If you don't tumble dry, fabric condition or don't dry your clothes in the airing cupboard, bathroom or on the radiator ....

[hidetheelephant]

Do you iron these things?

Linen items
Pleated items
Shirts (that aren't non iron)
Trousers (that aren't non iron)
Rugby shirts
Polo shirts
Tshirts
Sweatshirts
Jeans

Bed stuff
Towels/flannels/hankies
Pants/socks/vests

yes, why? (not the 2nd list, but all of the first)

I dont tumble dry but do use fabric conditioner. Clothes are hung on a clothes horse or hangers (dh's shirts) to dry. I do iron linen items (dont have many of them), pleated items, shirts and the kids polo shirts. I dont iron anything else i.e. t-shirts, jeans, sweatshirts, bed stuff, towels, underwear

I never iron, although am considering starting. Sometimes use conditioner, dry on line or on maiden.

I don't have non-iron shirts or trousers.

I don't tumble-dry. I line-dry or dry on hoist-pulley fake Victorian airers, and occasionally on radiators in winter. I use fabric oncditioner usually.

I iron all of your first list, and of your second list, I iron bed-stuff (not fitted sheets). I will iron towels if they look really creased and rubbish and we have guests visiting.

Got your message hidetheelephant, and thought I'd answer here .

I never use fabric conditioner, line dry if sunny, tumble dry and clothes horse if not. It then all gets piled into a washing basket, unfolded, in a big crumpled heap.

I don't buy things if they look like they're going to need ironing. Dh irons his own work shirts, Dd starts school next week, I've bought non iron shirts.

To be honest I probably do look a bit crumpled, but I think body heat makes the majority of creases drop out fairly quick, and if not I don't care about looking wrinkled enough to start ironing. (I don't use anti-wrinkle cream either .

I know I have ironed about twice in the past year, but can't for the life of me remember what or why!

I iron all the things on your first list and bed linen from your second. I like ironing - well, certainly don't mind doing it while I watch a bit of TV - and I like to feel that we look uncrumpled!

hmmsleep I'm a bit like you on the changing bed sheets too BTW and quite frequently go 2-3 months+ How often do you usually change them?

Probably about the same, is that an awful thing for us to be admitting? Then I wonder why I cough and sneeze all the time!

Yes to the first list

Our clothes dry on airers in the spare room (live in a flat so no washing line).

I don't iron anything regularly, onyl the occassional special-occassion item.

I would iron smart shirts (the sort that you wear with ties) if they needed to be worn, or in fact DP would if he had to wear them, but as it is he only wears casual shirts which are fine if they are put straight onto coat hangers out of th ewashing machine.

I also don't have any pleated items - if I did I would hang them up on a coat hanger and hope that the pleats fell properly as they dried.

Oh, but only on as as-needed basis. I run in to the laundry room in the mornings for a quick iron of whatever we are wearing that day. Can't face ironing a mountain of clothes all at once.

I'm a bit about this post?

I iron everything clothing wise and all the bed stuff too (except fitted sheets).

I tumble and line dry but simply cannot imagine not ironing our clothes or sending DH to work in un ironed shirts.

Do you really not iron stuff????

I do iron dh's shirts and the kids stuff for school/nursery but dont do anything else. After drying on the clothes horse the clothes are put on hangers and put in the wardrobe or folded and put in drawers. Creases fall out in the wardrobe or when you wear the clothes. Life's too short to spend it doing the ironing.

Trillian and Seona Do you use fabric conditioner though?

We iron shirts, linen trousers, pillow cases, and things we are wearing on special occasions or if we are seeing mil. Otherwise we don't iron anything at all . And we don't tumble dry either.

Linen items - May iron if can't get away with it
Pleated items - don't buy these things
Shirts (that aren't non iron) - no
Trousers (that aren't non iron) - as per linen
Rugby shirts - no
Polo shirts - no
Tshirts - no
Sweatshirts - no
Jeans - no
Bed stuff - no
Towels/flannels/hankies - no
Pants/socks/vests - no

I hav new rule of thumb: every time there is an ironing thread where someone says they iron their bedsheets, it's time to change the beds.

FickleFairy are you perchance living int he 1950s? I don't send DP to work in anything, he dresses himself. He even chooses his own clothes.

No fabric conditioner, DP doesn't like the smell.

Trillian From my list is their anything else you don't have apart from smart shirts and pleated stuff?

I iron everything (except towels/flannels etc!) on Sunday mornings watching Something for The Weekend.

I line dry or clothes horse. No conditioner, no tumble drier.

DD thanked me today for ironing her stuff and said XXX in school always has very creased uniforms. So beware!

Trillian, no, it is 2010. But as DH works very long hours and is away a lot and I am at home with a 3 yr old I think it is pedecrly reasonable for me to do his ironing for him and I don't need to choose his work clothes as he wears a uniform.

Interesting though that yet again on Mumsnet someone gives their opinion and there is always someone waiting in the wings ready and waiting with a witchy comment.

I detest ironing but I do it cause I like us all to be smartly presented etc. Do I have a problem with people who don't iron? No, I wish i could be that brave!

I don't object to your doing the ironing FF, just found 'sending him to work' an odd phrase. As if you would be the one who would be judged if he were wrinkled.

Full list then elephant?

Linen items - do have some linen trousers, hang them with clippy hangers to dry, they wrinkle after 5 minutes on anyway so it doesn't seem too vital to have them pressed
Pleated items - don't have them
Shirts (that aren't non iron) - hang straight onto shirt hangers to dry
Trousers (that aren't non iron) - dry on airer, they look fine
Rugby shirts - don't have
Polo shirts - dry on airer, fold, they are fine
Tshirts - dry on airer, fold, fine
Sweatshirts - are you kidding me?
Jeans - dry on airer

hidetheelephant, you have yet to tell us what you do / don't iron?

yes I use fabric conditioner