Help please with ironing sheets (merged)

tootles_2

Just a quickie to add to this thread, putting pillow cases on, lay the pillow on the bed with the top of the pillowcase at the bottom of the pillow, slip your hands into the pillowcase and ease over the pillow then lift the whole lot up and tuck the top edge under your chin, a good shake and the pillow will slide in, put the envelope over the bottom of the pillow and sling onto the bed!!!!! works every time for me............

Petal_3

Eeeuuugh....how can anyone sleep in a crumpled bed? Bedding HAS to be ironed in our 'ouse.... Mmm....nice hot bath, shave yer legs, bit of body lotion and you glide in between freshly laundered bedding......HEAVEN I think I get that from my Ma.....she even ironed socks and dish cloths.

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catkins

I used to iron sheets and duvet covers but to be honest got in such a mess with them, keep ironing a bit and folding, that I gave up.

In fact I don't iron much at all now - too busy on the internet!!!

Chipps

In Shirley Conran's book "Superwoman", she had a quote which summed the book up - it was "Life is too short to stuff a mushroom"
I feel the same about ironing sheets..............

Quackers

Chipps wrote:

In Shirley Conran's book "Superwoman", she had a quote which summed the book up - it was "Life is too short to stuff a mushroom"
I feel the same about ironing sheets..............

I feel the same about ironing fullstop.

Ironing is done in our house - by my husband :rotfl: :rotfl:

Bun

The key to ironing is to watch something on the telly you can shout/get extremely indignant at and open a bottle of wine. The two are somehow
inter-related and you don't really notice the ironing at all.

And wrangling the cat out of the duvet you are trying to iron adds extra fun.

MommaCC

Help please with ironing sheets


I need help too, and any offers would be gladly accepted!!! :j

hilstep2000

I like ironing, but I don't iron sheets, or duvet covers, or twoel, or underwear.......Only things I iron on beds are pilowslips, I do like an ironed pillow to put my head on! LOL!

Luis

Iron?

Sheets?

Noooooooooooooooooooo!!

I ony iron my work uniform, and the odd thing that really needs it (ie you look at it and can't work out what shape it is meant to be - anything less will do).

However, I had a very glamorous job years ago, which included ironing all the clothes and bedding in a nursing home at night. What I used to do was get a sheet and fold it in half lengthwise, and put it across the irnoning board and use as a base - iron a few itmes on top of it, then move it along, iron a few more things, move it again etc.

In this way, the sheets and duvet covers got ironed without having to be done seperately. If they are only folded in half in this way, you don't need to do both sides, as they are thin enough to iron through.

HTH. I have to iron my blouses and tousers this afternoon - have put it off for too long already .........

calleyw

skywatcher wrote:

I am only 5ft 3in and like you I struggle.
Thanks for your tip, I'll give it a go next time.

Sky

Sky,

Let us know how you got on doing that.

My fallback position is to get my husband to put the duvet covers on :rotfl:

Yours

Calley