Eco-Friendly Alternatives to Dry Cleaning

Have a stain that you just can’t get out? Think twice before heading to the dry cleaners. 95 percent of conventional dry cleaners use a toxic chemical called perchloroethylene ... as well as other articles relating to eco-friendly dry cleaning Find a progressive cleaner – seek [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 23:22:52

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Non-Coin-Operated Laundromats & Dry Cleaners in the US

  Shrinking Growth Previous years have seen this mature industry shrink and the next few years may see those who remain taken to the cleaners ... for laundries and/or dry cleaners; and* providing specialty cleaning services for specific types ... garments, wedding gowns, hats, draperies and pillows.These establishments may provide [more...]

Date: 2008-07-02 05:54:03

Non-Coin-Operated Laundromats & Dry Cleaners in the US

Shrinking Growth Previous years have seen this mature industry shrink and the next few years may see those who remain taken to the cleaners ... for laundries and/or dry cleaners; and* providing specialty cleaning services for specific types ... garments, wedding gowns, hats, draperies and pillows.These establishments may provide [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 10:17:49

Sharkey had a little accident

I just love the way sisal carpeting looks throughout my homes, but just like any carpet, sisal does not fare well with spills, ... a fantastic job of making those stains disappear. It’s called Host Dry Carpet Cleaner Shaker Pack ... s environmentally friendly. Dsc_2934 Here’s the wonderful Host Dry Carpet Cleaner Dry Pack [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 02:34:30

Five Eco-Friendly Alternatives to Dry Cleaning

Dry cleaners sign Dry cleaning fluid is a major contaminant of groundwater aquifers ... .  Clothes are expensive — and we want them to last as long as possible. That’s why dry cleaning has always ... . It’s the active ingredient in traditional dry cleaning solvent, and goes by the more common name [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 11:05:10

Go green when dry cleaning says CaymanMama.com Press Release Service

A carcinogen called perchloroethylene is used during the dry cleaning process and has been reported to have harmful effects on both dry cleaner ... , that means sending the Calvin Klein and Gucci suits off to the dry cleaners for a heavy starch ... to get that sauce stain out of your favorite party dress is recycled, the captured by-product of various ind [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 21:58:23

Discover More About Choosing A Home In Berkeley And Finding The Right Real Estate Agent

When you’ve decided to move to the Berkeley area, you need to decide whether you’re going to rent an apartment or house, ... to get a home or apartment that accepts pets, as well as finding out about dry cleaners and laundry services ... -Child Care -Contractors -Movers -Interior Design -Garden Information -Dry Cleaners & Laundry [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 18:56:21

The Power Of Expanded Usage

I’ve used this term - “expand usage” - a lot, because it is important (and often ignored) for many businesses ... $300 a month at the dry cleaners, because most of my suits and shirts have to be cleaned after every on-stage wearing. In all the years that we’ve been dealing with dry cleaners, taking in shirts [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 08:52:32

Data taken to the cleaners

In another startlingly self-serving but amusing piece of research, ... their clothes to the dry cleaners. Now guess what you can do to prevent this from being a problem? Well ... claims 9000 USBs were lost last year; except they weren't really. It interviewed 500 dry cleaners [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:06:37

2009 - The Year of More Frequent Fluff

OMG Update! How could I have forgotten the most formative employment experience of my so-called life? ... at a dry-cleaners. Dry-cleaning is not 'dry' by the way.Did telephone sales for a company [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 00:43:00

Smart shoppers

Smart shoppers Posted by admin on December 25, 2008 at 8:15 pm Smart shoppers 101: Five terrifically easy ways to tame that budget! ... of the dry cleaners, try home dry cleaning kits for good results and big savings. 3.Ardent smart ... six weeks. Use coupons and rain checks to save even more. 2.Clothing costs can add up quickly [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 04:15:09

Dry or Wet Cleaning: Which Is Safer?

You and I hardly even consider what takes place when we drop off our clothing at the cleaners ... percent of commercial dry cleaners use the chemical for cleaning purposes.  What exactly is perc ... and within a short span of time. 39163352 Well, dry cleaning may not be the best choice, according [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 01:19:06

Cairo London. London Cairo.

