Husband asked me to iron his shirts inside out

[Luna02]

I have been ironing my husbands shirts for years which I don’t really mind doing, it’s not the worst chore we have, but it’s very time consuming.

Now he’s asking me to iron the upside down and I think that’s crazy, is this a thing? I think it would be really hard to do it properly and it would just get wrinkled again straight away when you turn it around so I told him to iron his shirts by himself which he is now doing. He did have a moan about it though saying it’s ruining his shirts and it’s not how it should be me asking him to do his own shirts just because he’s asked me to do it differently. That he won’t just turn and ask me to pay for the mortgage tomorrow, which I think is unfair as he is a high earner and I earn basically just over min wage but work 40hr weeks and do all the housework and look after the kids.

I mean inside out 😅

Missing the point, but why would they wrinkle when you turn them inside out?

Tell him to iron his own fucking shirts

I agree - garments don't wrinkle from being turned inside out / outside in .

He sounds like a real charmer.

Glad he's now ironing his own shirts.

I don’t iron a damn thing anymore but one of my chores as a teenager was to do the ironing. I always ironed my stepdad’s shirts inside out as they sometimes went a bit shiny if I ironed them normally, depending on the fabric. Not a wrinkle in sight!

“work 40hr weeks and do all the housework and look after the kids.”

YABU. You set yourself up as his domestic - of course you should do it his preferred way.

Or you know, change it up completely and tell him to iron his own fucking shirts exactly as he likes them?

I iron everything inside out

pretty much everything should be ironed inside out or it gets shiny.

if he’s a high earner, find a shirt service and outsource the problem.

How would you iron the space between buttons if inside out though! Unless he had a specific valid reason I'd iron them the right way round or he could do his own.

I'm sure my dad used to iron shirts inside out, but that was two decades ago now.

Anyway, he should have been ironing his own shirts all along - lazy git.

How do you get the crease down the sleeve if it's inside out? Won't it be a valley fold not a mountain fold?

I iron most things inside out because of iron-shine.

I also stopped ironing my H’s shirts the first time he criticised the way I did it. Luckily for me that was the first time I ironed one.

I used to iron 15 shirts a week when I was younger. Two DC & DH’s.
Now I take great delight in doing no ironing whatsoever.
From now on do not iron any shirt whether inside out upside down or on the right side. A waste of your time.

I iron everything inside out, in case they get marked. My steam iron is a bit unpredictable and belches out brown bits (rust?) from the steam holes on the odd occasion!

Don't you get the the wrong pressing crease down the sleeve if it's ironed inside out? Disclaimer - I abandoned the ironing of shirts to my husband many years ago and have only got the iron out once since the first lockdown. No regrets.

If you’re working 40 hours a week why are you doing all the housework?!
The inside out but really doesn’t matter in comparison.

Well YABVU to work 40hrs a week and still do all the housework and childcare.

How would the sleeves have the correct crease if they're inside out? Or does he just mean the body part? And why does he want you to do it that way?

I only iron shirts and schoolwear and do them the right way out.

There will be.
I could never be bothered to turn T-shirts the right way round before ironing until DH pointed out they don’t have nice creases that way.
Tbf DH actually does the majority of the ironing, he’s better at it than me.

You iron synthetics inside out but cotton or linen/canvas can be ironed right way round.

Cuffs, collar first, then iron the yoke, then do the arms ironing in the arm crease then the back and front between the buttons, on a hot cotton setting with steam it won't crease being worked or moved.

But .... He can iron them himself.

I used to iron late DH army uniform all the time, but he did the bins, the washing and cleaning the bathroom in return 🤣 I got the easier end of the deal lol.

He is a wanker. Dont iron anything. Create a chores list. Tonight is his night to cook.

My husband asked me to iron his shirts once. 23 years ago, and I've never done them. He got The Look and has done them himself ever since. I've worked full time, part time, SAHM over the years and I have never ironed his shirts. About time he started!

I don't iron men's shirts anymore, but when I did, yes iron inside out (body, front and back) then sleeves the right way round otherwise they crease wrong.

Whether you should be ironing his shirts is another matter.

He thought he had found a shirt service...