Make the Right Choice For Your Clothes

There is a dry cleaner on almost every corner. You can pretty much drive every few blocks and you will find someone willing to take your clothes. But, what exactly are you getting out of the trip?

All dry cleaners are not the same. Similar to customer service from one corner store to another, when the service is . . . → Read More: Make the Right Choice For Your Clothes

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Washing and Drying Settings Make All the Difference with Your Laundry

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There are tons of words labeled on your washing and drying machines. So what does it all mean? There are so many different settings and options for washing and drying your laundry. The settings on washers and dryers are there to create the best situations for your clothing.

The delicate cycle is the easiest . . . → Read More: Washing and Drying Settings Make All the Difference with Your Laundry

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Morning Hustle Causing Coffee Stains? Treat Your Fabric Right

Mornings can be hard. Do you ever feel like you are running a full marathon to run out of the door, only to be trapped in traffic on I-64? For many, the first step to sanity in the mornings is a cup of joe, java, or to keep it simple, coffee.

While coffee in those perfect little . . . → Read More: Morning Hustle Causing Coffee Stains? Treat Your Fabric Right

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Hand Wash and Preserve Delicate Fabrics

There is only one warning on the care label of your garments that can be more intimidating than the “dry clean only” label and that would be the infamous “hand wash only” warning.

For many the dry clean only label means an additional step in care for your clothes; while the hand wash only warning can be . . . → Read More: Hand Wash and Preserve Delicate Fabrics

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Save Your Clothes From Wear and Tear

In reality, it’s so much easier to throw a load of laundry in the machine than take a few garments to the dry cleaners.

Often, rather than taking the time to run to the dry cleaners, our dry clean only clothes end up in a pile.

To save time and to get another wear out of a few . . . → Read More: Save Your Clothes From Wear and Tear

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Don’t Be Afraid to Try Something New With Your Dry Cleaning

Often we sacrifice for things that are familiar. We continuously use the same products because we used them for years and they are familiar. But as time changes so do those products and often not for the better.

Using that same old dry cleaner around the corner may have worked initially for convenience but time has changed and . . . → Read More: Don’t Be Afraid to Try Something New With Your Dry Cleaning

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Winterize Yourself With Care Tips For Your Coats

Sure the weather is still going up and down between frigid nights and crisp sunny days, but soon we will be in the thick of the winter with only our outerwear to protect us and maybe an extra layer of insulation if we indulged too much over the holidays.

With the beautiful fall weather, if you are . . . → Read More: Winterize Yourself With Care Tips For Your Coats

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The Big Deal About Dry Cleaning Your Comforter

You may have asked, what is the big deal if I wash a bedspread that says “dry clean only” in my washing machine? Mark Pressed4Time would like to take a few minutes to help you understand what those three little words, “dry clean only” mean.

Those three little words, “dry clean only”:

. . . → Read More: The Big Deal About Dry Cleaning Your Comforter

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To Have Cash Or To Have Cash-mere? That Is The Question

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Why not have both by keeping your extra soft, extra warm luxury cashmere sweaters a little longer with Mark Pressed4Time at your side? It is perfectly reasonable to not want to have to endure an itchy sweater during the worst months of the year (weather-wise). Why in stores are the cashmere sweaters always right next to . . . → Read More: To Have Cash Or To Have Cash-mere? That Is The Question

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Is Picking Out a Dry Cleaners Like Picking Out a Good Restaurant?

Do you read reviews on Yelp and comb through case studies before choosing or do you simply do a drive by and assume all dry cleaners are created equal? 

5 Simple rules to follow for selecting your dry cleaner:

The miracle of having your clothes transformed from heap of crumpled mess on the floor to pristine like-new condition . . . → Read More: Is Picking Out a Dry Cleaners Like Picking Out a Good Restaurant?

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Dry Cleaning Prolongs the Life Span Of Your Clothes

There is a reason why certain garments advise dry cleaning.  The type of fabric, color, blend and style all contribute the make-up of the articles in your wardrobe and their “life span”.

The color dye of a garment which is applied using water has the ability to come out in water but is colorfast when dry cleaned.  . . . → Read More: Dry Cleaning Prolongs the Life Span Of Your Clothes

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Do you know when you should “dry clean only?”

It is written on some article of clothing that you own, “dry clean only”. It may be a sweater, a dress, and a pair of pants. All of us have something that we regularly have dry cleaned because the instructions tell us to.

But do you really have to “dry clean” dry clean only?

The answer is yes . . . → Read More: Do you know when you should “dry clean only?”