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Confession...I've got stuff waiting to be ironed that are:
Winter clothes, and even some clothes from last year that ds has now grown out of <<hangs head in shame>>
My wish is that someone will create me a week where I don't have anything else to do other than sort out my bl@@dy IRONING
So ironing hangs out under the stairs... in dd's bedroom (where the messiness of it is matched by dd's clothes on the floor habit) and now I've noticed I'm making uber weeny piles of 'needs to be ironed' things in my bedroom
my ironing pile is similar, actually did some today, only cos they are summer clothes and are now needed, unfortunately big pile of ironed clothes only just hung up so good work ruined
i have an ironing mountain-its getting ridiculous because i iron everything twice once to put way and once when its worn im making life hrd for myself i know but i cnt help it
i knew a sahm from school playground who used to take washing off line and iron it! amazing, well to me anyway, i am sure you will tell me there are plenty of other people like it
My MIL irons the washing straight from the machine, I mean everything towels, socks the lot then hangs it over a clothes horse to dry, she says it's much easier to iron and it dries quicker, I think she is barking and probably only does 2 loads of washing a week.
My ironing pile is over the basket and is growing every day. In my defence I have SPD and can't stand long enough to do it, must pay someone soon to come and take it all away for me.
Nothing in the ironing basket at the moment. Ironed the weekends washing on Monday, yesterdays washing yesterday and I have not done any washing today - so NO IRONING
wabbit - I think I pay per hour - about £9 if I take it to the local ironing shop, but less if I use my local 'woman who does everything'. Don't know how she works out per hour, but a big bag from her is def a lot cheaper (though not ironed quite as well) than the shop.
I have used odd places in the past that charge per item, but then I end up not giving them small easy items, and then they don't get done at all! About 8 years ago it would be something like 75p for a shirt.
I don't have an ironing pile (I did it this evening) , or anything in the laundry basket waiting to be washed - apart from the DS's socks, pants and DS3's clothes from today.......
Thankyou CantSleepWontSleep. I'm thinking with the advent of my student loan (which will make it possible) I'm going to have to get someone else on the case! Mind you it's lovely to know I'm not the only one with a serious ironing overload!
my ironing pile is taller than my 8 yr old. there is stuff at the bottom of it that no one has seen for 18 months. When I finally get down there they will have to be passed on to younger brother, but no worries, will be like getting new clothes without having to go shopping!
I don't iron anything. DH irons his own shirts for work (not his casual stuff), and I get his work trousers dry cleaned. If I did, then I wouldn't (IYKWIM), so I'd have ironing mountains too! When I worked (now SAHM), I would iron 5 shirts for work each Sunday night. I still didn't iron casual stuff.
Mine is all in a basket inside a wardrobe. I keep thinking that what I need to do is not have a place to store it, which might make me iron more regularly as I do washloads, IYSWIM.
<dreams of ideal world with extra few hours in each day>
two lots of clean laundry upstairs one lot of clean laundry in the tumble dryer, dry, needs removing to upstairs one lot in the washing machine, clean, needs removing to tumble dryer one lot on floor in front of washingmachine, needs putting into it. and a laundry bin full of dirty laundry in th etoilet.
it's a wonder we have any clothes in the cupboards
i dont have an ironing pile either.it goes wash-tumble dry-put away.i gave up ironing after i had dc3 and stopped using a washing line.i needed to iron a dress i hadnt worn for ages a couple of weeks ago and i couldnt even remember if i still had an iron(i did but it had no plug on it,luckily dh had one from when he was single)
Mine is huge - i dont iron often - i hate it with a passion - i am crap at it and it takes me to long and my feet hurt doing it. i iron dd school uniform and as little as i can get away with for dh until the ironing man comes back with my ironed stuff... i nearly have fifteen items in the basket now that i cant face ironing so i will summon my saviour ironing collection guy.......
Yeah maybe, - but surely, - even with cotton etc. if an item comes out of the machine looking as if you had worn if for an hour, - then surely tis waste of time ironing it, - coz by time you worn it for an hour.........etc.
funny thing is that when i do actually get around to doing it, it breaks me a greeat deal of satisfaction doing it. and i love the look of clean, ironed clothes in the drawers.
dont worry, i will probaly decide enough is enough, and either do it tomorrow, or just fold them and put away tommorrow.
i hold the record, i think. we moved into our house a year ago, and i packed a pile of dh's shirts awaiting ironing. it is STILL at the bottom of the ironing basket, it's just there's now more ironing on top of it. in my defence, ironing is the sole piece of housework that dh is supposed to be wholly responsible for and the one issue on which i have not just given in and done it myself (well, i do my own clothes when i need them, but leave dh's shirts for him). that bloody ironing will probably still be there when we sell this house.
Mine is totteringly high ~ flowing over the arm of the sofa and gently spilling down onto the sitting room carpet . Happily I'm in the kitchen though, so what the eye doesn't see !
cadelaide - for me it's not the flatness of the clothes, it's knowing exactly where things are - and how neatly they fit into drawers and onto shelves. Oh, and how crisp the bedding is.
I grew up with a mum who never ironed and who's idea of washing was putting things on the washing pile (which was mahooosive)
She left it there
and it stayed there
sometimes one of us (five children) would filch something filthy out and attempt to wear it and it would be confiscated (put back on the washing pile)
dad would finally realise that something needed to be done and would take bags and bags of the stuff to the lauderette (it would take hours and hours) but I loved fishing out the still warm, folded, sweet smelling things when they got home... especially my (rediscovered as pink) blankie
Only got 2 vests and a babygro left to do cost me £10 to get 3 baskets done though. I love my dd the ironing pile was getting to her lol now heres hoping the messy house will get to her next week when shes on hols from school
If my ironing pile gets too big, I put it away as is and will iron it when needed. Done this recently so i'm now up to date apart from the stuff that is drying.
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