Should I buy clothes steamer?

I would so NO. I discovered quite by accident that I already have something in my house that is more effective than a steamer.

If you own a hair dryer and have a good fine mist spritz bottle - that is all you need. Lightly mist the wrinkles in your garment and turn on your hair dryer. You’ll watch the wrinkles melt away and your garment is totally dry!

Have you ever taken a top off the hanger and there are stretched out pockets sitting on your shoulders? Spritz the shoulder and turn on the dryer. Voila!

Best to use distilled water. Tap water may be hard with iron and minerals and could leave stains… same with softened water that has salt. It’s the best accidental discovery I’ve found - and I didn’t have to buy another useless appliance.

I would still replace the iron.
Cheers!
USA Gundy

I will follow up by saying - keep your garments on the hanger, hang it on a door, spritz, dry. You have the door to keep the fabric from stretching.

When doing shoulder “puffs” take off the hanger and hold or you can lay down on a flat surface.

I use distilled water in my clothes steamer and haven’t found the water in it starts to smell or the steamer need a lot of cleaning. Up to now I’ve made my own distilled water rather than buying, following an instruction video on YouTube.
Mine is just a cheap steamer from Lidl and seems fine. I still sometimes iron instead but I’m only an occasional steamer/ironer anyway.
I like Gundy’s trick of using a hairdryer 😆

My DiL rarely irons anything and still always seems very well turned out!
I quite like ironing the few things I do.

I haven’t ironed anything for years and after watching a YouTube video on steamers, I do think it will be too much of a faff BUT I’m certainly going to try the hairdryer Gundy.. thanks..

Still ironing eh!? Will women never learn!?

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