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- Badgers Books in Worthing
- only for black/white tie clothing
DavidC | 15.03.25 - 7:41 a.m. | #
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I never buy clothes that need dry cleaning. Far too much faff.
Caroline | 15.03.25 - 7:53 a.m. | #
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I regularly use the family-run Archers Express Cleaners in Sevenoaks. Friendly chat and good service are always guaranteed.
My favourite shops are intact; I am lucky to live somewhere where independent traders are valued both by customers and the local authorities.
Waterhouse | 15.03.25 - 7:58 a.m. | #
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Caroline other items around the house may also need dry cleaning ie curtains. Our living room curtains were dry cleaned several years ago and we were charged £90. Our dry cleaners will also remove and rehang the curtains after cleaning.
Sara | 15.03.25 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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Nature of my work means I still need to occasionally wear suits that require dry cleaning.
I've noticed that since I moved to Uganda, whilst the need to wear a suit has decreased, the impact of the dust and the heat means my suits are being dry cleaned just as often due to an increase in the wear:clean ratio.
Friar Sven | 15.03.25 - 8:37 a.m. | #
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Let all the fat dogs in! Discrimination against the pups, I tell ya! Poor puppers!
Suz | 15.03.25 - 8:44 a.m. | #
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Our local dry cleaners also does alterations and repairs, which is what I used them for recently.
Trevor S | 15.03.25 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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No longer attending an office on a daily basis, and with a more casual approach on the occasions when I do, I rarely wear a suit these days. So a much reduced need to use a dry cleaners. I think there is still (an independent) one in town, but I have to admit I'm not sure.
I did once have a suit stolen from a dry cleaners though - took some time to get some compensation from them.
Man of Kent | 15.03.25 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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My local dry cleaners shut down during the pandemic and never reopened.
It's a shame but it seems more working from home, plus a more casual approach to office attire in general is the root is a significant factor.
Hadders | 15.03.25 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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I haven't used a dry cleaner for decades but I'd be sad if my one closed
NickW | 15.03.25 - 9:16 a.m. | #
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I misread your introduction, thinking you were aiming for exactly 100 comments, rather than "at least". That would have required collaboration to prevent overshoot resulting from two people writing what they both thought was the 100th comment at the same time.
Malcolm of Kent | 15.03.25 - 9:41 a.m. | #
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As a callow youth I used to get my denim jeans dry cleaned. I doubt they were a premium brand - probably Brutus - and now I have no idea why I thought dry cleaning was necessary.
Frank F | 15.03.25 - 9:50 a.m. | #
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Like Man of Kent, I rarely wear a suit nowadays - weddings and funerals. I used to wear them more when I was in a customer facing role, but now a combination of working from home most days and working at a software company with a casual dress code means it's jeans and tshirts.
I do take some things to my local dry cleaner. It is one of only two local businesses that is still cash only, the other being my barber.
Greg | 15.03.25 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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My dry cleaner retired and his daughter has taken over the lease to run a cricket coaching business. Howzat!
MOTB | 15.03.25 - 10:08 a.m. | #
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Our nearest dry cleaners closed last year when the owners retired. It is now a kebab shop. Would prefer a cricket business!
Lucy | 15.03.25 - 11:41 a.m. | #
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Our local dry cleaners closed when the owner retired back to Greece. Next closest is another family run business whose owners look close to retiring
gruntbuggly 💯 | 15.03.25 - 11:47 a.m. | #
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No idea where my nearest dry cleaners is… which shows exactly how often I use it. Certainly not in the 9 years since I moved here.
Nick | 15.03.25 - 1:13 p.m. | #
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Maybe the sign is laying the groundwork for an April Fools joke.
Wild Edric | 15.03.25 - 2:06 p.m. | #
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In the 80's as a callow not-quite youth I used my local dry cleaners a lot, for trousers and occasionally jackets. In the end the kind man said "You know, those clothes really need a good wash".
Bob L-S | 15.03.25 - 2:40 p.m. | #
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Most clothes seem to be machine washable these days and, according to a Radio 4 programme I heard the other day, 99% of UK households have a washing machine. My last visit to a dry cleaners was over 20 years ago. And that smell is rather obnoxious
David | 15.03.25 - 2:41 p.m. | #
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I regularly use my local dry cleaners for cleaning pillows and duvets, as they don't fit in my washing machine* and I don't have a launderette nearby.
*The pillows do fit but it's an unsatisfactory experience overall.
Jonathan Wadman | 15.03.25 - 3:26 p.m. | #
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My nearest dry cleaners also offer an alteration and repair service, and that's what I mostly use them for.
Chris L | 15.03.25 - 5:46 p.m. | #
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I still dry clean my shirts. There are at least three dry cleaners in walking distance here, I generally go to the one by the supermarket.
Lmm | 15.03.25 - 11:32 p.m. | #
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More prosaically, in terms of businesses closing, the current tenant of the green cabbies shelter in St. John's Wood decided to pack it in on Friday. (Writeup in Camden New Journal if interested, after my tip off a week ago).
MilesT | 16.03.25 - 9:46 a.m. | #
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Someone is opening a dry cleaners near us in blackhorse road.... maybe they are relocating.
It's 2 doors down from where an overpriced organic food shop opened replacing a dry cleaners.
Alistair Twin | 16.03.25 - 2:58 p.m. | #
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The Crafty Cobblers dry cleaners in the Roman Road is also closing the coming week - another longstanding family business. I wonder whether the two are connected? There has been a big fall-off in trade since Covid, obviously, as people stop going to the office, and maybe people have had enough.
Tim Armstrong | 16.03.25 - 6:55 p.m. | #
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The Pizza Hut in Cambridge is being demolished in the near future. I'll miss it very much!
Ewan James | 16.03.25 - 11:28 p.m. | #
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