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Title: How has your January been?
Post by: SunShineCleaning on January 28, 2013, 05:22:59 pm
I'm just about up to date this month. Contract tomorrow and a £200 or so for  Wednesday or Thursday and I will have completed all my work .

How have you got on?
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: Dean Taberner on January 28, 2013, 05:26:25 pm
Absolutely shocking!

Crap weather, wages to pay, massive gas and electric bill landing on the door mat,

And most importantly,

No booze due to dry january!

Roll on Feb!
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: jeremy evans on January 28, 2013, 05:35:17 pm
Only been out for a couple of days since mid December  due to busting my hand, 3 ribs and fractured eye socket Oh the joys of motorcycles and blind idiot drivers lol. Had just gone back and then all the snow came. Earned the grand total of £350 since Dec the 12th so a good job had a bit tucked away for a rainy day.
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: Mist A Bit on January 28, 2013, 05:45:41 pm
Completly uneffeced by bad weather,, bills dont stop so i dont stop.
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: Roy Harding on January 28, 2013, 05:47:18 pm
Completly uneffeced by bad weather,, bills dont stop so i dont stop.

Spot on

Roy
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: Ian101 on January 28, 2013, 05:49:03 pm
Janauary has been my worst month for 2 years ... between snow and van problems lost quite a few days ... ive voted 40%  :) ........... such is life ... van now good to go now as all suspension been replaced as has the cambelt and oil pump .... will be getting new van in summer thats for sure !

good news is that i now got my website 95% there and got another project from back burner to front burner  ;)
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: EandM on January 28, 2013, 05:58:34 pm
Worked rapidly for the first two weeks taking advantage of the warm weather and fairly up to date.
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: Tom White on January 28, 2013, 06:09:12 pm
I've only lost one day - the Friday before last (heavy snow) - due to the weather, though I've had about three short days because of it.

My cash flow is terrible though!  :'(
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: deeege on January 28, 2013, 06:10:21 pm
Absolutely shocking!

Crap weather, wages to pay, massive gas and electric bill landing on the door mat,

And most importantly,

No booze due to dry january!

Roll on Feb!

Good on you Dean! I was attempting the same, had 5 Guinness whilst watching the footy last Sunday though. :(
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: Dean Taberner on January 28, 2013, 06:16:38 pm
Absolutely shocking!

Crap weather, wages to pay, massive gas and electric bill landing on the door mat,

And most importantly,

No booze due to dry january!

Roll on Feb!

Good on you Dean! I was attempting the same, had 5 Guinness whilst watching the footy last Sunday though. :(

Ooops, did you feel guilty mate?
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: C o z y on January 28, 2013, 06:20:21 pm
As expected. Cold, lots of white stuff on the ground. I expect Feb will be the same. Got about 40 to 50% of the work done. So no panic. ;)
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: deeege on January 28, 2013, 06:20:59 pm
To be honest, no I didn't. I wasn't doing it for charity or anything so just fancied a few pints. Guinness is more of a meal than a drink anyway..... :)
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: G Griffin on January 28, 2013, 06:25:31 pm
Awful, work wise. What with child minding and the weather.
I try and make the best of it but it has been frustrating.
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: sunshine windows on January 28, 2013, 06:33:15 pm
All done  ;D
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: gary999 on January 28, 2013, 06:33:42 pm
to be honest mine was great i had most of it off as holiday
first time ive ever been organised no stress :)
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: windowcleaninginessex.co.uk on January 28, 2013, 07:15:06 pm
Compared to last January, earning are up by 10% already and there is still a couple of days left of the month. I have only had 1 day when no work has not been done, so I am not moaning.
Darren
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: SunShineCleaning on January 28, 2013, 07:37:29 pm
Compared to last January, earning are up by 10% already and there is still a couple of days left of the month. I have only had 1 day when no work has not been done, so I am not moaning.
Darren

Double negative! The grammar police will be on to you about that!  ;D
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: windowcleaninginessex.co.uk on January 28, 2013, 07:52:55 pm
Compared to last January, earning are up by 10% already and there is still a couple of days left of the month. I have only had 1 day when no work has not been done, so I am not moaning.
Darren

