to think that all these people who say they 'don't iron' much be walking around looking crumpled and welll.....a bit scruffy?

[VinegarTits]

You must iron some things, like shirts and uniforms?

go on admit it

I would like to know:

1. how much the average tumble dryer load costs in electricity? compared to
2. the equivalent load of ironing in electricity + my hourly rate (£40ph) to hang out laundry on the line, wait for it to dray (days in this weather) then iron it.

Life is too short.
And I defy anyone to say me, DH or the DC look crumpled and uncared for.

lucykate

so many iron their bed sheets, and yet the turn of phrase to describe un-ironed clothes is to say you look like you've slept in them

Im not talking about bumsex until ive finished my ironing and i have wine

I dont really care if people dont iron, i will still look at you and think 'hmm scruffy oaf'

But i dont supopse you care a jot

This is the point - I don't think you will VT - the clothes I am wearing today I don't think you could tell if I had ironed or not.

I did once iron an irish linen tablecloth on christmas morning with a glass of fizz close at hand - DH's super steam generating iron came in handy for that and it was a straightforward square shape so not too taxing. I guess it was a bit of a christmas treat, although won't ever be repeated as the red wine stains have never come out of said (handed down through the generations) table cloth - oops

you look at the care instructions on your shower curtain?

I had a old women tell me how to do this she said once an item has been ironed it will always need to be use half the amount of washing powder and be waiting at washing machine take clothes straight out stretch and fold and then dry them.

I followed her advice and it does work for me however I still iron shirts but it does make them much easier.

Hehe, wanted to make sure it was machine washable and noticed the iron symbol had not been crossed out. Apparently it helps with the water repellency of the shower curtain if you iron it.

I love it when soft toys say DO NOT IRON on them, lol.

If you fold the washing right you don't need to iron a lot of things. Then there's those nice people who you pay to iron - I like them

WillIronForOthersButNotHerselfTiggaxx

Totally agree with Veinegar Tits - everyone irons their own stuff in this house, we iron what we are going to wear every day. Takes 5 mins each, makes a whole load of difference.

You lot who don;t iron look scruffy.

My 3yo DS doesnt know what an iron is (we showed him a toy one in a shop) as he has never seen one in our house.

I have one. Somewhere in a cupboard. I've lived here 6 months and it has never been out the cupboard.

I wear smart clothes to work, but I dont think me or the boys ever look scruffy.

and ironing bedsheets - are you people mad?!! Then again, my friend the other day told me she ironed her vertical blinds when they were looking slightly creased...

I do use my tumble dryer in this weather/seasons as there is no other way of getting washing dry. I tried the radiators and 2 hours later came home to a wet, damp house and by the time the clothes dried 3 days later they smelt horrible. The tumble dryer is really old, and a full cycle on gentle costs me about 30-40p. To get cotton bedsheets dry on hot takes about 20 minutes and costs about the same? To me, money well spent - and no tiresome ironing/wet washing everywhere.

My mum is slightly ashamed of the fact I don't iron, she doesn't understand why I don't just do the ironing whilst watching TV. I have much better things to be doing whilst watching TV like eating chocolate and MNing.

I may be scruffy perhaps I should change my mn name. But people who iron are boring and have to much time on their hands .

"Trust me. We can tell...always."

You get us wrong.... It isn't that we think you can't tell, it is that we don't actually CARE whether you think we're crumpled or not.

I'm happy in my skin (which is beginning to look a bit crumpled itself now), and perfectly happy in my SLIGHTLY crumpled clothes. I would rather you took notice of my bubbly, bright personality than my knife creases down my shirt-sleeves.

i have better things to do than spend hours ironing.

I have a few cotton/linen things that i will iron, but tbh i avoid wearing them much as i hate ironing.

it's was lycra was invented for.

do you iron obsessives iron your pants and socks?

I don't iron from one year to the next. And I don't have a tumble drier.

Shirts, trousers that need to be flat - hang them up to dry carefully so they dry flat.

Everything else, hang up carefully too, so it comes out okay.

Sheets and duvets... you're kidding, right? WTF would you care if your sheets were ironed? Unless you sleep six inches above the bed... ;)

I never iron.

I have ironed once..... DDs dress for her 2nd birthday. The only time for 6 years since I graduated....

DH wears scruffs for work and I don;t wear shirts so.... no. I refuse to iron.

I mean really. Surely one day we will look back and wonder if those who spend the time flatterning things so they look nice was such a clever way to spend time...

Those who don't iron seem to think ironers spend their lives doing it. Seriously, it takes me one hour a week to do the family's ironing, including bed linen. Fair enough, this is with a whizzy steam generator, but still...

If I buy nice clothes, I want to iron them so they look their best. Same goes for bed linen, which looks UNSPEAKABLY crumpled and feels horrid if not ironed. Taking a little bit of care over how my bed looks and feels makes it much more pleasant, luxurious even, to sleep in which IMO is worth the ten minutes ironing once a week. You know how nice it is to slip into posh hotel beds? That's how I want my bed to feel all the time!

If I have an hour where DS isn't hanging from my ankles and trying to put toys down my top I am not going to spend it ironing.

We don't own an iron. One of the more singularly pointless activities.

Whats the point in buying nice clothes if you dont own an iron

You must look down trodden at smart occasions