Classic Cleaners Limited Time Offer – January 2 – January 22, 2011

Pack a Sack – $4 off 4 pieces or more

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia lists a number of reasons why businesses offer discounts:

• to increase short-term sales
• to reward behaviors that benefit the business
• to reward valuable customers

In a way, all three reasons hold true for Classic Cleaners’ limited time offers. Of course, since all our customers are valuable, we want to reward them all in 2011, knowing that anything that benefits our customers, benefits our business,

Wikipedia refers to cumulative quantity discounts, “price reductions based on the quantity purchases over a set period of time.” That description fits the Classic Rewards program at Classic Cleaners: For every $200 you spend within a six month period, you get $10 off your next order.

Packing a sack is a great way to save money on dry cleaning – or of making the most of a mid-day meal. “Like a cleaver chops lettuce, packing your lunch will shred your food bill,” assers Charlotte Mielziner of Helium, Inc.. “Just packing your own lunch can relate to a $1,300 savings years or a nice vacation on a sunny beach.”

To Hoosiers like us, that sunny beach doesn’t sound half bad.  Neither does saving lots of money by packing a sack for our next dry cleaning order!

by Reb of the Classic Cleaners blog team

“Pants are one of the most common types of clothing worn by both men and women,” remarks Buzzle.com. Referred to as trousers in the UK, Buzzle.com adds, pants are also known as kex, kegs, slacks, strides, and breeches.

Whatever you call them, with hundreds of thousands of pairs of pants coming through our doors every year, at Classic Cleaners, we know precisely what the challenge is with pants – the crease. While our customers specify their pants-pressing preferences, no one has ever requested more than one crease per leg.  More often than you might suppose, however, poor pressing at home or at a former dry cleaning establishment has resulted in two, or even three, crease marks on each leg of an unfortunate pair of pants! (A second sort of damage we see is scorching, resulting from holding an iron for too long a time on one spot in order to lock in the crease.)

Pants tend to fall into two general categories: flat front or pleated. Both kinds come in a variety of styles, with or without cuffs, pocketless or with a variety of pocket types.  Susan Wright of New Mexico State University tells it like it is when it comes to pants: “Gathers or pleats at the waistline emphasize a protruding abdomen,” she says, adding “Fitted legs are unflattering for the too-thin as well as for the too-full figure.”

At Classic Cleaners we don’t offer fashion advice.  Some customers prefer flat front pants, some pleated.  There are two things no one wants, however:

• Discoloration of the fabric around the pleat mark
• More than one pleat per leg

At Classic Cleaners, therefore, what a “no crease” pant request means is that no press is put down on that pair of pants.  Instead, the pants are hand-pressed through the center of each leg.

Whatever your pleat preference when it comes to each pair of pants, from khakis to tuxedos, at Classic Cleaners, what you ask for is what you get!

by Reb of the Classic Cleaners blog team

CLASSIC CLEANERS’ DECEMBER SPECIAL

25% OFF TABLE LINENS

Just reading through the list of washing instructions offered on http://www.tableclothdesigns.com/washing/index.htm is enough to make me run for professional help!

For 34 different linen brands listed on the website, including names from Ashford to Wellington, the instructions include 110º water temperature and avoiding detergents with high alkaline levels.  For 37 other brands, with names from Athena to Verona, the wash temperature should be 80º – 100º.  For yet 39 other brands, from Anchors Aweigh to Zebra, water temperature is to be less than 140º, and for certain others, including Dazzle-do, there is a warning not to iron or mangle the cloth.

With Thanksgiving just past and winter holiday celebrations fast approaching, it’s the perfect time to plan your elegant table. That’s why, at Classic Cleaners, the December special is table linens.

As Indianapolis Star “Do-It-Yourself” Shelly Miller Leer comments, “Nothing dresses things up like a white tablecloth and tapered candles…”.Miller suggests using 5 round, colored placemats (also included in the Classic Cleaners special offer for table linens) lined up in the center of your table with spray-painted miniature pumpkins placed on the mats as decoration.

Whether you’re planning white tablecloth with colored napkins and place mats, or favor bright holiday colors in table linens for your party or family meal, you will love the results of Classic Cleaners’ advanced cleaning and pressing process.  We’re very proud of our large professional press, something most dry cleaners do not have.  Even with the best instruction manual, the results would be impossible to replicate at home.

A warning of our own: Don’t wait to bring in tablecloths and napkins that have the inevitable stains from Thanksgiving festivities. This is indeed a case where time is of the essence. At Classic Cleaners we guarantee to remove 100% of stains or the cleaning is free, but that guarantee applies only to fresh stains!

At Classic Cleaners, we want do do our part to ensure each of our customers can set an elegant table for the holidays!

By Reb of the Classic Cleaners blog team

While Classic Cleaners dry cleaning professionals weren’t actually in attendance at the November 9th Job Fair at the Hamilton County 4-H Exhibition Center in Noblesville, they had a strong presence at the event. 

That’s because many of the perfectly pressed and starched shirts and freshly pressed business suits worn by the hundreds of job applicants – and the interviewers representing their employers – sported that Classic Cleaners professional “look”.

“In an interview,” according to Virginia Tech’s Division of Student Affairs, “your attire plays a supporting role.  Appropriate attire supports your image as a person who takes the interview process seriously and understands the nature of the industry in which you are trying to become employed.”

Classic Cleaners knows.  That’s why, throughout the year, Classic Cleaners in Noblesville and other locations act as a collection site, accepting interview-appropriate suits and blouses on hangars.  Where needed, the clothes are dry cleaned, then delivered to the Indianapolis Dress For Success boutique.

Career.vt.edu offers important tips about interview clothing:

• Conservative colors (navy, dark green, brown, black)
• Solids, rather than plaids or patterns
• Clean and well-pressed
• No dangling threads or sales tags

At Classic Cleaners, we’re in the business of creating that critical first impression that helps applicants actually land jobs!

 By Reb of the Classic Cleaners blog team