Shoe Care in Five Easy Steps Caring for your expensive shoes doesn’t need to be an overwhelming job. However, you should check out these five easy shoe care tips to keep your shoes looking new for years to come. Shoe Care Tip Step 1 – Use Sole Protectors Ever wonder how that used pair of […]
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Easy Dry Cleaning Process Dry cleaning your laundry using a laundromat’s, or your own dryer is super easy and affordable too. Simply buy an affordable dry cleaning kit from Woolite or Dryel to name a few. Choose your favorite kit and make sure that your clothing will tolerate this process. For myself, I just took
Why Spot’s Laundry Services? Perhaps you have seen the ads for laundry services as low as 99 cents per pound with free pick-up and delivery. Or maybe, you wonder why Spot Laundromats has been around since 1991 with thousands of satisfied customers. We are here to answer your questions in this month’s article. What’s Included
5 Color Fading Prevention Steps Here are five easy color fading prevention steps everyone needs to know and, most importantly, use. These steps will help make your laundry last longer, and keep it looking its best. 1 – Wash Likes Together No one wants their favorite blue and white sweatshirt to have pink letters
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Wash White Clothes in Hot Water or Cold? The debate is huge, and sometimes heated too. Should laundry be washed in hot or cold water (More about that in this blog). The experts will tell you that hot water really does clean better (Don’t agree? Just try washing your dishes in cold water). Nevertheless, you
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What Causes Pilling Knowing the cause of something is the best way to help you avoid it in the future. So what causes pilling on laundry? Pilling is the natural result of friction. When laundry is washed and dried there is a lot of friction in the process. As a result, the fibers of the
Random Black Spots on Laundry If you have some random black spots on laundry and you have no clue where they came from, it may very well be mold or mildew. If left untreated, it will spell destruction for your laundry, eventually causing tears and holes in your favorite laundry. Treat the Black Spots
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How To Get Grass Stains Out of Jeans In this month’s blog we are showing you how to get grass stains out of jeans and clothes in general. This is one of those tough stains that if not treated properly can last forever. Following this simple, 3-step process should remove the grass stain in no
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Homestyle Washer vs Laundromat Here are five reasons why a homestyle washer vs laundromat means the laundromat wins. 1 – Time Savings Are Huge Using a laundromat is a huge time saver for several reasons. One – the washers and dryers are large meaning you can wash an entire week’s worth of laundry in
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Laundry Mat or Laundromat Many people search for laundry mat but in return Google shows them listings of laundromats. It’s natural to think that a place to do laundry is a mat. However, there never was really such thing as a laundry mat. As a matter of fact, originally in the 1930s they were known
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Step 1 – How To Unshrink Your Laundry Your favorite laundry is shrunk and you are wondering how to unshrink your laundry right? Fortunately there are 5 easy steps to help remedy this situation. Add warm water and a small amount of conditioner to the water. Mix well and place your laundry into the mixture.
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Should I Use Hot or Cold Water to Wash Laundry? We know that heat kills bacteria, and we know that heat cleans better, but also remember that heat could hurt laundry. So how do you determine whether you should use hot or cold water to wash laundry? Below are 5 easy ways to figure it
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Why Do Clothes Smell After Washing Them? It used to happen quite frequently to me. I’d open my dryer door and get a whiff of dirty laundry. Usually, this would happen before the clothes were completely dry and the combination of damp and warm laundry made the smell very obvious. It made me wonder,
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How To Organize a Closet Closets can become stuffed with clothes we never wear and even ones that are beyond wearable. You know, the badly stained white t-shirt from 2 summers ago or the sock that you may find the match for some day. My closet was recently guilty of this very thing. Dresses that
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WASH AND FOLD THE EASY WAY! It’s the weekend! Are you tired of doing laundry, but aren’t sure how to get out of it? You love that fresh feeling, and you even enjoy doing it yourself. This month, learn how to break free and let someone else wash and fold your laundry for you.
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Laundromat Know How It’s going to happen. At some point in time, no matter what your housing situation is like, you will have to spend some time in a laundromat. Maybe you’re taking an RV trip with your family. Or, maybe your washer broke down during the middle of summer when your kids require
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Is it Laundry Mat or Laundromat? The debate is real, people everywhere are asking whether a spot to wash your laundry is a laundry mat or a laundromat. It’s really surprising the number of people who spell the word as laundramat or laundrymat. Although, no matter how you spell it, the words are all used
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Microfiber cleaning cloths are some of the best cleaning tools you can arm your home or business with. When they accidentally get tossed into the wash with towels or washcloths it can render them useless. Our microfiber tips today will help you salvage your favorite microfiber cleaning tools, and restore them so that they can
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Cold Water Wash Benefits We’ve all seen the ads from Tide by now about switching to a cold water wash, to save both money and the environment. After all, it’s a win win situation when they put it that way. I mean, who doesn’t want to do all of that just by not using hot
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If you are wondering, how often should I launder that piece of clothing or blanket, then this article is the spot for you. Since a lot of people have been wondering the exact same thing, we decided to write this article. I mean, with all of this pandemic stuff going on, germs are at the
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Pilling Fabric Solutions Tested If your favorite sweater, pillow or even sofa has started to look a little shaggy, then we’ve got some good news for you. We’ve tested out some fabric shavers and have the scoop on which fabric shaver works best for pilling fabric. The Conair fabric shaver is battery operated and small.
