Ironing & ironing boards

My ironing passionate son is forty eight.

I only iron linen outfits I wear in hot weather. Nothing else seems to need it.My arthritic hands and wrists are not strong enough to do more than necessary.
I have a son who irons regularly.

I'm part of a team of volunteers who look after the surplices etc of the local cathedral choir. We are the wardrobe team. I volunteered because I actually like ironing.

I detest ironing but love freshly laundered and pressed bedding and clothes.

I iron everything except underwear.

I could not put crumpled clothes on, I would feel so scruffy.

Aely

I have a linen jacket which creases if I look at it. It has been hanging on the Newel Post of my stairs for the past 6 weeks after being washed waiting for me to find my iron so it can go in the wardrobe until next summer.

I find most things smooth out when I wear them, given a bit of time.

Spray starch is your friend.
I also love freshly ironed clothes and like wearing linen in the summer.
I steam iron the linen article first, then use spray starch and dry iron again. This method works particularly well on trousers.

I iron anything that is creased after tumble drying or line drying. I loathe ironing and am considering getting a steamer.

My ironing basket contains mostly my husband's shirts and trousers for work - short sleeved shirts in spring/summer, long sleeved in autumn/winter.

I don't have many things that need ironing, apart from some cotton summer dresses and tops. Most of my clothes are easy care - wash, dry, hang/fold, and put away.

I don't like ironing building up, so if there is a lot I tend to do it in stages throughout the day, maybe 20 mins at a time. I leave the ironing board up until I've finished, so the sight of it cluttering up my dining room spurs me on to get the job done!

I remember my mum teaching me to iron. I started with handkies and teatowels, and I remember the day I progressed to one of my dad's shirts!

My mum used to iron everything - socks, knickers, dusters, the lot! Me - only the necessary things.

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I have the most fabulous ironing board and a (matching) sleeve board!
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Visgir1

My DD tells me you give your age away if you Iron.

I volunteer with a young mum of 5. Everything is ironed.
My son in law ( 45) irons his shirts and the children’s school shirts.

I have just finished wrapping Christmas gifts on my ironing board, now I shall plug the iron in and get on with ironing the bedding.

I am not a fan of ironing, but cannot abide bedding that hasn’t been ironed. I iron most things 🧺🛏️

I enjoy ironing more so now since I bought a new extension lead and can iron in a more convenient place. No idea why I left buying one so long. It has made such a difference to ironing and drying my hair.

I like ironing duvet covers and flat sheets. Tea towels and pillowcases. DHs shirts used to be a nuisance years ago and DDs blouses. I dont think my DDs ever iron. Maybe one SIL does as he is a dab hand with a sewing machine!

I don't like ironing, but I do it. I iron DH's shirts, any blouses of mine that need it, tea towels, jeggings and DH's trousers.

Thankfully, our sheets go to the laundry and come back ironed and folded.

Anyine recommend a steamer?

I iron when necessary. Mostly when sewing. We don't have many clothes now that need to be ironed. I do iron our posh clothes when we go out.
I originally cut down on ironing, amongst other money saving efforts for financial reasons. Now I can't see the point unless it dies actually need to be ironed.

I still iron - tee shirts, blouses etc. anything creased and always, always sheets, duvet covers etc. I hate to sleep on creased sheets. Yeas ago, for a wedding present, I was given a 'sit-at' ironing board. It folded away just like a normal ironing board and the seat was exactly at the right height. It finally disintegrated and I have tried to find another but no luck. So if anyone knows where I can get on, please let me know!!!

My husband's Auntie is 105 and has just stopped doing her own ironing.
I iron. I like it.

One of my goals in life has been to have women get rid of their ironing board and iron. I also do not like creases but I have learned there are so many tricks to the trade with all fabrics to get the creases out. One thing I do own is a steamer because not only does it clean but it gets creases out where my tricks haven’t worked LOL.

I iron in an emergency.
Usually I send it out once a fortnight to keep someone in a job and save me the hassle

I have sensitive skin and choose to wear silk, cotton, and cashmere. Now there is only me, I still iron any clothes worn next to my skin, and quite a lot of other things too. Tend to listen to either a play or music on radio 3, whilst I iron away, and enjoy wearing clothes that have been hung out and smell lovely and feel comfortable. Worth the effort to me

I have a steamer, but I don’t like it, the results aren’t good enough for clothes, although it’s just about okay for bedding. It’s stuck in the cupboard, on its way out. I iron, not because I like it, it’s the most boring of jobs, but I don’t like the look or feel of un ironed clothes on myself or my family.

I'm 65, just finished a basket of ironing this morning. My sister never irons quilt covers, I don't know how she gets away with it, I couldn't sleep 😬

I iron and find it quite therapeutic. I pop the tv on or add a record to the record player and iron away. Everything apart from towels, teatowels and underwear gets ironed.

I iron most things and can't imagine not doing so. I did stop ironing cotton sheets a few years ago but still iron and use spray starch on pillow cases and duvet covers. I still do iron sheets for visitors though. One of the few household tasks I don't mind doing.

I ironed the school uniforms and my husbands work shirts and trousers religiously every Sunday for decades! Now that there are no uniforms or work clothes I don't iron at all. I took my ironing board up the tip five years ago and it felt wonderful chucking it in the skip 😅

I LIKE ironing and am prepared to admit it, even although I know that it is considered at best unnecessary and at worst a vice these days.

Not only do I iron my cotton and silk clothes, I iron tea towels too, because they look nicer hanging up at the sink when ironed, and table cloths, tray cloths, table napkins etc. etc. So you are not alone.

But I dislike the fact that the manufacturers of irons still have not bothered to find out how long the average ironing board is!

Unless you have a socket very near where ever you put the ironing board up, you cannot reach the tip of the board properly with the iron, because its flex is TOO SHORT!

And as WE WHO IRON know, the most finicky ironing takes place at the extreme end of the ironing board, not just beside the stand for the iron.