I have never done that. I have only seen it on TV or movies. what does that mean and why do people do it? Am I a poor?
What is dry cleaning?
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If you have to ask, you are a poor.
Are we talking about the cleaning process, or some urban dictionary thing?
I feel embarrassed. I thought you guys were my friends, but I guess you're not.
To get tough stains off of your mom’s delicates through a process involving volatile, somewhat harmful solvents.
I have no idea what it is. And yes I am a poor, white (no longer trailer) trash.
I did look it up though:
I did look it up though:
How Dry Cleaning Works
Want to know what happens to your clothes after you give them to the dry cleaner? Do they actually stay dry? Take a behind-the-scenes look at the dry-cleaning process.
home.howstuffworks.com
Dry cleaning is the only proper way to clean a suit or a nice dress coat.
Let's not forget dress shirts. I was in a men's store a few months ago and the sale person (attractive 20 y.o.) was despondent when I described ironing shirts. Professional attire and ironed shirts are still required professions.
Do people never dress up anymore? Just dropped 4 suits and 6 shirts off for dry cleaning today. Some of you need to step up your game.
I have never dry cleaned a dress shirt and I have worn them almost every work day for 20 years. I machine wash them and iron them, even those supposedly not requiring ironing. You just don’t get the same clean look with crisp angles - especially with the collar - otherwise. But no reason to incur the expense if dry cleaning them.
Every day you when I go to work I make sure that my jeans do not have any holes.
Typically if you take dress shirts to a “cleaners” they are just laundering then pressing with high heat and not dry cleaning.
When I was a young wife at home with a baby I washed and ironed my husband’s dress shirts, using spray starch on the collar and sleeves. Set up the ironing board in front of the TV and watched General Hospital. 😂
When he started climbing the old corporate ladder and my kids started school I went to work and just took them to the dry cleaners, where they get laundered, starched, and pressed, not dry cleaned like suits are. Some of my work clothing went regularly as well.
With a strong shift to business casual I think fewer things need dry cleaning. Of course many of you guys still like your khakis to have that sharp crease.
Yeah back before business casual when I wore slacks, dress shirt and some times a tie to work every day it went to dry cleaning once a week. This was probably 20 years ago in my late 20's and early 30's. I wasn't dealing with taking care of that and everything would come back so nice looking from the cleaners. Since it's move to golf pants or nice jeans and polo's at work there's not much need anymore. I'll get a suit done before a wedding or something like that.
Sorry, did you just post that you wash and iron your shirts while your wife sits idly by?
I am a f&cking catch lucas. I do 90% of the grocery shopping and cooking as well.
She was watching to make sure he did hers as nicely as he did his.
As an aside, I will say that today's non-wrinkle shirts are much easier to iron than shirts that are just linen. It doesn't take more than a minute or two and and is must part of my morning routine now combined with showering and listening to sports talk "radio" on iheart.
GD right! Mrs. Lucas can’t cook. The poor thing can mangle spaghetti and mix up a salad, but other than that she is dependent on me. I like it that way.
She's more of a throw things in the dryer for 5 minutes person to get the the wrinkles out, but she doesn't wear anything for work where crisp angles and creases would be preferred. Or, if there is an event to go to, she will just buy something new to wear, much to my chagrin.
You're not a poor if you don't know what dry cleaning is; because almost nobody knows.
However, you are likely a poor if you've never used drycleaners. I mean, do you not own a suit or blazer?
There used to be a company with big purple bags that would pickup your dry cleaning from your home and deliver it back to you. It was sort of like Door Dash for dry cleaning. I don't remember the name but I used them all the time.
Heck, you can do those non wrinkle shirts with a handheld steamer. It’s a thing of beauty.
I do wonder how long some of these dry cleaners will stay open. 5 years ago when I would drop of some clothes it would take a week to get them back and the cleaners racks were full of clothes. I dropped clothes off yesterday morning and will be able to pick up by 4 tomorrow and there wasn’t much on the racks at all.
My dress shirts are laundered (no starch - I'm not Garth Brooks!), not dry cleaned. To me, dry cleaning is reserved for suits and fabrics that can't be washed normally - like silk.
I don't wear dress shirts as often, but I take my polo shirts to the cleaners. When I launder them, the collar gets all wavy and/or askew. They keep the shirts looking nice.
I think maybe part of it is that I really suck at ironing and see it as a huge waste of my time. I'm not proficient at it at all, so ironing a shirt takes me like 30 minutes. Easier for me to take them to the cleaners and let them do it with their big machines.
Dry cleaning was called dry cleaning because it did not involve water. In normal cleaning, at home, you use water plus detergent. This works fine for stains that are soluble in water but there are many stains that come out only in organic solvents (ink, blood, skin cells, mustard etc etc). Dry cleaners used to use carbon tetrachloride but that gave them liver cancer so they have switched to "safer" organic variants. All in all, dry cleaning can get out stains that you couldn't at home. And no, you cannot just put in a few jugs of organic solvent in your laundry machine. It will fk it up permanently and many of them are volatile and you'll either set your house on fire or breathe in cancer. You missed my nerd shit didn't you?
You need a high quality iron like a rowenta and a good ironing board with lots of padding.
See? This is type of shit explaining why I don't have you on ignore.
I'll admit, if I weren't married to someone that takes care of all that stuff I would probably do the same. But I throw my clothes in the hamper every evening and a couple times a week it's empty and clean ironed clothes are hung up in the closet. It's some sort of magic, I think fairies might come in and do it during the day!
I would say I think my wife needs some fairy training, but she might say the same thing about me when it comes to dishes and helping kids with homework. As for the former, I make the messes providing delicious food so I try not to clean them. As to the latter, let's just say I have the bedside manner of a civil war surgeon with a hacksaw which isn't appreciated.*
*Edited to add that she is a therapist, and I only have joke that this is how I would conduct therapy sessions:
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