haven't ironed in about 6 years. Well once did that time....
I Ironed DH's wedding shirt.... And my silly old iron marked it.
I have some sort of trauma with washing too... My mum used to pay me $5 to do a basket for her. About four a week from the time I was about ten..... And It was because the Ironing lady she used to pay went up to $20 a basket... Lol
So she enslaved me until i moved out of home.... I was the iron wench
Last time Dh asked me to do ironing "like all good wives do" I starched every last pair of socks & jocks he owns!
I basically hang all hanging clothes (shirts ect) direct on hangers from the washing machine & hang the hangers on the line, then straight into the robe when dry. then for going out good, if it's a bit wrinkled, I hang it in the bathroom while everyone has their showers & the steam gets the wrinkles out. There has only been a couple of times Ds has needed a school shirt and it's been damp (he says wet, I say cold from the morning air) so I have ironed that to shut him up.
One of My jobs growing up was to do ALL the house hold ironing (6 kids 3 adults) And mum was the type that even liked sheets ironed!!! Luckily one of my other jobs was to re-make the beds after sheets had been washed so I'd put the sheets on the beds & iron them on there.
I iron, but I only have one basket full, I only iron certain things, DH's work and "going out" clothes, slacks, polos, shirts, then dresses, tops, pants etc for the girls, things that are made of cotton that are creased, with the exception of t-shirts, which the creases can be smoothed out when folded.
And I iron a lot when i am sewing, I have found that I can do a lot of avoiving pinning if I iron and my sewing comes out a lot better
i don't iron. well, i iron if i absolutely have to - tops or shirts for special occasions. DP doesn't wear shirts for work, so that's lucky & now that i'm a SAHM i don't have shirts to iron anymore either. i used to be good & iron for the week (probably cos that's what my mum always did as i was growing up - and still does i think) but got slack as the years went on. i really do not enjoy ironing & i'm terrible at it!
T shirts and stuff like that seem to do fine with some strategic pegging. Anything that might need to be ironed goes on a coat hanger which I hang off the line, wind does the trick!
My DH works in a refinery and they wear overalls that are laundered on site.
I wash in a fornt loader on an "easy care" cycle, set a timer so I know when it's finished get them out straight away, hang them on their hangers to dry and put them away when they are done. I've found this eliminates a lot of ironing.
My mum washes everything on the weekend then irons the whole lot on Sunday. Works for her but it would kill my back.
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