Dry Cleaning bitch

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it’s probably been nearly Covid since I’ve had to dry clean any of them.

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welcome to post Covid dry cleaning prices


ETA: as a former dry cleaner owner my opinion is that prices were way too low pre-Covid anyway, very cutthroat business, and a lot of tax evading injuns and azns trying to frick everyone over

That’s definitely high even post Covid. The place I use is around $25/suit plus or minus.

Dryel works pretty well on a suit.



I might not use it on more delicate items but on most suits it does fine and if you hang it up right out the dryer almost no ironing is required.

my daughter needed a zipper fixed on a skirt (no pics). Place I usually go to said $50 to fix. I was like thats more than a whole new skirt. Went to place downnthe road...... $8

Thankfully I wear the modern business suit consisting of a Peter Millar pullover most of the time

But yeah, prices are terrible. We use a place that picks up/drops off at our house, and recently priced switching to a normal strip mall type deal - not meaningfully less expensive.

Yep, it has gotten ridiculous. I will try Dryel next time.

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did you own and run it or did you have a manager? What were you grossing a month?

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my wife and I bought the first store with the intention of learning the business(a drop station is an incredibly simple operation, cleaning your own clothes is a bigger investment,) and training/hiring a manger to run the store and continue to buy more stores and more or less manage the mangers and keep an eye on logistics of making sure the stores always had everything they needed, although we paid more than our local competitors(charged more for cleaning and got it,) the weak leak was the employees, they all came with baggage and that became our baggage in some ways, pretty unreliable and just not dependable(best employees were college students but they weren't there for very long,) it ended up to where my wife was running the business and almost living at the store, which is not what my intention was at all, and I had a day job of course, so we ended up selling the last one 17-18 years ago, the two places were grossing about $15-16k/month each, with so much more potential

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just turn the shower on high

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What kind of knob do you have?

Just spray your suits with Pumpkin Febreeze.