Dry cleaners

From what really happens to your clothes after you drop them off to how to find a dry cleaner you can trust, here's everything you need to know about the dry cleaners.

Inexplicably, some aspects of the street-front retail scene seem forever doomed. Dry cleaners and laundry services are a perfect example of this. Yes, we have seen attempts in the past few decades of creating new concepts around this service by combining laundry with hair salons or coffee shops or other services.

Shauna sent in this interesting tip: My husband wears a dress shirt every day of the work week, and after we married, I quickly realized how much he was spending on dry cleaning each month. After some online research (argostarch.com was helpful), I found that I could starch his shirts at home using this method:

Read the tips below to make your home-sewn garments look so good they could pass for designer items!

Can't figure out what that mystery stain is? Turn to the pros for advice on how to clean tricky items at home—and when dry cleaning is the way to go.

Image detail for when you pull up at the dry cleaners dump a pile of clothes on the counter ...

Have you tried putting dryer sheets in your mailbox? Did the hack work for you?

Can't figure out what that mystery stain is? Turn to the pros for advice on how to clean tricky items at home—and when dry cleaning is the way to go.

On Redhead Mom, we’re talking about dry cleaning at home in your own dryer as part of a sponsored post with Dryel. If you’ve ever taken your clothes to the dry cleaners, you understand …

This is how often you need to dry clean every piece of "dry clean only" clothing you own.