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are you obsessed with ironing???

by alannadodd
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i only ask because a friend of mine today was recounting to me how she'd spent all afternoon ironing piles and piles and piles of clothes, and all i could think was...why :confused:
i just couldnt care less about creases frankly, and with 2 kids, a job, other IMPORTANT housework, i really think its bottom of the list. in fact im fairly sure i haven't picked up an iron in 6 years.
now, is she crazy or am i???
  • Profile picture of the author Patrician
    I agree with you - I have an iron but I never use it. If you take clothes out of the dryer and shake them out and press them with your hands a little they will be fine.

    When I worked in an office I had everything dry cleaned that I wore - even if it was washable.

    Maybe this is because my mother used to force me to iron and she even ironed her husbands boxer shorts and sheets (OMG). 'looks better in the drawers' (no pun intended).

    Most of the fabrics today are 'wash n' wear' and most of the stuff I wear is at least part spandex - so NO IRONING.

    I do have a steamer that is good for all kinds of things and if something looks really 'slept in' I will give it a shot with the steamer - this is rare for wrinkles but great for deodorizing fabrics and upholstery...
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      From a single male who doesn't work in an office, what's this iron of which you speak
      Seriously I'm either in tee shirts and jeans or shorts. In the winter I wear sweat shirts for the extra layer and long sleeve tees. I don't even fold my clothes let alone iron them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bradley J Anderson
    I'm a single male myself, and I iron what I am going to wear for the day every single morning. Sharp creases in the pants, the whole nine yards. You never get a 2nd chance to make a good 1st impression.

    Suits get dry-cleaned, so I don't have to worry about those. Fortunately, though, I don't have to wear suits much anymore unless I'm meeting with particular clients.
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  • Profile picture of the author money bubble
    lol! Yeah, I think ironing every bit of laundry you own is a bit excessive. Work/ special occasion clothes... definetely. Something you could suggest to your friend is spray some starch on the clothes right after pulling them out of the dryer & hang them up. I learned this little trick when I was in the Navy & always got compliments on my uniform with no ironing.
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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      As I understand it, you "couldnt care less about creases," yet post a thread devoted to ironing. Well, ain't that ironic.
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  • Profile picture of the author alannadodd
    there's no way i could match your puns guys, my hat is tipped to you. my husband and brother-in-law are always doing stuff like that, they can reel off puns endlessly while i'm there going "...er jeremy irons??"
    my poor tired brain just can't keep up!

    moneybubble - that starch thing is cool tip, i think she'll have to settle for something like that if she has more children or goes back to work. she also is inclined to iron boxers, hankies, sports socks... utter madness!!
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    • Profile picture of the author Frank Donovan
      Originally Posted by alannadodd View Post

      there's no way i could match your puns guys, my hat is tipped to you. my husband and brother-in-law are always doing stuff like that, they can reel off puns endlessly while i'm there going "...er jeremy irons??"
      my poor tired brain just can't keep up!
      Yeah, I've always been partial to a little punning. In fact, last year, I tried my hand at a "Pun Of The Week" competition run by my local newspaper. Every Friday for 10 weeks, I'd send in an entry, expecting that at least one of them would win a prize.

      But unfortunately, no pun in ten did.


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      • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
        Originally Posted by Frank Donovan View Post

        But unfortunately, no pun in ten did.

        Frank, that was only two-thirds pun.

        PU...
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        • Profile picture of the author Frank Donovan
          Originally Posted by Bill Farnham View Post

          Frank, that was only two-thirds pun.
          PU...
          U'pun what do you base that assertion?



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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Ten
    No. I am not particularly fond of ironing.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      I feel pressed to give my own experience here.

      My obsessive Mother ironed socks, sheets and towels - and insisted on starching/ironing handkerchiefs (every blow your nose into a stiff starched hankie?).

      The irony here is if a care tag mentions the words "press" or "iron" - I don't buy the item. I own nothing that must be ironed to look good - and that's not going to change.

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  • Profile picture of the author Gilearn
    am fond of ironing if i do it occasionally...ave just noticed that it is not the ironing itself but the word used IRONING...
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  • Profile picture of the author mavmav
    No. Most of my clothes are wrinkle free. and ironing has always been a pain.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    I get board just looking at an iron. While this seams to be a topic I usually glide over and get away from, I've got to turn up the heat on this one.

    I get hives looking at an iron. I HATE to iron. Give me a choice of washing windows, floors, doing dishes, vacuuming --- anything but ironing. But I like natural fiber clothes. My solution? I usually pay someone to do my ironing. There's always someone around that could use some cash and will do the ironing cheaper than the dry cleaners.

    Then there's this other way to get wrinkles out. Hang some clothes in the bathroom when you take a bath or shower and the steam will take wrinkles out. There's also little steamers now that you can use the same way - hang the clothes and point the steamer at the wrinkled areas. Great for traveling.

