Ugh! My phone says it’s 36 degrees outside and a cold rain is falling. We haven’t had cold weather in weeks. In fact, where I live, this Fall is one of the warmest in years. Maybe that’s about to change? I’ve been too busy to follow the weather and have become used to the recent balmy temperatures. I’m not prepared and, of course, I have an important business meeting early tomorrow morning for which I can’t be late. Ugh! I haven’t changed my closets over from warm weather to cold so now I’m going to have to dig my sweaters, hats and gloves out of the attic and my skirts, dresses and pants out of a closet where I keep my hanging out of season clothes. I don’t have enough time to take them to the dry cleaners and I don’t want the outfit I choose to wear to smell like it’s been sitting in a plastic trash bag for six months. Ugh. I can spray them with perfume. It’s not an ideal solution and is probably an unwise call for a business meeting. Ugh. Why didn’t I prepare better? Ugh. Time is not on my side. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh!
Wait a second … I have Dryel! Once again, this at-home dry cleaner will come to my rescue (and yours!) I’m a Dryel ambassador and the company was kind enough to send me complimentary product so, time out guys, my winter clothes need to be Dryel-d.
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What a great – and time-saving – way Dryel is to freshen clothes that haven’t been worn in a few months. My hats, gloves and scarves smell fresh and clean and look as good as new. (I’ve even used Dryel on a tres expensive Chanel scarf. Read about that here! Plus, if you’re short on time in the morning and can’t sashay into work at 11 a.m., press Dryel into service and it’ll get you out of the house, with freshly laundered clothes. All it takes is half an hour in the dryer for a full cleaning or 15 minutes to freshen. I can put up the sweater and scarf I intend to wear that day before I shower and by the time I’m done, so are my clothes! It’s such a great morning time-saver.
I have a favorite sweater that I wear to death. I’m loathe to part with it, even for the couple of days it’s spent at the dry cleaners. It’s my go-to sweater that, depending on how I style it, works for all but the most formal occasions. It’s casual with a pair of jeans and sneakers or low boots. It does dressy with a statement necklace, skirt, tights, heels and fashionable clutch and it can go to a business meeting with a scarf, black pants and pumps. It’s perfection but, I admit, can smell kinda stale when I wear it too many days in a row. It retains the scent of my various perfumes and is a magnet for cigarette smoke. (I’m a reformed smoker and the smell is particularly offensive to me.) It has even picked up the smell of cooking, especially when what’s cooking is being fried. That happened at my family’s holiday party last year and, had it not been for Dryel, I’d have smelled like potato latkes. (Not a bad thing but not exactly Chanel No. 5 either!) Of course, I wanted to wear the sweater to a fashion event the following day I
Dryel-d it the following morning and bye-bye fried oil smell, hello freshness! And, I saved about $5.00, the cost of dry cleaning a sweater at my local cleaners.
Never heard of Dryel? Well, let me tell you a bit about it. Dryel is an at home dry cleaner that uses your dryer’s heat to clean and deodorize clothing, bedding, pillows, etc. (I even use it to clean my pup’s coats!) Dryel is safe for use on most dry clean items and it doesn’t contain harsh chemicals. All you do to clean an item is place it in the Dryel bag that comes with the starter kit – it’s large enough to hold several sweaters – add one of the Dryel ULTRAcleaning cloths, zip the bag and throw it into the dryer. As I wrote above, set the dryer to 15 minutes to refresh; 30 minutes for a deeper clean. That’s all that there is to it! It couldn’t be easier and it sure beats running to the dry cleaner after work or wearing stale smelling clothing the next day.
Dryel serves to simplify my life, gets me out of the house more quickly in the mornings and saves me money. Let it do the same thing for you.
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Note: I am a Dryel Blog Ambassador and have received Dryel product and compensation from the company. However, that has in no way influenced my opinion of Dryel or this post. I write from my heart and would never deceive you, my readers, or try to pull the wool over your eyes. The only wool I’ll be pulling will be over my own head and it will be fresh-smelling and clean, thanks to Dryel.
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