Ironing - do you do it?

[Saddlesoap]

Nope. Couldn't tell you the last time I used my iron (much to my MIL's disgust I'm sure).

When I first bought a house with husband she made some comment about ironing and my response was "he knows where the iron is". She was horrified

 

[Deepsigh2018]

No not really. I only iron if something looks badly creased

 

[HoGi]

Nope, never iron anything! My husband doesn’t wear shirts to work, if he did they would be ironed. Everything is just hung up/folded away and isn’t even ironed when we go to wear it! If anything looks too creased then I get out the steamer and run that over it

 

[Dot_Cotton]

I never iron anything. Nothing I have needs ironing. I can’t think of anything worse than standing ironing a full pile of washing.

 

[HoGi]

My friend irons everything. Underwear, tea towels, baby grows, bibs, the lot! Absolutely mad

 

[Katharoni0202]

What's an iron?

 

[coconochanel]

I only iron when it needs ironing deffo dont do bed sheets etc.

 

[Mrspowell]

Life is tooo short! I hang things up straight away, barely anything actually needs ironing if you shake it out and get it hung up straight away. Also give it a good shake out before drying. Work shirts need ironing, a few blouses, odd bit of school uniform but nothing else. I grew up constantly hearing my mum stress about ‘the ironing’ and I refuse to the same. Once you stop you realise how unnecessary it is, and we never ever look crumpled.

 

[Ab Fab]

I iron as little as possible, shirts, blouses dresses if creased, but towels and sheets I just couldn’t be bothered

 

[Kim Mild]

We don't have an iron or ironing board anymore.
Nobody has ever commented that we look creased or dishevelled.

My mum ironed everything and I'm sure my clothes ended up creased when I took my coat off.

I don't understand why people do ironing if they hate it. You can just not do it.

 

[Ittybittytittyclub]

I iron pretty much everything, except towels and bedsheets. I purposely buy the deersucker sheets so you can’t see the creases!

 

[1001 others]

No but I am tempted to give it a try. I like the sound of this part:

Do you make the fragrances yourself?

Yes, using fragrance oils that I buy from a wholesaler here in NZ. My rough recipe is - using a 100ml spritz bottle - 10ml fragrance oil, 20ml vodka, and the rest distilled water.

I iron as and when we wear clothes according to how creased they are. Usually if something has been in the dryer or out on the line it doesn’t need it though so I don’t bother with those. I don’t iron bedsheets, towels, pants or anything like that - fuck that, cba. My mum has always had a set day for doing a big pile of ironing though.

Same! I'll usually pop a box set of something on to watch while I iron - I find it quite relaxing.

Nope, never iron anything! My husband doesn’t wear shirts to work, if he did they would be ironed. Everything is just hung up/folded away and isn’t even ironed when we go to wear it! If anything looks too creased then I get out the steamer and run that over it

I forgot about my steamer. I use that on curtains when I wash them annually. It's also good at getting creases out of really fiddly things to iron, as well as for freshening things up.

 

[LittleMy]

I iron as and when we wear clothes according to how creased they are. Usually if something has been in the dryer or out on the line it doesn’t need it though so I don’t bother with those. I don’t iron bedsheets, towels, pants or anything like that - fuck that, cba. My mum has always had a set day for doing a big pile of ironing though.

 

[1001 others]

As inspired by https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...line-debate-ironing-bed-sheets-necessary.html:

If so, what do you iron - everything, or just some things (what)?

It'll come as absolutely no surprise to some who read my posts that I iron most things. The only things I don't iron are underwear, bras, and my cotton mix leggings (because they don't actually crease).

Everything else gets ironed - yes, including bath/shower towels, bed linen and tea towels (each gets sprayed with a dedicated fragrance ... eg.., lemon on the tea towels, frangipani on the bath/shower towels and lavender on the sheets).

 

[Agent Cooper]

I don’t. If it looks too creased, I’ll just run a steamer over it. My mother, however, irons everything from towels to bedding to underwear.

 

[nbt]

I iron most things. The only things I don’t iron is bedding and definitely not underwear.

I don’t mind doing it. It does sometimes feel like a right chore if there’s a lot but that’s mainly because it all needs putting away after. I like either listening to an audio book or sticking a series on telly while I do it.

 

[Dear Reader]

I'm a student so, if anything that I'm wearing that day has creases, I'll just run the hairdryer over them whilst wearing the item of clothing and it does the job

 

[coconochanel]

People with steamers can you recommend a good one?

 

[Peaches_xox]

I iron if something needs it, more as I go. Deffo not bedsheets towels etc. & my sons uniform gets ironed. Not by me though, my fella is much better at doing it then I am so he tends do it all

 

[CrystalWench]

My mum used to iron everything, even dishcloths, socks etc literally everything. I iron shirts, some T-shirt’s if they weren’t folded when they came out the drier, pillowcases and anything that looks like it needs an iron.