To ask how the fuck you iron your king size duvet covers?

[blink18two]

And fitted sheets?

I recently lost my grandmother and I have decided that I need to bloody well up my standards a bit - she had very high standards, and she's right!

I'm quite good at ironing generally, even work shirts but I just can't work out how to iron a massive duvet cover without it taking hours/being bloody difficult

@SylvanasWindrunner

We don't even have duvet covers! We have coverless duvets now so the whole thing just gets chucked in the washing machine and drier and then stuck back on the bed. I've wrestled with my last duvet cover!

I think you might have just changed my life @SylvanasWindrunner. I hadn’t even heard of these…

Yeah I must lead a very boring life etc etc etc

I know right! I wish my life was dull!

@blink18two

I'm enjoying the competitive under-ironing

If this was an 'unpopular opinions' thread mine would be:

"People definitely look scruffier with un-ironed clothes. Even t shirts."

and yet it's not scruffy to start a thread title with How the fuck? Your ironing does not mean you have better standards than the rest of us.

Oh come on @blink18two, ain't nobody got time for that shit!

well that's debatable

I wish I liked ironing or maybe got more of a kick out of wrinkle free fabrics.

Out of curiosity, I ironed my bed linen once. It made zero difference to how it felt so I have never done it again. Life is too short!

Lenor crease release spray (spray it on the bedding when it's on the bed and smooth it down - it's amazing!), only iron it on the bed, good quality bedding helps I find too! Love fresh sheets 💕

I do find swearing more unappealing than wrinkly fabric come to think of it!

I don't. Not ironed since I had DC's

Eldest now gets the iron out to iron his army and police cadet uniforms.

I last saw my iron underneath a stockpile of wine boxes below the stairs.

I love ironed sheets and I don't mind spending my time ironing them. It's mine time after all to do as a I please. Other people would use that time to watch TV or something I would think is pointless

So its all relative.

I have cotton sheets from the white company and literally impossible to be crease free and that's using a steam generator iron.

I'm looking at buying a steam iron press which mirrors professional ironing. It'll also make ironing clothes and other things much quicker.

I iron my sheets for me cos I like it and those are my standards for myself. They aren't imposed on anyone, doesn't impact anyone else so really other people who choose not to have no need to make horrible comments to op

We have linen duvet covers and I've told my husband linen is meant to be creased. So that was the end of that conversation.

@AICM

Why the fuck do you iron duvet covers?

This

I fold in half then in half again and iron. It means you have an ironed crease down the middle but then I can see where the middle is when I'm making the bed. No tumble drier here.

I don't have a tumble drier and use 100% cotton but I just shake them and pull out the creases before hanging them up to dry and they're fine.

I'm sorry about your grandmother, OP, but can I gently suggest that perhaps there are more fun ways to commemorate her life than adding to your housework burden?

Seems like such a money of time & money!

I win at competitive under-ironing: I’m a SAHM and don’t own an iron. I buy non-creasy stuff and fold things straight out of tumble drier. Worst case I blast a hot hairdryer round my outfit.

I don't. I love crisp white bedding but life is too short to iron acres of the stuff.
The answer is seersucker duvet covers. Attractive crinkly topside, flat underside creased but unseen.

I'm in York! Not helpful though as I turned 37 on Saturday and this is the first I've heard about ironing bedding.
But, I have 4 kids and am sat playing lego and ignoring housework so my standards are loooooooow.
Best go clean something.

@Derbee They are amazing! Quite a few people we've had to stay have gone home and bought one for themselves

I am also a SAHM but with teenagers, I have a superking duvet and never iron bedding, not even the single ones, or uniform (tumble dry and straight out onto a hanger) the only things I do iron are Dh's work clothes as I don't tumble those (he is tall and paranoid about clothes shrinkage.)

My duvet covers are pintuck or some other design which means they really hide any creases.

I know other SAHMs who hate cleaning and do have cleaners. Stop feeling guilty about it all. Who is judging you? Pretty much everyone on this thread says they don't iron.

I used to iron everything - including bedding - but had to stop when I took on caring responsibilities for a family member and needed to free up some time. I now regret the thousands of hours I spent ironing, as the bedding looks no worse than it did when it was ironed. It’s pure cotton, which maybe helps.

I have a Fastpress.

www.fastpress.co.uk/fastpress_info.htm

Fold duvet in half and half again, then feed through to the back of the Fastpress. Pull forward and press in sections.

Kingsize fitted sheets get folded in half, where the four corners meet they get tucked into each other. Fold in half, where the now two corners meet they get tucked into each other. Fold in half again and feed through to the back of the press, pull through and press in sections. Fold into a square.

Pillowcases get folded lengthways in half and half again then pressed both sides.

I have a holiday let cottage so do masses of bedding.

All my bedding gets folded like above straight off the washing line.

@SantasLittleHoHoHo

Lenor crease release spray (spray it on the bedding when it's on the bed and smooth it down - it's amazing!), only iron it on the bed, good quality bedding helps I find too! Love fresh sheets 💕

Does it stink? I'm sensitive to over-perfumed stuff