My idea is to begin a laundry service for people in this situation. I would collect their laundry every week, wash/dry/fold it, and return it to them. I would charge a monthly fee for the service, maybe $30, not sure yet.
You'll have a lot of dirty grunt work to do up front, but if you live in a big city with a big metro area, you might even be able to scale this.
I use services like this when I travel to Mexico. They charge by the pound there, too, just like the laundry mats do here.
Outsource the washing of the clothes to a trustworthy laundrymat or two. I think I used to spend about $10-15 a week when I was single and had to pay to wash my clothes at a pay laundry (this was washing it myself using coins, etc). (This was for blankets and sheets, too). Doubling the cost and having someone else do it isn't really that big of a deal.
I think $30-50 is the DELIVERY/SERVICE fee
PLUS charge per pound for the actual laundry
I'd charge by the piece for big items (like comforters or stuff like that).
So in this scenario, if you had 100 customers, you are bringing in $3000-5000 and only doing pick up and deliveries - the laundry professionals are doing the washing at .99 per pound or something like that.
Eventually, you could hire a driver or two and scale it up.
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