I second this one…also a good reason why so many “rich” folks are so miserable all the time…
What they don’t get is that spending $10-20 to wash your nice car seems fine, but they want to spend maybe 10x that to wash their house that cost 50x what the car cost. 
go figure
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Man, you haven’t priced a new car in a while have you 
10x car price buys you a heck of house
to be fair, I haven’t…never bought a new car in my life, and would rather not. Give me a 15+ year old Jeep any day of the week. I buy them used <$8-10k, and if it doesn’t last me at a rate of $2k/year without expensive repairs, then I failed when I bought it.
But people with $100k cars are in houses that were way more than $1MM in my experience…usually by multiples of $1MM. Those people will pay a detailer $100-200, but they want their $1-5MM house washed for the same price, maybe 2x that. It’s virtually everyone’s biggest asset, but no one wants to actually care for it properly. They’ll debate and research gas, wax, even tire shine; but if you start talking about softwashing they’re all like, “you’re spraying water…c’mon” Actually had a guy try to tell me what he thought our services were worth (about 50% of our price), another guy tried to get the fence for free with his house (fence was almost as much as the house)…I explained we base our prices on our costs, they’re not starting points for negotiation. He booked, and we washed his brother’s house today 
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I said “so many”"…not “all”
May be why I’m always in a good mood too… 
I few years back, I would agree with you. But as you get a little older you start to appreciate different things.
Back in my early 20’s I would never pay for a carwash, I’d do it my self. Now at 32 I will gladly pay 60$ + for someone to come wash it at my home while I sip a brew. Time is valuable and the ppl who pay for our service know this
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$60? I run my truck thru the car wash at Sheetz at least once a year whether it needs it or not and it’s only 8 bucks
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Rain is free!
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I might drag the hose the 30’ to the cars and wash them up once a year, usually in the spring, and maybe add a coat of wax every few years…I may run mine through the cheapest convenient wash late winter if I need to go somewhere reasonably important and it’s covered in salt…
I like washing my car, kind of therapeutic in a way. Got a Sunjoe electric pressure washer and foam cannon. For washing cars, electric ones are pretty nice.
My wife on the other hand has the unlimited monthly car wash. Then you have my truck, which gets washed whenever it rains
I think this is a good time to point out that you live where everything is much cheaper. I can now understand your logic of how a $99 house wash can make you money. Here in Sonoma County California it’s the equivalent to the $399 house wash guy. We are at just under $7 for fuel. Taxes (both income and sales) are outrageous. Pge bill for a family of 4 in a 1900sf home with no hot tub or pool is $500 a month. Water is $200, and if you have to rent a 3 bedroom house looking at 4k a month. Food is $120/bag (Oliver’s market,)
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I’m not sure what all that means but I know $8 is cheaper than $60
If taxes are high, move, just not here.
I am clueless on what pge bill is.
I’ve known about three people in my entire life that owned a pool and I know no one that owns a hot tub, or ever seen one at any house I’ve washed.
I’ve got a septic tank but county water.
I don’t know what Oliver’s market is but they have a weird system of they charge by the bag. I’d full that sucker up with steak and spam and find a Piggly Wiggly or a normal place to get bread and buttermilk.
I am not disagreeing with you, I can understand how people value time over money. Until I age out, I still don’t see myself hiring a contractor. In my area, many of the contractors are hacks that I wouldn’t want installing a prebilt swing set. There is a big need for handymen in my area, because the contrators are too busy for little jobs (until winter). When I PW, I get a lot of requests for handyman work. Sometimes I do the odd jobs, sometimes I pass. I have a hard time passing up the work for the elderly, some are so desperate.
The problem with getting older is this, all the people you knew for years who worked in the trades are retired, basically so beat up they can’t do anything, or dead.
Piggly wiggly, that is such a southern thing. If a pig wiggles up here it gets shot.
Southern thing is just normalcy for me. If it wasn’t for Piggly Wiggly y’all wouldn’t have shopping carts
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Ithink you’re right, but most would consider central VA the “south” (although it is becoming less southern and more crazy every day…), and I’ve never seen a Piggly Wiggly unless I’m travelling…I’m sure IBS knows guys who have tarped up the back of their pickup, filled it with water, and put an old outboard in it…surely
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Humpty Dumpty chain in OKC invented the shopping cart I thought?
I would actuslly like to expand on this thought and somewhat disagree. To me there are three kinds of rich that I’ve run into.
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Can’t afford to actually maintain their property. Ive seen this for two reasons. Older person bought years ago a much larger house than they could afford now and they can’t afford current contractor rates, or they bought over their means. Sometimes this person acts frusterated in part because they cant afford to maintain their house and they want to blame the contractor.
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The cheap person who doesnt see the value in trade work and lowballs. (This is the one most of us hate)
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The person who can maintain their house with ease and values quality work. I’ve seen this person in rich, poor, and in between areas. (The one most or all of us love)
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