Ironing

I hate ironing but like the results, I'm afraid I pay to have my ironing done but actually it's just my husbands clothes as he has a penchant for weird shirts, I do mine as I need it. His work stuff doesn't need ironing but every three months I get all his done and he has loads more clothes than me.

Hate and loath ironing!

All cotton Sheets and quilt covers go on a 3 weekly basis to a very nice ironing company together with any shirts or smart trousers.
The rest goes straight on hangers.

Had my fill of ironing
DH shirts, my blouses, Children's school uniform etc etc and my late father's ironing.

No more

I give lots of things a good shake when they come out of washer to try and get rid of most creases which often works,
I must have my bedding ironed and my pillow cases its a must to have crisp looking bedding but beyond that most items get hung and dried flat if need be.

I'm another one that likes ironing and I couldn't bear to sleep in a bed with unironed pillowcases

I never understood ironing and stopped it as soon as kids stopped wearing school uniforms. Ex did his own, or not as the case might have been ;-))
I think my body warmth smooths out any creases pretty quickly.
I do understand the crisp bed linen thing though but prefer my own sheets to smell of fresh air after drying on the line. Ironing seems to kill that freshness. I even hang my pyamas and towel outside every morning.

I am considering getting a tumble dryer simply to cut out all ironing!
I do have an ironing board set up in my little bedroom for pressing as I go along with sewing .

Christinefrance she has Fibro,hyper joint mobility syndrome,polycystic ovaries and multiple other stuff.She spends much of her life in bed,has 3 children and a husband who works away most of the week.She appreciates every little thing anyone does for her and I wish that I could fix much more than her ironing .If I believed in God I'd pray to him but I cant believe one exists who lets someone suffer as she does ...she's the nicest kindest young woman you could ever hope to meet

Paddyann, I'd do the same in your shoes.
I'm don't particularly like ironing but I love freshly ironed bed linen. Also, I couldn't wear unironed cotton tops etc.

The Wonderful Man lives up to his name and does his own ironing. [smug emoji]
However, I do all the household ironing; bedding, tablecloths etc. and my own things. I just can't wear non-ironed clothes no matter how few creases they have; I will know they weren't ironed and will feel scruffy.

I don't iron fitted sheets but pillow cases and duvet covers look and feel better when ironed. I hate the thought of ironing but once I start, I'm a perfectionist. When DS1 was a young chef, I did iron his whites for him, but nowadays, no longer a chef, he irons his own clothes and some of his children's school uniform as well. DS2 shares the ironing with his partner who (imho) irons far too much - like the boys things which tend to be back in the washing machine ten minutes after they put them on! Summer clothes, being largely cotton need more ironing than winter ones.

Paddyann so sorry for your daughter, life must be difficult for her. Why is it the nicest people seem to suffer most ?
I hope things improve for her soon

I also do very little ironing - hate it

I have to take a tablet each week which means me standing for an hour afterwards so I use that time to do the ironing, put the radio on and away I go, everything but sheets and socks.

I ironed nothing at all!

I never iron. I have beautiful white pure cotton seersucker duvet covers and my husband wears shirts which do not need ironing.

i don't iron anything. when my children were young they had a clean shirt every day and my husband had one every day too. that meant 16 shirts to be ironed on a sunday night as well as everything else. since i left my husband and the children grew up and left home i haven't needed to iron anything so i don't.
if you fold sheets etc straight off the line and dry tops and trousers on hangars on the line then they have no creases. i bought a new iron and ironing board about 10 years ago and i think it's been out about half a dozen times.

Have to be in the mood and I will even iron tea towel's. My sheets and pillow cases are 100%cotton so I do like to iron them. Late DH would always iron his own shirts Wonder why?

I'm with the positive ironing brigade. Don't mind it at all and, if there's a particularly captivating film on the box, I hardly notice. I think you 'drip dry' believers do yourselves a disservice with your appearance. No, not awful but 'could look better'. At the end of the day it simply bemuses me but I'd never give up the splendid company of my pals for something cosmetic. No sirree. Another bonus for me is the gorgeous sensation of slipping in between newly ironed sheets. Bliss.

Oh dear I'm afraid I rather like ironing, find it rather therapeutic ironing out all those creases. Either put on some music, television or a talking book and it's soon done.

One reason for ironing knickers and underpants is that it sterilises them.Unless you do them on a very hot wash germs may still be there.Otherwise not ironing is quite sensible given we all have a lot of other things to do.

I put a lot of my clothes away un-ironed and iron them as I am about to wear them, but I do iron everything includingI bedding, tea towels and underwear, especially the gussets in knickers. I quite often get ready to go out and press my sweater and scarf on the bed. But that's me and we're all different, thank goodness.

Crossed posts KW. I suffer frequent attacks of cystitis and that's why I iron knickers.

I iron as little as possible. I always aim to fold/hang clothes straight from the tumble drier. I do iron duvet covers and pillow cases and anything that I think would look scruffy unironed.

Wash and Go is my motto. Life is too short to iron much. And to think I used to iron my undies!

I hate the thought of ironing but once I get started I find it therapeutic.
I iron in my bedroom so completely peaceful and seeing all the nice neat piles on my bed gives me a sense of satisfaction.