a pressing matter......

[keltic63]

do you iron?

http://www.germes-online.com/direct/dbimage/50104005/Electric_Steam_Iron.jpg

If so, is there something you iron that you're embarassed to say you actually take the time to iron? yesterday, I was ironing my dress shirts for work this week, and some are theoretically permanent press. They got ironed. I was emptying the laundry basket of clean clothes, ran across my bandanas that I wear when I'm exercising, and I ironed those too :o

[andrewlittle]

do you iron?

http://www.germes-online.com/direct/dbimage/50104005/Electric_Steam_Iron.jpg


If so, is there something you iron that you're embarassed to say you actually take the time to iron? yesterday, I was ironing my dress shirts for work this week, and some are theoretically permanent press. They got ironed. I was emptying the laundry basket of clean clothes, ran across my bandanas that I wear when I'm exercising, and I ironed those too :o


An abominable machine, at best. I don't even own one. It ranks just below a TV on my useless scale.

[BrentRichards]

I do own one ... it may come in handy some day if I'm left home alone, and Joe Peschi breaks into my house, and ... other than that, I'll never use it.

[tdogg]

I know, it sounds weird but I actually like to iron. I iron everything, just before I wear it. I'm a dork! I'm really choosy about my iron, I swear by the Sunbeam brand. haven't tried any of the expensive ones yet tho.

Ok, so I have ironed sheets before. There is absolutely nothing more luxurious than sleeping in freshly laundered and ironed sheets! I don't take the time to do it often, but when I do, it's well worth the time and effort. Sheets are pretty easy to press.

[Steven E. Webster]

Friends,

I find that I really enjoy 100 percent cotton and silk shirts in the summer time. I hate that I have to iron them, but still I wear them.

Steven Webster

[Jamie McDaniel]

I iron every single day. Usually the first thing I do when I unpack in a hotel is iron a few clothes. I've even been known to iron my undies. Clothes still wrinkle up on me though. I once tried that Downy spray (http://www.downyez.com/) that was supposed to make the iron obsolete. Complete waste of money.

[Jennifer5]

An abominable machine, at best. I don't even own one. It ranks just below a TV on my useless scale.
I can agree with this statement.

(But then again, I'm the girl who will swim the the Puget Sound in her nicest clothes... :rolleyes:)

I iron every single day. Usually the first thing I do when I unpack in a hotel is iron a few clothes. I've even been known to iron my undies. Clothes still wrinkle up on me though. I once tried that Downy spray (http://www.downyez.com/) that was supposed to make the iron obsolete. Complete waste of money.
I'm so glad to hear that someone said that.:lol:

:love:


I know that most people think that ironing is a woman's thing, but really, I think that I know a lot more men that iron then women.

(but then again, look at where I spend all my time)

[sailaway58]

I thought that was a door stop

[Jamie McDaniel]

I disagree about the wrinkle releaser. It doesn't work on cotton polyester broadclothe but it works great on knits (polo shirts and such)

Oh? I must have forgot to turn the dial to the proper material. ;)

[Daniel]

Andy- your post made me laugh out loud.

Mr. Husband does most of the ironing, says that it's relaxing, appeals to his sense of order; on a small ironing board that hangs on the back of a closet door; something my mother gave me when I went off to college a century ago. I've replaced the cover at least 4 times now.

On the night before Thanksgiving, you can find me ironing a very large linen tablecloth that was acquired at the flea market from a lady who is something of a legend; costumer's speak about her with delight. Tell her the size and shape you want and she will pull out something wonderous. Our tablecloth is a lily white first communion cloth from the 30's with an intricate design. It takes me ages to press out the wrinkles. I fill the iron at least three times.

My grandmother ironed underwear, which I thought odd at the time. Now I remember this with love.

[dsdrane]

I used to iron my own shirts...until I realized I was giving myself wrinkles.

Now I gladly pay $1.25 to have someone else do it. :agree:

[BrentRichards]

I used to iron my own shirts...until I realized I was giving myself wrinkles.
Now I gladly pay $1.25 to have someone else do it. :agree:

You do know you're not supposed to iron them while you're wearing them, right?

[BrentRichards]

Wait, I just noticed this ... is that iron in the first post labelled "dingling?" Dr. Freud, Dr. Freud, please call your office ...

[keltic63]

Wait, I just noticed this ... is that iron in the first post labelled "dingling?" Dr. Freud, Dr. Freud, please call your office ...

I'm leeching those images, and the first was taken down and replaced with a mr yuk sign because I did that. the second I yanked off of google images, and I couldn't see the logo on the iron until after I posted it here. I caught it this morning and immediately a song went through my head....My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling.....but one has to be of a "certain age" to know the song. :D

[BrentRichards]

I'm leeching those images, and the first was taken down and replaced with a mr yuk sign because I did that. the second I yanked off of google images, and I couldn't see the logo on the iron until after I posted it here. I caught it this morning and immediately a song went through my head....My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling.....but one has to be of a "certain age" to know the song. :D

I guess that "certain age" is younger than 38 ... I remember it!

[Pablo Rafael]

Again I'm out of the cool crowd. No one told me I was supposed to have a dangling, I mean dingling iron. I'm just devestated.

