only because I've been doing it with my SIL and her kids.Comment
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I have a dcp that cleans my house every other Friday in exchange for a discount on the weeks she cleans. So every other week she pays full price, alternate weeks she receives a discount.Comment
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someone once offered me a case of sparking water and their wic checks
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I have a family who owns a farm. When their stand is open, we get all the fruits/veggies/pumpkins we want and I keep a running tally of what we owe them. Then we subtract that off of what they pay me We've been doing it for 3 years.
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I have never been offered bartering for daycare, although i wouldn't mind it.
For awhile I had one mom help me in the daycare and I watched her son for free but that did not work out....very bad idea because the little boy was a terror so it was not worth the assistant help. But in this case, it was my bad idea
I don't take assistance pay and all my daycare families are very middle class, until recently, all my daycare families had a much nicer standard of living than I had so there was no need to barter on their end.Comment
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I see this from another angle.
Ok, this family is having financial problems. It appears that they are doing what they can to survive. I can totally understand him asking your mil to trade daycare for pottery. It didn't hurt anybody or anything for him to ask. If his pottery is out of her price range for gifts, than all she had to do is say no. It cost him nothing to ask, and it was her right to refuse.
I've never been asked to barter daycare.Comment
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I agree with sharlan. It looks like they're trying to be creative and a lot of people barter for services. My hairdresser trades haircuts for all sorts of things including childcare!!Comment
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I guess i just thought it was rude. I would never walk into the electric company and ask if i could trade them daycare for service.Comment
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A home daycare is not a major corporation.
I, personally, wouldn't have found it rude. I would have considered it being a parent trying to provide for his kids.
My dh has been out of work for 18 mos, no sign of employment in the future. Last Christmas he did inventory for the boat place where he stores his boat for 3 mos of storage fees.Comment
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These people are not out of work they own there own business. I guess i should add that they also asked if she could bill the childrens real father, she told them no because her contract is with them not the dad and i agree with her. In my opinion they are not people trying to get by these are people that just dont want to pay there bill.Comment
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I agree that its ok. Honestly hate to admit it but I was wanting to figure out a way to barter instead of get paid. I know its crazy but I would rather not have to deal with the "income" side of it. I dont want to do the taxes (dont worry I am claiming them) dont want to have my home owners insurance as "a daycare",ect. Just want to watch a few kids for my friends in exchange for things they could do for me. Of course it would never work out that way. But I liked the thought
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