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Bungle

  • Posts: 2584
Where Does The Time Go?
« on: February 17, 2026, 04:31:54 pm »
I'm sat here inputting the work I've done today. On the screen it tells me when I first started cleaning the windows at each job. I've been gobsmacked by the amount of years I've been cleaning some of them. I genuinely thought I'd been cleaning some of them for 5 years or so, but they're like 10 years plus.

It's scary. Where has the time gone?
We look at them, they look through them.

AuRavelling79

  • Posts: 27049
Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2026, 05:39:28 pm »
The customer I have cleaned for the longest time is a commercial one.

I've cleaned it monthly since 1999.
It's a game of three halves!

The Jester of Wibbly

  • Posts: 2311
Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2026, 05:52:20 pm »
It's even stranger when you suddenly realise those customers who had babies when you started cleaning are now adults.
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Splash and dash

  • Posts: 518
Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2026, 06:32:39 pm »
It's even stranger when you suddenly realise those customers who had babies when you started cleaning are now adults.


I have customers that when I started doing there windows didn’t have kids ,  now  they have grown up kids that have left home and we do there Windows as well 😂 makes you feel old

dd

  • Posts: 2689
Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2026, 06:36:00 pm »
I started in 1988, I still have a few original customers (from the first year or so of trading), although I still clean quite a few of the original houses, just for new people.

When I started aged 23, all my customers were older than me. Now at 61, I am older than a lot of my customers.

Simon Trapani

  • Posts: 1746
Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2026, 07:43:24 pm »
I’ve still got some of my original customers. 34 years this year!

Slacky

  • Posts: 8492
Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2026, 09:46:35 pm »
The longest I’ve been cleaning one of my customers is a year  ;D  ;D  ;D

AuRavelling79

  • Posts: 27049
Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Reply #7 on: Yesterday at 08:32:49 am »
The longest I’ve been cleaning one of my customers is a year  ;D  ;D  ;D

If you really cared about your customers you'd fly back over every 8 weeks and clean them.
It's a game of three halves!

dazmond

  • Posts: 24709
Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Reply #8 on: Yesterday at 08:45:05 am »
I'm sat here inputting the work I've done today. On the screen it tells me when I first started cleaning the windows at each job. I've been gobsmacked by the amount of years I've been cleaning some of them. I genuinely thought I'd been cleaning some of them for 5 years or so, but they're like 10 years plus.

It's scary. Where has the time gone?

A few of mine are still customers I canvassed in Jan 1993! Lots of mine are 20+ years
price higher/work harder!

dazmond

  • Posts: 24709
Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Reply #9 on: Yesterday at 08:50:18 am »
It's even stranger when you suddenly realise those customers who had babies when you started cleaning are now adults.


I have customers that when I started doing there windows didn’t have kids ,  now  they have grown up kids that have left home and we do there Windows as well 😂 makes you feel old

When they visit their parents and they say ' wow your still cleaning my mums windows!'😄

I also have some that are still living with their parents but are in their 30s now and you just know their parents wish they would just get a place of their own
price higher/work harder!

Stoots

  • Posts: 6466
Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Reply #10 on: Yesterday at 08:28:45 pm »
I'm sat here inputting the work I've done today. On the screen it tells me when I first started cleaning the windows at each job. I've been gobsmacked by the amount of years I've been cleaning some of them. I genuinely thought I'd been cleaning some of them for 5 years or so, but they're like 10 years plus.

It's scary. Where has the time gone?

A few of mine are still customers I canvassed in Jan 1993! Lots of mine are 20+ years

I was still at primary school in Jan 93

How old were you when you started Daz?

dazmond

  • Posts: 24709
Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Reply #11 on: Yesterday at 08:37:07 pm »
I'm sat here inputting the work I've done today. On the screen it tells me when I first started cleaning the windows at each job. I've been gobsmacked by the amount of years I've been cleaning some of them. I genuinely thought I'd been cleaning some of them for 5 years or so, but they're like 10 years plus.

It's scary. Where has the time gone?

A few of mine are still customers I canvassed in Jan 1993! Lots of mine are 20+ years

I was still at primary school in Jan 93

How old were you when you started Daz?

21 years of age.......if only I could go back with what I know now......😄
price higher/work harder!

james peters

  • Posts: 1002
Re: Where Does The Time Go?
« Reply #12 on: Today at 07:49:57 am »
I started in november of 92, but moved in 95 to another town when I got married. I still clean some customers that I had from1995
I am 55 this year.
I was the first window cleaner to convert to water fed pole in my town. that was in 2005