Do you Iron?

[azsnowman]

With most everything these days being *wash and wear*, do you still iron your clothes? Me.....I *LOVE* my dress shirts *starched to the HILT* with the military creases in the sleeves, front and back. I do my own shirts, Michelle still irons our jeans, I too, like a CRISP, CLEAN pair a jeans The ONLY piece of clothing I "DON'T" like ironed, are my skeevies :o :o My mother, God Bless her soul, use to iron EVERYTHING, from the sheets on the beds to my fathers SOCKS

Dennis 8)

[Miss Mary]

Yes I do iron but not EVERYTHING - that was a previous generation. The Donna Reed generation I do believe. My mom also ironed sheets, pillowcases, undershirts, etc. A lady I worked with years ago was like a second mom to me and she had us all in stitches telling us what it was like to be a stay at home mom back then. All the mom's stayed home and had chores that they did on the same day of each week. A very set routine. She confessed to us she even ironed towels and underwear. We never let her forget it too. Another long lost chore: washing walls while spring cleaning. I wash smudges, here and there, but never an entire room, like she did! LOL

I do iron but only kahki type pants, cotton shirts, items that look better ironed. Ironing can actually be very calming, unless that basket is sky high, then it's not relaxing. I try to keep that basket under control.

[mf_dolphin]

The last time I touched an iron was in basic training! I even have a picture to prove it LOL Thank God for loving wives

[bfez1]

I mostly do very light ironing. Just touch ups to make clothes presentable.

[Miss Mary]

Just had a funny memory of my mom ironing. She sprinkled clothes first with water from an old (not then, new) Mason's Root Beer pop bottle and a stainless attachment on top, filled with holes. She also put the shirts in the fridge for a few hours, damp. This apparently made ironing easier! I never do that. LOL Mmmmmm, maybe I should do that?

[Skywatch_NC]

I don't do ironing...but do fold my own laundry, and hang my leisure, work outfits and sort my socks.

[deb_in_nc]

Not if I can help it.

Mary, I remember my Mom doing the same thing.
She also had an old wringer washer she kept on the back porch. AAAHHHHH the good life....NOT!!!!
But the laundry sure did smell good.

Debbie

[Stephanie]

Yes, I do my slacks and shirts. I only iron before a wear my clothes not after I take them out of the dryer and fold them.

[azskyman]

I CAN iron...but normally do not. My wife, however, does still do a lot of ironing.

She has given in to having a dry cleaner do most of my dress shirts, but basically does everything else.

I bought her a Rowenta iron thinking it would do the ironing while she sat and read her James Patterson books. Guess what?

We timed that iron one night. While she read more than 80 pages, that iron didn't finish a single blouse!

Go figure.

[Pro-Storm]

I don't iron.....but I love irony! :38:

[breeze]

LoL, Pro-Storm!

Every morning, I iron what I am going to wear,
for the day! Of course, after a 30-minute drive with
a sealtbelt on, I can't promise it will LOOK ironed by
the time I get to work!

[streetsoldier]

Only my BDUs get ironed (once, just after I acquire them and wash them)...everything else, unnecessary. (Besides, since I never get out of the house, no one's going to see me, anyway, so why bother?)

[JetMaxx]

very rarely

[ColdFront77]

I personally have never ironed my (own) clothes. My mother only irons before we are going for a special occasion.

[azsnowman]

Miss Mary, I was gonna post something about *sprinkling* clothes. My mother used a *green* bottle, can't remember if it was a pop bottle or what, but she had the same little sprinkler top that fit inside the bottle opening!

Dennis

[Amanzi]

LOL.. Well I am one of those who Irons everything. My sheets, pillow cases etc. Even towels. I like things to look nice and straight, there is nothing like sleeping on a nice crisp pillowcase and sheets. Thats another thing that drives me nuts.. a bed that is not made properly:o I cant sleep unless the corners of the sheets are tucked in "hospital" style. I guess with me it is just habitual. In South Africa very few people have dryers, so everything has to be ironed. I only got a washer and dryer last year (what a blessing!) So I have washed clothes by hand in the tub ever since I got married and had my baby. Even then I used to wash my baby clothes all seperately and iron those little blankies

[pojo]

I iron when I need to...if my dress clothes need to look presentable, then I'll iron. But after sitting in the car, they don't look ironed anymore!

[furluvcats]

Heck no! Heres a funny little story...many moons ago, my 1st husband and I were visiting at my great grandmothers house, and getting ready for church....there were FOUR generations of us women there, and when it came time for my ex's shirt to get ironed, we all 4 lead him to wear the ironing board was kept....no, I do not iron anything....it all gets sent to the cleaners. Brian wears a suit to work everyday, so you can imagine that our drycleaning bill is high! lol

[Guest]

I do ironing at my house - but only when its necessary. But I did alot of ironing when I was younger and living at home. My mom too is from the old school and believed in ironing everything - I remember her having a misting bottle in which she sprayed everything before she ironed it.

Wow - those were the days - may I need to see if it is relaxing - might help eliminate the stress in my life right now.

Patricia

[southerngale]

I iron whatever we are going to wear before we leave, sometimes the night before. I don't iron things like sheets but I pull them out of the dryer as soon as they are dry so they don't get all wrinkled. I, like Amanzi, need my bed fixed just right. I can't stand it if the bottom isn't tucked in correctly -- if it's not tucked in, the sheets would probably end up on the floor by morning.

Amanzi, you even iron towels?? Wow!! Mine aren't wrinkled when they come out of the dryer but even if they were, I must confess I wouldn't iron them.