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2021 is here, and spring is a couple of months away. Soon it’ll be time to transition your closet from winter to spring, and that means storing away off-season clothing. To keep them in the best shape for the next winter season, follow these best practices:

Before you begin, clean all the clothing to be stored

Before you pack away your winter clothes, they should be washed and dried. All stains should be deep cleaned and treated as best you can. Once your clothes are stored, all the time spent sitting will harden stains. If you have piles of winter clothes to store, you can save time by having residential laundry services complete this initial step. You’ll especially benefit from having laundry services take care of your thicker clothes, such as coats and jackets.

Dry cleaning isn’t only offered at residential laundry services. A lower cost option, home dry cleaning kits, allows you to dry clean your delicates at home by turning your drying machine into a dry cleaner.

What are home kits?

Home kits are curated for people who want the convenience of at-home dry cleaning. They are less costly than using a laundry service, safe for most fabrics, and only take about 30 minutes per cycle. A typical kit consists of a stain remover, an odor and wrinkle releaser, heat-activated dryer sheets, and a reusable garment bag. Some home kits also have absorbent pads for the stain remover solution.

Proper laundering can add years to your clothes and make them look as good as they did when you bought them. You already know the common rule of separating whites from darks, but that’s not only to keep the darks from bleeding into the whites.

Whites should be washed differently to maintain their brightness. The pros at residential laundry services thoroughly understand the unique demands of whites, and know how to efficiently and effectively keep them clean and bright. You can mimic them by understanding how to brighten faded whites and maintain them.

You know your time is limited when the thought of laundry stresses you out. There aren’t enough hours in a day to get everything done on your own, and laundry is a side task that takes up more time than it should.

If laundry is taking up too much of your time, you should leave it to residential laundry services that offer pickup and delivery. Your laundry time will be reduced to leaving your bagged-up clothes outside, then picking it up as soon as the next day.