by Claire
Sunday nights are always about setting out my clothing for Monday and mentally preparing outfits for the rest of the week. This is a habit that goes back to my Catholic high school days where I wore a uniform and when I got to college I had the HARDEST time figuring out wardrobe in the morning! Now..if for some reason I skip this routine at night and have to put something together in the morning…look out…it derails the entire day! I don’t have a ridiculous amount of options either–in fact, most people are surprised by my limited wardrobe that I do a lot with by mixing and matching. I set everything out—and if I don’t I scan on it and can’t fall asleep! I’ve instilled the same thing in the kids and now they make sure they have something out for the next day.
As I prepare to do this now, I see that I am faced with a dreaded trip to the dry cleaner. I am now much better about checking the labels before making a clothing purchase to avoid dry clean garments entirely but some of my more professional selections require dry cleaning. This dry cleaning industry baffles me. It bugs me that they don’t have to have their prices posted AND don’t get me started on women’s clothing costing so much more than men’s. I just don’t see a huge difference between my standard button down dress shirts and my husband’s dress shir-except mine is smaller so it should cost less! And…wouldn’t a skirt be easier to dry clean than men’s slacks? Why is the skirt always more expensive?! Is it like this everywhere in the country? I’ve tried the $1.29 sort of places and sometimes they are good and other times they are bad…and then there was the one that hit the news here that just shut down and customers could not get their clothing. I try to use coupons when I can but either way–it is an expensive option. Has anyone used those home dry cleaning kits? Dryel I think is one brand.
Anyway, back to the closet…I’ll find something for sure but my stack of black slacks (can you ever really have too many black slacks?) need to be dry cleaned!!
