the laws of laundry
and selling services not time
On any given day, you’ll see a LOT of branded vans in the neighbourhood.
Some are working on heat pumps.
Others are here to provide more insulation.
There are others still with mobile dog washing services. Another neighbour?
They have their upholstery steam cleaned quarterly.
This checks out.
They’re vegans.
I can only imagine the farts.
The cleaning service? They likely have to pay a hazardous waste fee to dispose of the water from those chesterfields.
These businesses don’t charge hourly. They provide a service at a fixed price and leave based on the value of their work.
How much is their work worth?
It really depends on market factors.
Take for example the lawyers down the street. They’re a busy professional couple with two children still in diapers of one form or another.
They also happen to have a dog that had lepto. It survived but is rather incontinent. I call him Dingo, the diarrhetic dachshund.
No, these are not the neighbours who have the steam cleaner appear quarterly - though someon…
