Dry cleaners in Stafford? Make an old suit look new

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a few people have suggested Posh Wash to me, on Charnley Road.. one of my mates takes his duck feather duvet & pillows there every year to be dry cleaned and reckons they do it on-site and are half the price of other places he tried, so i'm going to pop in and see what they're like, i reckon..

i've received the suit now, and it's lovely, but you can tell it has been sitting in a box for over 20 years.. it's very musty smelling, and there are a few stains/marks on it, so i hope this dry cleaning business can work miracles.. i suspect the seller wore it once for his wedding and then it's been sitting in the loft ever since - when i unpacked it and took the trousers out, a lucky horseshoe fell out of one of the pockets!
 
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i've received the suit now, and it's lovely, but you can tell it has been sitting in a box for over 20 years.. it's very musty smelling, and there are a few stains/marks on it, so i hope this dry cleaning business can work miracles.. i suspect the seller wore it once for his wedding and then it's been sitting in the loft ever since - when i unpacked it and took the trousers out, a lucky horseshoe fell out of one of the pockets!
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That's a tiny bit sad...
 
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Wormella said:
That's a tiny bit sad...
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indeed.. i wonder if the owner even knew it was there, or whether someone secreted it 'pon his person on his wedding day and he never noticed?

as i stood there in my pants, gazing at the horseshoe that had just tumbled dramatically out of the pocket of the trousers i was holding, the thought entered my mind that this was like the start of a tortuous horror film - that the horseshoe was an ancient cursed artefact, and i was about to experience the seven levels of hell..
 
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indeed.. i wonder if the owner even knew it was there, or whether someone secreted it 'pon his person on his wedding day and he never noticed?

as i stood there in my pants, gazing at the horseshoe that had just tumbled dramatically out of the pocket of the trousers i was holding, the thought entered my mind that this was like the start of a tortuous horror film - that the horseshoe was an ancient cursed artefact, and i was about to experience the seven levels of hell..
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Starting possibly with nipping into town in your car early in the morning to spend some of your hard-earned cash in a local business. Coming back to your car 35 minutes later and discovering that, your car being hard to miss on an otherwise car-free street, one of Stafford's scruffily-attired operatives on the early morning frontline of the war against parking mayhem has given you a thirty five quid ticket. Which you can hardly afford to pay but which you have to pay, despite not having inconvenienced anyone by parking for 35 minutes on an empty street early in the morning. Which strengthens your resolve to avoid shopping in a town which plainly doesn't want your business.

You've tried using the bus, even. But that costs the best part of a fiver to get you there and back.
 
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indeed.. i wonder if the owner even knew it was there, or whether someone secreted it 'pon his person on his wedding day and he never noticed?

as i stood there in my pants, gazing at the horseshoe that had just tumbled dramatically out of the pocket of the trousers i was holding, the thought entered my mind that this was like the start of a tortuous horror film - that the horseshoe was an ancient cursed artefact, and i was about to experience the seven levels of hell..
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Get yourself to the post office & send that horseshoe back to the seller....

*I just noticed your 'penis beaker', made me laugh all over again :)
 
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Maryland said:
Starting possibly with nipping into town in your car early in the morning to spend some of your hard-earned cash in a local business. Coming back to your car 35 minutes later and discovering that, your car being hard to miss on an otherwise car-free street, one of Stafford's scruffily-attired operatives on the early morning frontline of the war against parking mayhem has given you a thirty five quid ticket. Which you can hardly afford to pay but which you have to pay, despite not having inconvenienced anyone by parking for 35 minutes on an empty street early in the morning. Which strengthens your resolve to avoid shopping in a town which plainly doesn't want your business.

You've tried using the bus, even. But that costs the best part of a fiver to get you there and back.
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Ah, but as you said in the Early morning gypsies thread, rules is rules ;)
 
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a few people have suggested Posh Wash to me, on Charnley Road.. one of my mates takes his duck feather duvet & pillows there every year to be dry cleaned and reckons they do it on-site and are half the price of other places he tried, so i'm going to pop in and see what they're like, i reckon..
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well, so much for that recommendation.. phoned posh wash, and they said they're just a normal launderette and don't do dry cleaning or suits!!

i've had to bite the bullet and fire off an email to Mayfair Cleaners - hopefully i can get the suit to them in Stone and have it back by thursday!
 
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The only dry cleaners I would ever let loose on stuff is www.mayfaircleaners.co.uk in Barlaston. They also do alterations and restore leather jackets and things.
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right, i dropped the bally thing off with mayfair today.. £13.95 for a dry clean, which i assume is good value (i've never had anything dry cleaned in my life)..

collection thursday, so we'll see how they (may)fare! thanks for the suggestions, all :up:
 
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well, almost exactly a year since i last posted in this thread!

i need another suit dry cleaning, and a slight adjustment made.. any changes since last year - i.e. is there a decent dry cleaners in stafford these days, or am i best trekking up to mayfair in barlaston again? i was happy enough with them last time, but it's the only time i've ever had anything dry cleaned so i have no frame of reference really.. thought it worth checking in case a new one happens to have popped up!
 
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