This Will Save You Time and A Lot of Money
May 03 '00
Laundry, ironing and dry cleaning. UGH! Some of the most hated words around if I am correct. Yet, I have found a product that will help make them a little less hated.
First of all, I should you warn you that this epinion is not about a washing machine, but about a product that goes hand in hand with a washer/dryer. I found the product to be too useful and good to not bring to the attention of those who read my epinions.
Here is the scenario that I go through on a weekly basis: Five shirts that need to be dry cleaned and need to be done well. I figure that I spend $7.50 a week getting my shirts cleaned. Not cheap and that figure does not even include slacks, suits, or shirts that get worn for parties. When everything is taken into consideration I figure I spend $9.00 a week, $36 a month, or $432 a year getting clothing dry cleaned. OUCH! Talk about a bill that I would to have decrease. Additionally, I drive about three miles out of the way to go a dry cleaner that will do a good job and not do anything harmful to the shirts.
At any rate, I am not going to iron and starch my dress shirts and suits on my own. So, last weekend my girlfriend brought me a new product from Proctor and Gamble. She has been using Dryel for a few months now and loves it. Essentially, product allows you to skip the trip to the dry cleaners. Yes, I said skip the trip to the dry cleaners.
Here is how it works: You get a box that contains a bag (one that can hold four to five garments), four packets of moisturized padding, four absorbent pads, and one bottle of stain remover. Simply put your dry cleaning through the washing machine and through a half cycle in the dryer. Then you put them (Up to four garments, but I have done five and not had a problem) in the bag and add an absorbent pad and a moist pad. Next you set the dryer to run for 30 minutes and then you remove the bag immediately. The final is to hang the garments as soon as they come out of the bag. Pretty simple.
Ok, so does it really work? Yes and no. I have found that it works very well on slacks and on shirts that have stripes or checkers. You will still see a few small wrinkles in the clothing, but if there is a design the wrinkles are small enough that they are not noticed. For those who are less picky, use it on everything. I have also used it on plain white dress shirts and found that with a quick swath with the iron all the wrinkles were gone. As for women's garmets, well my girlfriend's stuff looks a lot better than mine does. I do not know if this has to do with the fabric or that they a lot of her stuff has designs, but her "dry cleaned" clothing looks wonderful. It likely has something to do with her, as well.
A few particulars: The bag is reuseable and will not catch fire while in the dryer, although it is not recommended for industrial strength dryers. The pads are not reuseable, but replacements can be bought separately.
Finally, the cost analysis that you have been waiting for. The starting package costs $9.95 and the replacements pads cost $7.00. I figure I use one pad each week. Hence, I spend $1.75 a week, $7.00 a month and $84 a year on the pads. I would also guess that you have to replace the bags every other month or so. So figure on an additional $2 every couple of months (I used $2 since the replacement pads also come with the bags). Over the course of a year you will have spent $96 on your dry cleaning and saved countless trips to the dry cleaners. Additionally, you can be a generic version for $2 less per package. I would be leery of the generic version since they may use chemicals that could harm the fabric over the long term.
I would recommend Dryel to anyone who is tired of overpaying for their dry cleaning and would like to avoid the drives to the dry cleaners. I have tried it a few times and my girlfriend has used it numerous times. We both have nothing but positive things to say about it.
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