For those Special Ocassions

Sarah Moeck — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100

My first experience with dry cleaning happened when I was 17, right after my senior Prom. In my home town it is typical that after the dance, all the teen-agers go to a restaurant that is open all night for a night cap; shakes, smoothies, ice cream etc.

My date and our friends were no different. It was almost three in the morning when tiredly, my date helped me to slide out of our large round booth. As he helped me, he happened to bump the pitcher of strawberry lemonade and since I wasRead More...

Love Notes

Sarah Moeck — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I am a corny person. I swoon during sappy love movies. I cry while reading books by Nicholas Sparks. I OWN all of Nicholas Sparks books. When I see families at restaurants it melts my heart my friends and surprised I don't go over to the family and hug them all.

I love watching people interact when they come into my store. I love watching mother juggling their childrRead More...

Mrs. Fix-it

Sarah Moeck — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I get a lot of customers that come into our store that ask if we do alterations. (We do; alterations and patch and fix-it work.) I get almost as many pieces of clothing that need to be repaired as I get items that need to be cleaned. (Maybe its more a 30-70 ratio; I was never very good at math.)

I have had people ask in the past ways to keep their clothes cleaner, ways to Read More...

Be In Your Bonnet

Sarah Moeck — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I was sitting on my couch last night, enjoying the visages of my chocolate Easter bunny and jelly beans, thinking about all sorts of Easter memories. My mother is a HUGE person for holidays, even the small ones like St. Patricks day, so she always goes all out for food and decorations and...

dress up's. For me, when I was younger, Easter meant a new wonderfully colored dRead More...

Pop Quiz Results

Sarah Moeck — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Was that too hard of a test for you? Are your brains all fried? Well gird up your loins my friends- it is time for the answers! Check your own papers- lets use the honor system so no cheating all right?

1. B

2. C

3. B

Mistakes

Sarah Moeck — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

One of my favorite movies is Music and Lyrics. I love Hugh Grant, and though he is no Michael Jackson, I actually enjoy listening to him sing. One of my favorite songs comes at the very end of the movie (don't worry- no spoilers) where he is asking the heroine to forRead More...

For the Love of Spring and Stains

Sarah Moeck — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:14:22 +0100

I love spring. I think most people share this sentiment because after months of hibernation we all feel like the sun and the scent of fresh air helps us to awake. People seem to take more time in life in the spring to think, to clean, to empty out their lives in preparation for filling them during the summer months.

I love working and having the sun STREAM in through my front store windows all day long. I love seeing the prints people come in wearing- with all their bright colors and fRead More...

Celebrity Dry Cleaning

Sarah Moeck — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I find celebrity gossip hilarious. I am one of those people that in the supermarket while I am comparing vegetable prices can't help pick up those tabloids and magazines that you are sure are either:

a. half full of crap or

b. making something out of nothing

I love the making something out of nothing; it nostaligacally reminds me of high school. What I love most about these tabloids and magazines however, is how excited paparazzi get about celebritys doing every day, humanRead More...

Allyse's and Dry Cleaning Team Up!

Sarah Moeck — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I really do try to keep this blog for basic dry cleaning news and information, but sometimes what is basic dry cleaning news has something to do with our company :)

Recently, the owners of Dry Cleaning and Beyond met with some of the executives of the store Allyse's Bridal. Allyse's Bridal is actually a subsidiary of the company called We wanted to apologize for the lack of blogging that has gone on the past few weeks. We have been experiencing some technical difficulties that kept us from being able to post very much.

However, we are back on line now and VERY happy about it! We hope to be able to make up some space and time these next few days and post a lot.

In the Read More...

Feeling the Love Day 3

Sarah Moeck — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:41:18 +0100

To celebrate Valentines day, our blog is writing a post every day this week, detailing something that we love. On our first day we expressed our love for children. On our second day we expressed our love for the earth. Today, our third day, we will be expressing our love for:
Food.
I am doing a similar "Feeling the Love" blog post on myRead More...

Feeling the Love Day 2

Sarah Moeck — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:19:20 +0100

In continuation with our previous blog, this week we are blogging every day about things we love to honor the Valentines Day Holiday. Yesterday we expressed our love for children. Today we will express love for:
The earth.

Maybe this resonates with me a lot because I am from Oregon. Don't worry- I am actually much more conservative than most of my fellow grRead More...

Feeling the Love

Sarah Moeck — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:49:52 +0100

A lot of people find Valentines day a very cheezy holiday. But I disagree. I not only love it because my favorite colors of red and pink are swathed all over the place, but because I think Valentines day is a good time to remember all the people, and things, that we love, and to be reminded from lots of people and things that Read More...

Quilt-tastic!

Sarah Moeck — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:03:45 +0100

I love to quilt. Really. That doesn't necessarily mean that I am any good, but it is still a stress reliever for me. When I come home from "just one of those days", nothing makes me feel better than to sit in front of my sewing machine and methodically sew blocks together. It's therapeutic.

What has been really nice, is to realize that Read More...

Why Loose the Magic?

Sarah Moeck — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:04:29 +0100

My husband, as a general rule, does NOT like jeans. We differ greatly in that way. He just can't ever find a pair that fits, or feels, as good as a pair of khakis.

He owns- one pair of jeans. Yes, one. In high school he took a trip with some friends and in a boutique he found a pair of jeans. For those of you have not seen, heard or felRead More...

Q and A: The Skinny on Starch

Sarah Moeck — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:23:07 +0100

In my experience, the most popular item that people come in to have dry cleaned are suit shirts. The most popular question I ask when people bring their suit shirts in to be cleaned is: "And would you like any starch on these?"

My most popular answer? A blank look and the question, "I'm not sure what you mean. Starch?"

Yes starch. Everything that you may have ever wanted to know about starch, and what in thRead More...

The Positive Pick Pocket

Sarah Moeck — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:11:37 +0100

I was talking to a friend the other day about work and they asked me, knowing that I work at the front desk of a dry cleaners, what's the most important thing I could do in my job.

I thought about it for a moment and then I replied, "Checking pockets."

It's ironic when you think about it. I spent the first half of my life beinRead More...

Santas Dry Cleaning

Sarah Moeck — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:51:20 +0100

The best part about working for a dry cleaners, I think, is getting to see everyones clothes. It's different than working in a retail store, which I have also done, where you just see the same clothes over and over. At a dry cleaners you see everyones different styles, the things they are picky about, even how they wear their clothes.

My favRead More...

Entering the Blogsphere

Sarah Moeck — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:53:20 +0100

Since our companies birth, Dry Cleaning and Beyond has been fairly successful in entering the modern technological world. We have a new and beautifully desgined web site. We also have a page on Facebook so anyone can become a fan of our company.

We have tried, a little less successfully, to enter the Blogsphere. With our blog we hoped to answer questions not only about our company, but Read More...

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