Great 'slash the cost of dry-cleaning' Hunt

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lew

Originally Posted by JimmyTheWig
I heard this suggestion once...
Don't take your clothes to the dry cleaners. Take them to the charity shop instead.
They will dry clean them and put them out for sale.
Buy them back from the charity shop. With any luck this will be cheaper than the dry cleaning bill would have been!

As long as no one buys them before you can!

lozmiester

sorry if this has already been posted. lakeland do a kit for £8.80 that you can clean up to 14 garments with. You use your tumble drier. It's great, got lasagne out of my winter coat (Don't ask why I had lasagne on my coat!!!). :rolleyes:

Princess_Jane

I've just got a linen Zara jacket for 5p from a charity shop.

Gorgeous but a bit smelly - would I be safe handwashing or putting on a wool machine wash rather than dry cleaning?

lew

QUOTE.....LOZMEISTER......home kit sorry if this has already been posted. lakeland do a kit for £8.80 that you can clean up to 14 garments with. You use your tumble drier. It's great, got lasagne out of my winter coat (Don't ask why I had lasagne on my coat!!!). QUOTE



http://www.lakeland.co.uk/F/product/21276

chivers1977

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

I have a dry cleaners local that do 4 items for £6 with a 3 day collection.

BargainRzl put me onto them a few years back. They are very proffesional and NEVER had a problem.

PP
xx

Is this in SE London?

chivers1977

wanted to bump this as it is a great article

JimmyTheWig

Princess_Jane wrote: »

I've just got a linen Zara jacket for 5p from a charity shop.

Gorgeous but a bit smelly - would I be safe handwashing or putting on a wool machine wash rather than dry cleaning?

My gut reaction is to risk doing it yourself. All you've got to lose is 5p!
But then you could argue that it would cost you more than 5p to replace it.
Hmmm.

laura33

If anyone gets the Kleeneze household catalogue through their door, they have a product called dry cleaners secret. You get 4 sheets for £10 and each sheet can clean up to 4 items. You just put the sheet in your tumble dryer for 20 minutes then hang them up. They are similar to the Persil Revive sheets that don't seem to be made anymore.

I have been using these for a while with good results. Much cheaper than the dry cleaners for the same result!

:j

auntypog

Princess_Jane wrote: »

I've just got a linen Zara jacket for 5p from a charity shop.

Gorgeous but a bit smelly - would I be safe handwashing or putting on a wool machine wash rather than dry cleaning?

I wash all my dry clean items. I have found that it's hot water that shrinks them. I wash velvet cutrains in Woolite on a COLD wool wash which I have on my machine and they don't shrink at all. I wash wool skirts and jackets in Woolite by hand but only just hand hot or in the COLD machine wash.

Also, if the vintage garment is dryclean, I only buy slightly too big so that if it does shrink a shade it still fits. If you experiment on a few less loved items, you'll soon get the hang of it.