Things you can’t get your head round, e.g Non ironers

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Is it just me or does anyone else not understand how people who don’t iron manage ? Whenever someone tells me they don’t iron my brain can’t compute how they manage to have clothes looking crinkle free- without consciously buying clothes that don’t need ironing! I hang clothes on coat hangers, fold consciously to avoid creasing but still have to iron things like blouses, dh shirts and my dd school skirts, for example. Do I need to buy better quality clothing, is that the key? Can any non ironers out there share their secrets please 😀🤓

Don't iron here apart from the odd linen or work shirt! The thing is although something may look creased - once on, the moisture and heat from yr body naturally makes the creases disappear. My DC are pretty stylish and wear nice clothes - no ironing!

I used the low iron shirt cycle on the washing machine for everything.
Hang everything on the line to dry, even in winter.
Straight onto hangers.

We don't need to wear smart shirts so nothing has to be crisp.

(who tumble dries- except for emergencies? That I DON'T get?!)

People who don’t have a garden
People who need to dry things quickly
People who don’t want a damp house from things drying on the radiators.
People who have hay fever and can’t allow clothes to get covered in pollen.
People too old or disabled to reach up and down to a line.

You can get non iron school shirts! I had them at school and they were great (my parents made me iron everything so I bought non iron uniform to get around it). I think they were from m and s.

My dad also made me polish and shine my shoes every night for school. I will NOT be doing that with Dd.

Oh, and DS passes his uniform checks at army and police cadets without ironing.

I only iron a few things. DH irons more of his clothes. He used to iron absolutely everything (his ex’s influence I think, not DMIL’s) until it was clear I wasn’t going to join in and don’t care much. I am very interested in steamers after this thread.

Bleach is used for toilets, grout and plug holes but not very frequently.

I can live with natural essential oil reed diffusers, but never use any air freshener plug ins, sprays etc.

The so-called odour neutralising ones make me gag - I think there’s something in them that only some people can smell.

i won’t iron. Never have done.

i but things that don’t need ironing. Don’t wear dress shirt or linen. My kids have polo shirts for school - even secondary!

Yes, and people who are out of the house all day, every day.

I never iron. I just buy non-iron clothes/ shirts, hang up carefully and pull out creases when wet. For my clothes I choose fabrics that I know don't need ironing- weirdly, cheaper clothes with polyester are usually better! Husband and I both work full-time in professional jobs. We don't have time to bother with ironing. Kids school clothes it's all to do with folding trousers on the crease and pushing out the crease, hanging the shirts/ polo shirt on right size hangers and pulling down. Use wooden hangers, not flimsy plastic ones.

The items you mention would need ironing. We don't often iron because we don't own clothes that need ironing. The clothes that do, eg shirts, we don't wear often.

I use bleach if someone has been sick, otherwise I'm not sure where I'd use it. I use soap and water for cleaning the kitchen surfaces, dining table, and high chair tray, and a bathroom cleaning spray in the bathroom. I use harpic down the loo because I find it better than bleach.

I don't iron because I can't be bothered and don't have time unless I want to be constantly either working or doing housework. We do iron shirts and dresses when we are going out somewhere nice, as and when, otherwise I really don't give a shit if there's a few creases in my t-shirt. If there's no baby sick down me, I'm winning.

My mom would iron EVERYTHING. Socks, bed sheets...it is baffling to me.

My husband doesn’t iron his T shirts or polo shirts. They look shit if light coloured. I bite the bullet and do it for him if we are going to be in the company of anyone I know.

He sends his work shirts out to be ironed. We also do that with our good bedding.

I have a “dressing room” (aka box room with IKEA wardrobes) and one of these flip down ironing boards, as well as a big one with steam generator iron. I iron my things as I go.

I find that line dried items can get distorted where the pegs were and I love how easy it is to turn a viscose dress or top from shrivelled rag to smooth drape. I have no issue with linen, I like how you can have the iron super hot with max steam, it’s so satisfying.

