Is iorning a thing of the past?

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The only time I find myself reaching for the iron these days is if someone is going to a wedding and a shirt, or outfit needs ironing. Or if one of us is going for an interview.
Otherwise, I'm careful how I wash and hang things. No creases. Job done.
I don't have an 'ironing basket' and never have a pile of ironing to get through every week.

Am I slovenly? or what?
My mother is a slave to the iron and spend hours and hours every week wading through a pile of ironing. Whereas I don't see the point. Life's too short. I've worked it out my mother spends, on average, 12 hours a week Ironing!

Do you iron?
Or not?

(Obviously if your job entails having an ironed shirt Monday to Friday, exceptions are made)

I don't iron (except for weddings). I value my time far too much.

We're a hanging household, everything is hung on hangers to dry, so minimises creases. I also buy clothes carefully to make sure I don't need to iron. I don't particularly like cotton shirts anyway and most other things can be got away with.

DH does his own shirts. DS is in nursery and mostly wears cotton jerseys and jeans. We may have to change tack when he goes to school, but I'll still do everything I can to avoid it.

Never iron everything is put on hangers and dried in the best position to not crease.

MsHarry, totally depends on your job. Dh is a manager so has to wear smart shirts (which he irons) but previously his job was manual and performed in a boiler suit. In my job nobody cares what you wear as long as you are reasonably sanitary.

Mil, when staying with us, once asked me where the iron was kept. I couldn't tell her.

But no. We can't do that properly because we must iron a bedsheet that will be rewashed again overnight or first thing in the morning.

It seems crazy.
As long as the sheets are spotlessly clean, that should be enough. Especially if they will be soiled that night and need washing again.
Far better to use the time that would have been spent ironing chatting with the residents or doing some activity with them instead.

I remember THAT ironing thread

DH irons his work shirts. Decent stuff gets dry cleaned. I iron the odd thing, but not an awful lot.

Although the old dryer-to-hanger thing gets said a lot, I find it only works for anything that doesn't need to be perfect or have a crease!

Mil, when staying with us, once asked me where the iron was kept. I couldn't tell her

I never do it, never have, except for the odd item.

DS irons his own shirts and trousers. I once did it so badly for him that he decided to learn how it's done and watched YouTube videos.

I fold everything carefully when it comes out of the dryer.

I must spend less than 30 mins a week ironing. DH irons his shirts. I don't wear many smart shirts/blouses. I tend to wear more jersey/knitted dresses/jumpers/skirts for work that only need a quick run over if that or they are tailored items that are dry cleaned.

I iron, l like doing it. I’ve got a steam generator iron so in less than an hour I can do a superking sized duvet cover, four pillowcases and two or three loads of washing. I do it sitting down too because I can’t stand for long enough.

Both DH and DS1 are in the armed forces so their uniforms need ironing. DH does his trousers, if DS1 comes home with his washing I’ll do it for him but he can do his own. DS2 irons his uniform, he’s a student nurse, and irons the majority of his clothes. Neither of the kids iron their bedding that they have at uni/camp though.

I iron most things. The only stuff that doesn’t get ironed is underwear, towels and tea towels and their lightweight sports clothing.

I never understand how people don't iron. What about smart shirts?

I don't have any smart shirts. My DH irons his own and when the DC were at school he did theirs as well.

My dryer makes creases much worse. I dry on a clothes horse in winter and outside in spring/summer.

I couldn't even say where my iron is.

So ironing is still neededlost it's just you personally don't do it.

The only things that get ironed here are the kids uniforms and dh work shirts and trousers.

I'm thinking if I watch when the drier finishes and hang it up starlight say I might not even have to do that though dh shirts will always need doing as the material they are made from are a nightmare.

We have an iron but not ironing board. The odd thing gets ironed on our bed if necessary. DS recently joined cadets and has lots of clothing that HAS to be ironed and he spends ages doing this awkwardly on our bed and is now begging for an ironing board so I may have to cave in!

So ironing is still neededlost it's just you personally don't do it.

Half a dozen items a week-shirts- I would just get the dry cleaners to do them as well but he is fussy about his clothes!

I'm a selective ironer - we don't have a tumble drier so everything is dried over a maid, so often things have a crease in the middle where they've been hung up, also, if you leave things to dry for too long they go a bit cardboardy! DH has a manual job, so no work clothes to do for him, DS1 & 2 are both in sixth form so don't have uniform - I iron some of theirs, but if they don't put it away I don't do any of the next lot! DS3 has uniform to iron, and some of my work clothes. Takes no more that 30 minutes a week (although I often claim it takes longer, as I am upstairs on my own to do it.....)

I have a lovely laundry room. Everything is hung on rails on hangers to dry plus 4 large airers. Never tumble dry anything unless it is an emergency. Then folded and put away. I have no involvement with any of the laundry process but it seems to work well.

I'm quite particular about how I look. I don't go around looking as if I have fallen out of a skip, but
I don't iron.

DM and DMIL are disgusted.
In their eyes you're not doing your housewifely duties properly unless you're getting through a mountain of ironing every week.

I hardly do any ironing.
DH and DS do their own shirts, I only have a few things that need ironing.
Definitely don't do bedding! Life is too short.

Just finished doing the ironing. I don't mind it, I do a batch on a Sunday and then another batch on Wednesday.
I don't care how careful you fold stuff, I tend to find stuff always looks better ironed. I spend maybe 2 hours a week doing it. I don't do towels.
I do love ironed pjs and bedsheets. Nothing better than fresh pjs and crisp ironed sheets

In their eyes you're not doing your housewifely duties properly unless you're getting through a mountain of ironing every week

Ooh I wouldn’t be happy with that. I iron because it’s my own personal preference, DP and the kids wouldn’t give a shit if I stopped. I don’t do it out of duty though, in fact if someone suggested it was my duty I’d probably stop just to make a point

I still iron most of my things. I actually quite like ironing (hate hoovering) and I love the smell of freshly ironed clothes & bed linen. If there is a good drying day with a good breeze which gives the bed linen a good blow about, then I won't bother & just fold carefully. I like listening to The Archers on a Sunday morning or a radio play when I iron.

I don't iron. Drives my mil mad. She used to do my ironing when she popped round. She ironed my bras and pants 🙈