People who moan about having loads of ironing to do..

[fishyonadishy]

...just stop it would you please?

Look, you don't have to do the ironing, ok, so stop moaning about it looking for sympathy.

Someone even posted a photo on facebook last week of their ironing pile - mountains of fecking toddler jeans. Why??

Yes, it's a pain in the butt job, but stop going on about it, please.

I don't iron, and some of my clothes are wrinkly. I just don't care.

My tumble dryer doesn't work at the moment

Therefore we have to iron T.Shirts and the kid's school trousers and shirts

I was a non ironer but DD (5) would complain if I did not iron her clothes. She likes her clothes soft. Dryer does not leave them soft enough for her. Even though I cut all labels off she must have the seams and the bit where the label was ironed, ironed down. Her school pinafores do not need ironing. I can get away with just hanging them up. Nothing else not even underwear goes unironed. I have wrinkly kex though!
Far easier to just iron them than watch her pulling at her clothes or listen to her moan about them.

cece - I think that's the 'things that are never ironed never need ironing' theory in action. Ironing causes future creases.

Technically we own an iron but I haven't used it since 2007. Tumble dry, lift and fold. If it doesn't survive, we didn't need it.

Until very recently I had lots of sympathy for a friend of mine whose young children are poor sleepers. She's on her knees with exhaustion. I was going to offer all sorts of support when she casually dropped into conversation that she irons EVERYTHING. Her husband's socks. The kids' vests. It takes hours apparently she's up late every night doing it. All sympathy evaporated there and then. I told her to throw the fucker away and go to bed!

I do have an iron, but use it very rarely - so rarely in fact that when DS1 was about 4 and saw the iron in my wardrobe he said "Mum, can I play with that boat?"

I don't understand why people moan about ironing. You can get away without doing it if you hate it so much.

I actually like it! I like standing in front of the telly and getting through it all. It's putting it away that's a bit annoying - I always seem to run out of hangers, but you have to do that whether you iron or not!

" run out of hangers, but you have to do that whether you iron or not!"

Tumble dry. Lift. Fold.

Hanger free. Nice neat stack on shelves.

"So i do moan about my ironing pile BUT it annoys me when smug people with wrinkly clothes say "Oh I never iron" yes we know but we are all too polite to tell you.... STANDARDS PLEASE!"

But what standards? Yours? There's no law against having creased clothes. Oh, and those of us who don't iron DON'T CARE that you think we are wrinkly.

marriedinwhite: "DH likes the collars on DS's rugby shirts done"

So tell him to do it then. Are you his skivvy?

How to avoid ironing:
When hanging out washing - flap vigorously to get wrinkles out, hang carefully to avoid wrinkles, then when taking down, fold immediately before putting into the basket. I suspect most wrinkles are formed by stuffing fresh laundry into the basket unfolded.

When tumbledying - flap more wrinkle-prone items before putting in the dryer, take washing out while still warm, flap everything vigorously then fold neatly.

Job done.

AnnieLobeseder DH pays the cleaner so he can have what he wants ironed.

..and actually your method does not result in sharp creases on shirt sleeves not does it result in tidy revere collars on school blouses which sit perfectly.

If you are line drying then you can also turn the spin speed on your washing machine down. It will mean fewer wrinkles and so less ironing. The clothes might take a bit longer to dry but that's not too much of a problem.

I don't iron. The only person who comments on it is DM. And only because when she goes on about her ironing pile I suggest that she just stops ironing. That always quietens her down

i think i own an iron, i know i own an ironing board, because i used it last year to extend the dining table at xmas!

tumble and hang, or line dry and hang,
don't buy clothes that need ironing,
and, if its really creased, i use the steam hand held thingy, but thats about twice a year.

life is too short to worry about creases, and as to ironing baby clothes, jeans, bed linen and towels, i mean really, will your life end if you don't iron them.

and yes, i always look well groomed and wrinkle free when i go out.

Sharp creases? Good lord, life is too short. Personally, I have far more interesting things to obsess over. Ah well, each to his/her own I suppose.

Another iron-a-holic here! I don't like ironing and am not particularly good at it but feel I look like a bag lady in wrinkled clothes if I don't. My own mother was/is very fussy about clothes being ironed properly (I was that kid with sharp creases down the fronts of my jeans despite begging not to have them!) I guess it rubs off. DS1 doesn't get the creases but he does get his jeans ironed enough that they are not all wrinkled. DH hates ironing and doesn't bother so he often looks like a big issue seller. We don't have a drier so maybe it would be different if we did.

I hate it when people talk about housework. Most things don't need ironing, what a waste of time.

Put it away. Iron once a day the outfits to wear. No ironing pile.

Oh, tis nice to read it's not just me who has the sense to not waste my life / stress out with ironing !

Who'd iron jeans !
They were made to be iron free, surely ?

another non-ironer here.

DH buys fairly good quality non-iron shirts (Charles Tyrwhitt I think they are). I just take them out of the washing machine as soon as it stops running and hang up to dry on hangers.

DC attend state school. The uniforms contain not a shred of natural fibres so they too, are just taken out of the washing machine and hung up to dry.

I'm frankly shocked at how many people iron.

Oh, and my neighbour showed up on the doorstep a few months ago asking me if I had an iron to lend her for a special occasino. So she doesn't iron either, it appears!

Yeah, my mum, who is nearly 80 and has a very bad shoulder, can't iron sheets any longer. So she gets her cleaner to do it. There's much complaining to me on the phone about said sheets, and the difficulties of getting old. On getting old I'm sympathetic, on ironing sheets, not so much - haven't ironed any myself in 30 years and haven't ironed much else either. I've told her many times not to bother but I'm wasting my breath!

I only iron dd1s school uniform and dps work shirts and my bed sheets (I like crisp sheets,its the nurse in me!)
Apart from that,nothing sees an iron.some times my mil,who irons towels and underwear,will remark on something being creased,and I have to tell her that its supposed to look like that,its the style of it etc.always works too.

I don't mind ironing, its putting it all away I don't like for some reason, so I put doing the ironing off until I really need to ie running out of clothes. I hide the piles from myself and then find them in obscure places weeks later only to discover the dc have outgrown the clothes.

I no longer iron pyjamas, sheets, duvet covers or underwear. Sometimes my mum does the ironing if she is babysitting and irons everything, even tea towels!