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

I do still get called upon to iron important items lol. Like delicate dresses, or Nike fucking tops (where they previously burned them haha).

I like being a Mum. That's all.
My DH? He does all the nasty tasks. I.e. spider evacuation, bins, blocked sinks, checking for axe-wielding murderers etc.

If someone is doing 18 hour days I wouldn’t expect them to iron shirts as well

I wouldn't expect them to have energy to eat, let alone iron a fucking shirt.
BTW - Ironing shirts, and blouses, is my most loathed task. I fucking hate it haha.

How do you think single people manage? Anyway, they don't have to iron shirts too. No one does.

An 18 hour day over 5 days? 90 hours a week?

I hope it's worth it. (Spoiler: it won't be.)

I really think schools should be making things easier and cheaper for families - polo shirts that don’t need ironing rather than proper shirts. No expensive blazers or requiring logos on everything. Just basic polo shirt, trousers, skirt and jumper, preferably in similar colours so you don’t have to do a separate wash for everything.

I hang shirts on a hanger when wet and don’t iron them. DS wears a suit jacket over them anyway. But my eldest used to iron his school shirts from 11. DS2 only doesn’t as I rarely iron at all now unless going to a wedding / special event

Assuming child is NT, why the hell not? No better time to learn

Not sure how a single person would work 18 hour days and be able to sort out children too? They wouldn’t be home for any hours the DC are awake

Re lunches, once ds was at secondary school, I gave him roughly the amount to cover his school lunches (in S1, they weren't allowed out of the school at lunch but thereafter they could). I also made sure that there were the ingredients in the house to make lunch (part baked half baguettes, salami, ham, cheese, tomatoes etc). He could then make his own packed lunches and was allowed to pocket the money. In practice, he would "treat" himself once a week to a Subway or a Spicy Hut - but actually took great pride in making "better" Subway rolls than Subway (especially when I had left over meatballs in tomato sauce from supper the night before )

School uniform shirts are worn under a jumper for most of the year, so no need to iron. My DD's school changes to aertex style shirt for summer, they also don't need to be ironed if hung on a hanger to dry.

20 shirts a week here no that's not a typo 😱 I just tumble dry the lot of them!

Agreed, 11 is old enough, we learnt to iron at Cubs, age 7 to 11.

Twenty shirts here too. And we are ironers. Of course, not ironing is completely fine, but we tend to think ironed looks a bit better.
We just stick on the radio and do it, it takes a few mins. Older ones do their own if none ironed.

Totally agree with this.

Now my quote button works?

Was agreeing re: schools and uniform

Who cares if they look a "bit better" though?

Yeah, British cereal consumption
( top 10 in the 12 months to March 2022) as attached.

So healthy and nutritious … 🙄

And I can give the whole menu with steak and chips for dinner on night if it matters, but even if both these athletic, healthy (non-fat) sports playing teens boys are only these two items, on this on one occasion, it wouldn’t matter a jot!

*ate only these two items

I do! I like them to look smart- ironed uniform, polished shoes, clean, tidy hair, organised bag, pressed blazer etc. Each to their own.

Agree with jet tail here.

And FWIW to other posters who seem to think my boys are incapable and useless, I’ve just come home to a tidied house, dog walked, and a freshly cut lawn by my apparently ‘incompetent’ boys who I teach nothing to.

😂

Yep!
A bit of pride in one’s appearance is generally a good thing.

I'm laughing at this! My boys are exactly the same! Eldest, 17, usually makes for both of them (DS2 15 is ADHD and soooo disorganised!) and he loves to be creative- brie and bacon/ spicy chicken and rocket🤣. We live 3 minutes from the school and I come in from work guessing how many toasties have been made for all his mates that day- S6 so time off etc. He doesn't take lunch money at all anymore, so it works out the same. I'm just glad they have somewhere warm and welcoming to come to (Scottish weather can be brutal).

Absolutely! My mam could see an unironed shirt a mile away!😝

@Puffalicious - we're in Scotland too . Ds, in his 4th year at Aberdeen, now takes great pride in the fact that he can cook decent meals for himself Jamie Oliver's "5 Ingredients" was/is a great success, but in particular he loves the second hand Habitat Chicken brick that I got him for Christmas the year before last, which means he can roast himself a Lidl chicken and eat that for the rest of the week

Unfortunately his gf is veggie so can't share those meals