Ironing - love it or hate it?!

Sammie_03

I'm another that loathes ironing!! I will only iron when it is needed that day!!
Xx

meeps

I housekeep so might do 2/3 hours of ironing for other people a week, but for us.... I have the mini ikea ironing board and an iron that came free with something, and the last time I got it out was to do a t shirt iron on transfer...

Ilona

I hate ironing, I don't do it. Only buy clothes that don't need ironing.
Ilona

tankgirl1

i r o n - swear word in our house!

Elsewhere

I love ironing - especially (as we call them in our house) "small square things" - hankies, napkins, tea-towels... There's a real pleasure in making them so smooth and flat

However, I think technology had made ironing a bit harder than it used to be.

Firstly - I've always liked to use a dry iron, because they are heavy and I don't have to put effort into pressing down on clothes - and the clothes end up *dry*!!!! But since my last one died I haven't been able to get a replacement. (If anyone knows where I can get one, I'll be delighted) I think steam irons are harder to use - they are bulky but too lightweight and there's all the pratting about with water... And the clothes have to be aired afterwards.

Secondly - (though actually I wouldn't want to use anything but my automatic washing machine now) when I was a child my mother had a washing machine with an electric mangle. Folding sheets etc before mangling made them come out almost ready ironed (though still wet, obviously). There were far fewer creases to get rid of.

I_wanna_live_for_free

I enjoy ironing, you can do it almost without thinking while sorting things out in your head after a stressy day. My problem is that our iron is a steam generator iron so is huge and my husband doesn't like it always out in the kitchen (only place where there's room enough to iron) so he puts it at the back of the under stair cupboard and piles stuff in front of it and it's a mission to get it out.

So I generally hang things on hangers straight from the washing machine and hope for the best. When I do get the beast out, I run around and find more things to iron, and yes, I iron tea towels then too.

Makes them lie flat in the drawer.

Gra76

I'm pretty sure I've not ironed anything since last century. I don't plan to change that anytime soon...much to my wifes disgust... :rotfl:

WashingTime

Elsewhere - your mention of mangles got me really worried for a moment (the only mangle I've seen was Joe Mangle in Neighbours years ago!).

Elsewhere

WashingTime wrote: »

Elsewhere - your mention of mangles got me really worried for a moment (the only mangle I've seen was Joe Mangle in Neighbours years ago!).

Hehehe - I remember him!

My mother's machine looked rather like this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KuvrEd1aNk&feature=relmfu

Googling around to find a picture, I've found reports of people who are still using these machines - that's what I call moneysaving, an appliance that lasts 60 years!

oddies

i love it, :j:j will iron just about anything, socks, smalls ( well sorry but if you had an accident would you want everyone looking at your non ironed knickers/boxers ) i iron sheets, duvets, socks, knickers/boxers, towels, t/towels, hanky's although not fussed on doing them as i would much perfer my hubby to use tissues but he's old school :rotfl: i find it very theraputic whilst listening to music or early in the mornings when everyone else in bed. if i see any comps that has the word iron in title i am on it :rotfl: and even get my f/book friends to make me aware of any they find :rotfl:i cannot understand anyone who says they hate it but i know a lot do and each to their own.