Am I the only person at DU who still irons???

I am looking at a pile of last week's clothing that I must iron in a few minutes. Around my office, I hear people who are horrified that I still own an iron, much less iron my clothes.

i do the ironing once a week, too. i have never ever ironed jeans, though...ewww!

my wife still irons...:)

...I do wash regularly... :D

Mostly I buy clothes that don't require ironing but there are a few things I have to iron once every week or two.

I have some linen blouses. They have to be ironed or I look like I get fashion tips from Laura Bush.
I also press some of my slacks.

But I do, or I throw stuff back in the dryer and take out while still hot, and hang. The clothes don't look that bad that way.

You could break a glass on my arm crease.

SOmetimes I even do it for my parents.

Natural fibers are a must, but alas, require more care.

and I'm only in Chicago. But I love the look and feel and it is so comfortable to wear.

Do those things work? I bet they do. I am always putting things on a hanger and hanging them up in the bathroom. After a shower they look fine - no wrinkles - but no creases either. Okay for me.

but it's only used for blocking knit projects and pressing seams while sewing.

You'd be hard pressed to make me do it too. }(

but I hate frickin' ironing.

but I do if my dress shirt looks like I slept in it. Ms Uly don't iron. :D

Knew a guy in college who pressed his underwear. OCD is a horrible thing...

One day he told her to stop doing it, and she did.

:)

Boxers gotta move. :D

who also used to iron my bras. And she wouldn't quit.

I can't stand to iron an entire basket at one time, so I pick out my clothes each morning and them I iron them!

I use different irons for each.

I buy clothing that does not necessarily need to be ironed, but some things really have to.

Not a lot, however. For my button down shirts that i wear to work, I send them to the cleaners. Same with my wife's nice work clothes. Most other things my wife & I have, I don't really need to iron.

;)

;-)

Only dress clothes, and only if they really need it.

I finally got this one about 2 years ago.

I use it on all my stuff and the rest of the family too. I'm not talking about crispy stuff, like linens and dress shirts. those get ironed or go to the cleaners. I have an iron permanantly set up in my sewing room too. I think I'll go make something........

Thus a steamer isn't really what I need.

but yeah, linen is high maintenance. My mom said of linen "those are status wrinkles"

edited due to stoopid typo

I keep it set up in my utility room all the time. No more ironing curtains & tablecoths. :toast:

mess if I didn't iron.

Or buy lots of polyester, I guess.

I iron every week. I love the crisp feel of ironed 100% cotton & linen.
I use a steamer for permanent press, yeah right, items & curtains.

she spends the night.

I have some things that need ironing. Most of the time I just don't bother to wear them, but once in awhile I'll drag out the ironing board and iron something to put on.

I used to like to (again, 'occasionally') iron everything I had that needed ironing at once, but I found it doesn't stay wrinkle free if you fold it back up and stick it in a drawer <<<lol!>>>

Amazingly, one can now and then find one these days...

;)

I ironed them....

My mom, on the other hand, has been known to iron my dad's tshirts, back when they were married over 35 yrs ago.....

that seems a bit much to me, but hey, whatever makes ya happy!

I iron regularly. My usual day is Monday.

but I send those shirts to the cleaners. They do a much better job.

How are you doing on the left coast?

It's a gorgeous day and I'm hanging around the house in a bikini top and jeans. It didn't take me long to go native at all.

How's tricks in the Windy City? Any fall DU gatherings planned?

It's pretty nice in the Windy City today...a cool spell, though we had a bit of mist earlier after a couple of humid days.

No gatherings that I've heard of, though I am having lunch with the delightful dolo amber on Wednesday. She and I have met before, and she is heading down here from the land of cheeseheads to take her daughter to the airport to go visiting.

I am heading to Michigan next month for a vacation and big family party to celebrate a 60th wedding anniversary. The place we are staying at is a big house on the lake with seven (count 'em!!!) bedrooms! From what I am told, a big old place with lots of porch space. Cannot wait. Lots of cousins, most of whom it has been several years since I have seen, since they live around the country.

I just try to buy clothes that mean I don't have to.

I see it this way, I'm a mom and a full-time student. If my clothes are clean and not slept in, I'm ahead of the curve.

my clothes and my daughter's clothes.

.. I'll iron a shirt occasionally, as will my wife. But not very often. Truth is, I try to wear clothes that don't need ironing whenever possible :)

I'm ex-military, and learned to take care of my own stuff.

She's from a wealthy family and had maids for that kind of thing.

Can you still bounce a quarter off your bed after you make it?

I kept the military stuff that helps and makes sense.

I ditched the bullshit stuff.

Anyway, my wife can't make a BED, either. :-)

door to do it. I am a verrrrrry poor planner.

:shrug:

Mine is in a closet, if I didn't use it weekly, I'd let the dust pile up.

I iron my own shirts, 18 minutes per shirt. I press my hankies, my drawers, my t-shirts. The only thing I sometimes don't iron are socks.

I would help Mom iron, and I learned by just doing the hankies. I started with the everyday hankies and then graduated to the Sunday hankies. I remember my mother spending time in front of the tv ironing. It seemed like a pleasant job for her. Usually Art Linkletter was on tv. If I try I can still smell the fresh starched shirts and hear the pssst! of the iron.

Life was so much easier....

and she's posted here a time or two.

I iron my clothes during football games, Canadian Football starting in summer, then Monday Night Football is my favorite night to iron clothes, then the arena football games in the winter/spring. Or I take in the occasional hockey or b-ball game. Beats just sitting in front of the tube!

Even my kids play clothes.

I hate it, but I hate wrinkles worse. My grandmother talks of times when she ironed the bedsheets and my grandfather's socks...I don't take it to that extreme, just shirts and pants and such.

It's just too hot here.

Hanging the clothes on the line means that I don't have to iron as much because everything dries without wrinkles (mostly.) But some things always require ironing, and we have boards in my office, the laundry room and our bedroom (back of the door type.)

I also use a sprinkler bottle, which really makes people look at me funny. And I'm only 30. I shouldn't know what an iron, a sprinkling bottle or creases are supposed to look like.

Good on you!

I hang up my clothes immediately after taking them from the dryer. I must use my iron maybe once a month and that will be to touch up something that was crushed in the closet.

I never iron.

Downey Wrinkle Release works perfectly! :bounce: :)

In the summer I iron as needed because it gets so hot, but on a chilly day, I like to gather all my hubby's shirts and anything else that needs ironing and do it all at once while I watch TV. I find it relaxing.

It's satisfying to turn a wad of cloth into a crisp, smooth blouse or shirt.

I iron, I don't like it but I iron. My son irons and my husband irons. I taught them both how to take care of their own ironing!!! :D Smart mommy! :D

And linen means LOTs of ironing.