Do people still iron in bulk?

azzeretti · 30-10-2014 9:44am #1

I remember my mother (and friends mothers) having a single day when they'd pile up the ironing in the sitting room, set up the iron and board and spend hours ironing all the week's washing. Do people still do this? I'm in the 'roll out of bed and iron as I need' camp myself as are most people I know.

Jester252 · 30-10-2014 9:45am

Yes

kooga · 30-10-2014 9:46am

once a week myself..................usually mid week evening when there is a football match on. win win for all i get to see my match and mrs delighted the ironing is done.

greenbicycle · 30-10-2014 9:46am

I dont Iron, In bulk or one by one. Ironing is not a good use of my precious time...

jamesbere · 30-10-2014 9:48am

kooga wrote: »

once a week myself..................usually mid week evening when there is a football match on. win win for all i get to see my match and mrs delighted the ironing is done.

Until your team concedes a goal and the iron goes through the tv

razorblunt · 30-10-2014 9:53am

Sunday afternoons if there's a game on, usually the shirts and trousers for work plus a few t shirts I've worn over the weekend, no more than 30 minutes.
Find it quite relaxing actually, except for one shirt I keep telling myself to throw out as its a pain in the hole.

Fat Christy · 30-10-2014 10:08am

greenbicycle wrote: »

I dont Iron, In bulk or one by one. Ironing is not a good use of my precious time...

Ditto. Can't be dealing with that.

Shenshen · 30-10-2014 10:14am

People still iron?

Badly Drunk Boy · 30-10-2014 10:14am

For some reason, I've got 2 irons but have only ironed about 3 or 4 times in the last 15 years. Waste of time...

gjc · 30-10-2014 10:16am

Don't do ironing in bulk tend to iron to go

Mountainsandh · 30-10-2014 10:20am

Don't iron. A quick spin in the dryer means trousers and shirts are nicely wrinkle free anyway. Odd formal shirt.

YFlyer · 30-10-2014 10:21am

My body is my ironing board.

Mr. CooL ICE · 30-10-2014 10:21am

I iron when I have a job interview. Even then, I only iron the collar and buttons area. No point doing the rest.

30-10-2014 10:23am

Ironing in bulk for me constitutes making a large pile of clothes and hoping the weight of those on top - flatten out nicely the clothes on the bottom. And for the most part - it works.

I am aware we own an Iron - but I would not stake my life on being able to find it quickly if asked to do so.

MarkR · 30-10-2014 10:25am

My suit said "wrinkle free" on the wrapper.

magicmoves · 30-10-2014 10:35am

Crack open a beer on a Saturday, watch the football and do some Ironing. Happy days.

Andrewf20 · 30-10-2014 10:45am

I only iron for weddings or other formal occasions. I dont see the point in ironing anything else. Most clothes I have loose 90% of the wrinkles as soon as you wear them.

The Backwards Man · 30-10-2014 10:51am

Only thing I use the iron for is the curtains. Everything else just au naturel.

Esterhase · 30-10-2014 10:56am

I don't even own an iron. I mostly wear jeans and tshirts so there's just no point.
I think I've only used an iron once or twice in the last 2-3 years to hem curtains.

sadie06 · 30-10-2014 11:15am

Ironing? Hahahahahaha…..funny stuff!

Not so funny when my MIL asks where the iron is and it's obvious I haven't got a clue!

Colser · 30-10-2014 11:20am

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Only thing I use the iron for is the curtains. Everything else just au naturel.

Mind you dont fall out the window doing that:D

Oakboy · 30-10-2014 11:20am

Just get the cleaner to do it

cloud493 · 30-10-2014 11:22am

Yep, sunday is my ironing day. Nice fresh clothes.

shruikan2553 · 30-10-2014 11:35am

I have never ironed in over 20 years. Makes no difference for me except I save time to waste on other things.

martinedwards · 30-10-2014 11:54am

haven't ironed in 5 years

never buy cotton shirts. easy care shirts out of machine straight onto hangers.

everything else dries on the indoors line in utility room.

Shiraz 4.99 · 30-10-2014 11:59am

I don't wear suits for work so I make sure to buy tops which dry wrinkle free.
Only iron if I had to go to a wedding.

topper75 · 30-10-2014 12:01pm

I'll do 4 or 5 shirts and maybe 2 or 3 trousers in a session. It's brutally tedious but there is a certain 'tune-out' therapy to it and I feel satisfied when they are done and hanging wrinkle-free in the wardrobe.

biko · 30-10-2014 12:02pm

For some reason I thought this thread was going to be about weight lifting.

