Hit 1,000 houses cleaned and almost cried in someone's bathroom
So I keep a little tally sheet in my van, just a spiral notebook where I mark every house I clean since I started my own business back in 2019. Last Thursday I finished a two bedroom apartment on Maple Street and realized that was number 1,000. I actually stood there in their bathroom with a spray bottle in my hand and had to take a second. No one was home, so it was just me and the smell of bleach. I never thought I'd hit that number. I started with my own bucket and a beat up vacuum, doing one house a month for my aunt's friend. Now I've got two part time helpers and a route that takes me across three towns. The weird thing is, most of those houses blur together, but I remember the ones where someone left a note or the dog got out. Or the time a lady paid me in homemade jam because her card got stolen. That jam was actually great. I guess the milestone matters because it means I showed up a thousand times and only wanted to quit maybe eighty of those times. Has anyone else hit a number that caught them off guard, like a weird work anniversary or a sales goal you didn't track until it was way past?