to iron my hubbys boxer shorts?

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Just doing the ironing and wondering if everyone irons boxers or I can get away with not ironing them hehe.

They are the loose fitting they do look slightly creased

I bought a new lovely iron yesterday.
But it looks like it will mostly sit there on the ironing board until the cleaning lady comes in two weeks.
It's a nice shade of blue all over. There was another one in pink. I wonder if it's a boy's/girl's thing too.

WorraLiberty sorry about that! I'll send you some brain bleach!

RIP Billy

Worra, you should read the whole thread about Billy. It's in Classics

What RJ said.

Hehe and hubby?! What is happening to MN?

We find in winter that putting clothes on our radiators quite carefully results in the creases falling out as they dry.
In summer, if you hang them in certain ways on the line outside, they also lose their creases.

And we do fold all our laundry. It really doesn't need ironing.

Don't make me read the Billy thread.

I think I'd rather iron my underwear while I'm wearing it!

I haven't turned my iron on in 3yrs.

Worra, the Billy thread is disgusting and heartwarming at the same time.
And we all love MrHatespiders now
Hope you don't mind, Hatespiders - you did start the thread….

MiL irons my dh's boxers when he's home for a visit. Not sure whether she goes as far as ironing her husband's y fronts won't even get into how I know my FiL wears y fronts.

Boxers do not get ironed in this house.

My new iron can steam iron vertically for clothes that are hanging.

I mostly iron (DS's t-shirts) for social purposes, because people frown at non-ironed clothes.
I am still to find out how my mother can spot an un-ironed t-shirt with no creases.

PacificDogwood of course I don't mind. Dh's leg has now healed nicely. He may go back to Africa in August, with strict instructions to get the women in his village to iron everything with their charcoal irons (a man would rather be seen dead there than doing ironing!)
Our blasted cats weed up the ironing board propped against the wall, the buggers. I had to wash the cover. Yet another reason to avoid ironing!

Points all taken and mentally engraved.

My husband is very good around the house I dont mind doing it. Just one of them things that needs doing.

IABVU thank you all for your responses.

off to read bot fly

If that's how you want to spend your free time, go ahead.

I've got things I like doing more than make-work, to the extent that I can't actually remember the last time I got the iron out, but each to their own.

I don't get the aggro about the OP doing the ironing?
'Why isn't he ironing them himself? '
'Doing another adults ironing for them'

Would you be as sneering to my OH who does all the ironing?
Or is it part of the stereotype of Downtrodden and Oppressed Womanhod?

As Worra points out:
To the people asking why she's doing his ironing, perhaps it's part of the chores they split down the middle?

In my home, yes. We split the chores amongst us, he irons and I garden, as an example. He always irons DS's boxers, apparently it's more comfortable for the wearer. He also irons tea towels, which I've never understood.

YANBU, why not?, they would drive me insane is they were crumpled.
Adults are free to iron other peoples clothes even if they are capable of doing it themselves, it's called caring and sharing.
I would feel very put out if my partner only ironed their own clothes.

Are you for fucking real?

actually, I doubt you are

I don't iron- anything. I don't own an iron.

My DH grew up in a household with a European lazy and misogynistic father and very old fashioned British mum whose purpose in life seemed to be ironing anything and everything that belonged to her H and her three DS. 'Menfolk' weren't allowed near irons, cookers, washing machines or any other domestic appliance as this was 'woman's work' and besides they'd 'only muck it up'...

He can and does iron. Better than I can. Your DH can too.

Skatingfastonthinice put's it over better than I can.
I'm sure the OP's husband can iron. He most like does other chores such as cooking and possibly works long hours.
I personally love ironing; dislike all other household chores though.

Why isn't he ironing them himself?
Haha only on mumsnet.

Life is too short to iron pants ffs. Unless ironing pants makes u happy/fulfilled, don't bother and do something that interests u.
Each to their own, but ironing does not need doing.

I think there's a different between dividing tasks and ironing because the other person is apparently incapable of the task.

Actually, one of the things that was putting off about exH is that he'd wash and iron his own clothes but not think of doing it for me or DS, while I'd wash and iron (if absolutely necessary) any clothes that were hanging around.

And I was put off by a later partner who claimed he couldn't iron because he was left handed (!). Even his friends thought this was bullshit, of his own admission. And said that his mother ironed for him, but he'd now have someone else to iron for him. Guess what, he didn't get it.