* Before leaving Cairo, I sent my stuff to a 'recommended' dry cleaners and dropped some shirts at the ironing man. I arrive in London to find the dry cleaners have done a shoddy job (they might have worsened ... expanse of golden-coloured runways, arrays of apartment-blocks filling the horizon a safe distance [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 22:26:00

Dry Cleaning "Secrets" Revealed (Yawn)

When this list of 13 Things Your Dry Cleaner Won't Tell You turned up on Digg, you know I couldn't resist blogging about it. This is kind of a lame list, since most of these things your dry cleaner would not only gladly tell you, but probably wishes you already knew so you wouldn't complain so much. Anyway, here goes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 19:01:24

Unbiased Guidelines to Choosing A Home In Berkeley And Finding The Right Real Estate Agent

When yoursquo;ve decided to move to the Berkeley area, you need to decide whether yoursquo;re going to rent an apartment or house, ... that you are able to get a home or apartment that accepts pets, as well as finding out about dry cleaners ... Servicesbr-Child Carebr-Contractorsbr-Moversbr-Interior Designbr-Garden Informationbr-Dry Cleaners [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 06:07:09

Get a reusable dry cleaning bag

So you’ve already picked out an eco-friendly dry cleaner, and dutifully take back your hangers for reuse ... , made with recycled cotton duck, organic cotton accents, and a leather label made using textile waste ... the contact info of your dry cleaner. Photos via Jendarling, Reusenik, and Green Garmento [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 00:48:52

Service Providers Need To Look For Options

If there is one thing that is clear because of the worldwide economic crunch, ... or bushes trimmed? Call a gardener. Need the house cleaned? Call a house cleaner. Need to have a light ... beauty salons, dry cleaners, landscapers, dog walkers, nanny services and restaurants experienced [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 07:29:47

What Toxins Lurk Beneath Your House? (And Do You Want to Know?)

Wendy Bounds writes: cleaners Last week, I wrote about a growing industry of so-called “green dry cleaners” who use alternatives to the cleaning solvent perchloroethylene — or “perc” — which has been labeled a probable human carcinogen. The EPA is currently requiring a phase-out of perc at cleaners located in residential buildings [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 16:51:18

Happy. New. Year.

There's been loads of stuff I've been wanting to write about but being as how THEY WON'T LET ME BLOG AT WORK, it's difficult to remember it all ... leather with a pink ribbon book mark, it is proving slightly inferior.  It doesn't have a tube map ... , there are spaces for Domestic Help, Florist, Dry Cleaner and Nanny.  Sorry, my mistake, the Nanny [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 23:23:42

Fed Up

Am feeling a bit down today, through a combination of the cold weather and the fact that my money had just run out and I don't get paid until Friday ( ... as no one else was going to!), put my work trousers in the dry cleaners, got new recycling bags from the estate ... to pay to my debtors to clear the debt sooner. What I need is a hug, or a cumfy night [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:48:00

Spotless

Jump to Comments   A few weekends ago I was visiting a Christmas church festival in our city ... , spot, or blemish. Her jewelry complemented perfectly. As I looked at her, I realized that she didn’ ... that despite expensive dry cleaners can never be ironed out.   I hope I always hold on to a few of my spots… [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 15:37:57

Customer Service 101

The Customer Is Always… I’m not one of those customers, I’m really not.  You know the type ... from irrational, if on occasion abusive, client behavior. Which is why, during a recent disaster with my dry ... they just had a bad day. I Can’t Help You Short version: dry cleaner lost a pair of new pants [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 04:23:32

Memorable

So I was telling my friend Sue that I wanted to be memorable for a new prospective client meeting today, and I should wear my cape ... m kicking myself right now. And the cream pants were at the dry cleaners (why? I haven’t worn them ... . I do have on nice jewelry (but not TOO nice, kwim?) And that’lll have to do. But then I went [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:14:03

No No Nooo!

So unfair. I'm getting sick. It's just not fair. I've had a great run of health as of late, this is no time for me to be sick. Fucking hell! ... her I was going to the dry cleaners for a carpet shampooer this afternoon so not to worry. She looked ... know everyone and then I was sick on her carpet! I was so embarrassed! She was obviously fuming [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 09:58:52

Will house chores return with the recession?

