Is iorning a thing of the past?

[icenasliceplease]

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)

DHs shirts generally get done by him as and when needed, occasionally if he is running late I do them. I must admit to liking ironed bedding BUT not so much I want to do it myself!! Once in a blue moon or interviews etc I might do some trousers and I still have one or two tops that need it but I just find they don't get worn much

DH shirts, bedding (100% cotton) and some especially wrinkly tops and T shirts are the only things that get ironed, but there's still at least an hour's worth of ironing a week.
The cleaner usually does it!

However I have recently pointed out to DH that he seems to have started collecting clothes that need ironing - 'Naice shirts', heavy twill chinos, thick pj bottoms - and he will need to iron them, because I'm not, and the cleaner is busy with other things.

Speak for yourself.
I like my wrinkles!

What about your knees and elbows? Mine are getting pretty (softly!) wrinkly...

I don't iron anything unless it's for work and really noticeably wrinkled!

Don't look at them.
If you can;'t see them, they're not there

DS irons, I obviously haven’t brought him up properly. When he stayed with us he asked to use the iron and when I gave it to him he looked in horror at it and said Mum that is a like a students iron.

@icenasliceplease . I work in a residential home as well. The reason we have to iron all the sheets is that elderly people are more prone to bedsores, which could be caused by something as simple as a crease in a sheet.

Judging by the replies, there is a definite trend towards the non-ironing unless necessary group.^
The piles and piles of ironing that our DM's generation had to put upwith are hopefully coming to an end.

That's interesting, nickyschof, I hadn't thought of it like that.

icenasliceplease

Bugger - I never thought of that! So I can ignore everything in my life then. Because it's all wrinkled

Someone once told me that everything in my life would become wrinkled, eventually, so I'll just go with it, I think because it's started... it's started...

I have a very schmancy iron and ironing board but only because I do a lot of dressmaking and it's essential to iron at every stage of the process.

I very rarely iron any of the clothes that we wear day-to-day - usually just the odd party frock of DD's. DH wears the M&S Autograph non-iron shirts to work, so he washes five on a Sunday on a low spin and hangs them straight from the machine. I used to like ironed bedding but then I discovered linen which needs no ironing at all and looks better a bit rumpled and I am totally converted.

I know many people are obsessed with ironing school uniform but DD's honestly needs no ironing - maybe because it is very traditional. M&S non-iron blouses, pinafore shaken and hung directly from tumble dryer (ironing actually messes up the permanent pleats), knitted cardigan. Maybe a more casual polo shirt and sweater uniform needs to be ironed to look smart?

I haven’t ironed a thing for 12 years now. Recently got rid of the iron and board as pointless keeping them.

*@CurlsandCurves

In the US I could take clothes out of the tumble dryer and hang them up and they’d be crease free. I haven’t been able to do the same in the UK. It probably just depends on the machine and isn’t possible for everyone.

Why would you iron pyjamas??? You are literally wearing them in the creasiest environment possible! You are ironing them in order to create them up!

*crease

I actually like ironing. I don’t do all our ironing (our cleaning lady does our laundry as well) but when I haven the time?

It’s soothing, kind of fun, makes me nostalgic (having my mother teach me, do my shirts for exams etc...)

I’m not particularly ‘domestic’ but I genuinely love ironing my button-ups and blouses.

I iron.
No matter what people say about hanging things correctly and folding etc I can tell when people don’t iron and I think it looks horrible. I think it’s awful when you see kids in unironed uniform and clothes.

I hate sleeping in a bed where the bedding hasn’t been ironed.

I don’t understand why people don’t iron and seem almost proud of the fact. Would you not dust or hoover because you think that’s a waste of time or you can find something better to do?

I iron everything apart from socks and tights.
I watch a film or a tv series while I do it on a Saturday or Sunday. I change the beds weekly and all of my ironing takes two hours. Hubby doesn’t wear a shirt every day though thank goodness. I also have a good iron as that makes ironing easier and faster.

And I think people who don’t iron are lazy. That’s just my opinion.

Yes I iron everything and can notice if people don’t iron. Gives me pleasure to see neat piles . Also if stuff has been on the line I sometimes find insects on clothes when I iron , would have missed them if I folded.

Why would you iron pyjamas??? You are literally wearing them in the creasiest environment possible! You are ironing them in order to create them up!

It's the done thing.
If your dm has done it and her dm has done it, then it must be law.
The world will stop spinning if you don't iron things in the proper way.

I iron 2 or 3 garments a week on average.

I hate sleeping in a bed where the bedding hasn’t been ironed.

I love sleeping in a bed where the clothes have been freshly washed, hung out on a propelr line to dry and then aired indoors for a while.
Bliss.
My senses don't give a toss whether they've been ironed.

No ironing here. In fact once at a play group my 3 year old picked up a toy iron and asked me what it was. The very naice mummy standing near me said "Oh I expect you do all your ironing when the children are in bed."
Er yup, that'll be it.

My mum ironed everything including:

Socks
Knickers
All bedding
Cushion covers

Etc

I really can't be bothered but my new tumble dryer creases everything so have reluctantly started ironing dcs uniforms

Ironing clothes is still going strong here.
But it’s H who is doing it

I can tell when people don’t iron and I think it looks horrible. I think it’s awful when you see kids in unironed uniform and clothes.

Yes I iron everything and can notice if people don’t iron.

These threads always bring out comments like this.

But you know what? I don't think your sixth sense is quite as accurate as you think. I'm a dressmaker. I am very experienced at assessing the cut and hang of clothing on various body shapes. I can tell the quality and type of most fabrics by sight and I use an iron and a steamer as tools to construct and finish garments. I know exactly how to make an outfit look its best. I guarantee that if you saw my DD going to school tomorrow morning in her uniform with its sharp pleats and perfect collar you would not be able to tell that I had not ironed a scrap of it.