How to save money, use less electricity and be less stressed

jackieb

shell_girl wrote: »

My OH does any ironing I want doing (approx 3 items a year). In an emergency 5 mins in the drier will get most creases out. I know it would be quicker and cheaper to iron, but I'm dreadful at it- things look more creased once I've ironed them than they did before:o

My real bugbear though is that I keep my tumble drier for emergencies only (as in 10 minutes before work and nothing is dry) but my lodger thinks it's essential to tumble dry everything! I'm on a night shift tonight and I can just visualise him sitting up all night gleefully tumbling sheets and towels :mad:

If I knew how to wire a plug then I'd cut it off every time I left the house.

Take out the fuse and hide all the spare ones.

lutzi1

I use the folding continental airers and move them round the garden to catch the sun.

Now we're getting towards winter, I'm considering buying some of those plastic greenhouse/growhouse things to go over my airers, so I can continue to put them outside. presume it will be warmer in there, and will protect the laundry from rain/ bird poo etc. i might even paint the back dull black matt to maximise heat absorbtion. Does anyone know if this is a good idea, or have any ideas to make it more efficient ??

chevalier

thanks for all of your replies, a lively debate indeed. lutzi1 i would suggest that you just put the airers by a window and that should still get the clothes dry indoors.

Not sure if painting the airers would be a good idea. But don't really know.

chev

SamanthaA

fiveyearplan wrote: »

I have to iron my work clothes, how else do you get a crease in your trousers? I also iron t-shirts, especially polo shirts or else the collar just doesn't sit right. I don't iron sheets, undies (my grandmother did iron Grandpa's boxers though!) or tea towels.

I put my DS school trousers and my smart trousers,in those fancy wooden hangers that `pin` the legs together. If the seams are straight, the crease is put in by the weight of the trousers hanging.

If you tumble dry things, then get them out while still warm & hang them, the creases drop out, usally.

Also, but the time you`ve got the top on, put your coat on, zipped it up & sat in a car or on a bus to get to work, its creased anyway!

fiveyearplan

SamanthaA wrote: »

I put my DS school trousers and my smart trousers,in those fancy wooden hangers that `pin` the legs together. If the seams are straight, the crease is put in by the weight of the trousers hanging.

If you tumble dry things, then get them out while still warm & hang them, the creases drop out, usally.

Also, but the time you`ve got the top on, put your coat on, zipped it up & sat in a car or on a bus to get to work, its creased anyway!

I had to go without ironing something the other day and I thought of this thread! I do that occassionally.

SamanthaA - as for getting creased on the way to work/school, at least I knew we were ironed/presentable when we went out of the house. Good idea about the wooden hangers but if I had to faff around with those hangers I may as well just spend a couple minutes ironing! I can't seen to work those hangers - OH used to have some.

I remember before we had kids (and my husband is a stickler for ironing his own clothes - I don't iron well enough for him!), if we had had a night on the tiles sometimes he would just iron the front of the shirt and not take his jacket off!