I’m curious about this, because my husband irons a few of his nice button down shirts that he wears to work, and HE irons them, because I hate to do it! And I remember that every Sunday night, my father would watch 60 Minutes while he ironed a pile of white dress shirts and also a pile of the white handkerchiefs he always carried in his pocket. (Does anyone carry a handkerchief any more, for that matter?)
My biggest problem with ironing is having the space to do it. Our linen closet is all shelves, so there’s nowhere to put an ironing board. We keep ours in the basement, and Chris either goes down there to iron or drags it up to the living room and then back down again. Personally, I’d rather put wrinkled shirts back in the dryer with other damp clothes and hope the dryer gets enough of the wrinkles out!
One solution to the ironing board space problem is to get one that hangs on the wall. I’m looking around my living room as I type this, thinking that I don’t even have any bare wall space to hang one on! So then, just for fun, I Googled “ironing boards”, and did you know that there is actually a WIKI for ironing? I swear, there’s a Wiki for everything! Now, you know you are curious to see the Ironing Wiki, so here you go-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironing. Who knew??!??
Finally, I came across a site called http://www.betterlifestyleproducts.com/, and they sell
Ironing boards that you mount on the wall inside this case, and then you swing it down and unfold it, and then just fold it back up and put it back inside the case when you are done. The site even has a video to demonstrate how it works. At the very least, it would be an interesting conversation piece! It’s pretty expensive though, almost $200.00, BUT, since it can be mounted at any height on the wall, I can see how it would be useful for someone in a wheelchair to use.
So tell me in your comment, do you still iron? Do you have a convenient place to store your ironing board and iron, or do you have to move them around to use them? Just don’t tell my husband that I asked, he’ll think I want to start ironing his shirts, which, NO.
Isn’t that like a choir? I try to avoid those as much as possible. If you grab your stuff immediately out of the dryer once it goes off, you shouldn’t have any wrinkles if you hang it up. Sure, it might be a pain because you need to hang around and wait but I’d rather do that than iron *shivers*
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Blueyes-My husband has a couple of cotton/linen blend shirts that my stepmother gave him for Christmas, and they come out of the dryer wrinkled every time. That’s why when I buy him new shirts, I buy the Dockers ones that don’t wrinkle!
How would your husband feel about ironing MY shirts?
My husband usually irons for me if I need something ironed.
I don’t usually though…
We keep the ironing board, opened up all the time, in a spare room we have. I guess he’s too lazy to fold it back and find a space for it and I’m not complaining since he irons for me.
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Mr. Fab-You bring your fabulous self up here to Michigan in person, and *I* will iron your shirts
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Amanda-That would be great, having a spare room to keep the ironing board in, and the sewing machine, and the treadmill…
Sounds like you have a great husband!
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I rarely if ever iron if at all possible! I don’t even like to buy things that need ironing. Lately I have been ironing my oldest daughter’s school polos, though.
My mother loves loves to iron. Of course she is also retired, lives alone, and is a neat freak.
I have a Laura Star.
And I know how to use it. It’s so much faster and easier than normal irons. I must write a post about it sometime.. 
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My iron is for crafting and sewing purposes!! LOL Clothes get fluffed in the dryer.
I only iron when I absolutely have to (which is almost never these days). I installed a plastic ironing board hanger thingy on my kitchen wall, which keeps the ironing board almost flat against the wall. It also holds the iron, a can of spray starch, etc. on top. Sure, it’s clearly visible when you come into my kitchen, but I doubt anyone really notices it.
hi, i put my comment for next time coming back always ;P
All I know is that my clothes look worse after I attempt to iron them. Thank goodness for husbands who iron!
Life is definitely too short to iron. I once had a very eccentric flatmate who insisted you should never buy a garment that would need ironing, no matter how much you liked it. I’ve stuck by her dictum ever since, and it’s made my life so much easier. By the way, have you heard about ‘extreme ironing’? It’s actually a sport (well, kind of). See here: http://www.natives.co.uk/news/2002/0502/08iron.htm
I hate ironing clothes. I refuse to buy anything that requires ironing. My husband irons his own things. I have done away with the big full size ironing board and downsized to a table-top model. I slide it between the washer and the wall (the full size would never fit there).
