15 shirts a week

[theonlygirl]

DS2 starts big school in September, meaning there will be 15 shirts in the laundry each week. DH 5, DS1 5, DS2 5.
no issue washing and drying them but it will be a cold day in hell before I stand ironing their shirts. I don't use a tumbledryer so they all definitely need ironing.

Option 1 - make them iron their own.
Option 2 - drycleaners

Curious to know what others do

What the hell are all these parents doing of a morning if their kid is getting their own breakfast, making their own lunch (because they have to print won’t happen), preparing their uniforms etc??

Making own breakfast = pouring cereal in bowl and adding milk
Making own lunch = grabbing stuff from fridge/cupboard possibly extending to putting some chicken slices or cheese in a wrap
preparing uniform = taking uniform out of cupboard

My DC have been doing these things since mid primary school. I would think doing them for a secondary school child comes under the definition of smothering rather than mothering. Not to mention that I'm often out at work before my DC leave the house anyway.

This! Mine wear two a week (they wear for two days each as they also have PE so wear a different T-shirt for one day)

Anyone over 10 can iron their own clothes.

I stopped ironing when their freshly done stuff kept ending up on the floor. I stopped, no-one noticed.

They are all older and living with partners now. I hardly iron anything anymore and DH does his own.

I iron them. Its not a big job 🤷🏼‍♀️ My kids have 3 each. I wash them on Wednesday night to last the rest of the week.

There is more than one good way to parent, and however we do it, part of the job is gradually getting kids to start looking after themselves

which I have said about 10
times now! Are you’re calling me stupid 😂 RTFT.

Cereal is shit in a box!
No wonder we have a nation of unhealthy kids if cereal and cheese in a wrap is considered nutritious food!

I used to do 25 a week, and associated sports kits! I don't mind ironing though 🙂

Another in the non-ironing camp, but am trying to think of what job involves a pristine ironed shirt and an 18 hour day. If long hours = decent pay, then he can get them either dry cleaned or us an ironing service I'd have thought, if that is a job you hate.
My dc could iron (had to learn when in cubs for one of the badges) but the desire to want to wear pressed shirts would not have been strong enough for them to choose to iron their own shirts. Generally, their shirts would get slightly crumpled by either their blazer or jumper (dc at 2 different schools) long before anyone would be likely to see a shirt anyway, so no need for dcs' shirts to be ironed even if you are an ironing family.

Whether you should be doing other people's ironing depends on what your family set up is - I've read all through the thread but not seen whether you are a SAHP or whether you too WOTH. That makes a huge difference

I remember being in secondary school and never having an ironed shirt 🤣 they were clean and dry but never irone! Half the time we had a jumper over the top anyway.

Line dry them, even dry winter days blow the creases out. I've never tumble dried or ironed school uniform in my life.

My DF needed 14 white shirts each week - I learned to iron when I was 8.
It is neither dangerous nor difficult, just incredibly boring.

(Not in the UK and in an area where all members of a household are legally obliged to contribute according to their abilities.)

Cereal is shit in a box!
No wonder we have a nation of unhealthy kids if cereal and cheese in a wrap is considered nutritious food!

Washing judgement
Ironing judgement
Parenting judgement
And eating judgement
All in one thread! 😄

I make DS lunch sometimes....when I say "make" its a tuna wrap! DD makes her own lunch - usually a tuna bagel and a kitkat. He makes his own porridge for breakfast (and I have cereal )
I don't consider any of us to be particularly unhealthy.

@Quincythequince

Not all cereal is shit and cheese in a wrap isn't the cause of obesity.

You need to calm down!

You are not a service human. Stop enabling male laziness.

Also ironing is a waste of energy and bad for the environment, I don't understand why anyone still thinks it's a sane or acceptable activity

As many pp have said, almost all school uniform shirts these days are made partly or mostly of polyester and just need hanging up to dry crease free straight from the machine. I've never wasted so much as a second of my time over the last 20 years ironing school uniform. (Just about to get rid of the last ever lot of pongy polyester as the last dc starts sixth form, and I can't wait!)

I've never ironed a secondary school shirt. I don't think they're non-iron.
DS (year 8) doesn't care. They have to keep their blazers on all day so you can't see much of it anyway. Most creases drop out after a bit.

Washing doesn't sit in the machine long before I hang out so that probably helps.

TBH, the primary school polo tops look worse un-ironed than a regular shirt, but the crease drop out of those too.

I don't have a husband. Older son has moved out.

I’m perfectly calm. And yes, most cereal is shit in a box.

As a nation, our health and weight and nutrient intake is at an all time low.

I wonder why? A bunch of kids left to do it doe themselves and a bunch of adults who don’t bother!

It’s easy to see why we’re in this state when people can’t be bothered to provide healthy food for their kids for as long as they can, not help them with day to day stuff.
The days are long, the years are short!

And re the 17 year old I mentioned before, he’s been doing it since he was
11.

DH wears shirts every day, just get them out the washing machine the instant they finish, out on a coat hanger and hang up to dry on a rail. No ironing needed.

We've all RTFT, the reason we're telling you you are being stupid, arrogant and hysterical is because you are.

What an odd thing to get worked up about @Quincythequince
Teens starting the day with a bowl of cereal and milk is hardly the cause of obesity . It is a FAR better option than what 95% of teens do, I should imagine.

I give it bonkers (and quite sad) that your are winning to iron your husband's shirts but not your children's.

And related to that, you want to teach them that men can and should do these things, whilst living the exact opposite by ironing your husbands shirts.

Husband to iron his own to start with!

I was going to suggest this.

I fasten shirts and similar on the line on hangers. Barely a crease.

I should, in the interests of full disclosure, admit that

a) I loathe ironing with a passion and avoid i whoever possible

b) when my son was in the school play only ironed the trouser leg that faced the audience *

*not really, but I would have liked to