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Doing Laundry for Everyone Else

By on October 12, 2012 in Ideas

You’ve heard the saying “Have Gun, Will Travel.” One West Virgina mother who’s put her washer and dryer to work, should advertise with the slogan “Have Washer, Will Travel.” The Charlestown Gazette has more

Most mothers of two active grade-schoolers dread laundry day. Allison Plants revels in it.

It’s the bubbly brunette’s ticket to being a stay-at-home mom, with her home-based business, The Laundry Princess.

It started by chance.

“My neighbor’s fiancé joked that he wanted someone to do his laundry,” said Plants, 33. “I did his laundry, and he was happy. So I researched the idea, and here I am. I’ve always wanted to be able to stay home with my boys, and I can do laundry anytime, day or night.”

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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  • http://teddersrandomnotes.com/blog John Tedder

    Dane, Have Gun Will Travel was a 60′s western starring Richard Boone as Paladin. You can still watch it every weekday on the Encore Westerns channel. Paladin was wealthy and lived in a hotel in San Francisco. The hotel staff probably did his laundry.

    I’m sure you meant to say that the Laundry Princess is from West Virginia.

  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    You beat me to it with this one. I think it is a great idea for a business. My laundromat offers a drop-off laundry service, and I noticed that a lot of people take advantage of it. I am not particularly found of paying by the pound for my laundry, that would be too expensive. However, I can see why someone would consider the service. Sometimes you really are just that busy. I know I wouldn’t mind letting someone else do my laundry once in a while!

  • http://n.a. Cindy Hawkins

    As a building super involved for years in neighborhood textile rescue, in addition to doing my family’s wash, I spend hours at the local wash-o-mat, though I sometimes wish I didn’t. There’s a kind of Zen about laundry, isn’t there? But, doing it well for people who haven’t the time? The washerwoman, laundry person must be old as time, or should I say cloth. And hey, as long as people gotta suds their duds……

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