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Home Delivery Dry Cleaning: Not the Only Way to Save Time

One reality of modern life: the quicker we can finish tasks, the more tasks we try to do, either in sequence or all at once. To successfully multitask, it’s important to know life’s little time saving shortcuts. Here are some opportunities to save time in your daily grind and allow yourself time for an occasional breather.

1. Online shopping. Much of our time is spent in transit from one place to another. Moving some of your shopping online—for clothing, shoes, books, or movies—not only eliminates the need to get in your car, but also puts every item you desire at your fingertips at once.
2. Schedule your day. People used to carry around planners or notepads to keep track of their daily obligations, but now, there are easy and accessible methods of staying super-organized. Most phones come with calendars that allow you to create appointments with alarms and reminders. Plus, if you use Google Calendar, you can access it from anywhere you can access your email, so you’ll never forget it at home.
3. Use subscription services. With services like Netflix and eMusic, you pay a monthly fee for access to a certain amount of movies or music. With Netflix, you can set up a queue so that your movies come with no effort on your behalf. eMusic saves you the time of searching for new music by suggesting music downloads based on your previous choices.
4. Make your commute productive. Productivity means different things to different people, but if you’re currently driving to work and could be taking public transportation, consider it: what used to be time wasted driving will become time spent catching up on the news or getting a head-start on your day’s work. Also, public transportation is considerably greener than driving yourself, so you’ll be saving something other than time.
5. Control your smart phone, don’t let it control you. Smart phones can be one of the best timesaving devices in the world. But because they make their user accessible at any time, by a number of different mediums, they can also destroy the notion of free time altogether. Make sure that you set hours where you don’t check your phone or don’t respond to emails until later. If you’re consistent, people will recognize this and respect it.
6. Home-delivery dry cleaning. Your local cleaner may have a home delivery dry cleaning service. Crest Cleaners’ home-delivery service is free, saves you two trips to the dry cleaner, and with each route we have two pick-up/drop-off days, so turnaround time is quick. Just request information and, depending on your geographic location, we’ll let you know when we can swing by. If you don’t live in our region, you may be lucky enough to live near a dry cleaner that provides something similar.

These are just a few methods, but hopefully they’ll get you started. Feel free to leave more ideas in the comments, whether they’re strategies that you use to save time or areas in your life where you wish you could trim some minutes. 

Crest Cleaners provides a free pick up and drop off laundry and dry cleaning service  to residences and workplaces in Virginia, Maryland, and DC. Find out if we have a route for your neighborhood!

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