Do you iron?

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Aibu not to iron? I own an iron somewhere, it’s about 20 years old and may or may not still work. I use it very very occasionally if I’m going out in something that needs ironing.

YABU - ironing is a task that should be done on all clothes

YANBU - ironing should never be done, or only very very occasionally.

When I was a child, my mum ironed everything - pants, tea towels, even tights(under a tea towel) and socks. That gave me an almighty scunner for ironing. When married with a young family, I got a company to do the ironing. It was taken away one night and brought back the next, beautifully pressed and hanging on hangers.
Now I'm retired and live alone so I iron just what is visible to the world.

Only shirts, which tends to just be for weddings and funerals. Maybe will change when the kids are a high school if shirts need ironing. Everything is hung up rather than in drawers though which I think helps.

Its not should or should not. Its want to or dont want to.

You can absolutely tell the difference between freshly ironed and unironed, it just doesn't really matter to everyone if their clothes aren't pressed and crisp.

I stopped ironing when my kids left school and no longer needed trousers with a crease and all that. I buy very forgiving clothes and while you can tell they aren't ironed, I dont care.

My husband likes all his clothes ironed so he irons them. He likes starched shirts and trousers with a crease you could use to cut throats.

Everyone's different.

Chicked the iron away about 10 years ago and not missed it or considered ironing. I last ironed about 25 years ago when I bought, wore and washed a ‘crisp white cotton shirt’. It took about half an hour to get the thing looking slightly better than a used dishrag so I never wore that shirt again nor have I ever bought a thing similar again.

Anything that has a couple creases I shove it in the bathroom while I shower. All the creases drop out but anything that could crease gets hung straight out of the washing machine, pulled into shape and that does fine. Even linen.

Yes dependant upon the fabric.

I used to iron everything until I realised that if you pop items into the tumble dryer on a low heat for 5 minutes, after line drying, any creases will just drop.out.

I now just iron anything which still has creases - which I hate - and always iron bedding so any ironing is always done on a Friday morning when the beds are changed. 😁

No. Ironing is so early 00’s..

I would only iron for a wedding, funeral, or job interview.

I do iron most things.

Haven't voted though, just because I iron doesn't mean someone's unreasonable because they don't.

I DETEST ironing.

I iron more in the summer as I line dry more and clothes look more creased, plus thinner fabrics seem to crease more. Very rarely iron in winter.

Never owned an iron. Children been through school with creased shirts. Life is too short. Def can tell when something has been ironed but I just don't care enough. Will not be on my deathbed thinking about how I wished I'd spent hours ironing.

Yes, when I need to. But I don't often need to. I'm retired now, but I always used to iron my shirts for work 😀

Yes, everything, including towels, bedding, socks, pants etc. I just like things ironed🤷 I don't mind standing in the kitchen for an hour or 2 with the TV on.

I do iron a lot of summer things - they’re nearly all cotton or a cotton/linen mix, and except for a very few, do look awful otherwise. We have a drier but I rarely use it any more, for both cost and (mostly) eco reasons. It did go on the other day, after a little Gds who was staying wet the bed, so I wouldn’t be without it.

Hardly any of my winter things ever need ironing.

I iron DH’s shirts, which I am happy to do as he does most of the cooking and washing up, but not much else.

Ironing pants will shorten their life.

I iron...not everything...I'd say most stuff is just folded but certain things have to be...so dh shirts, t shirts, trousers...I have some dresses and shirts that need ironing too. I don't have a tumble dryer though and everything is line dried either outdoors or on the heated airer.

I always iron pants after my dc had worms....it was over a decade ago but I'm still not over it

Yes, I iron almost everything, clothes, bedding, and sometimes tea towels.
No kids, no partner so it's just my stuff.
I find it quite relaxing, and I absolutely love the feeling of ironed clothes.

Yes, I think you can pretty much always tell the difference.

YANBU – especially if most of what you're wearing day-to-day is gym wear. Modern fabrics, particularly in activewear, are designed to be wrinkle-resistant and often look fine straight from the wash. No need to waste time ironing when your clothes are made to skip that step entirely!

What about kods cotton t shirts. Even with the tumble dryer they get creased... school shirts I can get away with as long as theyre tumbled dried and not hung up outside but in the summer id rather not use it amd save money

When my daughter was at school I ironed every week,when she left I was delighted to give it up and nowadays I can usually be found on Christmas morning ironing my best blouse which has been in the ironing basket since the previous Christmas.

I've not ironed in twenty years and rarely did before that. Total waste of time.

I'm not even completely sure where my iron is. It almost never sees the light of day.

I got rid of my ironing board around 10 years back when I realised any ironing I did do was on the kitchen table and the board was just one more thing in the cupboard. Kind of regret it as though it wasn’t used often, ironing is definitely easier on a shaped board. Don’t miss it enough to get a new one though.