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Miss Your Grandma? Rent One
New Service Provides Senior Women As Domestic Caretakers

Posted: Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Updated: 10:37 am CDT June 8, 2011

(Maica) Miss your grandma? A new service lets you rent one. Based the LA area but now a national franchise, Rent-a-Grandma provides carefully screened women age 50 or older for child care, cooking, housekeeping, pet sitting and other roles. The advantage that older women bring is their extensive age/life experience, founder and CEO Todd Bliss told BusinessNewsdaily.

"Women in their 50s don't text or tweet while they're watching your kids," Bliss said. "There's no replacement for experience." Because of the large number of senior women who are looking for work or to re-enter the work force on a part-time or permanent basis, there is no shortage of eligible candidates, Bliss said. "Finding the grannies is the easy part," he said. The company currently has 40 to 45 women working at rates that range between $16 and $23 an hour. The women pay the company an employment fee and/or a percentage of their hourly compensation.

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I am speechless!!!!!

Why not just go to Facsimile Limited and build your own Grandmother. :D

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This sounds to me like it's basically a babysitting service. There just using the Grandma angle as a marketing ploy. I think it's pretty sick to play on people's emotions like that just to sell a service.:rolleyes:

^ Amen!!! I grew up with both my grandmothers and now that they are gone, it makes me even angrier that a company would capitalize on that angle. That is just sick. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

This sounds to me like it's basically a babysitting service. There just using the Grandma angle as a marketing ploy. I think it's pretty sick to play on people's emotions like that just to sell a service.:rolleyes:

:yeahthat