Does anybody else iron anymore?

[Brigid]

I'm just doing some ironing, and I wonderif anyone else actually bothers anymore.

[bigwillq]

1. Nope

Downey Wrinkle release or I just fluff my clothes in the dryer. Neither is environmentally safe, but it works for me.

[siligut]

2. Love the Downey Wrinkle release.

And if wrinkles are particularly tough, like the hem that turns up on jeans, you can use it as a spray while ironing.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Only when sewing

and pressing out fabric wrinkles, seams, and such.

Ironing??? Light drying in dryer, shake out and hang dry good enough for me :)

[DeepBlueC]

4. I have an iron...

But I never have a pile of ironing the way my mother did, and does. To be honest I do like things pressed, but stuff that needs it I tend to send out, esp. cotton shirts. I not only like them ironed but starched. And I always send my sheets out to be washed and ironed. That's an indulgence I really can't afford but I started doing it decades ago...the stuff looks so nice and neat in the linen cupboard and feels great on the bed...and I'm not going to stop although I do not generally admit it, and never to my mother who would shriek.

But I will iron things to wear to go out if they have closet creases, of course.

[Sanity Claws]

5. Only a couple of items

Most of my things don't require ironing.

[AwakeAtLast]

6. Only when it's painfully obvious

that I picked my clothing out of the pile of clothing waiting to be folded. x(

[Aristus]

7. All the time. I iron all of my own dress shirts, my khakis (when I don't have them

pressed professionally), and I iron my wife's clothes sometimes, too. Another skill learned as a bachelor in the Army... B-)

[Brigid]

9. I iron my khakis too.

I like those military creases. I guess it's a holdover from my Marine Corps days I'll bet I could still do a mean spit-shine on a pair of shoes, too, if I tried. ;)

[Aristus]

17. I'll bet you could. Funny thing: every once in a while, my class has a function where

we all have to dress up. You can tell right away who is ex-military in the bunch by who shines their shoes (spit-shine or not) and who doesn't...

[DeepBlueC]

24. Shining shoes is one chore I have always enjoyed

No military background, just a love for the products and the implements and the very satisfying look of a freshly-polished pair of shoes. I did everyone's in my family when I was a kid. It was the only "chore" that actually fell into the category of 'something to do' which is by definition enjoyable. I still have two proper shoeshine boxes (with the foot stands) full of polishes and creams and cleaners and conditioners, brushes, buffers. I like to have everything I might need at hand and for a woman that is a pretty extensive collection of colors and cleaners.

Kills me when I see a nice pair of shoes on someone that look like crap because they have never ever been polished. Why do that to a pair of good shoes? It's like never dry-cleaning a suit.

[LeftyMom]

8. My mother. She's a bit anal retentive about stuff like that.

One day I walked in and saw her ironing her couch cushions. :eyes:

[Brigid]

11. I can top that.

I knew someone while I was in the Marine Corps who would iron her t-shirts! :rofl:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

33. My mother ironed my father's boxers -

my aunt ironed her son's socks.

I just found my iron, and now I have to try to remember where the ironing board is.

We're making progress...............

[DeepBlueC]

35. my mother ironed boxers and tee shirts

and my cotton underwear. Dishtowels. Can't think of much that did not require ironing except bath towels and panty hose.

[pinniped]

10. The last time I ironed, my linen Polo shirt got a burn mark.

No more. I go with the wrinkled look.

I have seen shirts with wrinkles factored into the design, so I'm good.

[NV Whino]

12. Yes

I like all cotton shirts and they require ironing to look really good.

[Kali]

13. no

packrats chewed the cords off the two irons we had out on the porch and I'm not motivated to fix or replace.

I used to do it for funerals/weddings but now I just hang things up on a hanger and shake them out while they dry, also "finger pressing" the collars/cuffs/plackets.

[deucemagnet]

14. Another military veteran - ironer checking in.

I usually iron my work shirts in the morning right before I wear them.

