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Message:: [QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 63410, member: 78"]Hi Silver,  That is what I did every year I was in NYC. Every May all my Orientials went to Klines in Brooklyn to be washed and dried and wrapped up in brown paper, stored behind the sofa in the library. That went on for years until I moved to New Jersey. The rugs that I had done in NYC were 125 dollars for washing and drying. When I moved to NJ I found a carpet cleaner the cost was 275 dollars. Found out he took the carpets to Klines in Brooklyn for cleaning. I started doing it myself. It would take all day to do two rugs. Some times three days for drying. I gave up and did them every four or five years. Then the old folks at Klines died off and they started to machine clean. Now I am lucky if I turn them every three years. The small ones I still do but anything over 5ft will wait until the elephants come home.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":p" unselectable="on" />. I do miss taking down the drapes and just using white sheers. I do not use drapes anymore but just use sheers all year. I hate getting old and I hate being poor. Goodness knows I would have put more away if I knew I was going to live this long.greg[/QUOTE]