Does your closet ever look like this after a while?
Or more realistically, does it look like this?
Anyway, I pretty much don’t get any of my clothes dry cleaned, but K gets a lot of his shirts pressed, so we end up with a mess of wire hangers every couple months.
These hangers cannot be recycled, and if you can’t think of anything else to do with them, they can get quite annoying.
Did you know you can just take them back to the dry cleaners?
I have brought a bag to the closest dry cleaner (one that K does not even use) a number of times and have never had a problem. They always accept them!
You can avoid the wire hanger overflow by following a number of steps:
- Don’t purchase “Dry Clean Only” clothes
- Refuse the hangers from the dry cleaner
- If you do take them, reuse them!
- If you cannot, bring them back!
Love this! To go a step further, I use Pressbox (https://myaccount.usepressbox.com/register?promo=CR181571), which lets me put in a note each time I drop something off for cleaning that I don’t want a plastic bag – and they give you a reusable bag to bring again and again! Has made zero waste dry cleaning in Chicago so much easier for me.
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That’s awesome!
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wire hangers are the requires hanger for most large baby/kid consignment sales here in New York. I have to stalk the dry cleaners to grab them when available because the consignment sales around here are HUGE. It’s also a great way to de-clutter and make a little extra money.
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That’s pretty cool!
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