Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: wightsurf on December 02, 2008, 05:23:39 pm
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I didn't expect this.
Went to a house today ,having a good idea i might be in for a little treat ;D but this is what i ended up with ;D
2 bottles of wine
large box of deep mince pies
large tin of chocies
large tin of short bread
3 chocy calenders for the 3 boys
1 wooly hat
and £1.50 (the odd change from the clean) ;D
I like christmas ;D
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lucky you!
ive got nothing so far :'( lol
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Lol! I used to work with a guy a few years back and he used to clean the windows on a big country house. One Christmas the guy came out and give my boss a tin of Salmon for Christmas. My boss said " Tight old git, he only gave me that because he owns the bloody company. The good its done me I may aswell put it through his window ......and its out of date!"
I wet myself laughing for about ten minutes.
:)
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All ive had is biscuits and mince pies wen doing a gutter and fascia clean. :-\
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I must be lucky ;D
mince pie are tasty ;D i have'nt opened the chocies yet , saving them til kids go to bed. ;D ;D ;D
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tea, mince pies.... £2 and a bottle of wine.... up on last year though.... only got a bottle of wine lol...
;)
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so far had £20 and two £5's next couple of weeks should be good do quite well every year
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so far i got 48 quid in my xmas box.
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Looks like its just me who's getting nothing then ;D i did last year.. must be doing something wrong this year lol
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Hi,
£25.00 job, she gave me £30.00 a £5.00 increase with another £30.00 for Christmas. I must of done something right.
Kevin WINDOLENE.
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lucky you!
ive got nothing so far :'( lol
same here.
daz
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Looks like its just me who's getting nothing then ;D i did last year.. must be doing something wrong this year lol
I get a lot less tips since I ditched the collecting a few years ago. I got a tenner the other day but that's been my lot so far.
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payment everytime is enough for me
must be sad as i love my work
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payment everytime is enough for me
must be sad as i love my work
Not sad at all IMO.
I enjoy my work as well - most of the time anyway.
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Looks like its just me who's getting nothing then ;D i did last year.. must be doing something wrong this year lol
You're not alone. So far I've also had nish.
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I've broken my duck! £12 today...have invested part of it in a 4 pack of Strongbow and 20 Bennies ;D
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I put all my tips in a tin and it pays for my petrol and towards spends in st ives for a new years tear up.Good job the petrols come down tho ive only got £11 so far.
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£12 today...have invested part of it in a 4 pack of Strongbow and 20 Bennies ;D
;D
I'm up to £37 now, but it's still only the first week of december.
The last 8-10 days are the best.
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I;ve had £15 so far but its very early days. I'm giving every customer a personalised xmas card thanking them for their custom this year (vista print) Also from next week I'll be wearing my flashing santa hat. Hint hint!!!
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Also from next week I'll be wearing my flashing santa hat. Hint hint!!!
I've used a santa hat in the past.
Works a treat. You'll get loads. ;)
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I got another fiver today. That's £15 now.
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;D more tips today, i think money wise it must be about £40.00 ish so far ;D
Best is still to come, but i keep you updated ;D
Why are some of you not getting a penny ??? are you grumpy looking lol
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I have not had any tips and to be honest I do not expect many.....I think the Dutch have a very different take on it all.
Cheers
Dave.
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I have not had any tips and to be honest I do not expect many.....I think the Duth have a very different take on it all.
Cheers
Dave.
What's a duth?
Was that a mis-type? ???
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I meant the Dutch but yeah it was a typo...
Dave. ;D
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Good day for me today....(1st day of tips this year)
1 bottle of wine / plus £4 / £10 / £2 /£10 = £26
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i got me first tip yestaday ;D bowt time :P
fiver for me and lad and a £1 off someone else lol
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best tip so far 14 pound house gives me a 50 and says keep the change got 120 quid so far ;)
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yay! first tip
£10 from an old guy who ive just started ;D
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today one of my custys gave me a bottle of wine a tin of heroes a present for my little girl and £15 she is a very good custy though and i did give her some wine
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I got a penguin biscuit :'(
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best tip so far 14 pound house gives me a 50 and says keep the change got 120 quid so far ;)
I bet they thought it was a £20
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£215
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up to approx £70 but like all have said is still very early days.. my biggest tip i get every year is £60
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What do you do with your tips?
Me and business partner take other halfs out for slap up meal.
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i'm up to £17.50 and a bottle of wine
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I'm upto £35, 2 bottles of wine and a chicken - no ordinary chicken, it is still alive, have put it in with my others, if it doesn't lay by the end of the week we'll eat it.
