Ironing before packing - am I wasting time?

I don’t really iron anyway or the majority of my clothes . But I don’t pack anything which is likely to get creased and need ironing in the first place. Have some linen dresses but don’t pack them for holidays

Yes, I'm the same, I iron anyway because I wear natural fabrics. I think if people wear polyester and leggings then there's no need.
I'd ignore the car though.
I like clean bedsheets to come home to as well!

Ironing is getting the creases out of clothing, helping them to look and feel better.
It's not about helping you to "survive", it's just a personal aesthetic, really. No right or wrong either way.

Team you op
Dp, does all the ironing and packing. It is perfectly fine coming out the other side of journey.

I never iron anything and I seem to have survived.

What is ironing?

As for cleaning the car when it will just sit on the drive for 10 days - just why?? Do you really think that people who are passing are going to come up to it and inspect it?

Can't remember the last time my car was washed and it seems fine.

Mine is constantly covered with crap - I’m a dog walker and pet sitter and go on yards, farms and into woodlands so it’s always covered in a layer of mud, dust, dog hair, sap and god knows what else - as I’m never going to sell it I don’t really care how it looks 🤣

We couldn't not ever wash our car. There are trees over our drive and it gets covered in stuff falling from them. We do try to keep it covered quite a lot of the time but it's impractical to keep that up all the time. But washing it before we go away is not a thing. We'd just make sure it was covered!

I iron things that need ironing before I pack them but I don’t iron them again when they are creased when I get there. Cleaning the car before going on holiday is mental.

I think if you normally iron things then you'll probably want to iron them before they go in your case. They wont come out perfectly, but the ironing will still definitely make a difference. We'd never normally iron t-shirts anyway though!

Definitely understand why you need to clean your car before you go away. What's your thinking??

Each to their own - I iron my clothes anyway so when packing everything is ironed, rolled and put into packing cubes. I clean the house and change bedsheets before going away as I like coming back to a clean house but I wouldn’t bother with the car. I’d leave your DH to pack however he wants to.

I do iron.
When packing I fold everything neatly and sometimes roll as well. I also pack to avoid things getting squashed. About 99% of the items arrive at my destination in a presentable state and generally only need hanging up or unrolling and put in drawers or on shelves.
As for the car, it would not be a high priority and I might prefer to wash it on my return, if it was dirty.

I iron mine, but then all my summer/warm weather things are cotton, linen, or a mix. I pack them in such a way that they don’t need ironing again after I arrive.

Yes. These are two non issues. His clothes have nothing to do with you, the car is fine and you won’t be there anyway.

add me to the never iron, never clean the car lists!

I definitely wouldn’t clean a car and then leave it at Gatwick Airport or shared for 2 weeks. What would be the point of that?

Has he told you what housework you need to do before you leave?

I also don’t get the logic behind the car washing either. Are you wanting it to look nice and sparkly clean and shiny so that people can admire it while it’s sat on your drive? I don’t get it lol.

I never understand the logic of why some people want everything to look ‘perfect’ before going on holiday. You’re going on a holiday and coming back. You don’t need to preserve everything in case some historian might come and find it and take it to a museum. You won’t be gone forever!

You can just ask for an iron at reception, even Travelodge has them.

I iron most of our clothes anyway, I have a lot of fabrics that crease badly and really need it, so I would carefully pack ironed clothes but I have never ironed anything on holiday.
Our car gets washed once a year, it gets a complimentary wash with the annual service.

I iron before I pack, it makes packing easier.

I wouldn’t iron before packing, I wouldn’t see the point - it’ll get creased in the case.

totally fail to understand the car washing.

I would iron things as well, as then they’re less creased when you arrive. I don’t want to be ironing whilst on holiday.

We're the same. Washing the car once a month would cost £35 where I live, sod that.

That's still ironing 😂 surely once he had it on for 5 minutes all the creases would drop anyway? Even my most houseproud fastidious friends don't touch an iron on holiday.

The creases will drop out once he’s had it on for about 2 minutes anyway.

I always see comments about scruffs who don’t iron but I’ve honestly never been able to tell.

Iron?

Unreasonable. You're going on holiday, not to hang with the Windsors.

And before packing them?

Hahahahano.

The car is just going to sit there. Why are you making your pre holiday workload so much more than it needs to be?