    Where there's no will - there is a way.
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  • Profile picture of the author suzanne73
    Ironing is the bain of my life! I only ever iron the kids school uniforms, I just hate it sooo much! My partner seems to think that there's some kind of washing fairy that exists only to pick up his washing and magically clean it, it's the only explanation I think of for the endless flood of washing that I have to do. It feels like i'm doing the whole streets washing!
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrician
    I just love puns.

    They are so IRONic
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  • Profile picture of the author unlimitedmarketing
    Maybe your friend does this as a way to "appear busy" because she has other problems or situations that she is trying to avoid since she is "busy". I think everyone has a certain ways to "escape" their problems.

    By the way I HATE ironing. I stick my shirts in the dryer for 5 minutes, and thats my "ironing", lol.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    I like the flat irons in my hometown:

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  • Profile picture of the author Sunfyre7896
    I don't like ironing and would love not to have to do it. I air dry my clothes by hanging them up to save on electricity and so they're wrinkled when they dry. I have to iron my shirts but I don't really worry about my jeans or shorts since they're decent enough. I don't care about slick creases or starch. As long as it doesn't look like I used it as a pillow or back rest I'm good.
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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by Sunfyre7896 View Post

      I don't like ironing and would love not to have to do it. I air dry my clothes by hanging them up to save on electricity and so they're wrinkled when they dry. I have to iron my shirts but I don't really worry about my jeans or shorts since they're decent enough. I don't care about slick creases or starch. As long as it doesn't look like I used it as a pillow or back rest I'm good.
      So you save electricity by not drying them, which would keep them from wrinkling - and plug in the iron and use it instead?

      Um...........

      Nope. Someone explain it please. I don't get it.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    THIS contract, the head person made it sound like I had to be dressed PERFECTLY, with creases, etc..... The first week, you can bet I DID iron! I clean my clothes before packing, and have little ability to redry them. The second week? I did what I have for DECADES! I took them out of the dryer and hung them up immediately. The creases aren't necessarily there, but the contract isn't perfect and I doubt anyone there is. I asked the manager, and she said I was FINE!

    My suits are drycleaned, so I don't have to handle them.

    ANYWAY, I have to stop now. I'm a little steamed up after all the puns.

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    • Profile picture of the author Patrician
      I think Bill Gates should be the poster boy for NO IRONING.

      If you ever saw the movie 'Revenge of the Nerds' when the IBM mucky mucks went to Microsoft the first time and Bill came out to greet them they thought he was the mail boy. (their corporate protocols were like blue ties, white shirts - truly 'the suits' of the universe.)

      Bill was perennially dressed in 'I slept here last night' fashion - wrinkled, he invented the word 'disheveled' before he created 'Microsoft' -- his hair was definitely the prototype for 'bed head' I am quite sure - yeah he looked like he always needed a bath.

      ... who knew - and now he is Richy Rich Kid.

      It's a new wrinkle! :rolleyes:





      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      THIS contract, the head person made it sound like I had to be dressed PERFECTLY, with creases, etc..... The first week, you can bet I DID iron! I clean my clothes before packing, and have little ability to redry them. The second week? I did what I have for DECADES! I took them out of the dryer and hung them up immediately. The creases aren't necessarily there, but the contract isn't perfect and I doubt anyone there is. I asked the manager, and she said I was FINE!

      My suits are drycleaned, so I don't have to handle them.

      ANYWAY, I have to stop now. I'm a little steamed up after all the puns.

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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        all i could think was...why
        I can identify. That's my reaction to a lot of things friends talk about.
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        • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
          When I lived in Japan they had microwave dryers in the laundromats. When I got back to the States I wanted to see if my microwave would also dry my clothes....

          Son of a gun if it didn't.

          Here's a little tip from ol' KJ...cotton works great in the microwave. If you have a polyester blend then the plastic fibres (the polyester part) will melt if you let it 'cook' too long. So you have to find a good balance of time versus dryness.

          And if you have metal parts in your clothes such as buttons or zippers?...you're on your own.
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by Patrician View Post

        I think Bill Gates should be the poster boy for NO IRONING.

        If you ever saw the movie 'Revenge of the Nerds' when the IBM mucky mucks went to Microsoft the first time and Bill came out to greet them they thought he was the mail boy. (their corporate protocols were like blue ties, white shirts - truly 'the suits' of the universe.)

        Bill was perennially dressed in 'I slept here last night' fashion - wrinkled, he invented the word 'disheveled' before he created 'Microsoft' -- his hair was definitely the prototype for 'bed head' I am quite sure - yeah he looked like he always needed a bath.

        ... who knew - and now he is Richy Rich Kid.