One of the concept many trendspotters have raved about in the past decade is the idea that time has replaced money as the symbol of status ... expansion, many beauty salons, dry cleaners, landscapers, dog walkers, nanny services and restaurants ... which turns house chores into a World of Warcraft style game where family members earn points [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 09:03:05

You Know You Have Been Drinking Too Much When…

Mosquitoes catch a buzz after attacking you. You fall off the floor. You lose arguments with inanimate objects ... seen through the bottom of a glass. The shrubbery’s drunk from too frequent watering. You wake ... of your liver in the shape of a bottle. Yet again, dry cleaner employees greet you with, “Hey, it’s Vomit Man!” [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 12:00:51

Day of Beauty

The beautiful people were out today.. Angelina Jolie looks gorgeous wearing Akris in Berlin for the premiere of Benjamin Button. One has to wonder though: Was that outfit at the dry-cleaners on Sunday??? Why didn’t she look like THIS at the Golden Globes? Just wondering. And my dream, my wish, Daniel Craig. Perfection [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 00:21:31

On delegating

I brought the "blanket" (lay-over) of my sofa to the dry-cleaner last week. I just got it back, but it has shrunk a lot ... . The cash value of the blanket is not so much, it is ony that it is an important part of my sofa ... is insofar big as there is no substitute. I don't want to buy a new sofa because of a few spots or a lay [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 09:34:00

Something for Republicans to Think About

Apparently the White House is cool to the idea of a bridge loan to the automakers. So are many Republicans on the Hill. How many people--including auto workers, but also including the businesses that serve them (e.g. groceries, restaurants, dry cleaners, mechanics, etc.)--live in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 23:54:58

I’m giving one of my friends, my Companion in Madness, this book for Christmas ... carpet by Lola B’s card making activities, and liking the peace of the tidy room.Meeting the new Turkish ... memory of his cousin’s wife who used to work in the dry cleaners, and with whom I have enjoyed many [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 23:58:41

Daily Dose: 9/16/08

» AsianWeek Market Report » Natalie Coughlin Headlines the 11th Filipinas Magazine Achievement Awards » $54 Million Dollar Lawsuit Against Korean Dry Cleaner Enters Second Round » YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen to Discuss YouTube Era Politics » Bay Area Judges and Groups Ask Governor to Sign Legislation for Civil Court Interpreters » San [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 01:21:56

While You Were Picking Up Your Feather Thong At The Dry Cleaners

Despite the prayers of many a tabloid editor, Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson are reportedly still together following a major New Year’s Eve fight. Which would explain Lindsay’s 2009 Resolution “Stay Lesbian.” Jerry O’Connell and wife Rebecca Romijn-Stamos welcomed to the world the birth of two twin girls named [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 14:41:10

Bonus post free at no extra charge

And now, for my Historic 150th post, I give you . . . page 123 of the book nearest my hand right now. Why? ... was cruised by a guy at the dry cleaners today.) He sounded like a businessman, a chairman ... me of one of my brother Bob’s favorite perennial jokes: “Excuse me while I draw the drapes” [more...]

Date: 2008-06-10 04:40:38

A Different Approach to Laundry

Yesterday even my tolerance of dog hair on the comforter on our bed had run out. Shaking it outside seemed to have little effect. I didn’t want to take it to the dry cleaner’s because it would cost a lot and we would ... me to “la mujer limpiando los vidrios” (the woman cleaning the windows). For $6.25 she started [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 12:59:00

Batik--Water Soluble and Low Cost

It's been a long time since I got out the fiber dyes...I'd like to get back to it. A new (to me) ... , but if you need to really get every last bit of wax resist out of your project, dry-cleaning chemicals are the way to go. Here in the country, there are no dry-cleaners, and no shipping or delivery [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 17:07:00

Martha Stewart’s new puppy

Martha Stewart’s new puppy Because of my extensive domestic proclivities I am often compared to Martha Stewart. OK ... for her enterprises. She wrote: Host Dry Carpet Cleaner Shaker Pack. This all-natural product is made ... , we just sprinkle the sawdust-like material over the stain and gently brush it in…. I’ve used Host Clean [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 18:02:25

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Two Lovers Official Trailer And Poster

Trailer for the romance/drama, premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2008, directed by James Gray, ???Two Lovers??? ... at his father???s dry-cleaners. His concerned parents try to set him up with Sandra, the sweet and caring ... a ravishing young woman he???s never seen before. Michelle recently moved into an apartment [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 23:25:22

