Dry Cleaners - How Much?

[nutterbutter2010]

How much does it cost you at the dry cleaners?

For me, to get my pants hemmed its $10 - not to bad (I'm short, and have to get almost every pair of pants I buy hemmed. That with the fact that I have to buy new pants a lot because of weight loss = $$$$). I got a dress cleaned, however, and that was $9.75 - I thought that was A LOT! It only had some cat hair on it! Then the other night at dinner, my girls got chocolate on my WHITE COAT, so DH brought it in, and they are charging $20 to clean it!!!! Its only two little spots!

So whats the norm around you?

 

[C.Ann]

Never use them..

Those prices sound awfully high though..

 

[jjarman]

Sounds high to me too. I would price some other places. I only use them for a few pair of my husband's pants. I take his shirts to an ironing place near my office. They iron his 100% cotton shirts much better than I can and it is cheaper than the cleaners.

 

[Angelhalo]

Wish I could help. I don't dry clean anything.

 

[OceanAnnie]

I don't have many things that require dry cleaning. For the few times I need dry cleaning, I use a dry cleaning sheet put out by Woolite, that you can find in the grocery store. The sheets can be used to spot treat too. Just throw the item in the dryer with the sheet and put the setting on low for 20 min.. I think the cost per sheet is 2.99 and it will clean up to 5 things of like color.

If I had a coat, I'd use just the one sheet.

 

[merryweather20]

Coats and dresses are just expensive to get dry cleaned in general. The last dress I brought in was $18 (full length Bridesmaids dress) and the last coat I got cleaned was $12. You might be able to do better by shopping around, but I don't think the prices they quoted were crazy unreasonable.

 

[nutterbutter2010]

The only thing I ever do at the dry cleaners is get pants hemmed. But all of the sudden I needed two things cleaned, and yeah, I was really supprised about the prices.

DH found another place near us, and brought a jacket in to get cleaned. It was a really nice, really expencive jacket he had gotten about 10-12 years ago, and it finally fit again, so he wanted it to look nice. The place he found charged something like $3 - and they ruined it!!!! It was a black jacket with a little shine to it, and by the time they were done, it was a dull grey!!! I guess I'd rather pay the higher prices and have it come out nice, then pay dirt cheap and have them ruin my clothing, but as I said, the prices just seemed SUPER HIGH to me.

 

[merryweather20]

The only thing I ever do at the dry cleaners is get pants hemmed. But all of the sudden I needed two things cleaned, and yeah, I was really supprised about the prices.

DH found another place near us, and brought a jacket in to get cleaned. It was a really nice, really expencive jacket he had gotten about 10-12 years ago, and it finally fit again, so he wanted it to look nice. The place he found charged something like $3 - and they ruined it!!!! It was a black jacket with a little shine to it, and by the time they were done, it was a dull grey!!! I guess I'd rather pay the higher prices and have it come out nice, then pay dirt cheap and have them ruin my clothing, but as I said, the prices just seemed SUPER HIGH to me.

Mens clothes are always cheaper anyway. I think it would cost $4.50 at my place to do a men's jacket. I bet place number 2 would have charged alot more than $3 each for the ladies items you mentioned.

 

[momrek06]

The prices here in the OC are absolutely ridiculous. DH needs all his clothes dry cleaned for work.

Last summer, I bought a pair of shorts at Target. Loved them. They cost $19.99. The zipper broke on them. I loved these shorts, instead of taking them back I took them to the d.c. for repair...."how much" I asked.
$25.00 for a new zipper. I looked at the man and said "$25.00", the shorts did not even cost that much.

Well I proceeded to look around. Finally found a little shop, lady was a seamstress. I asked "how much", she said $5.00. I paid her before I left the shop and got her to write on my receipt "paid in full".....I was worried when I went to pick them up someone else would be working there and charge me more.

I have a armchair in my den from IKEA. I took the slip cover off for dry cleaning. $60.00.

DH and I have only been in the OC one year. Everything is so costly here.

 

[C.Ann]

For hemming and such you're much, much better off finding a seamstress that does this out of their own home.. My mom used to do it and I have a friend that has done it for 40 years.. Prices are much lower and you get quality work..

 

[DMickey28]

I brought a comforter down for dry cleaning in Coral Springs Florida and it was just shy of $50. I thought that was super HIGH.

DH just brought a suit, sport coat and shirt to the dry cleaners here and it was $20. We typically don't dry clean much. I got a coupon in the mail the other day for 50% off my whole order so we are stock piling jackets and things that we haven't had dry cleaned in a while that need it and going to bring it down soon!1