Ring Around the Collar
Ring around the collar. Specifically, the grime and oil from your neck around the collar of your dress shirt. Gross. Here’s how to keep your shirts from looking like you took a brown marker to the...
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Dirty labcoats and scrubs
Doctors, dentists, veterinarians: let us CLEAN YOUR Labcoats and Scrubs!!! Our routes serve medical, dental, and veterinary offices in Johnson County. Our prices are very competitive, $7.95 to...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolutions
from the University of Scranton, here are the. . . TOP TEN NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS (and how The Green Van Dry Cleaning will help you achieve them) 1 Lose Weight. (Have your dry cleaning picked up and...
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Formaldehyde on your shirts
Yes, it’s true. Most likely, your men’s dress shirts are coated with formaldehyde. And unless you’re a dead frog in the 8th grade biology lab, that’s not a great thing. Formaldehyde is used by the...
View ArticleRestore your favorite t-shirt
Do you have a favorite t-shirt or pair of jeans with a stain that you think is permanent? Maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t. Send it to us and we’ll see. Please leave us a note, telling us about your...
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Website update!
I just added a “plugin” to our website. This makes it easier to view our website from a mobile device. That’s big stuff for a small business. Now my website looks as good on an iPhone as that really...
View ArticleQuiz to see if you would be a good customer
Would you make a good customer for The Green Van Dry Cleaning? We offer dry cleaning pick-up and delivery, and wash & fold laundry service. Please use a #2 pencil. Mark your answers clearly....
View ArticleDid you host company? We can help!
Over the Easter weekend, we hosted Kari’s cousin and her family for the weekend. Like us, they have four kids, and we all had a great time. We hope they’ll come back and visit us soon. Today, we are...
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Spring cleaning, wardrobe tips
Spring is dry cleaning season, and it’s the busiest time of our year. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind as you change out your cold weather wardrobe: Moths can destroy a sweater Make sure...
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Dry Cleaning in the Suburbs
A (very) short story by Derek Anderson. It was a dark and stormy morning. The thunder was crashing outside. I knew that I needed to get my dry cleaning done. But I just couldn’t bring myself to go to...
View ArticleOur slogans
We are a small, local business. We don’t have a multi-million dollar advertising budget. We don’t have a team of MBA’s to analyze the effectiveness of a marketing campaign. We don’t have a team of...
View ArticleAre you new to the neighborhood?
Did you just move to town, or to your new neighborhood? One of your chores is to figure out your new routine: where is the grocery store, the gas station, Target, pizza, etc. Don’t forget the dry...
View ArticleServices to make your life easier
Spring is a busy season for families. It’s a great time to think about how you can make your life less hectic. Do you use a lawn application service for your fertilizing and weed control? You might...
View ArticleSchool’s back in session -time to get help!
Okay folks, every time the season changes, life gets busy! School is back in session, and I KNOW that you don’t have time to run your dry cleaning errands. AND with the construction on I-435 and US...
View ArticleHow we clean men’s shirts
You may think that all dry cleaners clean their shirts the same way. Or maybe you think that we clean them just the same way that you wash them at home. WRONG! Our system of cleaning men’s dress...
View ArticleA Tribute to the Royals
At dawn today, I took down the Royals window flags from our green vans. I started to think about the reasons why this baseball season was special for me, my family, and our town. The reasons took me...
View ArticleNovember Food Drive
It’s time to stock our local food banks. This month, we are collecting non-perishable food items for the New Hope Food Pantry in Olathe. They are affiliated with Harvesters. Their shelves are a...
View ArticleLearning from “reality TV”!
For the first time, I watched The Profit, a business-reality tv show featuring Marcus Lemonis as an investor/business coach to small businesses. He went to a coffee company in South Carolina to help....
View ArticleThanksgiving Schedule 2014
We will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. Here is our schedule for Wednesday, November 26 through Saturday, November 29. If you are on our Wednesday morning pick-up route (11/26): we are picking up as...
View ArticleRing Around the Collar
Ring around the collar. Specifically, the grime and oil from your neck around the collar of your dress shirt. Gross. Here’s how to keep your shirts from looking like you took a brown marker to the...
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