If you don’t iron.. step this way...

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Hi everyone- as the title says .. if you don’t iron ... how/what/when/where?!??
I’ll attach a picture to this but I fail to see how I can live without ironing these white work shirts and ds school shirt each week plus black school and work trousers ... help?
I have to iron jeans and tops before wearing.
I’ve cut it down to ironing casual clothes as I go but I’d hate ironing these shirts etc every night or morn before work.
I wash my clothes and either hang on line or in airing cupboard to dry.Do you all have a magical washing machine that doesn’t crease clothes when they’ve been washed or do you spend ten mins shaking/folding out every crease before drying?!?! Help....

DS have non-iron school shirts.
I have some work trousers I guess would look better if I did iron them.
But I don't.
By time I cycle to work in the work clothes, they would look un-ironed, anyway.

20 mins is too long . It needs to be out and hung straight away and also looks like you are over loading your washer .. they shouldn't get that creased

Try washing smaller loads then. You definitely need softener with polyester.

I don't iron my clothes as I don't wear loose clothing. My husband is the one who irons in our house as he wears shirts for work and he does a much better job than I do

Mine don't ever come out looking like that. The dc and dh wear non-iron shirts, which I tumble dry or line dry. I don't really wear shirts at all. If one of dh's shirts comes out a bit crumpled, he'll iron it.

shake and line dry or if hanging inside then shake and straight onto hanger and hang to dry. I wonder if you reduce the spin speed on the washer you might have fewer crumples?

Also agree with the overloading!

Some things need ironing but I bought easy care school shirts that didn't need ironing back when they wore uniform, I don't buy things for me that need ironing if I can help it. H does his own now since he wants a divorce, but prior I just put shirts on hsngers and hoped for the best (is that where our relationship went wrong ...)

I don’t iron anything. The kids have non-iron shirts and DH is a techy type and doesn’t wear a suit. I don’t buy anything that needs ironing!

I only ever iron when I am sewing something, or for wedd8ngs.

Tip 1, buy carefully- don't buy clothes that will make your life miserable.

1. Don't cram the machine, it will crease if it's squashed up under heavy wet clothes,
2. Slightly slower spin, so clothes come out damper.
3. Sharp shake when you hang them, maybe even smooth with your hands if you can see some creases.

Take out of washer, shake, hang on coat hanger on a door, hairdryer inside the shirt sleeves, blast it, then blast front & back until creases go, then finish with cold shot. I haven't ironed since 2013.

My DH irons his shirts for work, kids are still in polo shirts for school so no ironing necessary but if they needed ironed shirts I reckon I'd do it or DH would do it when he was doing his. That's literally all we iron nowadays. It's liberating.

My DM thinks I'm insane and an embarrassment.

I give zero fucks.

I don’t iron. I do as others say, careful hanging on the line and Careful folding anything that really does need some creases knocked out like a shirt (which I virtually never wear) then I run my hair straighteners over the bits you can see once on like the collars

School skirts are those non iron one. Tumbler
In winter line in summer and I haven't had an iron for 9 years now.
I was caught out badly last Christmas when I had the brain wave of doing a medieval feast complete with white roses on the napkins (which probably hadn't been used since about 1485 anyway ) said roses arrived iron on so dm got drafted in. She wasn't sure whether to be appalled or impressed I never iron

Haven't owned an ironing board for 10 years - if a shirt desperately needs dewrinkling (wedding/interview/court) it will get a token run over on the dining room table with the iron I keep in the garage !

Shake. Fold. Hang.

Simple.

Wow I’m amazed -
I’ll try loading smaller, but will mean more wash loads and I already do one a day :-(

That spin speed is less already , I like to spin on 1400.When said work shirts were cotton I’d tumble and put on 40c but these shirts are buggers and our collars have to be immaculate!!
I would never base my clothes shopping on if something needs ironing !! I’m amazed some of you do!
So I’ll try smaller load, lesser spin and see what happens!!!

Can you keep the tricky items like those shirts separate? Do a shirt load which you are careful with, and be more relaxed about the rest?

Take out the machine as soon as finished and hang up straight away. Failing that get a really good tumble drier like mine that has an iron setting - everything comes out straight enough to wear straight away!
I never iron anything. DH takes his work shirts to the laundrette.

You have to get it out as soon as the machine finishes and straight on the washing line, pegged out really straight. I never iron anything.

Thanks everyone - will now try all the suggestions !

I think you need to change jobs op, is the obvious answer!

Those crease drop out, once they've got to school they'll be gone. Ironing is for mugs!

@cryer I knew there was something I’d overlooked !

wash with a half spin, hang to dry.
never tumble,
dont over line dry