I believe in ironing everything. That's not because I am a neat freak, actually just the opposite. My clothes closet consists of a pile of clothes in the corner of the bedroom. And when you have 100% cotton clothes in a big pile, you have to iron everything.

Don't tell me it would be more efficient to just hang up or fold the clothes straight out of the dryer. It's a lot easier at the time just to throw them in a pile.

Aren't gay men supposed to be super neat? Another stereotype falls by the wayside.

Pablo

[pnggrad79]

I iron because I cannot abide wrinkles. I hate ironing, but I hate even worse the thought of having to go anywhere with wrinkles. I actually didn't have time one day, went to praise team practice that night, and all the gay men had a freaking cow about the wrinkles in whatever I was wearing. One flaming queen gave me the once over and said, "Honey, what is this?" wagging his finger at me. I said, "I didn't have time to iron." and he said, "Well you should have made time.". Ever since then, to please the queens in my life, I iron. I must or I won't get past the fashion police.

[dsdrane]

The flies of my boxer shorts.[/SIZE] :o They gap open otherwise!!... sigh...:o

...and your point is...?

[You knew we'd get there eventually, right?]

[Daniel]

Don't iron my briefs.

Boxer shorts? Dear me! No!

[keltic63]

:o sometimes... not always but sometimes... The flies of my boxer shorts. :o They gap open otherwise!!... sigh...:o

I hate when that happens

...and your point is...?

[You knew we'd get there eventually, right?]

I have quite a variety of undergarments. boxers, briefs, trunks, bikinis, I have a thong, but I don't like it and never wear it

Ok... I'm simply making the responsible choice ... NOT TO GO THERE! :rolleyes:

I wore boxers sunday and had that "wardrobe malfunction" all day :mad:

Don't iron my briefs.

Boxer shorts? Dear me! No!

i can't say that I've ever ironed underpants.........

[dsdrane]

Personally, I'm a smooth-it-out-while-it's-still-warm-from-the-dryer-and-fold-neatly kind of guy.

My folding skills are legendary (I've been told).

[BrentRichards]

Personally, I'm a smooth-it-out-while-it's-still-warm-from-the-dryer-and-fold-neatly kind of guy.

My folding skills are legendary (I've been told).

Legendary like this?

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[keltic63]

I'm speechless. what is there to say? I am going to learn Japanese so that I can understand how to do this! I finally have a GOAL! meaning. purpose. ... Wow. :eek:

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try this one.....

[BrentRichards]

I'm speechless. what is there to say? I am going to learn Japanese so that I can understand how to do this! I finally have a GOAL! meaning. purpose. ... Wow. :eek:

So maybe I should have posted this in the "My Call" thread?

[Zerbie]

OMG!!!

I foresee hours of disastrous frustration in my near future - but a faint glimmer of hope dawns that perhaps I may finally learn to fold!!! :pray::pray::pray:

Umm, my folding history is even worse with bed linens than with clothes: after studying up on folding-technique for fitted sheets (there's supposedly a way to fold them and then flip them so that the sheet folds INTO the fitted pockets neatly, but that sure ain't happenin' in my house:rolleyes:, I wad fitted sheets up into angry compressed bunches and punch them into the back of the closet,) I gave up on sheets.

A few years ago I was in an opera where I had sing a rather difficult trio/quartet while folding bed linens with my scene partners. Given my sheet folding history, I warned the director right away that it was not going to work very well, and his (uneducated) response was "practice." I "practiced," developing an anger complex at bed linens, and basically stood onstage every night PRAYING my scene partner would catch the bunched up ends of sheets before the whole audience started thinking, "That girl really can't fold, can she?" and then hastily shoved the "folded" sheets into a basket.

Geez, come to think of it, I've had THREE productions where I had to fold sheets onstage. God help us!! :lol::lol::lol:

[dsdrane]

There are no short cuts to a good fold!

This godless "folding" technique, this fabric origami, is no substitute for the proper sleeves in! method.

I'm shocked and appalled that some here would be so irresponsible as to propagate this housekeeping don't.

:rolleyes:

[BrentRichards]

There are no short cuts to a good fold!

This godless "folding" technique, this fabric origami, is no substitute for the proper sleeves in! method.

I'm shocked and appalled that some here would be so irresponsible as to propagate this housekeeping don't.

:rolleyes:

Yeesh, what's got your knickers in a twist? (Could it be your folding method?)

[Ducks]

[Zerbie]

There are no short cuts to a good fold!

This godless "folding" technique, this fabric origami, is no substitute for the proper sleeves in! method.

I'm shocked and appalled that some here would be so irresponsible as to propagate this housekeeping don't.

:rolleyes:

If you don't watch out, you could find yourself kidnapped into a life of forced domestic labor in the sweltering desert.

:lol::lol:

[BrentRichards]

If you don't watch out, you could find yourself kidnapped into a life of forced domestic labor in the sweltering desert.

:lol::lol:

Wait, do you have a pirate costume too?

[Zerbie]

Wait, do you have a pirate costume too?

:lol: Bet it would look great with all this sand!!!! :lol: Like a pirate who's really, REALLY lost. :lol: