Old style housekeeping question?

MrsE_2

Lentilsforteaagain wrote: »

My mother has a showhome (hmn, and OCD) ... so no remote on the arm of the chair, no newspapers out of the kitchen, no jeans to be worn when sitting on the sofa ...!!!

You know I was looking at my leather sofa yesterday & you can see little dents on it, which I'm sure are from jeans rivets.
I was thinking about banning jeans with rivets.

I hate papers all over the house, can't stand yesterdays paper knocking around. I will allow one remote out (sky+), the rest all get put away.

Penelope_Penguin

MrsE wrote: »

You know I was looking at my leather sofa yesterday & you can see little dents on it, which I'm sure are from jeans rivets.
I was thinking about banning jeans with rivets.

I hate papers all over the house, can't stand yesterdays paper knocking around. I will allow one remote out (sky+), the rest all get put away.

Maybe you just need to get out more How about a spot of time volunteering with Shelter, Crisis, or one of the overseas charities, to get the important things in life back in perspective

Penny. x

geordie_joe

MrsE wrote: »

I can't work it out
95% of our non-underwear clothes HAVE to be iron, how can you not iron.

I think the clue is in the second sentence.

Originally Posted by blueberrypie
I don't iron. Occasionally I'll use the iron for iron-on sticky stuff for Cub badges, but that's pretty much my limit. Almost all our clothes are cotton or other natural fibres and the creases disappear with body-heat soon after you put them on.

All my clothes are ironed for this week, but when I wash the cotton T-shirt I'm wearing I will try not ironing it.

MrsE_2

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Maybe you just need to get out more How about a spot of time volunteering with Shelter, Crisis, or one of the overseas charities, to get the important things in life back in perspective

Penny. x

I get out plenty, I don't have much free time at all.

My sofas cost me a lot of very hard worked for money & I noticed that they have marks (dents) in the leather.

Is it more noble to spend you hard earned cash on things & not care about how they are kept/last

Actually I think its VERY MSE to look after things, which is what I try to do. Buy the best quality I can afford & look after it.

MrsE_2

geordie_joe wrote: »

I think the clue is in the second sentence.

All my clothes are ironed for this week, but when I wash the cotton T-shirt I'm wearing I will try not ironing it.

But even if you were to wait for body heat to take out the creases (which for shirts & things I can't see that being very effective) it means you have to leave the house crumpled & go to work crumpled, until the creases drop out

clutterydrawer

MrsE wrote: »

My cousin doesn't iron either.

I can't work it out

95% of our non-underwear clothes HAVE to be iron, how can you not iron.

Do you & DH not feel embarrased about going to work or just out in unironed clothes?
I don't mean that to sound rude, I just can't understand how you don't "do" ironing

What things are you ironing?

I only wear jeans and t shirts....they pretty much look the same whether I iron them or not. Occasionally in summer I wear a blouse, that gets ironed if i'm going somewhere fancy, not if I'm jsut going to a friend's house or similar.

My mum spends FOREVER ironing, I'm so glad i don't have to!:p

Re: jeans vs sofa - you could always ban the leather sofa

MrsE_2

clutterydrawer wrote: »

What things are you ironing? Everything thats not underwear almost.

I only wear jeans and t shirts....they pretty much look the same whether I iron them or not. Occasionally in summer I wear a blouse, that gets ironed if i'm going somewhere fancy, not if I'm jsut going to a friend's house or similar.

My mum spends FOREVER ironing, I'm so glad i don't have to!:p

Re: jeans vs sofa - you could always ban the leather sofa

I think it would be cheaper to ban riveted jeans;)

Primrose

I'm also a fan of not ironing unless I have to. When we worked, I had to iron OH's shirts and my blouses. Our workplaces expected us to look respectable. Now we're retired we wear casual and I find if clothes are dried outside (which I do as much as possible) the creases blow out in the wind. Having spent a lifetime stuck in an office I promised myself that when I retired my life was going to be spent in more worthwhile activities. Now now instead of ironing I enjoy working in the garden, listening to the birds or reading a book. Life is too short to be spent on worthless reptetitive tasks unless absolutely essential. Ironing mostly isn't in my opinion.

mardatha

Yaaay Primrose, I am with you all the way ! LOL
KICK A$$ REBEL GRANNIES ! WHOOHOO !

blueberrypie

MrsE wrote: »

My cousin doesn't iron either.

I can't work it out

95% of our non-underwear clothes HAVE to be iron, how can you not iron.

Do you & DH not feel embarrased about going to work or just out in unironed clothes?
I don't mean that to sound rude, I just can't understand how you don't "do" ironing

We don't walk out the door the minute we put clothes on. For fibres like cotton, there is virtually no visible difference, after ten minutes of wear, between ironed and un-ironed.

I shake laundry before I hang it to dry - that takes a lot of creases out. Then when I take it off the line or rack, I fold it and put it in a basket (I use those collapsible crates) and it goes into the airing-cupboard until it's time to sort and put away. That probably also gets rid of the worst of the creases - they're not being "dried in", if you see what I mean.

It wouldn't work for dress-shirts, but apart from things like Scout uniform, none of us wears those.

I don't think there's anything inherently "better" about clothes being ironed. I have six children - I've spent a lot of years with a baby in my arms. Given the choice between cuddling my child and ironing a t-shirt - I'm going for the former, every time.