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Two Lovers Second Trailer

The second trailer for the romance/drama ???Two Lovers,??? starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow and Vinessa Shaw has been released. [ ... part-time at his father’s dry-cleaners. His concerned parents try to set him up with Sandra (Vinessa ... ) recently moved into an apartment in his family’s building - an apartment paid for by the wealthy married [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 20:11:04

I had a dream

Did you know you can plant wire clothes hangers and they grow up to become bicycles? I had a pretty odd dream last night ... with the wire clothes hangers you get from the dry cleaner. Frame, handlebars, wheels, cranks, even ... , but Mrs Fritz rode around on it with no problems at all. When I awoke, I didn't find any wire [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:03:24

Chelsea Knows Best…

November 29, 2008 at 1:43 am | In Rant, Television | Tags: Chelsea Handler “Happy Black Friday, The biggest shopping day of the year! ... to drop it off at the dry cleaners… This is the most ridiculous day of the year. People start lining ... to Forever 21, where my baby björn (??) was split in half and he was launched into a bin of furry jewelry [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 07:43:19

The Hidden Costs Behind the Free Gifts

I was thinking about this as I marched through Walgreen's picking up several packages of Double A and Triple A batteries. ( ... --it's an expensive and welcome gift. BUT. . .Who knew all the hidden costs? For example--the drapes ... years on this planet and didn't know that dry cleaners charge by the pleat for draperies? Two sets [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 22:41:00

The Last Full Week

of maternity leave, that is. Yup, next Thursday at this time my ass will be back in an ergonomically questionable swivel chair attempting to sort ... to the world of blazers and button downs and other such things that involve either dry cleaners ... the boys goodbye and leave the house by 8:30 AM and go somewhere just to practice leaving the house [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 16:01:17

Understanding Eco-Dry Cleaning

When you are attending events and functions, chances are you would get your best dress and suit to wear ... in the usual washing machine. You have to turn to the specialist cleaners for dry cleaning though their methods have been hit by the chemical they use. Perchloroethylene or Perc is applied to garments [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 22:26:41

Frugal Living: Maintaining Your Kitchen Tools

Maintaining what you own can be the best way to save dollars on a daily basis. Like all good frugal living, it does take planning and commitment ... with soap and water. Polish with a stainless steel cleaner and buff dry. So, from your own experience ... don’t want soap in your food. Ugly results in the intestinal tract. 8. Stainless Steel Appliances [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 11:00:46

Happy Holidays—Find a new job

I get grumpy now every time I hear someone say that no, we aren’t in a recession, that everything’s fine. Why? ... . We walked into our long-time favorite dry cleaner’s business just before Christmas, only to find ... gotten any sales at all at our new Etsy and Shop Handmade stores, given how steeply jewelry sales [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 17:51:04

The Christmas Wakening

My brother, Bobby and I, visiting Santa when we were three and four years old. I was never a practical little girl ... from straight pins or something like that at her dry cleaners. I was always eager to work and earn [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 07:01:57

The Scoop on Martha's Pooch

So, turns out that Martha's pooch is as normal a canine as my two pups. The dog, named Sharkey, apparently had an accident . . . you know, an accident ... on her sisal carpet. She blogged about it, in a really humorous entry here.Her trick for cleaning up? Host Dry Carpet Cleaner Shaker Pack. I need to pick [more...]

Date: 2008-07-22 04:29:00

Is outsourcing unwinding?

Thanks to the Deputy Headmistress for pointing out this article that says the trend towards outsourcing everyday chores is now beginning to reverse ... of explosive expansion, many beauty salons, dry cleaners, landscapers, dog walkers, nanny services [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 20:06:40

The Peanut Turns Four!

Dear Peanut, Happy 4th birthday! This is the first birthday that you've eagerly anticipated in advance ... , the dry cleaner or one of your little friends, you howl with delight and immediately run to greet them ... on a pair of jeans, your Timberlands, and a leather jacket. Whenever you wear that outfit, you always [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 17:30:08

El Pelon a Cinder!

I awoke this morning to read my daily Boston.com stroll to find out with shock, ... in a fire that claimed five other eateries and a dry cleaners. The area, at Peterborough ... to train there because it was the right mix of urban, residential and commercial.The El Pelon t-shirts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:32:00

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