how old is your ironing board ?

Jei70

squeaky wrote: »

I'll get me coat.

Coat is a four letter word too.

My ironing board is about 12 years old, still sturdy, but the cover keeps sliding as I iron. Which doesn't happen often, anyway!

Penelope_Penguin

Mine was a wedding present nearly 18 years ago. DH has done a few repairs, and it's had several new covers

Squeaky - I feel my life is better lived when I have a pressed shirt on :rolleyes:

Penny. x

beemuzed

35 years old and good as new structurally, but I've replaced the cover several times. Actually, a real bargain, given that it's seen loads of use. Trying to think of other items as well used that I've had as long....

Aril

Mine belonged to my husband before I met him and we've been together 18 years. It keeps looking at me wistfully asking for a new cover...the last one was just after we got married 14 years ago. Poundland here I come:D
Aril

bobsa1

Mine is eighteeen years old and had a new JML cover 10years ago. I still can't believe how much I paid for that cover!!!

At the moment it is covered with tomorrows ironing (that I should be doing now!)

exlibris

I can't remember if mine was a wedding present (43yrs old) or bought when OH left the army (38yrs old). It has had several covers - needs a new one now. It doesn't get used much these days. I ironed a shirt last week that OH had worn for Armistice Day! It had been washed after wear but sat in the ironing basket until it was worth getting the iron out!

After washing & ironing 17 shirts a week when the boys were at school and the younger son's catering whites heavily starched I do the minimum and try to buy clothes that don't need ironing!

Miró

taurusgb wrote: »

Our ironing board is one that my MIL gave to my DH when he moved into his own flat - it was the one she bought when she got married ............... in 1958!! ...so our ironing board is now 50 years old and still going strong! It is a bit heavy (wooden frame) but still solid as a rock. A few years ago I saw one exactkly like it being displayed hanging from a kitchen wall in an Ideal Home magazine - as an antique! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Awww, you just beat me...mine is 47 years old, wooden, still solid and has had numerous covers in its time...been handed down thro the family...:D

StressedSteph

:rotfl: :rotfl: What a funny thread, it was'nt until I thought about it that I realised that mine must be about 10 years old. Good old things arn't they, keep plodding on, no questions asked . That reminds me, I could REALLY do with a new cover for mine:rolleyes:

StressedSteph

Mir! wrote: »

Awww, you just beat me...mine is 47 years old, wooden, still solid and has had numerous covers in its time...been handed down thro the family...:D

Wow I would love a wooden one

pigpen

Mine is about 6 months old.. hubby broke my last one in a mega strop last year but it was one of the cheap and nasty chip board ones that was really bendy and impossible to iron anything on really.. I have a big posh minky one now..