Do you iron tea towels

Yes you are mad to be honest. There are better things to be done with time. Oh and why can't your husband iron? My ex was brilliant at ironing. I would not believe anyone who says they cannot iron....it is not rocket science. all my clothes are cotten or linen so they are ironed. I have never ever ironed my knickers though. If your husband expects his underwear ironed tell him to do it himself and then find a good book to read....

Do you know how many books there are in the world to read….. why would you do these banal tasks … I iron nothing ….. not even shirts….they are hung on line on hangers. No need to iron modern fabrics…. my daughter does not own an iron.

Yes I iron tea towels and bedding and anything else that is creased after washing and drying. I couldn’t go to bed in unironed bedding, but that’s just me. I have never ironed socks or underwear and neither did my mother!

Don’t really use them as tea towels. The stuff goes in the dishwasher or drains. Mine are either used instead of oven gloves or hand wipers. Never iron them. Folded and put away after washing.

Same here I iron everything except socks. My Mother did, my eldest sister doesn't iron unless it's absolutely essential, she thinks I'm mad for ironing my bedding. I tried not to but was anxious how messy a fresh bed looked.

Yes, of course iron tea towels, like you I love seeing them looking clean and fresh in the drawer. Never iron underwear, but always bedding. I actually enjoy ironing though, pop on an old film and away I go !

I don't iron anything! But I pay someone to do my ironing and that includes tea towels.

haven't ironed anything since my girls left school they are now 37 & 40. Both their husbands do their household's ironing as I never showed them how.

Gulp I iron everything except underwear, including tea towels and could not bear to put un-ironed bedding on the bed, especially the spare ones when visitors arrive - I think its my military background . However, reading the comments on the "tips for an easy life" thread, a lot of posters spoke about getting organised, decluttering and tidying things up. Ironing is part of this for me - tea towels sit straight in the drawer and not one big tangled mess. I pair all socks up(for instance) (I don't iron them) so that I can just go to the drawer and pick a pair out (as can hubby). I have friends who are always late as they iron nothing but don't want to wear un-ironed things. However they leave it until they are getting ready to go out and then have to start putting up the ironing board. That would stress me out 100%. I hate being late and I hate being untidy (in myself and my home). I can't stand seeing a washing basket full of un-ironed clothes/bedding etc. However, I can see where folk come from when they say they save a lot of time because its not my favourite past time either, but a little OCD on my part

Yes you're mad

My motto, if you see it you iron it.

My mother ironed everything that she washed, even dusters, I don’t recall that she ever said that she liked doing it, although she really excelled at it. Maybe laundering was her ‘thing’, her whites were blindingly white! Suffice it to say these genes have bypassed me - I only have a a fleeting relationship with my iron. On the other hand, somehow I have appear to have reared excellent ironers, something that I can take nor edit for at all.

Sorry ‘no credit’ not *nor edit’

I iron Tea Towels, and each tea towel has a matching coloured hand towel to go with it ...... I know, I need to get a life! Totally agree! Am working on that bit!

Crikey! I thought it was only dry cleaners who ironed everything today.

I have an iron that well it sees the light of day rarely. I don’t iron unless I have too.

My late mom ironed everything from dishcloths, dusters, socks, pants, bedding and well everything.

God no! Having had 4 children even my late mom who loved ironing and did ours however started to also skipped things as the years progressed.

Yes Beau1958 you are mad!
Get some waffle fabric tea-towels, they don’t need ironing.
As for pants - really????

I iron some tea towels, the linen like ones that are stiff if you don't. DH has taken to doing his own ironing since retirement and always irons his boxers! I prefer the fold and smooth method for the vast majority of my clothes.

Life is to short to iron tea towels , duvet covers, sheets pillow cases and the like but definitely not towels of any sort

I love ironing tea towels. Always have even when I was working full-time. My DD thinks I’m mad.

Yes, I iron everything except undies and bath towels.

I love ironing and do everything except socks, undies and towels. It all looks so much better after I have steam ironed them.

Yes I do, they fit better in my drawer and look nicer hanging on the cupboard handles. Hardly iron anything so save up til I have 4 or 6 to iron.

I iron the linen ones, but no others. Reading this thread, I have decided to buy no more linen ones. I would iron pillowcases and duvet cover only if having guests who are not family, so that hasn’t happened since about 2017!. I iron very little else.

I am obviously in the minority!

I iron tea towels (and have a 'hidden' drawer which strangely gives me a frisson of pleasure when opened and they are all sitting neatly). Perhaps I should 'get a life'?!

The thing is that I am the most unorganised person so why this affectation I don't know.

I hate unironed sheets and duvets and iron all clothing.

My children, well, not so much! One has egged on the other so their irons are rarely used, to the extent that I don't think the 'egging on one' possesses such an implement.

Apparently there are ironing services for shirts or they are self-ironing. Who knew?

Ironing in the one housework activity that I actually enjoy as one can really see the end result.

Yes, sad aren’t I! I don’t iron socks tho’.