Do you iron...

[Eve4Walle]

your bedlinen?

My Mum came round today, and popped up to use the loo. While she was up there, she popped her head round my bedroom door (as usual, she always does this) and came down and said 'Ooh Eve, you are a lazy cow aren't you?'

I asked her what she meant and she had a go at me for not ironing my bedlinen. I have to say, this isn't high on my list of priorities.

So who irons their bed sets?

Bloody hell, I thought you were going to say 'Do you iron?' full stop.

Only when I can't avoid it any longer. Putting things flat on the Aga top to dry is fab - automatic ironing .

I iron DH's shirts when he gets really grumpy about it (to be fair he does often get up mega early to go to work and doesn't get back till really late - whilst I work part-time).

Frankly life's too short and much too busy to be ironing unnecessary stuff . By unnecessary I mean most things.

Only if having posh visitors to stay. Otherwise I have much more interesting/important things to do. These days I hardly touch the iron - my hubbie does his own shirts, though I do his trousers, cos he gets a wee bit confuzzled with them, and my daughter irons all her own things for work.

I've got a sister in law who irons her towels, which I think is a bit weird.

I don't. My mum always says 'that's lovely bedding, would look really nice if it was ironed wouldn't it? (harharhar)'

No.

But I have A Lady Who Does .

She is a demon at folding fitted sheets too. Awesome.

I may not iron but I do fold my fitted sheets properly

And my unironed linen is folded and stored far more neatly than my mum's ironed stuff.

Yep - always fold everything, inc fitted sheets, and store in neat piles in linen cupboard.

Actually this thread has motivated me to get out bed changed, as hubbie is away for a couple of days and due home tomorrow night - wonder if I should iron them for him coming home? Washing machine now trundling away quite nicely.

No - did have a cleaner who did and it felt good. I think the cleaner left as we were too slummy.

How do you fold a fitted sheet properly?

Breathes It does get easier the more you do it.
I dont iron apart from business shirts when DH is too busy to do his own.

No. And hardly iron anything else either. I'm so glad to hear I'm not the only one.

Would love someone else to do it for me though!

Trumpton, I love the way she say's it's one of the biggest challenges I'm going to face in lfe , how lovely her life must be! Will try it though.

MrsJessRabinovitch, so glad I'm not the only one!

Or perhaps that should read - how dull her life must be.

I only bought an ironing board last month as we had an event that the boys were wearing suits to and i felt the need to neaten them up a bit

Now that i have it i do iron the odd thing (t-shirts with embroidered motifs or dd's skirts for example) but still just fold the vast majority.

99% of clothes you can't tell once they've ben on for 5 mins as body heat smooths tham out.

So in answer to you question, no i would never in a million years iron bedlinen! (not least because we only have one set and it's difficult enough to get it washed, dried and back on the bed in one day without adding ironing to that)

That's impressive, I actually didn't think that was possible. Thanks Trumpton.

Ooh Trumpton, thanks for the clip. How did I get to this ripe old age and not know this technique?

(I notice one of the suggested clips shown on the RHS of the screen is "how to fold a thong". FFS!)

BTW I am another iron-dodger. I have an iron somewhere, and it comes out at weddings etc. to do dh's posh shirt, but that's about it. I have so many more hours in my day to......go on MN.

I dry cotton sheets/pillow cases flat, after a quick tumble to get the creases out.

I also have linen sheets that are not meant to be ironed.

OMG life is WAY too short to iron bedlinen.

IMO those who have to iron are just slatterns who didn't take stuff out of the drier in time

In answer to thread title alone: No.

In answer to question in OP: HECK no.

Next time your mother pops round, leave a display of interesting sex toys laid out on your bed. It may break her of her habit of popping into your bedroom whenever she passes, and if not at least she probably won't comment on your sheets.

Love the professor's answer!! I don't iron fitted sheets, but do iron flat sheet, pillow cases and duvet covers. Ironed bed linen is a sensual pleasure. Anyone who irons knickers (!!) or towels probably needs to have some of the Professor's toys for half an hour.

Hell no!!!

I don't iron anything that isn't stricly necessary.

I totally dont get why you'd iron underwear. Or socks. My auntie irons everything. Bedding, towels, pants, socks. The lot. Infact once I rang her and asked if she was busy, her answer: "no not really, I was just dusting my coathangers" WTFFFFFFFF?

Too much time on her hands...

Not really. Pillowcases I do, but I've just realised how daft that is when I don't iron the duvet cover that is about 10 times bigger!
Huge lightbulb moment - won't be doing that again - thanks all for showing me the error of my ways!

Oh Lord....thank god others are like me...cant say have time and will to iron...Do we think this may be a generational thing? My bedroom resembling a Tracy Emming exhibition as we speak. Lets hope my or in fact anyone elses mother never feel the need to see!

Curlybrunette, dusting coathangers! , I'm going upstairs, will tell dh this is what I'm doing.

Oh hmmSleep don't start dusting your coathangers please. Your dh will be so worried about your insanity!!!

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