Ironing... how big is your pile???

[wabbit]

Confession...I've got stuff waiting to be ironed that are:

Winter clothes, and even some clothes from last year that ds has now grown out of

My wish is that someone will create me a week where I don't have anything else to do other than sort out my bl@@dy IRONING

So ironing hangs out under the stairs... in dd's bedroom (where the messiness of it is matched by dd's clothes on the floor habit) and now I've noticed I'm making uber weeny piles of 'needs to be ironed' things in my bedroom

How do you fit ironing into your day??

I only iron what people actually see so no vests, PJs etc, DP does his own and still my pile grows and grows.

So, is paying for someone to do your ironing really expensive... I see ads and they all express washing in weight, this means nothing to me at all

Wish they'd put it in terms of duvet cover, sheets, shirts, skirts etc

You shouldn't be ironing sweetkitty, you should be sitting down resting

Currently comes up to DD's chest, from ground zero level. DD is nine. If that helps.

This is average

Maybe you should cull some clothing

one laundry basket full.
haven;t done any for a week so have to play catch up tomorrow.

Nothing in the ironing basket at the moment. Ironed the weekends washing on Monday, yesterdays washing yesterday and I have not done any washing today - so NO IRONING

And "dispose of the bodies" in our direction

Oh God wrong thread.. abort, abort.. meant for the clothes thread believe it or not!!!

just did mine while watching the soap awards!

so none!!

wabbit - I think I pay per hour - about £9 if I take it to the local ironing shop, but less if I use my local 'woman who does everything'. Don't know how she works out per hour, but a big bag from her is def a lot cheaper (though not ironed quite as well) than the shop.

I have used odd places in the past that charge per item, but then I end up not giving them small easy items, and then they don't get done at all! About 8 years ago it would be something like 75p for a shirt.

I don't have an ironing pile (I did it this evening) , or anything in the laundry basket waiting to be washed - apart from the DS's socks, pants and DS3's clothes from today.......

I've just sat down having ironed my way through the Apprentice and the Your Fired thing on BBC2 .

However, all the shirts still need done and as I type I'm remembering that ds2 has a class photo tomorrow and needs one done...

Thankyou CantSleepWontSleep. I'm thinking with the advent of my student loan (which will make it possible) I'm going to have to get someone else on the case!
Mind you it's lovely to know I'm not the only one with a serious ironing overload!

Mum you know you don't have to iron my stuff
I remember when you used to iron knickers ...
And socks...

my ironing pile is taller than my 8 yr old. there is stuff at the bottom of it that no one has seen for 18 months. When I finally get down there they will have to be passed on to younger brother, but no worries, will be like getting new clothes without having to go shopping!

I don't iron anything. DH irons his own shirts for work (not his casual stuff), and I get his work trousers dry cleaned. If I did, then I wouldn't (IYKWIM), so I'd have ironing mountains too! When I worked (now SAHM), I would iron 5 shirts for work each Sunday night. I still didn't iron casual stuff.

Yes, you told me my standards were slipping!!! Thank you BW

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I never iron. I don't have an ironing pile.
DH does 5 shirts on a sunday night. Job done.

Mine covers the spare bed.

Glad we've got no visitors planned.

bad bad bad. its stacked on a chair right now, getting steadily more creased, and crsipier... I might tackle it tongiht before it starts breeding.

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cocodebear, do you think i could get the oxford dictionary to include 'slurks' in it's newest edition ?

Maybe if enough MNers adopt it it will get in!