Do YOU do IRONING?

[Raleigh Chopper]

Dry cleaners for shirts. The rest the cleaner does. Me for emergencies

What about your moat.
Who cleans that?

 

[rocker959]

Tumble dry only . Plus do not own anything much that is likely to need an iron .

 

[Spicy]

It's a shared task in my house - my husband will do the ironing providing he can have the cricket on at the same time!! I don't love ironing, like NooBHA's sister, but always like to look smart.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I do not iron my own clobber, no, but have been pressing about 17 mini-outfits and towels and sheets per day for poo-happy Meade Jr. I use my w*nky arm, so it's yet to wilt with exhaustion from the effort.

 

[GreersElbow]

Occasionally, but my missus loves ironing. She'll go in our spare room, put on some crap TV show and iron and watch TV. Perfect on a Saturday, she can't stand the football so it gives her an excuse to get away.

 

[RONALDEANO]

What is an Ironing?

 

[Billy the Fish]

Iron as you go. If I don't, it won't happen, but I'm not spending an entire afternoon ironing a washing machine load.

This is what I do. It turns a very boring chore into something I don't even really notice.

 

[pearl]

I have no place on this thread

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Ironed for three years between wives, motd with a beer, no problem.

 

[pearl]

Ironed for three years between wives, motd with a beer, no problem.

 

[N17]

Usually the Mrs but i chip in fairly regularly. I will iron the family stuff as well if i am doing something for myself.

I wouldn't leave the house with an un-ironed work shirt on.

 

[narly101]

Dry cleaners do mine - my wife washes them, they do the pressing. £1.50 a shirt.

 

[JBizzle]

I do, mainly because most of the stuff that needs ironing is mine. Plus, I don't mind. Whack on the radio and get on with it.

 

[madinthehead]

That'll be me.

Not for any reason, really, and certainly not some chauvinistic "that's a job for a woman" belief. She also does most of the gardening, whilst I cook the family meal every night. It's just the way it's evolved.

If there's something I want to wear and it needs ironing, I'll obviously just get on and do it, but that doesn't seem to happen very often.

That is pretty much me too.. I do more cooking, she does the ironing, most of the other tasks are shared too... I do, like you, occasionally do it myself, if it needs doing immediately...

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Hell no...... I can cook and wash and clean but ironing is my weak point. Plus 99% of my gear doesn't need it. If I have to go to a wedding or something the girlfriend is more than happy to do it that occasionally.

I tend to iron in more problems and creases than were there to start with!

 

[Insel affe]

I do all the ironing in our house, the wife has never ironed anything and that is not a lie.

I iron my clothes, our daughters clothes, bedding and towels etc.

I only iron the wife's on request, she seems to be happy to go about her daily life in creased clothes.


As others have implied it can be therapeutic, I can listen to the radio or tunes, even manage playing football manager sometimes whilst ironing (although not done that for a while)

 

[Worried Man Blues]

The carpet of my first house, Croydon, had the perfect imprint of an iron on the dining room carpet, including the airholes, couldn't afford to change it for about 3 years!

 

[pearl]

I tried to iron a damp tee-shirt dry once and accidentally ironed the flex. A big flame came out ..... decided it wasn't for me after that

 

[CheeseRolls]

I have a great collection of non-iron work shirts. They are not cheap to buy, but work out a lot cheaper than paying someone to iron them or dry clean them for you. The occasional casual shirt may need ironing and it is a lottery as to who actually does the job. I think our iron is about 25 years old and still going strong, it gets used that infrequently.

 

[swindonseagull]

Have always done the ironing, whether my own or my wife's.
Military upbringing I guess

Always bullied juniors to do mine!!