Is Using An Iron Just For The Over '30s??

[zenie]

Movced into my flat about 2 months ago and bought a new iron as the old one I had (which I never used) my old flatmate had fucked up.

It still has the shrinkwrap on the box

I will use it if I really need too but I try my hardest not to, I do actually quite enjoy ironing though?

 

[subversplat]

Seriously, I don't understand how people don't iron things.



I use an iron probably every other day.

It's really simple:

• Do your washing
• Don't iron it
• Wear it

Not much there to not understand, really

HTH

 

[geminisnake]

Even if something's wrinkly when you put it on, it ain't after about half an hour

And even if you iron it it'll get wrinkly after you've sat down(I've noticed shirts, skirts and trousers do this)

We have an iron. I think I might even know where it is We think it was last used nearly a yr ago(friends wedding)

PS Over 30.

 

[beeboo]

My mum used to iron pants and socks - it's no wonder I've got ironing issues

 

[spanglechick]

My mum used to iron pants and socks - it's no wonder I've got ironing issues

learned behaviour <shakes head with sympathetic understanding>

 

[magneze]

I iron a shirt once a year whether it needs it or not.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

My work shirts get ironed by me or someone else.

 

[snadge]

bad poll, I don't see the point in ironing, it's another mysoginist hangback from the days of old, the only time I ever iron anything is if I have a funeral or a wedding to go to....




Then I have to go to a friends house because I don't own one....

I'm 44

 

[dynamicbaddog]

bollocks - i voted wrong - i'm over 30, obviously

I did that too
I'm 40 and i don't own an iron

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I'm pushing 50 & I haven't ironed since 1976. I do not buy clothes that require ironing. I own an iron and and ironing board for emergencies but thankfully there haven't been any. Sometimes my middle daughter irons things but that's her business. My eldest daughter earned money taking ironing in from blokes who needed stuff done and couldn't manage by themselves. My son has no idea where the iron and ironing board are, and wouldn't know what to do with them even if he did. My husband is much the same. He wears nice clean white shirts but I always buy ones that do not require ironing. £3 from Primark in case you want to know.

 

[votisit]

I'm 39 and gave up ironing about 4 years ago. Life is too short to spend part of it glued to an ironing board.

If I'm going somewhere special I will get the iron out but day to day stuff which is normally jeans and T-shirt, no chance.

 

[The Groke]

I try and buy "easy-care" clothes, and hang em up straight out of the wash...

I still iron a work-shirt every morning though, otherwise I look like I have been dragged through a hedge backwards.

I only shave once a week, I wear pretty casual trousers and shoes, so my one concession to looking like a respectable manager and team leader, is to iron me shirt.

I am 29.

There is no option on this poll for me.

'tis a shit poll, go to the b ack of the class.

 

[sparkling]

I have seriously been indoctrinated to iron things and never quite managed to rebel either although I don't do sheets, underwear and tea towells. I also love the clothes that you deliberately crinkle up although my conditioning is so bad I sometimes have the urge to iron out all the crinkles.

I only iron for me and don't do anyone elses I told the family years ago that ironing was not an intellectual activity and so once they reached the same height as me they could do their own. I'm only 4 foot ten so it wasn't long before the children were doing their own stuff under child slave labour conditions.

 

[ymu]

I think we bought an iron about 7 months ago because my boyfriend was shocked that we didn't have one. We've never used it. I have an ironing board left behind by an ex-lodger. We use it as an extra drying rack sometimes.

Shake clothes when wet. Smooth creases along seams/cuffs/collars of shirts, run hands down legs of jeans/arms of shirts and hang on a clothes hanger to dry. If attending posh do and staying away overnight, unpack when you arrive, hang clothes in bathroom and take a long hot shower, leaving clothes to steam. Any remaining wrinkles will fall out within a few minutes of putting them on.

I'm 37. Haven't ironed anything for at least 20 years.

 

[LDR]

I was having a conversation with Stig and my Good Lady Wife about this very subject last night on the way home from the pub. I enjoy ironing and find it therapeutic. I love the smell and the satisfaction that comes from taking a wrinkly piece of clothing and making it look brand new.

I have been known to iron underwear and bed sheets from time to time. One of life’s greatest pleasures for me is to climb into bed with freshly laundered and ironed bed linen.

 

[foo]

i spoke too soon.

today i am mostly wearing......brown linen.

<gets the iron out>

 

[foo]

One of life’s greatest pleasures for me is to climb into bed with freshly laundered and ironed bed linen.

i agree about the freshly laundered sheets, one of my life's great pleasures too, especially after a night out. mmmmm...

i don't iron 'em though.

 

[ICB]

I like cotton so I use an iron most mornings to iron the shirt I'll wear that day, and the trousers if it's their first day on. These days I refuse to wear a tie and it's catching on.

Occasionally I've got on a frenzy and ironed lots of the kids clothes so they don't have to look scruffy all the time.

I'm 36 though.

 

[geminisnake]

Look!! Even he doesn't iron

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1288/553/1600/iron.jpg

 

[Skim]

34 and rarely use an iron. I've got a couple of shirts which look better after they've been ironed, but they don't get worn often.

I bought an iron fourteen years ago when I was at college, but it doesn't get used much.

 

[radiohead]

i've ironed one thing in my life. a shirt. it went slightly yellow/brown. creases are under-rated anyway -- good to rest your spliff in whilst you build

 

[aqua]

I wear a lot of linen so that gets ironed, and my t-shirts do too cos I hate unironed ones

it takes all of about 3 mins in the morning, not that long is it!

 

[Mapped]

I have been known to iron underwear and bed sheets from time to time. One of life’s greatest pleasures for me is to climb into bed with freshly laundered and ironed bed linen.

I had an ex that was ironing mad, she used to iron my socks when I wasn't looking. You have just reminded me how nice it is to get into a bed with freshly ironed sheets.....it is indeed very, very pleasant but can I be arsed with all the effort? absolutely not.

 

[fortyplus]

49

When I used to go to the office every day I wore a suit and would iron a shirt in the morning as part of the automatic routine shit shower shave shirt shoeshine
although I seldom bothered with the shoeshine.

now I work from home so the shave, shirt and shoeshine are for days when I have meetings. But I can still iron a shirt...

my ambitious young lodger wears a shirt, suit & tie for work but he can't be arsed to iron so he pays an East European to come in once a week and do his ironing.

 

[Tank Girl]

34 and rarely use an iron. I've got a couple of shirts which look better after they've been ironed, but they don't get worn often.

I bought an iron fourteen years ago when I was at college, but it doesn't get used much.

you may find that the iron comes out more once you've had the baby - that's the only time I've semi regularly ironed, when mine was little.

then it got to the point that if anything needed ironing, she generally wore it once, and then it sat in the ironing pile until she'd grown out of it