I have found an ingenius new way to cut down on the laundry...............

[SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore]

I always have a pile of washing waiting to be done and a giant mound of ironing waiting to be done.

No matter how much time I dedicate to this task it is never finished.

I have found a new and better way. There is no more ironing pile

See what I do now is, when the dryer is finished, I take the clothes out and put them away. No more ironing. Life feels so much easier now. And we have regained a sofa

Bliss.

You're preaching to the choir here. The only things that ever get ironed here are DH's work shirts and he does that himself.

I only iron what actually NEEDS to be ironed and hence only get ironing board out once a month

I don't even put them away, let alone iron.

I used to iron everything even DH's boxers

Not now though.

no - but you can still TELL that they haven't been ironed, they don't look right in the drawers/wardrobe if they've not had a hot piece of metal against them first.

I can tell if something has been ironed or not and it would make my skin crawl

Oh I solved the problem of the overflowing laundry basket by buying a bigger one.

What's ironing?

Hmmm a timer you say? Interesting. Dd2 might be a bit young but dd1 could do that.

Have I found a way to get out of the ironing and the tidying?

Now if only I could train the dog to fill the washer, life would be grand.

LOL fruitbunny at buying larger laundry basket

Banana, my bathroom is my laundry basket atm. And my bedroom floor. Some of the washing is age 0-3 months. My youngest dc is 2 in may

T'is getting smaller now I know I don't have to iron the washing though.

Exactly Banana- what's ironing?

I don't do any. DH does his own shirts.

Voila- no ironing pile.

Nothing gets ironed here. If when you get your clothes out they need ironing then you do it then.

I found another way too. I chucked out loads of socks, pants, towels and t-shirts - you know the ones that get worn when you start running out of things to use? And creates more washing? Well I got rid of tons. Much less washing.

And I never Iron. We bought a new iron just before xmas, to replace the one DH had since he was a student over 10 years ago. I used it for the first time week after valentines day, and not again yet!

We've been in this house since November 2007 and I hvae ironed twice - do I win?

Another tip, if you fold things quite carefully, and then pile it up in a laundry basket for 24 hours before putting it away, it virtually irons itself.

nope no ironing here.

Are we all hoping for someone to come along and call us slatterns so that we can jump on her and rumple her clothes?

You're not using your dryer on a lovely sunny day like today are you? get it out on the washing line!

I havent ironed for 18 mths!

Got a brand new steam generator that has not been used in over 6mths. Going to lend it to a friend and then they can show me how to use it!

Puppymonkey all my pegs are being used to hang up the half of the sofa that DH decided to bath. I am too lazy to go in search of new pegs. Some things are on the line but then I ran out of pegs.