I Wash Windows And Live Like A King!

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July/August 1976
By Dennis A. Conley  
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OK. I thought I was doing pretty well, until I came up with still another idea: Why not wash house windows too? I mean, consider the kind of people who live in southern Florida. I don't know about everyone in Fort Myers, but the folks who dwell in those $200,000 homes along the beach, well, they definitely have some coin! Plus, a lot of them are in their 70s and 80s and couldn't wash their own windows even if they wanted to. With this in mind, I hit the streets again.

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Unbelievable as it may seem, I found it much easier to land these private residence jobs than I'd imagined it could be. After knocking on twenty doors, we would have three or four orders to scrub panes, consistently! With pickings so easy, we decided to limit ourselves to first-floor windows, and to charge (for an average three-bedroom house) $15 for the outside only. If the owner wanted the inside of the glass done too (a job my wife handled nicely), the price was $25.

We set up four jobs for each day and went to work just before 8:00 every morning. Since an individual house took no more than an hour to complete, by noon we'd be lying on the powder-white beach—drinking beer—with $75 to $100 in our pockets. And that was every single day! (Ah, what a life.)

Well, I don't exactly know how it happened, but after a while we got homesick for our friends and for the hills of southern Ohio. So we headed back for the ice and snow. Nonetheless, all you Mother Earth News lovers who [1] live in the warmer regions, [2] have transportation to the wealthy sections of town, and [3] need bread in a hurry, should at least consider the business of washing windows. Chances are, the enterprise will not only help you pay your daily bills, but it'll allow you to live as if you're on permanent vacation!

 

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