I run a cleaning business which means we do more than clean windows. How it all began. (This will have several parts)

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I've talked a lot about the business I've been running for the last ten years. While most of our work is cleaning windows that's not all we do or have done before. My husband used to run the business or at least he thought he did. He worked it every day and took the crew out with him. I think he did the hiring in the early days alone. No!I made the appointments, I did all the bookkeeping and paid the bills and did payroll. When he began the business he wanted to do mainly carpets but we couldn't afford the truck with the water on board and while waiting for carpet customers he washed windows on the side. Eventually a person from church was changing jobs or leaving the area so he gave my husband his customers and that's how he began. During those first years we got a contract to clean fashion bug stores in lower Michigan and he and a small crew would travel several hours to strip and wax tile floors and clean carpets. They had to do the work in the night when the stores were closed. Other than having a crew to do that work I don't think anyone helped him with windows the first five years or so. My kids were young then so I wasn't as involved either and everything was done on ledgers. That was before we had a computer in every room