Someone in an online forum recently asked whether you can buy at-home dry-cleaning kits here. Products like Dryel, apparently common in the US, where you chuck a few garments in the dryer with a moist treatment sheet and get something approximating a dry-clean result. Cheaper, more convenient, no dropping things off and picking them up two days later.

The answer, roughly, was: no, we don’t really have those, and also, do you even need them?