OK I'd like some quick answers - as many as possible before 2.30 this afternoon......how much would you be prepared to pay.......

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A) Drop off a small basket of ironing when you drop the kids off/pick them up at school and pick it up (ironed obviously) the following day - 24hrs later - so if you dropped it off in the morning you could pick it up the following morning, if you dropped it off in the afternoon you collect the following afternoon)

B) the same for a large basket

C) how much would you pay to drop ironing off in the morning and be able to pick it up ironed when you pick up the children in the afternoon - firstly for a small basket, secondly for a large basket??

Really need to get some extra cash coming in, and I rather fancy doing ironing, however I don't drive so making my services available to a "wider" market isn't really feasible at the moment. However I DO live RIGHT next to the school and a large majority of parents drive to pick their children up - so I'm thinking of starting off with school parents - as they could drop off and collect their ironing without a great deal of hassle.

So how much would you be prepared to pay???

right ok - I've just weighed myself with my big basket - and I weighed whispers* 138lb - it's one of those standard plastic things you can get in Wilkinsons and the likes........full of ironing it weighed 152lbs......so that's 14lb (and it's squashed down quite a bit as I did a big load of washing yesterday)

Soooo - given that do you think that £1 per lb for 24hr, and perhaps £1.5 for "same day" would be a reasonable rate to charge???

A £ a lb sounds like a good slogan! Sounds reasonable to me.

yay - getting my first lot some time before teh weekend.......ok it's a close friend of mine, and she's not actually paying me for it - but it's a start (the reason she's not paying is because I owe her money so we're doing a "swap" - I'll do her ironing for "free" and then I won't have to worry about paying her back the cash she lent me LOL)

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what??? sorry can't decode your typing oh mighty fish .....

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ahh - I see.

My mum used to pay me 10p per item.

LOL

If you are going to charge by the lb, like a greengrocer, don't forget the rogue apostrophe in your fliers: shirt's, dress'es etc.

A friend does my ironing for me for 75p per item - we figure that charging teh same for work shirts and handkercheifs evens out in teh long run. I drop of and pick up from her (she doesn't drive) usually when we are seeing her anyway. It works quite well IMO - get your clients to provide their own hangers and you really don't need plastic covers.

I pay 60p per normal item, 1.20 for duvet covers and the like and something like 30p for kids dresses/trousers. With me & DH both having shirts to iron (as well as usual clothes) and a bit of kids stuff & 1 lot of bedding a week, it works out at around £9 a week.

I think it is an absolute bargain, and my ironing lady thinks she is ripping me off, so we are both extremely happy with arrangement.