Poll: Ironing ~ chore or relaxing?
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Wait, what? Is that...is that something people do? Why??
I was thinking the same thing. I didn't know people actually ironed bedding. Seems like a waste of time.
Don't they have creases when you take them out of the airing cupboard? It's not essential to iron them, but that depends on whether or not you want fold lines across your bed. I don't personally like them, and satin fabric is less prone to them.
Well, I only have one set of sheets that I use regularly, so I put them back on the bed as soon as they come out of the dryer, so they are pretty flat. But even if they have creases, so what? Nobody is going to see it except for me or my partner, and we certainly don't care about them. But, I also don't make up my bed each morning because it seems like a waste of time to me, no one else is going to see it. To me it's like when people have a bunch of decorative pillows lined up on the bed - such a waste of time and money since they just throw them off the bed at night!
Don't you put your sheets underneath a comforter anyway? Who is gonna see those lines?
Don't they have creases when you take them out of the airing cupboard? It's not essential to iron them, but that depends on whether or not you want fold lines across your bed. I don't personally like them, and satin fabric is less prone to them.
Well, I only have one set of sheets that I use regularly, so I put them back on the bed as soon as they come out of the dryer, so they are pretty flat. But even if they have creases, so what? Nobody is going to see it except for me or my partner, and we certainly don't care about them. But, I also don't make up my bed each morning because it seems like a waste of time to me, no one else is going to see it. To me it's like when people have a bunch of decorative pillows lined up on the bed - such a waste of time and money since they just throw them off the bed at night!
I don't even fold my clean sheets. I take them out of the dryer and roll them into a ball and throw them somewhere until I'm ready to use them.
I hate ironing, it's so boring.
I don't see the point in ironing at all. 'Course, the kind of clothing I usually wear, does not need it anyway. In any case, this is my attitude about whether people see lines on the shirts I wear:
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Well, which of those would you categorize as baffling?
Wait, what? Is that...is that something people do? Why??
I was thinking the same thing. I didn't know people actually ironed bedding. Seems like a waste of time.
Don't they have creases when you take them out of the airing cupboard?
The what now?
It's not essential to iron them, but that depends on whether or not you want fold lines across your bed. I don't personally like them, and satin fabric is less prone to them.
Do you, like, change your sheets every day? Aren't they wrinkled after you sleep on them?
Anyway, I just toss a great big duvet over the sheets.
It's an English thing. A warm place where we keep our bedding and other fabricy things nicely folded in stacks. I remember they've been discussed on these forums before.
Do you, like, change your sheets every day? Aren't they wrinkled after you sleep on them?
I don't change them every day. They only wrinkle on the rare occasions that I have unsettled sleep, whereby they untuck and loose their tautness. But again, satin is less prone to creasing, so it isn't an issue if they do.
In England, we put covers on our quilts. Fold lines in those covers would be very much visible.
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I do actually, if I'm reading this right. They're called "folding boards". Personally I don't think they're necessary; I'm a pretty precise folder without them. But if you have lots of things to fold quickly (or are particularly neurotic about having everything exactly the same) I can see the attraction.
I don't really like ironing, but I get into a zone doing it and it doesn't really take that long. Occasionally, it's even satisfying; I've got pretty good at doing it.
The only things I have to iron are my shirts anyway, and I try to remember to do them frequently enough so there's only 4-5 shirts max at any given time. Glass of something, trashy TV, and it passes pretty quickly.
I'd send them out to be done but commercial laundry services are a joke. Either they break buttons, or they put wacky creases into the garment, or they leave rust or scorch marks. I've never found one I'm happy with, so I just do them myself. At least that way, I can exercise some quality control on the outcome.
Regarding ironing bed linen, it's not something I do regularly but once in a blue moon I'll do it. It's a great little luxury to slip in between crisply ironed really high quality bedding. Most of the time, I take it out of the machine when still a little damp and then dry it flat(ish) to minimise the wrinkles. It's a compromise, but I'm lazy, so...
