to be shocked that in 2012 there are women who iron their dh shirts?

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Chatting with some other mums this afternoon it emerged that two of them iron their dh shirts. Not as s favour as they were ironing some of their own shirts, but because their dh expects it!

I admit, I seldom iron my own clothes, I choose ones that don't need ironing, or if its a shirt I'll do it for myself, I'd do dcs when they're older, but no way dh, he can and does do his own, he wears a shirt everyday so has a few...

Aibu to believe in this day and age men should be doing their own ironing and also their share of housework? do I live in a feminist bubble?

A thread about ironing ?

How boring.

I love ironing, I save up a weeks worth then put a film on and do it all. I'd feel abit putout if dh got involved and did some, it would cause a row.

I don't do the dishes though, that's dh's thing. the rest of the chores we share. I do do more than dh because he works 7-7 so I'm here to do more but when I worked and he didn't he did the lions share.

I'm not a down trodden woman under the thumb of my sexist pig of a husband. We just get things done in a way that works for us

I was chatting with some Dads the other day when it emerged that two of them mend their wive's cars...check the oil and change the tyres.

Not as a favour because they were doing their own, but because their DWs expect it!

Actually I think we should all wear shell suits.

Yes we'd all look like ridiculously chav 80's throwbacks...but at least these bloody threads would stop.

actually i think YANBU to be a bit shocked that their DHs expect them to do their ironing. I'd be a bit cheesed off if my DH expected me to do his ironing - fortunately he's a bit more evolved than that and he's happy to muck in around the house when he's here (I'm at home more, so generally do more).

OP, given the number of threads i see on MN about DHs being crap around the house and expecting their partners to shoulder the majority of it, I'm surprised more posters on here aren't agreeing with your sentiment.

I love ironing. It makes me feel calm.
However I do not iron dh's shirts, not because of some feminist ideal, but because it is boring doing shirts.

I do not do car stuff, apart from filling up with petrol, DIY, decorating or gardening. Because I choose not to.

I iron Mr Tigga's shirts as it's the only housework apart from cooking I do.

AsLongAsIt'sAChoiceAndNotAHaveToWhyDoYouCareTiggaxx

I iron all the shirts , I don't mind .
DH does all the nasty jobs like bin bags , grass cutting etc so it seems fair to me

You're easily shocked

I know! I saw a MAN of all things MOWING THE LAWN.. in 2012! You would think by now that all the 'man' jobs would have become all the 'women' jobs and vice versa by now!

Sheesh what has fembotism been up to?!

You're quite easily shocked, aren't you? Keep your smelling salts always to hand, dear, it's a funny old world we live in.

DH would expect me to iron his shirts. Whats wrong with that?

I have ironed all our clothes for 12 years. I expect him to cook tea, he always does the food shop and cooks. In the sense thats how we have always worked.

I would be very pissed off if randomly, without saying anything, he decided to stop doing the food shopping.

If he said he was fed up doing it then fair enough. But at the moment I expect him to do it.

I do what I fancy doing and husband does what I tell him to do. How's that for feminism ha!

The "getting into an almighty piss" part would bother me too.

Well as I don´t go out to work I suppose that my husband "expects" me to iron his shirts as I have the time to do it.

I also mow the lawn/clean the windows/put the bins out.

Shocked? WTF for?

My dp goes out to work. I don't.

So I iron. I do most of the housework. We share cooking and shopping. Why wouldn't I do his ironing?

He doesn't expect me to though. Maybe that's the difference?

Shocked? Really?

My DH doesn't expect me to iron his shirts and will do so himself, but when I'm ironing the dcs shirts anyway? I might as well just do them. He appreciates it. Non issue really

Dh irons his own shirts. I think he would be surprised to find out he lives in a feminist bubble However, he's pretty used to the idea that he lives with a feminist . . .who is rubbish at ironing and that he wouldn't trust with his favourite shirts.

I iron all of our clothes, I enjoy it and dh is spectacularly bad at it. Today after our day out he cleaned the bathroom,then he hoovered the house while I sat down with a cuppa.

He also does a better supermarket shop than me.

Would love to see how my DH could iron his shirts given his 12 hour days.

How odd to make an issue of this

Wow ok obviously iabu to be shocked. The reason I was shocked was because it would never have occurred to me to iron dh shirts, I thought it was a personal task but obviously I'm un the minority here.

I hate ironing with an absolute passion - refuse to do it for anyone including myself - work's blouses and DH's shirts go in to the Dry Cleaners in Tesco to get pressed....easy....sorted!

YABU I iron my DH's shirts and put away his clothes. He does others ones tic chores like clean the dishes, bathroom etc..

Save your shock for domestic abuse.

OP - ironing - it's indoor, it's clean, I can listen to the radio, or even watch TV, or hear a feminist talk to me.

As a family we wash all the whites together. Some of the clothes are mine, some are my children's, many of the shirts are my DH's.

What would be weird would be if I left a selection of clothes crumpled and unironed. That would be mean.

And it leaves more time for my DH to remove all the the limescale in the shower.

My dp doesn't have q lot of free time. I would much rather he spent it
making me cocktails doing fun stuff with us than ironing!