My husband uses cloth hankies. Every now and again I iron a little pile of them for him. It reminds me of being a child when my Mum taught me to iron. I also iron my tea towels if I have time.

DS school uniform is dark polo shirts and sweatshirts so no ironing needed, but it does need to be tumble dried if not ironed otherwise he complains it feels too “hard”.

My Grandpa was a valet in the army in WW2. He taught my Mum.

Try living in a country with no school uniform 🙂 I dry dresses on the hanger giving them a good shake. If I have linen trousers in the summer then yes I will iron those, or D's shirt if we go to a wedding. Otherwise there is so much more to life than pointless housework.

My Great nieces boyfriend has just been sacked for turning up to work in a shirt that wasn't ironed. He was a waiter in a restaurant. I would have sacked him first time he had done not the second. Scruffy bugger.
I don't understand how anyone can go out in anything that is very obviously creased to hell.

I work in a job where I dress fairly casually. I buy clothes that don’t need ironing. I use a tumble drier.

I do iron ocassionally, but only for a wedding or something not ordinary life.

Wow, I had no idea those of us who DO iron clothes were in such a tiny minority! Like a PP, I put on a film or listen to music and iron on a Sunday afternoon. I have 4 DCs and a husband who wears smart shirts for work, and I don't buy synthetic fabric, so prefer a crisp finish.

(Weirdly, DH and I were discussing the reduction in national sartorial standards last week - we (Brits) used to be smart, particularly for work, and whilst out somewhere the other day, we really noticed how scruffy we all look now, and how casually most people dress even in 'professional' work settings.)

I only use bleach in the loos, and very sparingly, and don't have any 'plug in' air
fresheners etc...

I should add my husband does iron and irons all his own shirts.

I would rather iron every day of the week than cook/bake/clean/tidy once a month.

I like ironing, and I like to wear ironed clothes.

Got right off topic here! Mostly pure cotton stuff here, some linen,ATM shorts,t shirts,DHs,thick with collar,3,buttons. I don't iron in winter when they're under jumpers,not seen. I was nursing 40 years,you could see who didn't iron their uniforms. I used to starch mine,it was a badge of honour,a pride in looking smart. As for too much time on your hands....I had 4 DKs, worked 50 hours a week often. We moved DH lost his job, unexpectedly (went to work, told liquidation, don't come back tomorrow)so I had to go back to full time,12.5 hour night shift.I had a round trip commute of just over 100 miles, ironing takes about 20 minutes. I don't like synthetic fabrics.

I rarely iron, only shirts if DH has a meeting or an event or if something isnt dry and needs to be dry quickly.

I don't own a tumble dryer and I think that is key. When things come out of the machine I shake them well from shoulders or waistband and spread tgem out wide aa possible to hang on an airer to dry or outside on the line. My Mum taught me this and she rarely ironed, to the point that the enormous metal ironing board with a built in seat (no really, it was a bloody genius thing) was only replaced with a more modern one when they moved into their house 5 years ago.

I work 50 hours a week in a stressful job, 2 DC, husband has chronic health conditions but also works a similar amount of hours. I barely have time to stop the house looking like a crack den most of the time, ironing would finish me off.

I don't understand how people get all their socks to match. Are you checking your DCs only ever put a pair in the wash? Do you all have a magical atring thst connects them together? Brcsuse inevitably once a month, i sit of the floor with a huge basket of odd socks to play a real life pairs matching game

Considering you don’t notice when people are wearing clothes that aren’t ironed hasn’t it occurred to you that people also don’t notice when you wear clothes that are ironed? I think I own about two items of clothing that require ironing. Life is too short to spend my free time pointlessly flattening things.

Not all of us have kids or blouses or not pkus dream of ironing someone else's clothes.

I think I last ironed 5 years ago? Maybe a work trouser that needed magic hemmed.

Else the iron just used by partner for his stuff.

How do you iron while watching TV? You need to look at what you are ironing so that you iron the right bits and don’t burn your fingers!

(I don’t like just listening to TV though.)

I use the Lenor crease release spray, I hate ironing I can't remember the last time I got the iron out!