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

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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??

Don't have much as when my mum looks after dd every thursday she also decides to do all our ironing god i would be lost without my mum

So many good DH/DP who iron, mine wouldn't have a clue!

I never iron anything except ds's "party" shirts!

Oh and curtains.

Gone.

DH stood in kitchen and ironed throughout Dr Who, then LOST then Desperate Houswives.

I am in awe!

Pay for someone else to do it. Seriously, take a mortgage if you have to. It is the best investment in your family you can ever make.

Doesn't everyones child wear pants with a crease down the front?

I think most people already have mortages.. or have to rent.

cadelaide - for me it's not the flatness of the clothes, it's knowing exactly where things are - and how neatly they fit into drawers and onto shelves. Oh, and how crisp the bedding is.

I grew up with a mum who never ironed and who's idea of washing was putting things on the washing pile (which was mahooosive)

She left it there

and it stayed there

sometimes one of us (five children) would filch something filthy out and attempt to wear it and it would be confiscated (put back on the washing pile)

dad would finally realise that something needed to be done and would take bags and bags of the stuff to the lauderette (it would take hours and hours) but I loved fishing out the still warm, folded, sweet smelling things
when they got home... especially my (rediscovered as pink) blankie

I have a bit of a clean washing fetish now

Only got 2 vests and a babygro left to do cost me £10 to get 3 baskets done though. I love my dd the ironing pile was getting to her lol now heres hoping the messy house will get to her next week when shes on hols from school

If my ironing pile gets too big, I put it away as is and will iron it when needed. Done this recently so i'm now up to date apart from the stuff that is drying.

I have about 2 shirts a couple of t shirts and a few odd socks to pair up

(did ironing yesterday)

Ooh god ironing... bad subject .

Actually mine's not too bad so far but I'm still in shock because my treasured, lovely, wonderful ironing lady has quit.

I wonder if I wore the poor woman out actually. Now I'm going it alone. Can't find anyone else like her atm.