Next week I am doing my best tipping customer, the house goes on invoice to their business, but she gives me an Harrods' hamper with £150 cash in a card, the job is only 80 a month.
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Another £17.50 today - so £43.50 and a bottle of wine so far...
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ive got £64 in the pot so far :)
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hope taxman isnt reading :) iv got about £ 50 so far and loads that have said we will pay when you are round just b4 crimbo, and 2-3 that are getting beer and whisky woohoo
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Im Upto £60 from 2 days domestic so far but got a lot of domestic still left to do before xmas.
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Who cares about the taxman? ::)
It's your money.
I've only had about £45 so far.
Had £350-odd some years.
Depends which areas fall near christmas.
Most of my nice places were done at the start of the month.
The next few weeks are the tight people. >:(
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I had delivered today a fortnam & mason hamper filled with goodies and £100 from one customer today, Hope she dosent want a discount in the new year..lol
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Got my first tip today...2 chocolates... :-[
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Im now up to 84 pound and still got week and a half to go! ;D
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I had delivered today a fortnam & mason hamper filled with goodies and £100 from one customer today, Hope she dosent want a discount in the new year..lol
Wow - what's the story behind that? Keep it clean mind... ;D
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£85.50 and a bottle of wine!
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Another £10's worth so now £53.50 and a bottle of wine.
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Another £25 today, so that's £65 so far.
No wine yet!
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Another £25 today, so that's £65 so far.
No wine yet!
a few more squeaky , and you'll be able to get that laptop. ;D
tips have been very slow this year , custy's who usually tip have'nt
had a few, but no where near what i have had ,in previous years
daz
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Just broke the hundred pound barrier. Got over £400 last year but not going to get anywhere near that. Dont know if its wfp switch or credit crunch
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Another £25 today, so that's £65 so far.
No wine yet!
a few more squeaky , and you'll be able to get that laptop. ;D
tips have been very slow this year , custy's who usually tip have'nt
had a few, but no where near what i have had ,in previous years
daz
I agree.
Some who've always tipped haven't this year.
But then there's others you know will, even if they were skint. :)
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just over £60 and a box of dairy milk
my son came out with me last saturday and got £15 in tips :)
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I got a jar of home-made marmalade today.
I hate marmalade!
How do I account for that for tax purposes?
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Just broke the hundred pound barrier. Got over £400 last year but not going to get anywhere near that. Dont know if its wfp switch or credit crunch
dont think its the switch... i think they will be impressed
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I've had about £100 so far, this time last year I had been given over £500! Still I've got some good custies to see next week who have tipped well in the past, so all is not lost!! :)
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got a bottle of vintage port yesterday, its the thought that counts ! i love port ;D
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I do not get very many people in at all, they all work. So, well......£9 so far, 2 custies. :-[ ;D
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Another £7.50 today so now on £61 and a bottle of wine.
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I have a deal with the lads, they get any money, I get any wine.........so far they have over £300 in tips between them, I have two bottles of £3.99 wine ???
I think I've been duped and they've prepped all the customers, probably told them all weeks before that they were tea total for Christmas and didn't want the temptation of getting wine as a tip !!
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£25 today and £20 yesterday and monday.
Up to £135 now, but still no drinks. ???
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It's nice to see most are getting something as we all now people are finding it hard at the moment. But i have finished of the tin of chocies, well the kids helped. They even took all the best ones when i was at work ! It would be bad of me to hide any ;D
I had a bit more cash but best is to come.
Merry xmas all
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Now upto £200 plus 4 bottles of red wine ;D
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Two bottles and about £120.
Funny thing I did three customers this week who are postmen, you guessed it, not a bean.
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Broke the £300 mark today also had 2 boxes of chocs and half a dozen bottles of booze of 1 type or another.
My round is 95% domestic though which helps
G
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tips to date,3 pairs of old underpants and 2 thermal vests,an old lad was chucking out and thought of us :-\ :-\,
1 knitted pom pom hat,1 no half drunken bottle of sherry, 1 no bottle of 1979 delux pompage.2 packets of frozen fish fingers,1 no jigsaw of bloke on a donkey,4 jars of pickled onions and £30.oo in cash.....ITS GRIM UP NORTH
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£25 today and £20 yesterday and monday.
Up to £135 now, but still no drinks. ???
had 2 bottles of wine + i bottle of whisky,
was going to keep the whisky, and open when i finish on the 24 th.
but it kept calling to me last night , ;D
tried to resist , but i couldn't.
i got 4 bottles given to me last year, 1 bottle was the good stuff ( 18 yr old glenfiddich),
so i am hoping i'll get a few more ;D
daz
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£150 2 tins of stella 2 boxes of chocolates and a sack of spuds!!