Double negative! The grammar police will be on to you about that!  ;D

Sack me ;D
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: C o z y on January 28, 2013, 08:02:37 pm
I've hit the "report to grammar mod" button, so they'll be along as soon as they have time  ;D
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: Flash.. on January 28, 2013, 08:05:47 pm
Hardly been out since Christmas due to bad weather at first and now end of season beaters shoots.
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: dazmond on January 28, 2013, 08:16:05 pm
80% of work already done.im hoping to get the other 20% done this week.

i was off the first 6 days of jan with  flu,had a few days off due to really bad weather and a few short days but still done ok for january due to lots of good paying jobs due.

im like tosh though!cashflow has not been great!lots of customers paying late and i wrote off and dumped a £25 job tonight.the guy is a complete numpty. >:( >:(

oh well itll soon be feb and lighter nights!! ;D ;D ;D ;D


regards


dazmond
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: wfp master on January 28, 2013, 08:30:59 pm
Total sheet start to the year started back on the 7th & not done much since I got back car problems & terrible weather. :'(
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: SunShineCleaning on January 28, 2013, 08:38:36 pm
Compared to last January, earning are up by 10% already and there is still a couple of days left of the month. I have only had 1 day when no work has not been done, so I am not moaning.
Darren

Double negative! The grammar police will be on to you about that!  ;D

Sack me ;D

It's Gold and Tosh you need to be aware of. I hardly even notice such things.  ;D
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: Johnny B on January 28, 2013, 09:27:27 pm
I look at this as % earned, rather than % of actual work done. In my case I have made around 62% of my mean target earnings, but this is due to, not only the inclement weather, but also the fact that in my locality many customers don't require my services in January, so it is a quiet month anyway.

John 
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: Tom White on January 28, 2013, 09:30:41 pm
Compared to last January, earning are up by 10% already and there is still a couple of days left of the month. I have only had 1 day when no work has not been done, so I am not moaning.
Darren

Double negative! The grammar police will be on to you about that!  ;D

Sack me ;D

It's Gold and Tosh you need to be aware of. I hardly even notice such things.  ;D

It's important:

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Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: AuRavelling79 on January 28, 2013, 09:37:53 pm
We're already about £300 up on last January's total and if the weather is OK we will achieve about another £300 by the end of the month.
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: AuRavelling79 on January 28, 2013, 09:47:48 pm
Compared to last January, earning are up by 10% already and there is still a couple of days left of the month. I have only had 1 day when no work has not been done, so I am not moaning.
Darren

Double negative! The grammar police will be on to you about that!  ;D

Lightweight! You missed the bit in green which in my role as Detective Sgt. Gold of the Grammar Police, I feel compelled to highlight. It should of course read "... there are a couple of days ...".

But of course Chief Petty Officer Wayai-Banzai Toshimoto of the Japanese Imperial Grammar Police got in first. And he was pipped to the post by Feldwebel Chris P. Bakon of zer Nazi grammar Police.

 ;D
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: Crystal-clear on January 28, 2013, 10:02:49 pm
Absolutely shocking!

Crap weather, wages to pay, massive gas and electric bill landing on the door mat,

And most importantly,

No booze due to dry january!

Roll on Feb!

How do you treat these situations if its not workable ie with Wages

Ye my jan was bad too
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: Dean Taberner on January 28, 2013, 10:16:02 pm
Absolutely shocking!

Crap weather, wages to pay, massive gas and electric bill landing on the door mat,

And most importantly,

No booze due to dry january!

Roll on Feb!

How do you treat these situations if its not workable ie with Wages

Ye my jan was bad too

I usually self medicate with alcohol, but it wasn't possible this time around.
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: wfp master on January 28, 2013, 11:09:04 pm
wish i stayed where it never snows or rains or blows a gale force wind or never gets so cold i cant work  :'(   :'( :'(
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: rosskesava on January 29, 2013, 01:01:19 am
Pretty bad January so far for me but not a disaster as such.

