Non iron duvet covers.

I usually find that poly cotton bed linen comes out of the tumble dryer not needing to be ironed. However, I recently bought a new set, without checking, and discovered that they needed ironing! Now I have to iron the two sets of pillowcases and the duvet cover. They do get the minimum, just enough to make them presentable. I really don't have time to spend ages ironing them and my cleaner certainly doesn't have time.

My sister-in-law ironed everything as well, including nappies! Don`t think she does now.

My mother (of whom some of you have heard already) ironed everything. "I haven't seen anything that wouldn't look better for ironing." Think that meant my father too! Underpants, socks, tea towels, bras....

I've never got on with steam irons. Use a plant spray to damp down the ironing. Always iron cotton duvet covers.

I also love Egyptian cotton, high count thread bed linen. My treat to myself is to have it ironed! There, I've owned up . I would have clean bed linen every day if there was a bed linen fairy. DH thinks I'm bonkers as he is of the 'who is going to see it' brigade and 'it will only be crumpled by the morning' faction, but each to their own .................

mr.glamma many years ago tried to show me how his mum ironed his shirts when he lived at home needless to say from that day to this he has done all his own ironing.

Bez, I iron tea towels too, and they do indeed fit into the drawer more neatly. However, I think that the real reason I iron them is that I remember being told as a Brownie learning First Aid that a tea towel was handy for accidents in the kitchen as it would be clean if it had been ironed and could be used for stopping bleeding or covering a burn. So far, touch wood, I haven't had to prove it, but just like the Famous Five, I am ready to cope! Actually, we were also told that the inside pages of an unread newspaper would be sterile because of the heat involve in the printing process - just shows you haw long ago it was!

My husband always ironed hid own trousers as he said I put tramlines in them.
Dear reader, I let him

My DS1, whose chef's whites I used to iron for him in his late teens, has turned into a model 'new man'. He irons his own shirts - not sure he trusts his wife though she always looks immaculate. DS2 takes over the ironing when his partner looks as if she's running out of steam - not literally, though they do have one of those fancy steam systems that makes very vulgar noises. I don't think all this has anything to do with the way I brought them up, more likely the influence of their partners. Relationships are far more of a partnership than they were 'in my day'.

j04 - can't he iron his own? LOL. I am so grateful to my mil for teaching hime to do minor repairs and his own ironing. I always did his ironing when we were working, because his hours were soooo long- but now we are retired he offered to do his own - hurrah. At least these days he doesn't have 1 formal shirt per day!

I must admit to ironing my tea towels too- hate the edges curled under and they never sit properly in the drawer unless ironed.

Ironing? What's that?

No problem with PJs - don't wear 'em. But if I had loads of money and staff I would have my bedding changed every day oh the bliss of clean sheets!

I don't iron a lot of things but I love to see a nice ironed duvet cover, I suppose it depends on you cover but mine always look awful unless they've been ironed.

I have to iron DH's pj's. Not that he cares, but I worry they wouldn't be comfortable.

nellieannobel I am still in shock at the bargain I got I keep going to the laundry basket and making sure it is still there and not a figment of my imagination.Only thing is it will be a nightmare to iron with all the cut out lace detail on it but I don't care every time I press it I will think "it's worth it".

I had one cleaner who had OCD, she even ironed my husbands underpants! It's a good job I did the washing or everything would have been stiffly starched as well!

Oh glamma I absolutely love a bargain

We had this discussion last September and I said this then:

"Does anyone else remember Shirley Conran's seminal work of 1975, 'Superwoman'? It's sub-titled 'Everywoman's book of Household Management'. In it she tells us: 'The secret of ironing is to avoid it' and 'DON'T iron pyjamas or nightclothes (smooth and fold them)..teatowels, pillowcases or sheets'. This advice I have followed assiduously for 36 years and see no reason ever to reject it."

glamma

I also like to see the bedding looking crisp and tidy,I tend to leave my bedding in the washing machine when the fabric conditioner has gone through and leave it to soak for a while it not only smells nice but it seems to help with the creases,on a slightly differant note but still on bedding I got the bargain of a lifetime in a local Charity shop on Wednesday the girls in the shop where just pricing up some bedding and they had a collection of new quilts and pillow cases which had been donated from a family who where emigrating and I picked up a Kingsize quilt cover and 4 pillow cases all new and in their packaging from M&S all white embroidered absolutley fantastic all for the price of £5.00 that must have been my bargain of a life-time just what I was looking for,so I have just ordered the valence sheet on line with a 20% discount so I will have a fully fitted set for next to nothing.

I do as little ironing as possible and as seldom as possible. But each to her own. If you feel the need to iron bedding, so what? It's nobody's business but your own. And it's my business if I prefer not to.

Nonu - yes it is rude. And I can assure you that despite enjoying the luxury of crisp, good quality cotton sheets and covers, ironed - I do have a life - a very interesting one, actually. Cheers

I have to say that any new duvet covers I buy will be some sort of polycotton; these cotton ones (white with dark Blu flowers) are lovely but come out of the washing machine very, very creased.

I hate the phrase 'get a life'. It's nasty. And sounds it.

Goodnight.