Pat Porter
Could he have been in the Navy Pat. When I got married to my DH who was
in the RN he gave me a lesson on ironing his uniform shirts.
First the sleeves,
Then the chest,
Leave the front,
And b***** the rest.
Well it has not got the same ring to it so the word is bugger. I'll go
and wash my mouth and keyboard out with soap. LOL.
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KathyA-Houston
For a long time I ironed all clothes, sheets, pillowcases, everything. My mom
was, and still is, a fanatic about wrinkles in clothes. I now only iron our
shirts, dresses, and such. I do not mind ironing...
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 12:34:32 -0000, "Pat Porter"
<j.po...@dtn.ntl.com> wrote:
>My DH can never understand how I can manage to iron
>my needlework with one hand but can`t manage the
>ordinary, boring stuff! He sat down to a MARATHON
>stint of it last night, bless him.
I absolutely HATE ironing, but I hate seeing Sam or the kids go out
in wrinkled clothes even more, so I do it. He hasn't the first clue
as to how to do it, and simply fluffed his shirts in the dryer before
we lived together - but they just never look as nice as crisp that
way.
I try to avoid buying clothes that will require ironing, and I don't
have to do it often for myself. Sam has to wear dress shirts four
days a week, though, so I have a big batch to do at least once a
week.
Cyn
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>I don't mind ironing IF I can keep the ironing board up; have enough
>room to work; have enough room in the closet to hang the clothes so
>they don't wrinkle again. None of these are true at the moment and I
>don't iron...
I used to have a real talent for burning myself with the iron [recent
efforts to uncrease Aida seem to indicate that I might no longer have
this ability], but still don't iron clothes. DH's office is quite
casual, I'm at home all day, and neither of us seems to buy clothes
that call for so much fuss. ;-)
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It's not so much the ironing that I dislike, it's the time spent on it.
-Liz (who'd rather be stitching :-)
Pat Porter wrote:
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> My DH can never understand how I can manage to iron my needlework with one
> hand but can`t manage the ordinary, boring stuff! He sat down to a MARATHON
Now, as for myself, I once gave a great scare to my dog when she was about 2
years old. You see, my ironing board makes a great squeak when it opens - and
the poor dog didn't know what that noise was, since she'd never heard it before.
;-)
Marlene in Woodstock, IL
I guess I have to put my two cents in and say I don't like ironing, but I do
it. DH has to have shirts and trousers ironed for work. DD irons her own
now, thankfully. I stopped buying clothes for myself that need ironing (my
last dress was from DEVA and goes from washer to dryer to closet).
In an attempt to streamline my ironing and mending chores, I started putting
things to be ironed and/or mended in one basket and then spending a day just
doing that. Well, as you can imagine, that didn't last long. Now I'm
looking at the full basket with a pile on top about two feet high. When DH
needs a shirt I go rooting through the pile. I can't seem to stay caught
up, and will probably put the basket in a closet so I don't have to look at
it..........
I read somewhere that if you put aluminum foil between the ironing board pad
and the cover, that you don't have to iron both sides of sleeves, etc. Has
anyone ever tried that? Does it work?
kc
That's exactly why I don't iron; my cat is TERRIFIED of
metal-against-metal noise, loud or quiet! So out of consideration for
his acousticophobia, I have refrained from ironing ... for a looooooong
time.
Nina (who has been known to sneak the ironing board into her home office
long enough to iron XSed pieces, and will do that today!)
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Linda.....bc.ca :)
(who is still working on Mirabilia's Fairy Moon...(sigh)
I don't like ironing - I'm also not very good at it. Me ironing a shirt
anywhere near my mother causes her to grab the iron and do it herself <G> The
only things I have that get ironed are my blouses for work - they're rayon and
don't look right if they're not ironed. Everything else is either removed
quickly from the dryer or hung up while still wet. I draw the line at ironing
jeans - jeans are not meant to be crisp!
Deborah Pesa - New York City
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Heart in Hand
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. - Max Eastman
When I left my abusive first husband, Mom came to help me get settled, and
asked where my ironing board was. I told her I didn't have one, so she bought
one. I can count on one hand the number of times it's been used. Usually as a
table.
My grandmother never owned a storebought ironing board -- she had several
layers of flannel wrapped around a large piece of wood (about 2 feet by 3
feet), which she set on her dining room table. When I need to iron some XS,
it's easier to grab a big fluffy bath towel and put it on the table (which I
inherited from her) than to go out to the laundry room, wrestle the ironing
board up from its place behind the cupboard, shoo the cat out of my way, carry
it indoors, figure out where to set it up in this tiny house with too few
electrical outlets, etc......
I suppose, though, that this is the wrong group in which to offer my barely
used ironing board for sale? Next time I call Goodwill, I'm going to remember
to throw it out on the front porch for them along with all the other stuff.
P.S. My tablecloths are folded in a drawer, and just before I put them on the
table, I toss them in the dryer with a damp towel. Takes out the wrinkles, and
the fold lines, too.
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I knew my first marriage was doomed when my (then) DH complained that I did NOT
iron his socks and underwear! He said his mom always did. I told him if he
wanted them ironed, either he could do it or his MOM could do it, but "I" was
NOT going to! LOL
Suzy
> Ummm...errr....I don't 'like' ironing, but I do it. How does
>one get away without ironing with all the 100% cotton out there. All
>our t-shirts look much better ironed, as do jeans, khakis, etc.
>
>take care, Linda :)
>Linda.....bc.ca :)
>(who is still working on Mirabilia's Fairy Moon...(sigh)
Well, I was in an antiques mall the other week and saw a mangle and I must
admit, I wanted it. So i guess i like to iron. It is a meditiation for me
and a way to bring a small pocket of albeit temporary order to a greatly
disordered world.
Sheepishly............
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Pam in CA
I suppose the low point was last week when he decided before he went on a
course that it was better to teach nearly 10yo DS to iron his own school
shirts than to have me bodge it up. (Like DS was really interested......
Andrea, Basingstoke, England.
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OK, how about, my clothes don't need ironing as much as that chart needs
stitching?
This is a choice made in the department store. I try not to buy clothing that
requires special care - no ironing, no dry cleaning. This is aided by the fact
that I don't have to dress up for work ( jeans, knit tops, jersey) I'll
probably have to buckle down and actually 'buy' an iron when I go job hunting
later this year.
Deborah Pesa - New York
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"Deborah Pesa" <dp...@aol.comthedog> wrote in message
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Another at-home worker here! I wear sweats in the winter,
"sundress"-type thingies in the summer; there's an opaque pop-over near
the door so I won't shock the FedEx guy. Even though the traffic can be
brutal (I nearly tripped over a cat the other day!!!), I love my home
office.
Nina