It seems I have so many. I’m not sure if I create more than I need or if I suffer from an average amount. Either way I think I have way too many. It might be that I over analyze, therefore prolonging the solution. Take for example. Last month I got (in my opinion) ripped off by my cleaners. I have used the same cleaners for over 10 years. They know me by name and I have always appreciated it when they greeted me using my name. I have been a loyal customers taking all of our dress shirts there to be cleaned and pressed and I use their tailor for all my alterations. Until. I took them 3 pair of pants to have them hemmed. The sweet white haired lady pinned them up for me and said give her two weeks. Ok. I agreed that I would pay her 10 dollars for each pant. I don’t know if that is high or not, but I like these people so I was ok with it. Well 6 weeks later my pants are ready. I go home and 2 out of the 3 are perfect but then the last one… I am still stepping on. So, I take them back and say “this pant is still way to long”. To may amazement she took them and then said two more weeks and 10 more dollars. I was like… “ahh, what? I have to pay again…after having to wait way too long”? She said “Well, they will have to be hemmed again”. I agreed to pay 2 more dollars knowing I probably won’t see those pants until spring. I left irritated and vowing to never use them again. But there’s my dilemma. I don’t know where to go to have our shirts cleaned. I have one major requirement. It has to be an “in-house” service. I don’t want to use a place that sends off the clothes to be cleaned. And, really most of the cleaners around here do so. For the past 4 weeks I have been driving around trying to pick a cleaners, wondering is it a convenient location , a good price, and will they use my name? Oh well. I know what you’re thinking, if this is my biggest dilemma I should stop my whining and start ironing. I tried that ( ironing not , not whining). And, I would rather go back to those thieves. Ugggh.
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HAHA, sorry, I'm shocked at the time it takes for them to hem your pants and the price! My lord. I had three pairs of pants MADE in less that two weeks here, and those three whole pairs of linen pants cost me a total of $10! A hem costs about $1. Wow, I'm going to have to learn to sew before I move back home...why don't you wash your own dress shirts, but pay someone privately to press them for you?
That has crossed my mind. But who?
why don't you just buy pants that fit in the first place
We don't really use cleaners unless it is a special occasion. I did learn to sew in high school, but my machine won't do jeans. I just buy them to fit. Good luck finding a cleaners!
These days almost all pants are too long for me. I have learned if I want to own pants that actually fit me( reg. is too long and petite is to short), I have them hemmed.
And, with the amount of shirts that Tim wears that need to be ironed I don't even have time to iron them. However, I do iron the ones that have linen in them because they are way to expensive to have pressed.
haha, i have the opposite problem- i REFUSE to take anything to a tailor. I have a pair of pants sitting next to my bed that i need to pin and hem- they've been there since thanksgiving.
Last time i went to the cleaners was...not here...not MN...not Memphis...It must have been in JC- sorry, can't help you there :)
Most dept stores will do alterations for you at the store in a couple days.
And who could iron? How about one of those wonderful college girls who are live in your (other) house for practically nothing?
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