to not do the ironing and drink wine instead...

[BlueCollie]

I have just done the Shred DVD, had a shower and about to tackle the increasingly huge ironing pile (mostly my sons clothes as I basically live in tracksuit bottoms ) and just pour myself a huge glass of red wine instead.......ironing is my husbands job but he isn't back until April....not sure I can leave it till then

heh, just saw your last post.. hopefully I didn't offend!
I'm just a very lazy efficient person and ironing my 3yo's t-shirts seems very high on the list of pointless to me. :)

look i'm sorry but this just represents a fall in discipline and standards and showseverything that is wrong with this country. Do you think David Cameron's Wife would ever allow her staff to skip the ironing? No. Because she has made the choice to be successful and being successful means that you have to be able to maintain standards against the odds. In the army do you ever see an officer without sharp creases and polished boots even though he/she must get up an hour before his men to make sure his sergeant has collected his spare boots?? Well do you?

You have no idea how many people fought and died so that you could have a moulinex, concentrated Fairy and some fabreze instead of a blunt knife, a hunk of sunlight and a regular wash-day. Come on people, life isn't a holiday you know.

Jeez

Heroine

My Mum ironed everything including tea towels and underpants. I always found the latter somewhat sinister, the little smirk she always had on her face as she pressed the hissing steel into the crotch of my Dad's Y-fronts.

We may all be missing a trick here actually.

@ Heroine and Mists.

The ONLY reason for ironing (as far as I'm concerned) is when you live in a country with evil fleas/mites that infest your washing while it's on the line.

LMFAO Mists That's actually quite scary!

And I think BlueCollie might need a bit of therapy to get over her DMs mental cruelty to her as a child (ironing tea towels! how could she?!)

Um do both?
I had 2 glasses of wine last night and then came home and rattled through a monumental pile at record speed! So much so that I've been considering taking up the wine specially on ironing night.
So I practised this a bit tonight- one bottle- no ironing though.
Oh well...

Pmsl @ hissing crotch !

mists - that sounds like a devious impotent-woman-getting-back-at-man- smack the pony sketch with a little bit of obscure old-lady dominatrix getting in there.. AWESOME! (ps. loved STP where are u??? )

btw one of my pals at Uni used to take speed and do the ironing.. 1/4 gram for washing and folding 1/4 gram to iron.. heehee

Bellagio perhaps ironing is like darts; it requires approximately 3 units to be good at it?

(any more or less and I'm useless....)

I think it takes three units to love it, six units to try to get off with it.. (that explains why I sometimes wake up rolling in lavender smelling whites.. oh yeah.. but the headache...