Savings: Dryel Is a Fraction of the Cost of Dry Cleaners

This post explains why Dryel dry cleaning saves money. It’s not just the costs for the dry cleaner. Read what you really save and spend.

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Dry cleaning your jeans?

When you are a regular reader of fashion magazines you always find the following recommendation

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 stement 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?

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.

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.

Stylist tip: Always carry a Dryel dry cleaning pen in your purse.

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

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)! 🙁

DIY dry cleaning saves money

This accident made me think again about the magazines’ advice again. Today I would give the following advice to my couple of weeks younger self, i.e., to me prior to washing and thereby ruining my favorite summer pants,

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!

Facit: At-home dry cleaning saves money! Big time!

If I had dry-cleaned them at home with Dryel, it would have cost me less than a dollar to do so! 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:

Lessons learned: Dry cleaning at home protects clothes at a fraction of the cost at the dry cleaner’s

Of course, dry cleaning at home saves money as it is cheaper than going to the dry cleaner. Not to mention the time that it saves to go to the dry cleaner twice to drop the items off and to pick them up. At home dry-cleaning also provides the freedom to wear what you want when you want it. I learned it the hard way that DIY dry cleaning can also save money by protecting your favorite clothes from

• Fading in the wash,
• Being dyed by bleeding fabrics,
• But also from being torn when spinning, which obviously had been the fate of my favorite summer pants. 🙁

That made me think again about the magazine’s recommendations and I started doing the math. 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! This means I can afford to protect my investment in a great pair of dark jeans from fading and delicates from getting ripped apart. In addition when not washing blue denim, I save my other other laundry from getting blued by accident. I am now dry cleaning my and my hubby’s jeans.

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. See the Dryel official webpage for retailers. 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.

Do you dry clean your jeans? Do you DIY or bring them to the dry cleaner? Have you already tried DIY dry cleaning? If not, here is a tutorial how to dry clean at home. It’s super easy! Do you dry clean your delicate or favorite items? Do you dry-clean at home or do you bring your clothes to the dry cleaner? Have you already tried at-home dry cleaning with Dryel?

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