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When taking shirts to the dry cleaners - should you get them starched or not?

Posted on 08/03/2019 4:43:09 PM PDT by SamAdams76

Always they ask me when I go to Dry Cleaners.

Do I want then starched or not?


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To: Dacula
"I am a man BTW.................................................I'm a woman BTW"

Please pick one that you were born with.

41 posted on 08/03/2019 5:42:36 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: SamAdams76

Keep up these posts John Adams and I may learn something.


42 posted on 08/03/2019 5:43:54 PM PDT by TheNext (Diversity: Darker Replaces Lighter)
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To: SamAdams76

Yes!! I’m a monthly, also, and you are so right— just a little from everyone would make such a difference!


43 posted on 08/03/2019 5:44:13 PM PDT by Exit148 ( (Loose Change Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!110)
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To: TheNext

There is a big thunderstorm approaching Newtown, CT

I’m going outside to watch it. In my bare feet.


44 posted on 08/03/2019 5:45:50 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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No. Everything on your clothes goes into your skin and bloodstream. That stuff isn’t just “starch.” It’s neurotoxic (but I forget what it is). It’s not good for you at all.


45 posted on 08/03/2019 5:47:00 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Deaf Smith

ROFL he wa just poorly quoting me!


46 posted on 08/03/2019 5:48:45 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: PanzerKardinal; SamAdams76
More importantly, most commercial cleaners use ironing machines. Cleaners take a damp shirt and “smash” it between two hot metal plates. The heat will cause the built up fibers to break after 6 to 10 washings.

Not to mention it also pulverizes those delicate mother-of-pearl (not plastic) buttons.

47 posted on 08/03/2019 5:51:19 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: SamAdams76

“Do I want then starched or not?”

Simple, Sam: Do you want your shirts to hang from hangers or stand straight up by themselves on the closet floor.


48 posted on 08/03/2019 5:52:38 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: SamAdams76
Yes, but take it off first.

I do not get my shirts starched unless there is a compelling reason to do so.

49 posted on 08/03/2019 6:01:01 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: SamAdams76

My BDU’s, when I was a drill instructor, were starched so stiff that I needed a broom handle to push down the sleeves to get my arms in. So, I enjoy a crisp, starched look still to this day.


50 posted on 08/03/2019 6:03:24 PM PDT by sgt_lau (Being tolerant to the most intolerant people on the planet is a losing proposition. Reject islam.)
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To: SamAdams76

Definitely, if you live in a humid environment/location...


51 posted on 08/03/2019 6:06:57 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: SamAdams76

I iron my own shirts; cannot afford the outrageous prices charged by dry cleaners. $7 per shirt I think is the going rate now.


52 posted on 08/03/2019 6:10:45 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: BenLurkin

No. Starch harms the fibers of the fabric in the long run, and prevents the shirt from hanging on your frame properly, IMHO.


53 posted on 08/03/2019 6:22:00 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: SamAdams76

If your shirts are all-cotton, get them starched.

If your shirts are a cotton/polyester blend, ask for light starch.

If your shirts are 100% polyester, give them to Salvation Army and buy some all-cotton shirts.


54 posted on 08/03/2019 6:25:58 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: SamAdams76

how do you say “extra starch” in Urdu?


55 posted on 08/03/2019 6:36:25 PM PDT by orlop9
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To: SamAdams76

I have been dry cleaning my shirts since I was in high school (my Dad ran the cleaners) and for years I was “heavy starch” then changed to “light starch” but for the last decade I have finally decided that “NO starch” is best for me!


56 posted on 08/03/2019 6:38:21 PM PDT by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: SamAdams76

Starched Jeans or shirts will bead water and repel dirt. It also protects my welder husband from burns.


57 posted on 08/03/2019 7:01:17 PM PDT by FoundinTexas
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To: SamAdams76

I always get light starch.


58 posted on 08/03/2019 7:11:51 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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To: SamAdams76

Yes. Get them Simonized.


59 posted on 08/03/2019 7:42:13 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

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60 posted on 08/03/2019 7:44:49 PM PDT by thinden
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