About ironing jeans

Ist MiL tried to make me iron flannels, knickers, socks - Ex said he had to hide his jeans from her, steal them from the line so she couldn't iron them! She ruined jumpers too.

One of my favourite luxuries is good quality cotton bedding- and it is such a wonderful thing to get into a clean bed with ironed cotton bedding. I am really not very houseproud generally- and our house is very 'lived in'- but the above is wonderful.

Hear, hear Granjura, I thought I was the only one

Yep...good bedding and ironed, including duvet cover.

I agree 100% cotton bedding, down duvet and feather pillows! A bit like the ' princess and the pea' ! x

Bliss............

LOL, better watch out then if I ever open that B&B!

Defo iron jeans but no lines in the middle. -

What is a crease

So interesting all the differing views

No creases in jeans or shirt sleeves here.

Marmight, I think it's something on a cricket pitch.

Agree about the bedding - but it has to be cotton or linen to be perfect. Not jeans. Definitely not. But then, neither of us wears them.

I do not iron , or cause to be ironed, anything apart from the bedding, that I can get away with. I have someone to do most of the ironing, especially the shirts - DH hates polo shirts (thank goodness!) and T shirts, so there is always a stack of shirts of different types.

Anno

A friend of mine had to go with her husband to a formal dinner so she did her usual thing and ironed the collar , the part of the front which showed and the cuffs. Unfortunately it was a very hot night and the men were given permission to take their jackets off...............

Ladies, ironing bedding !!! Get a life. Get DH to take you out or get a toy boy. Life is too short to iron.

Even better.....train your DH to do the ironing
Several friends have ex-forces DHs who do just that -I wish!

Not an option

I use only Egyptian cotton bedding, but I never iron it - as Pompa says, life is too short. And you only have to sleep in it once for it to be creased. I do, however, always take it from the washing machine immediately it has finished and give it a good shake out before hanging on the line. If it isn't to go straight back on the bed, then it is very meticulously folded and smoothed out before storing.
I iron as little as possible - certainly not jeans, and other trousers only if necessary! I tend to hang everything up in the wardrobe, even if it needs to be ironed, because then the worst creases drop out and it needs little more than a quick run over with the iron, just before I wear it.
I spend more time ironing fat quarters (quarter metres of patchwork or crafting fabric) than clothes

I don't do any ironing at all (as I've probably already said!).

I do the same as you with my Egyptian cotton sheets and pillowcases, Ash Tree, I was surprised that they came out of the drier relatively crease-free.

I don't have a drier and nor do I really want one. I iron pretty much everything in sight apart from towels and underwear. I also iron a large basket of stuff for absentdaughter every week. My cotton sheets have a valance (no, thank you spell check, not an avalanche) so they are ironed too. I really don't like ironing –but I invariably do it. Jeans are ironed flat – no crease which is somehow 1970s geeky.

I think a drier's more or less essential in this country! Of course I'd prefer to dry everything outside, but it's not always possible, especially in the winter, and I hate damp washing draped over the radiators.

It's a generation thing, isn't it? My DD irons nothing. If my SiLwants an ironed shirt (rarely, I suspect!) he does it himself, my DS is the same. Me, I iron everything except underwear and duvet cases, just like my mother did. Jeans? Ironed flat on the wrong side - no creases.

Neither does my daughter. She just says 'I don't do ironing, they(DS & SIL) know where the iron and ironing board are'.

I must have been born in the wrong generation, then!