... I keep meaning to get a girl in to do all this random domestic work, but I'm cheap as well as lazy.
I have a few things that would look silly if not ironed. I usually iron about once a week - whole thing doesn't take more than 20 mins with the newfangled irons they've got which are surprisingly light and quick. It's almost fun.
I draw the line at bedsheets though - nothing too wrong if you dry and fold them right. I do however iron tablecloths, but only if it's a particularly fancy meal.
My mother used to iron everything from the sheets down to the socks!
I draw the line at bedsheets though - nothing too wrong if you dry and fold them right. I do however iron tablecloths, but only if it's a particularly fancy meal.
My mother used to iron everything from the sheets down to the socks!
My mother never ironed, when I was growing up. We lived in sunny AZ, so we hung out the clothes to dry, the sun ironed them. We always took my dad's dress shirts off last so they wouldn't get wrinkled and hang them up immediately.
My mom's best friend taught me to iron before I went to Belgium to work as an au pair, because that was going to be one of my duties. I hated it. Now I buy stuff that does not need to be ironed or I put it back in the dryer.
There is one thing I don't mind ironing: hem tape, to avoid sewing
My mom's best friend taught me to iron before I went to Belgium to work as an au pair, because that was going to be one of my duties. I hated it. Now I buy stuff that does not need to be ironed or I put it back in the dryer.
There is one thing I don't mind ironing: hem tape, to avoid sewing
Okay, this is just odd: this is the 3rd time this subject has come up in my life in the last 24 hours (and I didn't raise it once.)
Short version: I have always hated ironing with the fire of 1000 suns. When I was young, I preferred mucking out horse stalls to ironing a shirt. My mom went back to work outside the home when I was about 11 or 12, and thereafter we all had to do a lot of the household chores she used to do, including ironing, so I've done it for a long time.
I think part of my hatred comes from the fact that I'm a perfectionist and, in ironing at least, I inherited that from my mom. I know many people who do their ironing quickly and servicably and their clothes look perfectly fine when they wear them. But, I'm always trying to get the crease just right, and the seams straight, etc.
I do have to admit, however, that I recently had a slight shift in my hatred. We had yet another cheap (and frustrating to use) iron die, so I did a lot of research and finally bought a really good (and somewhat expensive) iron. And, much to my surprise, this really has made ironing much less like pulling teeth than it used to be. I'm starting to do more ironing because I'm tired of how quickly my shirts, in particular, seem to wear out when I have them laundered at the dry cleaners.
Oh, and my mother still irons bedding to this day, but there is no way in hades I would ever even attempt it; not even for my mother-in-law (who, fortunately, couldn't care less anyway.)
So, not such a "short version" after all, huh? But, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
Short version: I have always hated ironing with the fire of 1000 suns. When I was young, I preferred mucking out horse stalls to ironing a shirt. My mom went back to work outside the home when I was about 11 or 12, and thereafter we all had to do a lot of the household chores she used to do, including ironing, so I've done it for a long time.
I think part of my hatred comes from the fact that I'm a perfectionist and, in ironing at least, I inherited that from my mom. I know many people who do their ironing quickly and servicably and their clothes look perfectly fine when they wear them. But, I'm always trying to get the crease just right, and the seams straight, etc.
I do have to admit, however, that I recently had a slight shift in my hatred. We had yet another cheap (and frustrating to use) iron die, so I did a lot of research and finally bought a really good (and somewhat expensive) iron. And, much to my surprise, this really has made ironing much less like pulling teeth than it used to be. I'm starting to do more ironing because I'm tired of how quickly my shirts, in particular, seem to wear out when I have them laundered at the dry cleaners.
Oh, and my mother still irons bedding to this day, but there is no way in hades I would ever even attempt it; not even for my mother-in-law (who, fortunately, couldn't care less anyway.)
So, not such a "short version" after all, huh?
But, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.Similar threads