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One of the coolest things about my Gramma’s house was her ironing board! It was in the kitchen and swung down from a cupboard. It was so cool! The other fun thing was she had a laundry chute that ran from upstairs to the basement — there was a laundry chute in the kitchen too and we used to try and “catch” things as they fell from upstairs down to the basement! And lastly, it seems every house in Holland has a balcony outside. We used to go out and hang out “on the roof” as you do!
But, to answer your question — I only iron when necessary! I have 2 or 3 things that I hardly ever wear because they need ironing. When I was single and employed and had loads of “disposable cash” I would send it all out to the cleaners to avoid ironing!
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Jamie-I can’t stand it when my boys want to wear wrinkled shirts to school, so if there isn’t time to re-dry them, I spray the shirts with Downy Wrinkle Releaser instead!
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Snoskred-I Googled “Laurastar”-WOW! I had no idea! I’ve never seen those advertised here at all. How cool, to have a built-in reservoir for the steam, and a fan to blowdry the clothes! It’s genius!
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Loretta-I figured crafters would have good ironing skills! I tried taking a quilting class once, and ironing open all those seams just about drove me nuts! Didn’t finish the quilt ever, either
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Jane-That’s a good idea too. Spray starch-ugh. Chris uses that on his good dress shirts sometimes, and I hate the smell of it. But better him than me!
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Keli-I’m so glad you said that because MINE TOO. I swear shirts look worse after I’ve ironed them, because I always end up making creases somewhere. Hooray for Downy Wrinkle Releaser!
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Alex-Extreme ironing is the weirdest thing I have ever heard of! Ironing while hanging off a mountain? Ironing while UNDERWATER? How is that even possible?? I swear people will do anything for competition.
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Mimi-Our house has a laundry chute on the main floor, but there’s no opening in the basement! Isn’t that weird? We can’t figure out where the clothes would end up, and I wonder if there is stuff stuck down there from the previous owners!
I’ve thought about putting up a clothesline in my backyard, I certainly have the space for it, but literally no one in my neighborhood has one! I don’t care if sheets and towels get wrinkled!
I detest ironing, with a passion.
Last year I started getting the hubby some wrinkle-free Van Heusen shirts from JCPenney when they had their sales and I had coupons. Worked out to about $17/shirt including tax – regular wrinkly shirts around here are $15+ tax. Money well spent, I have to say. And those wrinkle-free shirts? Always the ones dh uses first – probably because he doesn’t have to iron them.
Clotheslines are awesome. Only thing you have to worry about with dress clothes on a clothesline are the pin marks. But if you’re not concerned about that (like my hubby is, argh) no problem. And I *love* the smell of line-dried sheets and towels.
Totally takes me back to my Grandma W’s place many years ago.
Oh, I didn’t really answer your question, sorry. We have one of those $5-$10 rack hanging on the wall behind our bedroom door that holds the full-size ironing board and iron. Awesome way to get that stuff out of the way but still accessible. So dh’ll pull out his shirts and watch tv in the bedroom (with the door closed so he doesn’t get 4yo or 17mo help) and iron his little heart out.
Oh, and I swear those shirts really are wrinkle-free. It’s awesome.
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Thanks Lanna! I would iron clothes if it meant my husband would let us get a TV for our bedroom
I buy him those Dockers wrinkle free shirts at Penney’s, I love them. Even full price at $20 each is fine by me because he gets years worth of wear out of them. But the clothesline? My husband reminded me about the SKUNK that lives somewhere between our house and the house behind ours, who has sprayed our dog in the face TWICE, and how the neighborhood quite often smells like skunk early in the morning. The thought of that smell getting on my sheets and towels, UGH!
Hi..! I do ironing just occasionally ,when am going for any important conferences in job or any parties so on..! but not all the time!