To take advantage of the cheaper ?? electric /hydro I now do my laundry on Saturday. Today was a bit iffy to hang on the line, but eventually it did dry, thanks to the stiff breeze. Just finished ironing, all done now until next week.
As I was ironing a few days ago I burnt the palm side of two fingers on my right hand, (now I am almost healed) and I mentioned it on my FB page,. I could not believe the comments I received..."if you plug that thing in it gets hot?", "I thought it was a kitchen decoration", "iron, what is iron?" and on and on it went. So I got thinking. Do you iron?
I know my quilty friends do, but do you iron clothes? I am dating myself here, however, I grew up and was a young home maker prior to the permanent press age, when you had to iron practically everything. You were one of the lucky ones if you had a steam iron, so the task really wasn't a pleasant one. After damping the clothes I would put them in the freezer, couldn't leave them in the basket for too long in the Summer heat and humidity, they would go mouldy, (no A/C either), so I would take out a few at a time. As I remember, the frozen clothes did not cool you off.
So back to my question -- Do you have an "ironing" day to press your clothes after you do your laundry? Maybe it's just me, but I don't feel neat and tidy unless my clothes are wrinkle free.
Patrica
6 comments:
I iron very little now, but I do iron sheets , duvet covers and pillow cases, I love seeing nicely ironed sheets on the bed.
I do still press OH's trousers and iron his shirts if he wears one, apart from the odd thing of mine thats it, way less than I used to. I remember ironing nappies years ago!!! What was that all about? but then I used to polish the toilet seat as well.
Oh, yes I like to iron everything except towels and underwear. There is nothing nicer than getting into a bed with crisp unwrinkled sheets and pillowcases and there is no way I would be comfortable wearing anything that needs a press. I have my ironing board set up in a spare bedroom and try to get the laundry done as soon as it is dry. I rather think, though, that you and I are in the minority.
There was a time that I ironed everything before it went into the closet. These days, I just iron what I need, when I need it. It creates that wonderful sense of tension while I race the clock to be on time to work. Lane
Yes, I still iron. I don't like it but because of the swamp-like heat and humidity in my area, I wear a lot of linen...so I iron a lot. And of course, I press open seams on my quilt tops.
I iron most things and I like to spray starch my pillow cases .
It's an age thing I suppose .
Sorry about your fingers , I burn myself on the oven quite often .
Yes I iron all my clothes for school.
I iron tshirts and shirts and trousers/jeans.
I don't iron any bedwear, our bedding or underwear. Just don't have time.
I can't believe someone could get away with not ironing anything.
I do hope your fingers are better soon.
Sft x
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