Dry Cleaning

Make sure you tell them you want it dry-cleaned or they may just stick it in the washer. It's not implied with all dry cleaners, believe it or not.

 

Mine are washed, not cleaned, because as JR said, they don't last as long otherwise.

 

I've never heard that. I've got a relative who owns a dry cleaners. Her most frequent customers are cops, firemen, businessmen - people who like starch. I prefer just to wash my own clothes because I don't feel like spending the money.

 

Yeah, get the shirts laundered... It's a lot cheaper too...

 

I'm not one for readily spending wads of cash myself, but I've come to the point where I'd rather look good and spend a few bucks a week on shirts looking nice.

 

Wicked, you're just lazy.

 

That, too. And it gives me more time to drink.

 

You'll end up spending more because it's so convenient, but a lot of drycleaners have free delivery. For example, they'll pick up and drop off on Tuesdays and Fridays, or Mondays and Thursdays. That's a fantastic service. It becomes a pain to run to the dry cleaners all the time.

 

The first couple times I brought in dress shirts tot he dry cleaners, I buttoned them all the way up and put them on a hanger. Man, did that piss the dry cleaner guy off.

 

No point in being a punk to the poster. Good grief ...

Take those suits to the dry cleaners. I usually find good shirts that don't require ironing (that doesn't mean they wouldn't look a little better ironed ... the key with the right wrinkle-free shirts is to hang them up the moment you pull them out of the dryer).

Admittedly, I'm not very skilled with an iron. Getting burned by one by a careless idiot in sixth grade (class project, not in home economics) can cause one to not like it.

Wicked, it's rarely worth it to dry clean ties, unless it cost triple digits and can also survive the dry-cleaning process. Given trends, it's almost easier to just buy new ones in whatever style is supposedly deemed fashionable ...

 

Dry-cleaning ties is a losing proposition . . . it's in the bylaws -- ties that are of sufficiently-high quality virtually never look quite the same after having endured a dry cleaning.

Tucking tie into shirt, stuffing napkin under chin, and/or employment of a lobster bib
are the few ways to avoid the Day of Reckoning.

 

I have some ties that I've kept around for a good 10 years, because I like them a lot, but they do get dirty (not even with foodstuffs, either).