        It's a new wrinkle! :rolleyes:
        I'm not sure why you replied to my post. Frankly, in a perfect world, I would dry just as I do now, but the first week I would take the clothes WRINKLED. I usually do ANYWAY, and I doubt anyone notices and nobody comments. It is a waste of time. Shirts aren't even made to be ironed. They have sleeves, the bulk of the shirt, the collar, and often a part between the main shirt and the sleeves. They ALSO sometimes have a piece in back. Often ironing ONE piece makes another less perfect. Besides, most wrinkles work themselves out.

        HEY, I like the look of ties, but clipons are kind of stupid, still a nuisance, and often looked down on. Tied, which I do when I ****HAVE**** to, are STILL stupid, a nuisance, etc.... It is rumored that they evolved from NOOSES!

        Hansen, of hansens naturals, was said to look like a BUM! HE was ALSO rich!

        As for IBMs reaction to bill gates? One famous business magazine showed a guy with business pants, and dress shoes standing toe to toe with a guy dressed in jeans and sneakers. It only showed that lower part. The idea? That corporate types, like IBM, had to deal with a new casual culture, like APPLE. That was BEFORE the IBM PC.

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    I hate ironing clothes.
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    using, but not always !!
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  • Profile picture of the author asbestosperth
    i don't even hang my clothes up i throw them in a pile kick them around a bit to let them dry in the sun. then i can pick them up off the ground and there ready to wear, no hanging ironing. wash, sun dry, wear then back into wash to repeat cycle.
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by asbestosperth View Post

      i don't even hang my clothes up i throw them in a pile kick them around a bit to let them dry in the sun. then i can pick them up off the ground and there ready to wear, no hanging ironing. wash, sun dry, wear then back into wash to repeat cycle.
      I hope there is enough surface area! If there isn't, there will be MOLD!

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    • Profile picture of the author Patrician
      This kind of reminds me of two incidents when my son was in college.

      #1 I went to visit him in a new apartment after he moved from the campus dorm - he had clothes on every inch of his bedroom floor - about 1 foot high. I thought oh well who cares where he throws his dirty clothes.

      However a little later I noticed him 'sorting' through it to find a shirt to wear - i went ballistic and that was one holiday we spent in the laundromat - probably 5 or 6 giant loads.

      ...there were at least 100 mismatched socks, come to learn many were from other dorm members - who knew those sweat sox with the stripes have 100 or more different patterns - closest you can match is size and color of stripe. I don't think there was a single exact pair in the 100. :rolleyes:

      #2 I went to visit him in another new apartment which had no doors on the closets. I noticed a human size (5 feet) object in the closet covered with a sheet. At first I thought he was hiding a girl - nope it was his clothes.
      (guess he didn't want to spend another day in the laundromat)



      Originally Posted by asbestosperth View Post

      i don't even hang my clothes up i throw them in a pile kick them around a bit to let them dry in the sun. then i can pick them up off the ground and there ready to wear, no hanging ironing. wash, sun dry, wear then back into wash to repeat cycle.
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by Patrician View Post

        This kind of reminds me of two incidents when my son was in college.

        #1 I went to visit him in a new apartment after he moved from the campus dorm - he had clothes on every inch of his bedroom floor - about 1 foot high. I thought oh well who cares where he throws his dirty clothes.

        However a little later I noticed him 'sorting' through it to find a shirt to wear - i went ballistic and that was one holiday we spent in the laundromat - probably 5 or 6 giant loads.

        ...there were at least 100 mismatched socks, come to learn many were from other dorm members - who knew those sweat sox with the stripes have 100 or more different patterns - closest you can match is size and color of stripe. I don't think there was a single exact pair in the 100. :rolleyes:

        #2 I went to visit him in another new apartment which had no doors on the closets. I noticed a human size (5 feet) object in the closet covered with a sheet. At first I thought he was hiding a girl - nope it was his clothes.
        (guess he didn't want to spend another day in the laundromat)
        Are you sure they are HIS clothes? I don't think I have 6 loads EVEN if I separate colors, and include towels. Blankets and all COULD be two loads, but STILL....

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    Maybe she just loves house work
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrician
    The loads included sheets and towels, Steve. I am pretty sure it was all his. I think all the socks just got mixed up in his stuff -

    You know how every time you do laundry at least one sock disappears...

    Well now you know where they go LOL.

    If you could see all the clothes I have you would laugh. My 'concept' (read rationalization for shopaholicism) was you will save energy and money if you have more clothes because you won't need to wash or dry clean as often.

    I am rehabilitated - but 6 years after office world I am still finding clothes still with the tags on them (never worn yet).

    I think the thing was there was never anything to do at lunch so I went shopping - there was a couple stores that always had sales and then were going out of business - deeper price cuts -

    When they finally closed I was in 'cold turkey' withdrawal - I went and bought a $32,000 car at lunch one day (on sale) -- well that cured me - (just paid it off!)
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