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To Consider Doing The Ironing - Talk Me Down.

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TheMustressMhor · 30/03/2020 13:49

Surely there is something more useful I could be doing? I mean, tidying the linen cupboard? Rearranging the forks? Making a Christmas card list for 2037?

There must be something more rewarding than doing the sodding ironing. Am I being anarchic here?

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countrygirl99 · 30/03/2020 19:21

I (deliberately) have very few clothes that need ironing. I have been reduced to sorting out my kitchen cupboards

GinnyStrupac · 31/03/2020 11:31

It is also our duty to conserve electricity in these difficult times.

Megan2018 · 31/03/2020 11:34

I haven’t used an iron since 2001. Use the lockdown to stop the habit, it’s more beneficial than giving up fags

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TheMustressMhor · 31/03/2020 12:03

Megan I have given up fags too.

Are you saying that not doing the ironing would benefit me equally?

I hope so. I need little encouragement to disregard the ironing at the best of times.

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Windyatthebeach · 31/03/2020 12:05

I have many many dc. When the number really grew I stopped ironing. The pulled out drawers of clothes was tear pricking!!
Iron school uniforms only now.

GinnyStrupac · 31/03/2020 15:23

Ironing school uniforms?! Unnecessary. It's all in the hanging and folding action.

I always judge a woman by the state of her iron. Ideally, she will not have one. If she does, she will not know where it is. If it can be found, it will be rusty and dusty. I am then comfortable in the knowledge that we will get on just fine.

Windyatthebeach · 31/03/2020 15:25

What I would give to be needing to iron uniforms right now..
6 at home is driving me out of my mind...

Megan2018 · 31/03/2020 15:30

@TheMustressMhor I think the mental health benefits and time saved is on a par with the health and money benefit from fags.

I gave up both in 2001. Life has been marvelous since

Megan2018 · 31/03/2020 15:32

@GinnyStrupac we would get on fine, mine is most definitely rusty and last used to repair hem on trousers with Wundaweb (sp?). I since decided it was easier to give up trousers....

Redcrayons · 31/03/2020 16:10

@GinnyStrupac I know where my iron is and it’s fully functioning, although you have to avoid the bit at the back where I slightly melted a sequinned Tshirt onto it. My ironing board can only be used if propped up by chair as the legs are a bit bent and the cover shrunk in the wash so doesn’t fit Properly.
I think we’d get on just fine.

Clockworkprincess · 31/03/2020 18:17

I cracked and ironed on Saturday... In my defence its the only way that i get near the tv during the day. Ds4 is very protective of his tv and had been known to ask me to wait to iron until his programme has finished. On plus side with us all being at home very little needs to be done as we've had several pj days 😂

Windyatthebeach · 31/03/2020 18:33

Is cracked and ironed the new snapped and farted??

Redshoeblueshoe · 31/03/2020 18:51

Did you see Simon Calder on Sky TV yesterday ? Like so many he's doing his piece from home. 90% of guests are doing this in front of their bookcase. Simon Calder was sitting in front of a massive pile of ironing Of course he was sitting somewhere else next time he was on

willowpatterns · 31/03/2020 19:02

You could fish out all your Xmas decorations from the random boxes you stuffed them all in when you took them down. They could do with sorting out if the state of mine are anything to go by

GinnyStrupac · 31/03/2020 22:11

Hope it's not too drafty for you now, @Megan2018.

You need a nice iron shaped burn mark on the cover to complete the picture, @Redcrayons.

I do have a good friend who has a bright shiny iron. Her MIL bought it for her, it never gets used, it's there 'just for show' and to appease MIL. It gets dusted occasionally. We remain friends.

MaureenMLove · 31/03/2020 22:33

I was going to do the ironing and looked at the pile a few times last week, but then I figured, by the time I get back to work (in a school) I won't be a) wearing my winter work clothes and b)probably need to buy bigger clothes, so I hung it all up in the wardrobe.

My current choice of clothing of either gym gear, pjs or jeans don't need ironing!

SeththeSloth · 31/03/2020 22:37

I have taken the opportunity to teach DS9 to do the ironing. He is very enthusiastic at the moment. I wonder if this will last?

user1487194234 · 31/03/2020 22:42

I am so bored my ironing basket (S) are empty

Annalore · 31/03/2020 22:47

I've worn only underwear, leggings, cheap primarni t-shirts and hoodies for the last three weeks. I have several near identical sets. Wash and dry on the line, due to the nicer weather. This lockdown uniform means the ironing pile is now zero.

DH's clothes are never ironed, he only wears casual stuff and if put on a hanger, the creases drop out no problem.

Thedogshow · 31/03/2020 22:51

It seems like giving in. Don’t do it.

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TheMustressMhor · 31/03/2020 22:58

Well, I have stood firm and not given in.

The ironing has not yet been done.

I did make a list of things I would need to pack if I was going on a three-week holiday to the Arctic Circle.

I found this occupied me quite well.

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