Do I really have to iron the school shirts?

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DS is going to secondary school so it's proper shirts, ones that appear to need ironing.

I've just ironed 4 of them and I hate it. There must be another way?

I'm crap at it, I don't like doing it, and it makes me really hot.

Is there a magic spray or a trick that means I never have to see the iron again?

Hanger not ganger!

Not sending them clean or smart gives the impression you dont care. Which will reflect the effort a school is prepared to put into teaching them imo.

Zero effort will be made by teachers with my DS today, then! As he was walking up the road from the car on his second day at senior school I noticed the back of his brand new blazer was all muddy at the back, but too late to do anything about it. Good job I already have two exemplary older DC at the school with lovely clean shirts, daily, otherwise he'd be marked down as coming from a slovenly home run by a slattern of a mother and staff would refuse to teach him!

Send DC to cadets as soon as they turn 12/yr9 - After about week 6 they'll be telling you you don't iron shirts properly and do it themselves!

If you're REALLy lucky they'll do all the shirts in the basket because they can't bear your incompetence in this area. Gotta love teens!

I’ll bet your kids look the very picture of sartorial elegance in their smartly ironed shirts and clumpy trainers onetimeposter.
Definitely a look that will get you noticed.

And a crease in the trousers to match the giant marshmallow Nikes, don't forget.

20 shirts on a Sunday night. Kids have a fresh one each day, dh has one each day and I have uniform shirts.

I don't mind doing it though. Sat down infront of the telly with full control of the remote and Phillip Mould because I do like to see my kids in a crisp shirt. I'm only doing DH's because last time he tried to use my steam tank iron the prat scalded his fingers.

Shirts in this house get washed so hot there is no way they are going to come out of the wash anything but creased. Between the school paint and school dinners my collection of stain removers is ever expanding.

Not ironing on here smacks of middle class eccentric business. From a shitty high rise flat background a kid would be judged

You're the one doing the judging so why don't you keep your shitty high rise background morals to yourself, and go walk your rottie.

You wouldn’t believe people could get so irate over ironing shirts, would you?

Some nerves have definitely been touched in this thread that's for sure!

You wouldn’t believe people could get so irate over ironing shirts, would you?

To someone who doesn't live in the UK, it is quite baffling, especially the class element to it.

Yes the class thing is odd. Ironing ime is more of a MC thing imo from what I've seen anyway. No rotties here

It is a badge of honour on MN to never iron a stitch of clothing. I iron far less than I used to, but I still have some clothes that look an utter mess if they aren't ironed. I don't mind ironing. I just watch something I have recorded when I iron.

I don't know anyone in RL who doesn't iron. Maybe it is an age thing, but I don't think wearing wrinkled clothes is flattering with a wrinkled face

Loving this ironing thread 😂

Everyone I know in real life takes a common sense approach... if it needs ironing, iron it. If it doesn’t, then don’t. Seems simple enough!

Dry them hanging on hangers

Exactly Soydora

I don’t iron, ever. I don’t give a fuck what anyone else does.