Traveling Laundry Service?

OK – I had this idea the other night for a business. You see, my husband has been working disaster recovery for a FEMA contractor since November. He’s been paying a laundry service to wash his clothes each week – I didn’t ask him how much & he didn’t tell me (maybe he’s afraid I’ll start charging that much for every load of laundry I do for him)! He was complaining that his clean clothes didn’t smell good and I noticed they were not as soft as they usually are (he came home once with a pile of clean clothes once – he begged me to re-washed them).

So I was thinking that maybe a traveling laundry service would be a good idea! There would have to be a couple washers and a couple dryers rigged up in a semi. Is that even possible? I would think so – if NASCAR can rig up a trailer to be ready for quick car repairs – surely you can rig up a semi for a couple washers and dryers? It would have to be a semi – that way you could go to the disasters – our customer base would be the FEMA contractors and subs. We’d just need a water source once we got where we were going.



Scott says it would never work – none of those guys would pay for their laundry to be washed. They’d rather sit at a local laundry mat for hours and feed their quarters into the machines. If the price was right I bet they’d let someone else do the laundry! Time is money too – and no one really likes doing laundry!

Idea for a Business

A few years ago I had to fly to D.C. right around Christmastime. I stayed until Christmas Eve and Scott handled all the gift getting and present wrapping by himself - he did a wonderful job too. I came home to a house all ready for Santa and gifts to be unwrapped the next morning!

That year there was a shop open by the mall that offered gift wrapping (for a fee of course). Scott took the presents there, dropped them off, and returned in a few days to pick up everything. Well, the quality of wrapping was not that great - but I didn't have to do it so I was still glad - until he told me how much he paid!! I forget the exact amount, but I remember it was a couple hundred dollars and I was quite upset!!! Also, after the kids opened up their presents, we realized that we were short a present for our son! I'm sure those of you with multiple children know the pouting & hurt feelings that occur when one child gets more presents than another. After all the stores had opened back up we went to the gift wrapping store to find they were no longer there!

What really ticked me off was the fact that I pitched this very same idea to Scott a few years back - not to rip people off - but to open up a store that just wrapped gifts! I thought about it & had a whole plan mapped out - my business professor at UT Martin would've been proud! I would love to pursue this idea one day, when I get the capitol and find a group of reliable employees. I'd call it something catchy like "Unwrapped". And I promise we won't rip you off!

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