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To not have a ironing dungeon

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CatherineHate · 09/04/2017 09:26

So, I'm currently living with MIL while DP partner and I renovate (read: rebuild) the house we just bought.

throughout the process MIL has been banging on about making an "ironing room" - a dungeon where I'll apparently be ironing mine and DP's clothes on a Sunday.

I've told her a million times that I'll be doing my ironing somewhere more entertaining - in front of the TV (what my mum does).

ladies and gents of Mumsnet, do I really need a ironing room or is MIL exaggerating?

This is not a MIL bashing thread, I'm just genuinely confused as to why she's so insistent on this designated roomConfused

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LindyHemming · 09/04/2017 09:28

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Kpo58 · 09/04/2017 09:29

Maybe she finds it to be a turn on to be chained in a small windowless room ironing?

I didn't know that people ironed anywhere else apart from infront of a TV.

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 09/04/2017 09:30

My iron only functions properly if within ten feet of a tv

LookAtTheFlowersKerry · 09/04/2017 09:31

I haven't ironed for about twelve years now. No one's noticed or died.

LucyLocketLostIt · 09/04/2017 09:32

Where does she do her ironing?

Cafecat · 09/04/2017 09:33

Maybe she doesn't want the living room overrun with other people's clothes on a Sunday if that's when you iron?

Does she have a spare room for ironing and she wants you to stash all your laundry in there through the week?

Do you mean she wants you to do it in the cellar? Shock That's not on really.

Dementedswan · 09/04/2017 09:34

I'd have an ironing room with a lovely big TV, a wine fridge and a lock on the door to keep visitors out Wink

Asmoto · 09/04/2017 09:35

I hardly ever iron anything, so it would be completely redundant in my house. My husband does his own ironing. Any ironing I'm forced to do is done in the spare room, as quickly as possible.

HeyCat · 09/04/2017 09:35

Simplest solution is to stop ironing entirely....

Gardencentregroupie · 09/04/2017 09:35

Only time I ever ironed without the telly on was when I worked in a dry cleaners and for paid for it.

WildKiwi · 09/04/2017 09:35

Are you allowed a TV in the ironing dungeon? An ironing dungeon could be good, if fully fitted out with a high quality entertainment system that can only be controlled by the person in charge of the iron.

ijustwannadance · 09/04/2017 09:36

Tell her your DP is a fucking grown up who can iron his own clothes.

Lesley1980 · 09/04/2017 09:36

I had an ironing room & it's great. The ironing board stayed up all the time so easy to iron one or two things quickly. All the washing got dumped in this room meaning the rest of my house was tidy.

I don't have an ironing room now & I have little piles of ironing in my dining room & the ironing board is nearly always up because my understair cupboard is full. I can't stand it & when we do our extension we are adding a utility room big enough to keep the ironing board up all the time & cupboards to hide the piles of clothes.

Floggingmolly · 09/04/2017 09:37

Does she mean a utility room? Confused I can't even imagine a room with nothing but an ironing board in it

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CatherineHate · 09/04/2017 09:38

MIL has her own ironing room, where sheach spends a chunk of her Sunday. There's a window but not much else- no music, TV or entertainment.

I do my ironing in the ironing room here (her house, her rules although I bring the tablet in although do Netflix Grin )

But it's the new house where she's insisting that an ironing room is a must. I don't get it

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treaclesoda · 09/04/2017 09:40

I'd quite like an ironing room. Blush I don't really mind ironing. It's getting the ironing board out of the cupboard that puts me off doing it.

trixymalixy · 09/04/2017 09:40

I would love to have enough room to have a utility with enough room to leave the ironing board up permanently. Most of our ironing is sent out so we iron one or two things at a time, never a big pile.

Mermaidinthesea123 · 09/04/2017 09:42

Oh no, time to stage a rebellion, give me a tv or the ironing board gets it!!!

katronfon · 09/04/2017 09:44

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SorrelSoup · 09/04/2017 09:44

We're in desperate need of a laundry room to put all the washing, but we don't iron regularly, only if we're going somewhere posh.

Cafecat · 09/04/2017 09:45

Oh I see. OP I can relate to where she's coming from because I have an upstairs ironing and laundry room and it does make life easier. No traipsing up and down stairs with laundry. The kids just throw everything in there and downstairs is clear.
I don't have Netflix in there which is a setback. I just listen to music.
The vast majority if ironing used to be DH's work shirts until I discovered the steam press at the local dry cleaners. 50p per shirt and it's ironed in a second. Why don't you just do this?

MatildaTheCat · 09/04/2017 09:46

My spare room is my ironing room. There are definite advantages to having a set up where you can leave the board up permanently. Really easy to just do a couple of bits.

If you have the budget to build a whole room devoted to ironing I'd be looking at the figures and working out how many years worth of paid ironing you could buy with the money. Wink

I must be weird as I've not mastered watching a screen whilst using a red hot, steaming weapon. Radio for me and shirts sent down to the cleaners.

FormerlyFrikadela01 · 09/04/2017 09:46

I hate ironing with a passion. However would love a room i could leave it up in then I'd be more likely to wear the huge amount of clothes i never wear because they need ironing and getting it out is half the battle.

oleoleoleole · 09/04/2017 09:47

Tell her you're having one and it's called a man cave!!

Frazzled2207 · 09/04/2017 09:49

I just don't iron at all.
Occasionally dp needs a shirt ironed but he does his own.
My dm is horrified that I don't iron btw.