To send my 7 year old to school in unironed uniform?

[Floosey]

I really struggle with laundry. I struggle so, so much and I don't know why. I end up just not having the time or being organised enough to put away or iron so my son often goes to primary school in a creased t-shirt. We're not talking slept in creases, just dried crinkled and needs a quick going over creases.

Apart from the creases, my son always goes to school in the correct and washed uniform (I once got up at 5 to hair drier his trousers because I'd forgotton to put a wash on until the night before and that was the only way they'd be dry in time) but ironing always gets the better of me.

We have very few things that need ironing but his school t-shirts do. I bought more expensive iron-free ones but they had the school logo on and got nicked. Strangely his supermarket own brand stuff always finds it's way home.

He's clean, looked after and engaged. We always go to parents evening etc.

Do you look down on parents like me?

[IVEgottheDECAF]

I used to not iron my dcs uniforms, only the polos really needed it

But one day my dc was asked to keep his jumper on because of his creased tshirt. Now i always iron them.

Even if i do it that morning it takes 5 min to run iron over 3 polos and a cardigan

[adaline]

Sorry to burst your bubble non-ironers but you can tell the difference and you / your dc do look scruffy!

No, you think you can tell the difference, unless you ask every single person you see to make sure your guess is correct?

[LaurieMarlow]

but you can tell the difference and you / your dc do look scruffy!

I couldn’t respect the opinion of the type of person who would care, frankly.

[LaurieMarlow]

Ironing makes me put my phone down and concentrate better!

I will admit that you got me and this is reasonable justification

Do you not have to look down a lot though? I’ve never ironed while watching tv in my life, so don’t know.

[DappledThings]

Do you not have to look down a lot though? I’ve never ironed while watching tv in my life, so don’t know

Nah, it works fine. But you can't watch anything with subtitles so the Scandi dramas are out. But then I already have to put my phone down to watch those!

[FredFlinstoneMadeOfBones]

Even if you could tell the difference (and no one can actually know unless you make a habit of asking people of they iron or not) I still wouldn't care. In primary school especially the clothes are going yo be for running around in and getting messy I couldn't care less if there was a barely discernable crease.

[Yura]

@melissasummerfield agree. however, school polo shirts look horrendous whatever you do... just slightly less dragged through a hedge once ironed. so glad we have proper shirts!
it takes me 20 minutes a week to iron school uniform and my office clothes , and i just do it while watching TV . The OP has a much bigger problem than ironing (doing laundry costs about 5 minutes per machine, so even if you wash daily and iron slowly, that’s maximum 1.5 hours per week - if you don’t have that time, you have a problem somewhere else!)

[Yura]

@FredFlinstoneMadeOfBones you can’t tell the difference if people use plastic clothes and if they hang stuff up fresh out of the dryer etc. you can tell the difference instantly if clothes are natural fibres, and if they are just left in a pile.

[Oblomov19]

I've always ironed. M&S non iron white shirts look and feel all hard and horrible if you don't iron them. But we do like in a hard water area!

[Fuzzywuzzyface]

I have always ironed. On the rare occasions I use the tumble dryer clothes still need a quick iron.
DS always had 6 tops, 3 trousers and 2 jumpers for uniform so there was enough to get through the week. Now at senior school he has shirts and I just like to see them ironed properly even if you could only see the collar under a jumper and blazer!

Some people iron and some don't.. if you can get into the routine of dealing with your laundry every couple of days you don't end up with a massive mountain of it.

[ICantEvenThinkStraight]

Aargh. My standards are not high but ironing is the one thing I have to do. I feel physically wrong (I mean really wrong) if anyone leaves the house unironed. I hate it. Obviously I have huge problems

[Hanumantelpiece]

No, I don't iron DCs uniform. I did shirts for the first week and gave up after that.

[ICantEvenThinkStraight]

And I can never get stuff out of the TD uncreased . I've tried but it's not happening.

[kateandme]

dont stress over this.if hes clean smelling,clean looking and nice they just look a bit bloody adorable most of the time with the few crinkles in.it happens when theyve been crawling around the floor anyway.
tidy for your own mindset but dont do it for the 'set' way of being to please what society does or doesnt tell people to be like.
to be postin gyou must be worried about this and thats not fair on yourself!

[ImFreeToDoWhatIWant]

I've never ironed uniform and also don't own a tumble dryer! It does require a bit more organisation and clothes need to be shaken out very well straight out of the machine immediately after the cycle, and hung to dry nice and straight, but it's perfectly doable.

[Morgan12]

I iron everything. It looks so much better. I'd hate to walk around in something creased all day.

[Topseyt]

I don't iron anything. Ever.

I couldn't give a shiny shite what anyone else thinks. I highly doubt that they are even looking, let alone inspecting so minutely anyway. If they are then they must have precious little going on in their world's, with far too much time on their hands.

[HexagonalBattenburg]

DD2 has the art of looking dishevelled within a second whatever I do - so I long since gave up stressing about ironing stuff. I hang what I can out to dry which makes it fairly flat and that's about my limit unless it's spectacularly creased.

[Nameusernameuser]

The laundry OP, do you have any money? Spend Thursday morning at the launderette. Get everything washed and dried in their massive machines. Put it away Thursday afternoon.

[Kokeshi123]

Given the workload problems associated with teaching, I think I'd die of shock if the average teacher-parent irons anything that isn't to be worn on a special occasion...

[Broadbrimmedhat]

Never ironed school uniform or anything else the dcs wear - looking scruffy at school is fine by me - they're kids, they should look scruffy, most kids look scruffy at school they are wearing a truly awful polyester uniform that is obsessed over by the school - lack of ironing is the only way we can rebel - and don't tell me to go to a different school - they are all uniform obsessed - shame they weren't all education obsessed!

[crispysausagerolls]

I am 😱 by how many people don’t iron! I really didn't realise so many don’t! I couldn’t imagine not ironing everything (including bedsheets) - but especially uniform, shirts etc.

[LaurieMarlow]

I couldn’t imagine not ironing everything

What do you think would happen if you didn’t?

[RussellSprout]

I've never ironed school uniform.

Guess I win the lazy slob award!

[1tisILeClerc]

{If you took a sample of 100 school children at 3.30pm and asked a random panel to answer a) ironed child or b) non ironed child it would not be correct.}

You are not supposed to iron the children.

On a more serious note, Ironing the chests of young girls is a thing, a terrible thing so while this is a lighthearted thread, spare a thought for those youngsters that suffer.