Saving money on dry cleaning is not the dry cleaner bill, transportation, and time cost. You have to spend money on the product and energy costs for your dryer. But they are only a fraction of what you would spend without DIY. However, the big savings come from your clothes being more sustainable. Read what you save and spend.
- Dry Cleaning Your Jeans?
- What finally convinced me to start dry clean our jeans
- Do Dryel Dry Cleaner Pens Work?
- Protect your clothes – dry clean them to save
- Dry Cleaning Comparison: How Dryel dry cleaning saves money
- Lessons learned: Dry cleaning at home protects clothes at a fraction of the cost at the dry cleaner’s
- Where to Buy Dryel At-Home Dry Cleaning Kits
Disclosure: Sponsored post. I am proud to be a Dryel ambassador. Dryel did not endorse this post. I wrote it entirely myself and it represents my own 100% honest opinion. This post has affiliate links.
Dry Cleaning Your Jeans?
When you are a regular reader of fashion magazines you always find the following recommendation
Protect your investment in a dark blue jeans by having it dry-cleaned.
I always thought something like
- “Great tip gals, but who on Earth has the money for the dry cleaning bill?”
- “Who has the money for dry cleaning jeans has enough money to buy just a new pair when the old one is dirty!” or
- “My dry cleaning bill will be higher than the price of my jeans in no time!”
The editors of the magazines argue that your jeans wouldn’t fade so fast. Moreover, the jeans would last longer than when you wash them. I totally agree with these arguments. And, yes their statement is even backed by science! But up to recently, the cost-benefit analysis was in favor for washing my jeans inside out.
Well, recently, I changed my mind. I now dry clean my jeans. Why?
Dryel dry cleaning saves money.
What Finally Convinced Me to Start Dry Clean Our Jeans
A kid had spilled vegetable oil at dinner party, we were invited to. At home, I had tried to remove the spot by washing the jeans, but failed two times to get rid of the spot.
My husband was about to trash his favorite jeans. I didn’t want to throw out his nearly brand new perfect pair of jeans and decided to give dry cleaning a try. As a result, I put it in the dry cleaning basket. My plan was to add it to the load the next time I would dry clean with Dryel. When you are a regular on the blog, you know that I became one of the few Dryel Ambassadors.
Last week, Dryel had sent me a package of their brand new dry cleaning pens. Of course, I wanted to try them out immediately. The only thing that had a serious spot was that said jeans. Therefore, I treated the jeans with the Dryel pen. Guess, what? The spot was gone after drying! The jeans was saved. I was really impressed that the Dryel dry cleaning pen already removed the spot that soap and water were unable to remove.
Do Dryel Dry Cleaner Pens Work?
I can only recommend the Dryel dry cleaning pen! You can buy the Dryel dry cleaning pens on HSN. You can also find the link when you go to the official Dryel Facebook page.
Tip: Always carry a Dryel dry cleaning pen in your purse.
A spot is never in style except for Dalmatian spots.
Protect your clothes – dry clean them to save
This post also shows the last outfit with these beautiful sweatpants. Why? Because I made the mistake not to dry-clean them!
When you are a regular reader of fashion magazines you always find variations of the following advice
Protect your investment basics by having it dry-cleaned.
While I recently started to dry clean even our jeans to keep them from fading, I didn’t dry-clean this favorite delicate items, namely my marsala satin athleisure pants. I ruined them in the washer (see photo below)! 🙁
Dry Cleaning Comparison: Saving Money on Dry Cleaning
This accident made me think again about the magazines’ advice. Today I would give the following advice to my couple of weeks younger self, i.e., to me prior to washing my favorite summer pants,
Protect your favorite delicate clothes by dry-cleaning them, even if the care instruction doesn’t suggest dry-cleaning.
Sure, these pants hadn’t been very expensive. However, I had them worn only five times. This means that the cost-per-wear was still about $5!
At home dry-cleaning would have cost me less than a dollar! Not to forget that water and soap also cost money! This means I could still wear my fav pants, if only, if only, I had added them to my at-home dry cleaning pile! Memo to myself:
Dryel dry cleaning saves money not only because it is cheaper than the dry cleaner!
I’d better followed my timeless laundry maintenance tips.
Lessons Learned: Dry Cleaning at Home Protects Clothes at a Fraction of the Cost at the Dry Cleaner’s
Of course, saving money on dry cleaning provides more sustainability for your clothes and is only a fraction of the dry cleaner costs. Furthermore, you have more freedom what to wear when. Actually, DIY at-home dry cleaning with Dryel costs less than a dollar per item! Never forget in doing the math that water and soap also cost money!
Protect your investment in a great pair of jeans by dry cleaning them at home.
Where to Buy Dryel At-home Cleaning Kits
You can buy the Dryel at-home dry cleaning Dryel Starter Kit and the Dryel pen for dry-cleaning-on-the-go at most local grocery stores in the US and selected stores in Canada. You can also order the Dryel products online at HSN, Target and Amazon just to mention a few. The same is true for the Dryel at-home dry-cleaning Refill Kit.
If you never tried at-home dry cleaning see this tutorial how to dry clean at home.
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Photos of me: G. Kramm
Photos of Dryel products: N. Mölders
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