Oh and a pen(coz mine had run out)
All will come in handy ;D
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Finally had a bottle of wine today!
Only had a fiver other than that, as I was in an area where I know they won't tip.
They're underpriced too!
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I seem to be lagging well behind but the next few days should be better.
I'm up to £24 and a bottle of wine. I don't even drink. My accountant puts £50 on my accounts for tips anyway. I'll make sure he knows about it if I get less. I don't mind paying tax on money I've had but not on money that I haven't had.
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I got a tip on Monday that was huge, I won't say how much or who from, but will say it was well into 3 figures, they pay by bacs through their business but gave me the tip in cash.
It's going to be a good fortnight off now!
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My accountant puts £50 on my accounts for tips anyway.
Sack the git! :o
He's costing you £50 plus his charges!
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Over the £300 mark now £70 of one customer today :D
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Got a tin of Quality Street woohooo!!!
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My accountant puts £50 on my accounts for tips anyway.
Sack the git! :o
He's costing you £50 plus his charges!
Well it would cost me about £14 really (28% of the £50) ;D
I wouldn't sack him. He's been with me longer than any of my customers :) .
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£210 up to now but definately going to be down on last year. One punter who has tipped £20 every year only tipped £7.50. Alot are apologising saying things are tight. oh i forgot 1 bottle of wine.
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Had a Christmas card today with a tenner in it. "Happy Christmas Dai from all at number one"!.
I have to go through my round now and try and figure out who it's from, I must have 8 number 1's.
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I got given some christmas dec's today, they said they did'nt like them so gave them to me. My other half didn't like them niether. And a fiver in a christmas card but i only did four houses today. Lazzy day getting ready for christmas.
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Another £19 so it's £80 plus a bottle of wine so far...
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I don`t think i`ll get any more now but my total is £82 :D
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I'm now up to £26 and a bottle of glug. Of that, one tip alone was a tenner. It's OK. I'm not in it for the money ;D
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i dont know how much as i dont count it really, just gets lobbed in with the rest of money, but i got about 20 every day this week, and about 20 -30 last week so around 100- 120 ish, plus more next week :)
I was happy really because i did some of my worst paying work but they all tipped really well so that was good.....
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The only tips i got were to get the corners of the windows next year!............LOL.......Laters
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I worked today and my tip level now stands at £39.50 and a bottle of glug as I got a further £13.50 today.
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up to £1337 now still 2 days left ;D ;D
£13.37! Nice one! ;D
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A Pakistani lady said to me yesterday I would have got you a bottle of wine for Christmas but I am not allowed to buy alcohol. So what did I get instead? sweet fa!!!
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£287.00 for me so far,it just depends where you go and who is due!
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Im upto about £102 and a bottle of wine lol
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400 so far,three days left to do
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2 bottles and £35 today.
Nice customers!
Had £20 off a £4 shop! :o
That's got to be a record!
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i think my guys have got about 450 between them so far. good for them :)
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I have a small shop that I do, £3.00, every week she says "I dont want any change" and gives me a fiver, I didn't expect a christmas tip from her, but she gave me £20 tip and still said "I dont want any change" from the fiver. So thats £22 from a £3 job.
Beat that Squeaky ;D
Nice one. ;D
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Had £20 off a £4 shop! :o
That's got to be a record!
You might as well give that to me then dude, you now owe me 20 quid for the water this week!!
No charge for next week to allow for time lost cos of the christmas break ;)
Not a lot in tips for us, about 80 quid or so :'( Just the nature of the jobs I have I guess....
Ian
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I got £25 tip for a £2.50 front!!!!!!!!! I almost fell over when i opened the card ;D
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I got a bottle of Champagne and £13.00 today. Thats it for me 2 hotels tomorrow and i know i wont get anything from them. And then its the start of my christmas holidays.
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just over £90 so far plus two bottles of wine today :)
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I'm up to £220 so far. Funny how some days you get loads other you get nil. My best day was a few weeks back, getting £20 each from 2 offices, £20 from an old lady who we only took on earlier in the year and £15 from some one else. £75 in a day not bad.
Simon.
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I'm now up to £49.50, a bottle of glug, a packet of biscuits, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.
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Another £7.50 and a bottle of wine today so that's £87.50 and two bottles of wine so far.
The last two years I have just scraped over £100 so it's touch and go this year as it's mainly commercials (ie no tip) tomorrow and Xmas eve.
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Another £15 today and two Free Range Eggs!! :-\