how old is your ironing board ?

Mrs_Boo_Boo

I think mine was given to my sister-in-law as a wedding present and she got married in 1969!!! eeks it's only a year younger than me.
It's metal and very sturdy. Have used ironing boards in friend's houses and they seem so flimsy compared to mine.

Patchwork_Quilt

Our is nearly 25. It wobbles but given that I do as little ironing as possible, it seems silly to replace it.

Goldiegirl

Mines 31 years old.

It was a wedding present, and is still going strong. It's had a few new covers but it's structurally sound.

In fact we got two ironing boards as wedding presents. The other one is still in the loft, unused. We kept it as a replacement when the other one wore out, but the way it's going , I don't think the original will ever wear out.

Hmm, the ironing board in the loft could be a candidate for decluttering!

Frugalista

Mine was a wedding present - so coming up 34 years in March and still going strong (though, admittedly, it doesn't get used much).

Last year, in a moment of complete madness, I bought an extra-wide all-singing, all-dancing new one (Minky, I think) which is still sat in the packaging .

bugwoman

Mine must be over 50 years old - a wooden one that I remember as a child having an asbestos iron rest, but which my father must later have replaced with a layer of solid wooden blocks. My mother used it until she became too immobile to do the ironing. Her "help" hated it, though, because it was so heavy, and replaced it with a cheap flimsy one which has a nasty slippy cover and always gives me blood blisters when I try and erect it! The old one was put out for the rubbish, but I rescued it and now have it in my house. Just the sound of it being put up or folded away brings back so many memories! My mother regularly recovered it with a layer cut from an old woollen blanket topped with cotton from an old sheet nailed on round the sides using upholsterer's tacks.

whitesatin

Mine is around 35 years old. It is still fine but I hanker after one of those wide one, I think they sell them in Costco.

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I have had mine since we moved house in1997, its a metal one and periodically I recover it.

We moved into a house and it was in the cupboard in the hall, when we moved out the removers packed for us and packed the wrong one, so I came away with a beldray ironing board and left my cheap and cheerful one behind. It is still in excellent condition. It has a much longer 'bed' than the one I had, so useful for ironing things like sheets and duvet covers.

Frugalista

whitesatin wrote: »

Mine is around 35 years old. It is still fine but I hanker after one of those wide one, I think they sell them in Costco.

Frugalista wrote: »

Last year, in a moment of complete madness, I bought an extra-wide all-singing, all-dancing new one (Minky, I think) which is still sat in the packaging .

That's the one I bought - and am still yet to use it :o.

quintwins

MInes 7 years as it was a wedding gift, it's still going string and i will get years from it, it was onlya £10 argos one aswell i have replaced teh cover with a 99p one that doesn't fit tho so i popped a hair band round teh excess underneath so my ironing board has a bun lol.

Bella73

Mines about 21 and still going strong although its had a few new covers in its time.