Do You Still Do Ironing?
My goodness, I well remember when younger, I would have 3 whole baskets of ironing each week, You can imagine with 7 males in the family. First, it was HWMO's work and leisure clothes, then it was 3 lots of school shirts each, (18) PE kits (6), football kits (4) and school trousers (6), then it seemed a million pair of socks (yes, I even ironed socks before laying them out into pairs in their respective places. As I worked full time, this chore was always done every weekend.
After all that, then there was the bedding, where the pillowcases had to have pinpoint neat crosses when the bed changed each week. sheets that had to be ironed until neatly folded.The same with their underwear. all ironed to death.
Fast forward to today - I have to blow the dust off the iron if I ever use it - which is Never! I either put garments straight from the washing machine onto hangers to pin on the rotary drier in the garden, followed by hanging them back in the respective wardrobes. If raining, they go on hangers in the spare bedroom where the Airing cupboard is, to dry. The only things that go in the tumble are towels, duvet covers and the dog's baskets to dry.
I am so thankful for crease resistant materials nowadays. I couldn't care less whether the pillowcases have a neat cross anymore, as long as they are clean and smell fresh, same with the sheets and duvet cover, that does me.
Do you still do ironing? or are you like me and think that life is too short to do that one chore I never ever liked but had to do out of necessity?