30-10-2014 12:12pm

Shirts have to be ironed so I bring them to the cleaners to get them ironed. I don't iron other stuff, my mother sometimes insists on ironing my polo shirts and t-shirts etc but thats her decision and I've told her not to bother many times.

corner of hells · 30-10-2014 12:23pm

Taught to iron in d'Army.
As long as I live I'll never forget the unbalanced mad cnut who taught me.

vandriver · 30-10-2014 12:35pm

corner of hells wrote: »

Taught to iron in d'Army.
As long as I live I'll never forget the unbalanced mad cnut who taught me.

Bet your shirts are pristine,though.

CelticRambler · 30-10-2014 12:46pm

Andrewf20 wrote: »

Most clothes I have loose 90% of the wrinkles as soon as you wear them.

Most of the clothes I've ironed are 90% creased by the time I've got to wherever I'm going that sounded like it needed ironed clothes.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 30-10-2014 1:10pm

I always make sure my clothes are well pressed.

There is nothing worse than looking at some gobdaw at work with a crinkled shirt and slobby appearance. It annoys me how it seems to have become the norm for people in the service industry to not bother ironing their clothes.

catallus · 30-10-2014 1:20pm

There's no incentive for people to maintain standards, really, is there?

Fuhrer · 30-10-2014 1:21pm

I leave my clothes at the Dry Cleaners to be ironed in bulk if that counts

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 30-10-2014 1:22pm

Yeah I hate ironing, with a passion. Hate hate hate hate. So, usually on Sundays I iron the bare minimum, mostly just his clothes, but I do it altogether and have it done and then at least I don't have to lose the will to live anymore than once a week

Sheldons Brain · 30-10-2014 1:22pm

Mountainsandh wrote: »

Don't iron. A quick spin in the dryer means trousers and shirts are nicely wrinkle free anyway.

Amazing, people's capacity for self delusion.

Toto Wolfcastle · 30-10-2014 1:25pm

Most of my clothes don't need to be ironed. I iron a pile of my husbands t-shirts every two weeks or so. He irons one work shirt every night for the next day. I don't understand that at all.

o1s1n · 30-10-2014 1:26pm

Sheldons Brain wrote: »

Amazing, people's capacity for self delusion.

All my clothes come out lovely and wrinkle free after a spin in the dryer. Maybe you just have a crap one?

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 30-10-2014 1:30pm

I would turn on a movie and sit there doing all the ironing in one go once every 2 weeks or so!

topper75 · 30-10-2014 1:32pm

o1s1n wrote: »

All my clothes come out lovely and wrinkle free after a spin in the dryer. Maybe you just have a crap one?

If by clothes you mean polyester tracksuits, then yes you are right and the other lad is wrong.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 30-10-2014 1:33pm

I do it for me mammy the odd time. Used to wreck my ****ing head as a teenager when she'd lob me a pile of ironing including vests, pillowcases, jeans etc. But somewhere along the way for some reason I started finding ironing a bit relaxing! Never bother with it for myself though

Johnny_Fontane · 30-10-2014 2:10pm

wow, amazed at the amount of non ironers on here.

Nothing better than climbing into a bed with perfectly ironed sheets and duvet cover.

myshirt · 30-10-2014 2:13pm

The only time a man should be holding an iron is on a golf course.

Sinister Kid · 30-10-2014 2:14pm

I HATE ironing!

smcgiff · 30-10-2014 2:20pm

Would love one of those magic spin dryers.

I iron my shirts the night before. Hate it, but would hate the consequences of not doing more.

Toto Wolfcastle · 30-10-2014 2:48pm

Johnny_Fontane wrote: »

wow, amazed at the amount of non ironers on here.

Nothing better than climbing into a bed with perfectly ironed sheets and duvet cover.

Oh God, I'd never iron sheets and duvet covers myself. They go to the cleaners to be ironed.

muppetkiller · 30-10-2014 3:25pm

I Binge Iron once a week. Normally to coincide with the Football. So when she starts giving out for wasting my day in front of the TV I start waving the Iron at her :pac:

Ruu · 30-10-2014 3:27pm

Just buy a new shirt if it gets wrinkled, toss the other one away.

Reebrock · 30-10-2014 3:31pm

"I've always wondered what it would be like to wear an ironed shirt..."

pueblo · 30-10-2014 4:29pm

Do people still iron in bulk?

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