[noamnety]

27. Yet another vet and ironer here.

Each morning before work, I iron the clothes for the day. And I polished my dress black shoes earlier this year - I don't wear them often, but the time before that that I wore them I think I might have been frolicking in the mud a bit (seriously). I had to scrub, wipe, scrape, and polish them to death to make them presentable, but they came out pretty darn nice looking.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. I use a steamer

But I'll usually just wear wrinkled clothes.

[femmocrat]

16. Yes, I do!

I do a pile of ironing every Sunday morning and then I usually touch up whatever I'm wearing that day to get rid of wrinkles from hanging. I hate those little shoulder bumps and like to have creased pants. I don't think looking like I just rolled out of bed gives a professional appearance.

On edit: I taught both of my sons how to iron, too! :)

[madinmaryland]

18. That's my wife's job!

:hide:

Really, it is. I buy everything for myself as permanent press. If she buys me something that is not, well then she's responsible for ironing it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. My hubby asks me now and then to iron his stuff. I just look at him liek he's crazy.

[MadMaddie]

19. I do

My mom would iron all of our clothes when we were growing up. Dad was in the Air Force so everything was ironed.

I like creases in my shirts and slacks. Can't help it....I even like creases in my jeans....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. I have to if I don't hang up my clothes right away after drying them.

I am personally wrinkly enough; I don't want my clothes to be wrinkled too. Anyhow, If I don't iron at least once in awhile my Mom will haunt me. She was pretty strict about ironing just about everything.

[DarkTirade]

21. We don't have a dryer here, so I can't just toss wrinkly clothes in for a few minutes.

If I need wrinkles out, I gotta break out the iron.

[annabanana]

22. Back in the 70's I stopped buying anything that EVER needed ironing...

When I married a guy who had to wear a tie to work I started going to the Cleaners.

[latebloomer]

23. As little as humanly posible

Back in the day I used to iron a big pile every week- now I make sure that nothing requires it. I really dislike ironing, along with most other household chores.

[jberryhill]

25. Only in hotel rooms

I work at home, so usually just wear pajamas. But I do a lot of traveling for business, and can usually be found at 5AM ironing with whatever bizarre apparatus the hotel provides.

[crim son]

26. I do.

I ironed today, for the graduation ceremony. Sometimes there's no way around it.

[UTUSN]

29. Yes. Yes, I do. n/t

[carlyhippy]

30. I only iron the clothes I will be wearing that day to work, my after work clothes, no

Carly

[Strong Atheist]

31. Work shirts -

when I get that organized ...

[av8rdave]

32. I do regularly....

Always have a pile of uniform shirts to press. I'm pretty good at it too!

[mopinko]

34. DH irons work shirts

when the parrots let him. they live in the laundry room. sometimes they attack his feet, bite his toes. they have removed all the little parts from the iron, but so far it still works.

[pokerfan]

36. How not to iron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XN-J_0nYhI

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

37. Unfortunately I have to

Don't own a dryer so pretty much every outer garment needs to be ironed. I dread it like the plague and put it off for as long as I can and then spend 3 or 4 hours ironing. I hate it!

[Orsino]

38. Army vet...iron occasionally.

Mostly for my wife, but every now and then a shirt of mine is too wrinkled to wear as is.

[Callalily]

39. Frankly I thought that I

was just about the only person on earth that still ironed. I don't do as much as I used to, but there some things I own that just look better freshly pressed.

[Frosty1]

40. Yes

I like creases in my blue jeans.
A bit OCD perhaps?

[Blue_Tires]

41. i used to...

but it seemed like i was putting too much effort into the lackluster results i was getting...now it's perma-press all the way, baby!

[RebelOne]

42. Hardly ever.

Only if something becomes crushed in the closet. I have a lot of clothes and no walk-in closet. So, I have to cram everything into 3 normal-sized closets.

[Bertha Venation]

43. I usually send my shirts to the cleaners

but Saturday I forgot to go. So I washed them and now I must iron them. Even though they're supposedly no-iron. :(

[Captain Hilts]

44. Yes! I love a heavily starched cotton oxford cloth shirt. nt