Plenty of work not done but that's probably has more to do with lack of enthusiasm and tons of rain/high winds/cold/snow this month mixed with a seemingly non stop raining and windy December after a raining and windy November after a raining and windy October, and so on back to April 2012.
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: SunShineCleaning on January 29, 2013, 06:05:41 am
Compared to last January, earning are up by 10% already and there is still a couple of days left of the month. I have only had 1 day when no work has not been done, so I am not moaning.
Darren

Double negative! The grammar police will be on to you about that!  ;D

Lightweight! You missed the bit in green which in my role as Detective Sgt. Gold of the Grammar Police, I feel compelled to highlight. It should of course read "... there are a couple of days ...".

But of course Chief Petty Officer Wayai-Banzai Toshimoto of the Japanese Imperial Grammar Police got in first. And he was pipped to the post by Feldwebel Chris P. Bakon of zer Nazi grammar Police.

 ;D

I just feel silly now... :-[
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: Carl2009 on January 29, 2013, 08:01:09 am
I had work 23rd and 24th Dec and in between Xmas and New Year which couldn't get done because of the weather. Then the begining of January was busy until Friday the 18th. I didn't work 18th to 25th inclusive; I worked a full day the 26th and then i've been off yesterday and today is a total washout. Luckily because of the cancelled work before Xmas, and Xmas day and Boxing Day I had a few spare days in January, but all those are used cos of the snow. I'm currently 25% down on expected takings, but might pull it back to 15% if tomorrow and Thursday are workable.
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: windowcleaninginessex.co.uk on January 29, 2013, 09:17:39 am
Compared to last January, earning are up by 10% already and there is still a couple of days left of the month. I have only had 1 day when no work has not been done, so I am not moaning.
Darren

Double negative! The grammar police will be on to you about that!  ;D

Lightweight! You missed the bit in green which in my role as Detective Sgt. Gold of the Grammar Police, I feel compelled to highlight. It should of course read "... there are a couple of days ...".

But of course Chief Petty Officer Wayai-Banzai Toshimoto of the Japanese Imperial Grammar Police got in first. And he was pipped to the post by Feldwebel Chris P. Bakon of zer Nazi grammar Police.

 ;D

I am a window cleaner, not an English teacher, what do you expect.
Instead of learning punctuation and spellings, in the comfort of my home, I have been at work in this cold horrible month, we call January.

Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: SunShineCleaning on January 29, 2013, 09:43:00 am
Compared to last January, earning are up by 10% already and there is still a couple of days left of the month. I have only had 1 day when no work has not been done, so I am not moaning.
Darren

Double negative! The grammar police will be on to you about that!  ;D

Lightweight! You missed the bit in green which in my role as Detective Sgt. Gold of the Grammar Police, I feel compelled to highlight. It should of course read "... there are a couple of days ...".

But of course Chief Petty Officer Wayai-Banzai Toshimoto of the Japanese Imperial Grammar Police got in first. And he was pipped to the post by Feldwebel Chris P. Bakon of zer Nazi grammar Police.

 ;D

I am a window cleaner, not an English teacher, what do you expect.
Instead of learning punctuation and spellings, in the comfort of my home, I have been at work in this cold horrible month, we call January.



You're from Essex, you hardly had a winter!  ;D
Title: Re: How has your January been?
Post by: windowcleaninginessex.co.uk on January 29, 2013, 10:28:22 am
Compared to last January, earning are up by 10% already and there is still a couple of days left of the month. I have only had 1 day when no work has not been done, so I am not moaning.
Darren

Double negative! The grammar police will be on to you about that!  ;D

Lightweight! You missed the bit in green which in my role as Detective Sgt. Gold of the Grammar Police, I feel compelled to highlight. It should of course read "... there are a couple of days ...".

But of course Chief Petty Officer Wayai-Banzai Toshimoto of the Japanese Imperial Grammar Police got in first. And he was pipped to the post by Feldwebel Chris P. Bakon of zer Nazi grammar Police.

 ;D

I am a window cleaner, not an English teacher, what do you expect.
Instead of learning punctuation and spellings, in the comfort of my home, I have been at work in this cold horrible month, we call January.



You're from Essex, you hardly had a winter!  ;D

Correct, I am from Essex. Compared to your dull, dark and damp part of England, Essex is like living in a sunny, tropical climate.  ;D  ;D  ;D