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"You pick up "His" drycleaning? Do you have any?"
I am a costume designer and a mother of two. Sure, I have some dry-clean-only stuff: ball gowns, a suit, and a few blouses and pants. But they don't get worn regularly. I prefer clothes that can stand up to hot water from the dye bath, dust from working on my knees to set hems, safety pins that I stick into my shirt tail during fittings, finger paint, toddler snot, spaghetti sauce, and anything else my day throws at me. Unless I'm on a date, an interview or a conference, I'm pretty much "wash and wear."
My husband, who has a desk job that requires business wear: pressed shirts, ties, sport coats, dress pants, wears dry-clean-only 5 days a week. And since I do enough ironing for my job, I'm happy to have the dry cleaner press his shirts.
Since any given week 90% or more of the dry cleaning is his, and it's much easier to go to the cleaner's without two small kids "helping", he shleps it back and forth himself. Unless I do him a favor, which generally makes his day.
Feel better now?
