To have not picked up an Iron in over a year?

[Twinmummy79]

I hate ironing. I would much rather be sat on the sofa stuffing my face with chocolate and reading to my DC. The last time I picked up an iron was to press my brothers cravat for his wedding. When I do DHs washing I take his shirts straight out of the tumble drier (they are the things I tend to tumble rather than hanging on the line) and straight on to a hanger and they are perfect. I do not buy anything for myself I think will need ironing. I find the whole concept very odd and I think the friends I know who iron their knickers utterly bonkers. Am I plain lazy or just the only sensible one out there? (I get looks of horror when I say I don't even know where my iron is)

Oh hardly anyone irons on mn - they're all to busy reading to their children

I iron though - I have nice clothes and like to keep them looking nice.

YANBU. Ironing is hugely overrated

eminently sensible.

i only iron my work uniforms.

in fact my old work uniform is still in my ironing basket fairly near the top. I changed jobs 2 years ago. This means the stuff in the bottom of the basket has probably been there 4 years. one of these days i'll chuck it in the oxfam bag.

If your clothes dont look creased then why iron, tumble drying though does shrink clothes. I generally don't iron my stuff when I take it off the line, never use a tumble dryer, guess it depends what you wear. Wouldnt say you are lazy though if you can get away with it.

My iron got stolen in 1990. I have never seen the point of replacing it.

I don't mind ironing - but I hate hoovering - don't worry about it, who cares whether you iron or not (but why are you even discussing ironing - I can't think of any conversation I've ever needed to have with anyone else about where my iron is ).

MIL bought us our iron when DH and I moved in together 16 years ago. it's still in pretty good condition.

I realised the other day that I haven't picked up the iron since I moved house which was over a year ago, so you are in good company! Luckily my husband doesn't wear shirts so pretty much everything can go straight from washing line to chest of drawers. Most clothes you buy these days don't really crease so why waste all that electricity and time unnecessarily?! There was a (pre-children) time when I used to iron my sheets (?!?!), how times have changed...

my husband does all the ironing.

I forget where the water goes in mine.

Life is really too short.

I have said it before I will say it again.

Shake and fold, shake and fold.

It's the way forward

I haven't ironed in about 20 years. Or more.

It's pointless. Things just get wrinkled when you wear them.

My husband irons his work shirts. I suppose some day I may iron my son's school uniform. He's 21 months. Maybe they'll be magic cloth in a few years and I won't have to iron.

No one ever died from a wrinkle. That's my criteria for most housework.

[senior slattern emoticon]

Ha ha Traceybath when I said reading to DC I meant catching a quick snooze whilst they dismantled all of our bookshelf.

Pekkala - someone stole your iron??????
Was it the Phantom Ironer of Old London Town?

Ragwort I think the conversation went

Friend 'oh I can't meet you for coffee I have a mountain of ironing'

Me 'thats ridiculous I don't even know where my iron is, sack it off nobody is going to die of creases'

Salmotrutta Sadly no...it was the Pissed Medics of Cardiff Uni

I love the Quinten Crisp quote

"There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse."

But how do your clothes not look crap??? I mean that in the nicest possible way , but I genuinely don't get it!

DD has some "non-iron" shirts for school. They lie. Even if I dry everything outside on a lovely breezy day, and fold it straight away, it all still looks like a crumpled pile of shit.

Mind you, I do feel secretly self-satisfied at a lovely neat pile of dh's freshly ironed undies

haha - "dh's freshly ironed undies". How very "stepford wives".

Simple, toomanyblossoms. I work from home. I wear jeans and t-shirts. Simple!

And actually, have no problem sending my son out wrinkled. I really don't think about it. If people want to judge me because I'm wrinkled, so be it.

My clothes look fine, I wear mainly stretch jeans and sweatshirts/jersey tops. If I get dresses I love knitted and jersey dresses and I also love crepe silk which hardly ever gets a crease. My job is in fashion believe it or not (specialising in textiles) so I just know what fabrics will cope well without an iron and which won't. I shop accordingly. I have one thing that does need ironing occasionally but if I want to wear it I iron it as I wear it rather than beforehand.

My answer to anyone who bothers to mention the lack of ironing- I'm minimising my carbon footprint

Only DH's work uniform gets ironed (on the morning he needs it - by dh himself) unless I decide a particular piece of clothing needs ironing desparately before I wear it in which case it gets ironed that morning but that is rare as most of my smart clothes are non iron and I take them at their word.

My current excuse for not doing any ironing at all is that my ironing board is too rickety and small and my iron leaks water and recently also leaks little white crystals like salt which dh said is limescale. Nice.

Both were second hand though - they were my MIL's emergency iron and board

I iron every week - t-shirts, blouses, cotton trousers. There are lots of things I won't put in the tumble dryer as it does shrink them. So have to iron to make things look nice. I even have spray starch for linen tops!