June 7, 2006

Flatliners

Flat Rate Cleaners

It’s not that you’re lazy.

It’s just that you need your precious Saturdays for sleeping/DVR surveillance. (Same goes for early weekday mornings, Sunday afternoons, and every evening after work).

Which leaves very little time for the Laundromat (hence, three times commando this week).

Well, praise the spin cycle deities for Flat Rate Cleaners, the online dry cleaning and laundry service for “busy” New Yorkers like yourself.

Just open up your laptop. Choose a pick-up time for the items you want cleaned. Pay online. Then roll back onto your stomach and resume your snooze.

Flat Rate gets its name from — you guessed it — the flat $4.99 rate charged per item dry cleaned (be it pants, dress, or coat). Men’s laundered shirts cost just under two bucks a pop, and wash-and-fold laundry is priced by the bag (not the pound).

If something isn’t cleaned to your satisfaction, Flat Rate will reclean it for free. And turnaround is pretty quick (two days).

Which should give you plenty of time to catch up on your shut-eye.

Available online at flatratecleaners.com.