Do you iron your clothes as you use them or do bulk ironing of washing baskets?

[CrazyLady]

I only iron for formal events. If i'm wearing a cotton dress I will hang it in the bathroom while I shower and it drops the creases out. most of my clothes are iron free or iron themselves

[JaCaMaDy]

I used to just iron as I went. When DP and I got together, he did all his own ironing, and then started doing all mine too this has been for the last 6 years! Now that I'm a SAHM, I feel obliged to do it as he wears a shirt & trousers each day, though he did offer to continue. He's anal about everything being ironed, even...and I'm not kidding - his >lycra< boxers! WTH?? So, I do it every week, gosh I detest it though...that horrible basket full staring at me...I often think if everyone just decided to NOT iron anything, we'd all be wrinkly together, and nobody would look out of place...

[Sopdet]

I keep on top of my ironing. I need to buy a new iron (and cover for my ironing board).

During the flood coverage, I sat in front of the TV and did all the ironing on day, about 3 hours worth of ironing all up but I do have linen shirts that I needed to re-dampen before I could iron them.

I do iron sheets & pillowcases as well, both when they're taken off the line and then a quick press when they're on the bed.

[UsPlus2]

hmmm an iron... I'm sure I have one of them around here somewhere....surely..

I just hang up shirts and dresses (DS's included) as they come out of the washing machine, so they dry straight. maybe if you are so behind you could just hang up this lot and deal with it on as needed basis. Not every day calls for a ironed shirt.

So sorry to hear about your SIL, I hope her passage through this world is peaceful one

[Catastrophic]

Hmmm, I think its been a few years since i Ironed...

Sorry to hear about your SIL

[~Kim~]

FIrstly I'm sorry to hear about your SIL.

back to the question though

ooooh 7 baskets...that is disheartening.....

I am a bulk ironer. We've been a 2 policeman family until just recently, and I do not like ironing at weird hours. Sometimes I do get behind and we iron as we go until i catch up. I get cross with DH though because if I need something ironed I do a couple of other things to lessen the pile a bit, but DH never ever thinks to do that.
I'd much rather have clothes in wardrobe looking lovely and ready to wear than a basket full of ironing staring at me.

[RainbowBrite]

So sorry to hear about your SIL
I iron as I go.
I hate ironing and only do it if necessary.

[Laranna]

I iron 5 shirts for DH on a Sunday night for the working week. The rest of it is iron as we need it. I avoid wrinkles by hanging the washing up in the wardrobes as soon as it comes off the line.

[Gigi]

i hang anything that you MIGHT iron, straight on hangers, when it's straight out of the washing machine. i let GRAVITY do the ironing for me.

have only ironed when sewing, since having bilby (four years ago).

but when i ironed heaps, i couldn't stand getting the ironing board out for ONE item. i thought, if i drag out the ironing board, might as well make it worth my while - do a bulk lot at one time (whilst watching telly)