Comments on: On Dry Cleaning

By: xanderjones

xanderjones — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:27:38 +0000

I loved working at a cleaners. We had some big accounts, for instance one time we were the back up for Angels dry cleaning. So we had the entire squad’s OFFICIAL jerseys on site. Photos were taken of me in them lol.

Also, we had some cops who came in and got their drycleaning. Mace is really fun in a hot closed environment lol.

Oh yeah and the whole time I worked there I never once had to buy a lighter. :)

By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:23:56 +0000

I worked at a dry cleaners in high school. Tagging stuff took so long! It was always really hot during the summer, because we did all our cleaning in house.

By: Katie Rose

Katie Rose — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:13:29 +0000

@Megan – maybe Tru doesn’t have a job where he needs to dress up. I work in a very laid back office where we can wear jeans and sweatshirts everyday.

By: Hyacinth

Hyacinth — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:50:04 +0000

Personally, I only use the home dry cleaning stuff to remove odors when the item doesn’t really need cleaned. According to my former SIL, the stuff is (or at least when she was younger was) very toxic. Her sister accidentally got it in her eyes as a child at their family owned dry cleaner and her mom essentially submersed her head in water to clean them out right away.

By: Megan

Megan — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:01:26 +0000

Tru- then how do you find things to wear to work?

By: eddie

eddie — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:41:09 +0000

some guy claims to be making 50k a month from his website http://www.paolettiscleaners.com does anyone know of this guy?

By: Los Angeles Dry Cleaner

Los Angeles Dry Cleaner — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:32:32 +0000

I also work at a dry cleaner (in L.A.) and I agree that forgotten Kleenex in the pocket is the absolute worst! :-(

By: moratorium

moratorium — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:46:00 +0000

When people at the dry cleaner tell customers to have some specific clothes dry cleaned, always listen to them. Some people think that owners just want to charge customers more money, but the truth is that some fabrics need to be dry cleaned although the label says it’s okay to machine-wash.

By: Tru

Tru — Mon, 21 May 2007 17:16:08 +0000

I wonder how the solvent compares to the ‘at home’ dry-cleaning-in-your-dryer kits… my mom lives by those things.

I just refuse to buy anything that has to be dry cleaned… or ironed…

By: Abi

Abi — Sat, 19 May 2007 20:55:01 +0000

Here’s an interesting personal story about dry cleaning:

My family has been doing our dry cleaning at a small dry cleaner in our neighborhood for the past six years, when we moved to town. The tiny Asian woman who owns the shop also owns the same green Plymouth Voyager minivan as my family; one day, while my sister and I sat in the car, my mom went in to retrieve the dry cleaning. Exiting the shop, she walked over to the dry cleaner’s car, thinking it was ours, and opened the door. She actually hung our newly retrieved dry cleaning inside the owner’s van and tried to put the key in the ignition, before realizing it was the wrong car. All the while, my sister and I were laughing and gesturing wildly, as was the shopowner. Realizing her mistake, my mother returned to our car in embarassment; from that day on, the shopowner referred to my mother as “Same Van Lady” – and to this day, my mother never says she is doing the dry cleaning; rather, she is going to “Same Van Lady.”