Pay daughter for doing ironing?

Tabbytabitha

Pollycat wrote: »

Just matching this ^^^^, love, just matching this. :whistle:

Doesn't wash, sunshine, when my comment was in reply to your "ragbag" one, not the other way round.:D

LilElvis

Tabbytabitha wrote: »

Scrubbing up well to go somewhere nice is one thing - worrying about what you look like when walking the dogs or going shopping is something else. I don't like it when people look like they've made too much effort, particularly when we're older.

I don't see any correlation between ironing your clothes and "worrying what you look like". Most people open their wardrobe, get clothes out and then put them on - just some people do so with ironed clothes.

I don't get what you mean about older people "making too much effort" - when you pass a certain age are you somehow duty-bound to wear polyester and ugly shoes from Hotter? My Mum is 79 and MIL is 86 and both always go out looking groomed. They're not tottering around looking like mutton dressed as lamb - just smart, coordinated ..... and with their clothes ironed.

iammumtoone

If my Dad asked me to do his ironing I wouldn't do it for free reason being I don't iron so it be a 'special' job just to do his.


Now if he asked me to do his washing for example I wouldn't expect paying as I do my own so its wouldn't be much more work to add his in.


I realise washing is easier than ironing but you get the point. If I ironed everything for a family of 5 as in the OP I would not charge as an extra persons wouldn't be much more work. Especially for a recently bereaved father who has probably done plenty for his daughter in the past.

suki1964

My new iron is a dream

I can now go to work with just my face looking crumpled in the morning

Pollycat

Tabbytabitha wrote: »

Why is it ok for you to dislike it when you think people look like "ragbags" but it isn't ok for others to dislike seeing others dolled up like a dogs dinner?

I really do not care what you look like or want to look like.

I've simply said I iron clothes (Shock! Horror!).
I don't care if anyone else does that or doesn't so that.

You assumed (very wrongly, as it happens) that I 'worry about what I look like when walking my (non-existent) dogs or go out shopping. I don't. My clothes are ironed. End of.
Get over it or don't.

I made a joke about ironing and I thought we were having a bit of a laugh in this thread (started by this comment from you to which I replied light-heartedly) but it seems not.

Tabbytabitha wrote: »

You ought to get out more!

I'm off to do some ironing.

JWM

Blimey


Who knew the subject of ironing (or not) could arouse such anger and discord!


:rotfl:

POPPYOSCAR

We are another family that manages to get by without ironing anything.

Never have we gone out in 'crumpled' clothes.

Pollycat

JWM wrote: »

Blimey


Who knew the subject of ironing (or not) could arouse such anger and discord!


:rotfl:

Quite.
I think the answer is to not go off-topic (mea culpa on this thread) and ignore any posters who do.

System

I'd do my Moms ironing for free but she would have to show me how to do it first.:rotfl:

Marisco

My iron is nearly 50 years old. There is a reason for that I don't iron anything, I pay to get oh's shirts done as I hate ironing, nothing else gets ironed. Nearly all my clothes have to be hand washed and hung out dripping. So by the time the wind has dried them they don't need ironing anyway.


As for the op, I think he should do it himself or pay someone to do it. If it's just the odd shirt, then I think the daughter could do that for nowt, but if it's a whole load, as some do on here, then she should be paid for it. If she needs the money though, she should get a job, the kids are old enough.