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ironing pile

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gremlindolphin · 09/05/2010 17:48

Just wanted to share this -

Dh has just come out with a classic "you need to get more organised, my Mum never even had an ironing pile, she just did it!"

This rendered me speechless! Does anyone not have an ironing pile? I do all mine on a Sunday night which I thought was quite good!

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scurryfunge · 09/05/2010 17:49

There is a constant ironing pile in my house...sometimes I even see the bottom of it!

deaddei · 09/05/2010 17:50

I iron 4 times a week and rarely see the bottom of it.
I would suggest your dh does his own- mine does!!

emsyj · 09/05/2010 17:51

I had an ironing pile spreading over 2 laundry baskets and an airer for the best part of 3 months. In the end the stuff was so crispy overdry and creased that I had to re-wash a lot of it . DH calls it 'the ironing mountain' (it's currently one laundry basket full) but surprisingly never offers to help me with it....

PersonalClown · 09/05/2010 17:51

I always thought it was proof that you had clean clothes if there was an ironing pile!

I've just battled my way through half of mine...tea break...

ZZZenAgain · 09/05/2010 17:51

maybe he didn't know hwere she had it?

I always have an ironing pile

nickschick · 09/05/2010 17:53

My ironing pile is massive but if i did it all in one go thered be a power surge and wed have nowhere to hang all the stuff anyway .......its like new clothes day if i get near the bottom - all stuff i forgot i even had is there.......

I think in the 'old' days people had just enough clothes and linens so they were able to keep on top of it plus the fact no tumble driers and twin tubs made washing a once a week chore.

latermater · 09/05/2010 17:56

My mother always jokes that if I ever got to the bottom of my ironing basket I would probably find a mouse's nest, undisturbed for years. Don't like to risk it,
so just keep it full....

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gremlindolphin · 09/05/2010 17:56

thats quite a good point nickschick!

I also think when you are young especially a boy, you wouldn't even remember your mum ironing.

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nickschick · 09/05/2010 17:58

I think he was just saying it to bug you ......my dh makes random claims about his superior mother that I seriously doubt.

Alicetheinvisible · 09/05/2010 18:00

I don't have an ironing pile because i don't iron

Actually, to be fair, i don't really iron in the winter, i do shirts in the warmer weather though.

ttalloo · 09/05/2010 18:16

dh takes his shirts to his mother for ironing because he has no idea how to iron anything due to being brought up like a little emperor, and I refuse to do them on principle, most everything else I put away unironed (amazing how creases fall out after an hour or so's wear!), and my mother stuffs a bag with anything that does need ironing and takes it away and does it for me. dh thinks I'm a slattern but I'd rather be a happy slattern than a perfect housewife seething with resentment as she spends three hours of her week standing at an ironing board!

schroeder · 09/05/2010 18:31

My ironing pile is enormous and I never reach the bottom.
DH's pile is a bit smaller and he does reach the bottom sometimes.
Your DH needs a slap
My DH is ironing right now.(I've been to work today and made tea)

realitychick · 10/05/2010 09:59

Don't iron. Then you can have a laundry mountain like ours! There's always, always three basket loads to get folded and put away. As soon as they are emptied, clothes jump off the line and out of the tumble drier to refill them. Never have empty laundry baskets here. It's life. It means you keep the family clean!

GetOutOfMoiWayTories · 10/05/2010 10:05

Iron as you go.

I don't have an ironing basket - when things are dry they get hung up/put in drawers. Wer have a dressing room where an ironing board and iron are already set up - so iron what is needed for that day. Takes about 10 minutes. Me, DP and DD do our own ironing (dd takes the ironing board into her bedroom on a Sunday and does her ironing for the week in one fell swoop).

I have never understood why people stand there ironing for hours at a time. Whta a waste of time (in my view).

emsyj · 10/05/2010 10:59

I'm the other way GetOutOf - DH used to iron his shirt every morning before work and I thought the effort of waiting for the iron to heat up and then iron one item to wear was really disproportionate so I took to doing all the ironing for the week on a Sunday evening. So his little trick worked like a charm on me, didn't it? Now he doesn't iron EVER.

Last night I looked out of the bedroom window and saw the husband of the couple who live over the road doing some ironing in their living room. I called DH in to look and said, 'see how interesting that is - Dean is doing the ironing' and gave him a very KNOWING look. Let that be a lesson to him. Or something.

LadyintheRadiator · 10/05/2010 11:02

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LittleMissNorty · 10/05/2010 11:04

My DH told me once that his mother never had an ironing pile either....but she just left it on airers and ironed it from there I think.

Everyone has either an ironing pile or unironed clothes hanging in the wardrobe. In my single days, I used to watch the weeks weather on Countryfile and then iron 5 outfits

Send your ironing out and make him pay for it! That's what I do

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gremlindolphin · 13/05/2010 16:21

I made the same mistake as you emsyj! Do all my ironing on a Sunday night.

He does iron maybe one shirt every couple of months if there is something on tv he just can't bear to watch (who ever(ie me!) is ironing on a Sunday night then we watch what they want) Makes him suitably smug.

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PestoEatsBallotPapers · 13/05/2010 16:24

I don't have an ironing pile either. I just do it too. Sorry if that's not what you wanted to hear though

icecoldcatsbum · 13/05/2010 16:32

If you don't have an ironing pile then you must have a dirty clothes pile surely? Unless it is unironed in the wardrobe though. I did all my ironing yesterday and today there is a small pile growing already!!

Crazycatlady · 13/05/2010 16:51

I do all the ironing for the week on a Monday evening. Takes an hour. There is usually a pile of clothes waiting to be ironed that I've washed and folded throughout the week.

We have a small laundry room so it lives in there. If I didn't have a laundry room I'd probably iron as I went to avoid piles of clothes all over the place.

Andy1964 · 13/05/2010 17:09

There is always an 'Ironing Pile' in our house.

The things at the bottom of it never get ironed, mostly my casual linen shirts

With two school age DS's Me and DW Ironing would be a never ending task.

DW does most as she is a Stay at home Mum but I sometimes pick up the pile and have a go, normaly when there is no maintainance to do around the house and F1 or MotoGP is on the telly.

You can get quite a bit done while watching motorsports

hellymelly · 13/05/2010 17:14

My ironing pile is at the moment nearly three feet high.Truly.

marriednotdead · 13/05/2010 17:17

DH cheekily commented on the growing pile in the corner today- told him if he didn't like looking at it he could always do it. Said he didn't mind doing his own but when I pointed out that 80% was his, he suddenly seemed less keen. Is quite capable, used to live alone but I iron faster...
As for MILs- my sisters ex kept complaining that 'my mum doesn't do it like that'. She eventually arched her brow and asked if his mother did EVERYTHING better than she did

Kiama · 13/05/2010 19:47

It's bad karma to empty the ironing basket. You have to leave AT LEAST one thing in the bottom of it or the evil ironing fairy will come in the night and iron wrinkles into your face.

C'mon people, doesn't everyone know this? What did your mothers teach you?

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