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Skinny Jeans Gone Wild If your best-loved skinny jeans suddenly start to have stretch marks or look all puckered up, it may simply be the way you are washing them that’s to blame. My husband wears the traditional blue jeans, no stretchy stuff for him. And at the end of a day, after
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At this most wonderful time of the year, here are 5 easy ways to keep your laundromat visit COVID safe and jolly too! 1 – Go It Alone To Be COVID Safe We get it, you want a COVID safe laundromat visit. And while laundromats are considered essential, so is your safety. So Spot suggests
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What Causes Spots On Clean Laundry? I recently experienced this very situation. When I pulled my freshly laundered, brand new polo shirt out of the washer only to find it spotted worse than when it went into the washer. Now you must know that I rarely use bleach in my washing machine, and I now
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Laundromat Open on Holidays We have so many people asking us whether Spot’s laundromat is open on holidays that I want to start by saying, YES! Spot laundromat is always open on holidays. In fact, Spot’s laundromats are open 7 days a week 365 days a year. But this question started me thinking about the
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5 Ways To Say No To Ironing For the life of me, I can’t understand why anyone loves to iron, but believe it or not, there are people like that out there. Yes, some people just really and truly enjoy the entire ironing process. I met a lady one time who even ironed her blue
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Congratulations! You’ve made it to the new year, and with that comes a chance for a new perspective. So while you are writing down your new year’s resolutions and checking them twice, we want you to take a minute to get a fresh start in 2020. And suprise! we aren’t going to talk about more
Cozy Blankets + Winter = JOY Winter is my favorite time of year for many reasons. Warm candlelight, the crisp clean air, dinners of tomato soup, grilled cheese, and spiced apples. My heart rejoices to see the first snow flakes falling to welcome the new season. Although, it is with a little sadness that I
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If you dread going to the laundromat because the kids will be with you, I can completely understand. First of all, kids are unique individuals with minds all their own. And you are entirely responsible for what they do. We want to help you make life fun for the laundromat and kids too. So,
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Wash To Win! So I spent my weekend going through piles of medical bills and organizing them into neat little stacks. As if that would somehow magically make them all go away. But, unfortunately, they were all still there when I checked this morning, and still very real. As you know, bills don’t just go
Grease and Laundry Isn’t Convenient We live in an age of convenience. When things are broken, we throw them away or we hire someone else to fix them. There’s freedom though in being able to do it yourself. Plus, there’s a pride of accomplishment and, you can’t deny, there’s a nice feeling at the end
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Saving Money Is So Easy If you are like me, saving money is not only wise, but it is also fun. This month’s blog will show you some fun easy ways to save you some green at the laundromat. Nothing You Can’t Do I may be dating myself on this one, but I love
Fabric Care Marie Kondo is Tidying Up the whole world right now teaching us to look over our items and only keep the ones that bring us joy. As I walked into my closet this morning, I thought, I would only end up with florals and pastels then. Winter is monochromatic out my window and,
DON’T FORGET OUTERWEAR CARE You’ve washed your pants, and your shirt after wearing them just one time, but what about your coat, hat, gloves and scarves? If you’re like me, these garments go uncared for except maybe once a year. But in this month’s blog we want to share Spot’s outerwear care tips so that
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Cut The Grease The sights, sounds, smells, and grease of the holidays. I think it’s a prerequisite that if you offer to host a holiday dinner, your house should already smell like turkey or ham by the time I walk through the door with my cake and casserole. And, by the way, opening that oven
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Ahh, fall. The season of boots, pumpkin spice lattes, and bouquets of freshly sharpened pencils. But, most importantly, routine, and in this case the routine of cleaning outdoor cushions! The kids are back in school and you’re busy sorting through summer clothes and disparaging over last year’s fall clothing leftovers. You’re closing down the pool
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Clothesline Drying Has Many Benefits For the first time in my life, I am now living in a home with Central Air. And to be honest, it’s a love/hate relationship. I love to blow dry my hair without sweat dripping down my neck, but I hate how the house still smells like Winter. There should
Go Outdoors With These Clothesline Tips We have a blog coming soon called Clothesline Fresh. In that blog, we will expound upon the benefits of clothesline drying your laundry. While preparing to write that blog we kept thinking of clothesline tips that you may not know about. So we decided to do an entire blog
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That is the question, and here is the answer. It’s that time of year. From the 30th of May to Labor Day, we pull out our summer whites! White jeans, white slacks, white tees, white dresses. It’s such a classic look, but, to be honest, it feels so intimidating to maintain. At the beginning of
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Spring Cleaning Winter Comforters To Extend Their Life As the days grow warmer and windows are opened to welcome the spring breezes, many people will begin deep cleaning their homes – donating unneeded items, scrubbing every nook and cranny, and packing away winter items to make way for lighter, airier pieces. “Spring Cleaning” should include
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