Do YOU do IRONING?

Guinness Boy

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Just finished ironing my work shirts for the week. Anyone who knows / has met me will agree I'm not exactly military standard but with several work shirts, watching the football clobber and my son's playing the football clobber it feels very, very wrong to get anyone else to do it. I'm in to a nice routine now where, on a Sunday night, I bring down the creased clothes, put on some tunes and iron till I'm done.

I know some blokes who rely totally on their wives for this and others who wouldn't let another soul touch their threads. Which are you?

 

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Dry cleaners for shirts. The rest the cleaner does. Me for emergencies

 

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I do the ironing.* **

* I would if I had an iron
** I'm single anyway

 

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No, haven't ironed anything for years. Don't even own one.

 

dazzer6666

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Have always done my work shirts.......Missus tends to do the rest though. I don't mind doing it at all, quite therapeutic. Happy to have the radio or TV on while I do it.

 

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Guinness Boy said:

I know some blokes who rely totally on their wives for this

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That'll be me.

Not for any reason, really, and certainly not some chauvinistic "that's a job for a woman" belief. She also does most of the gardening, whilst I cook the family meal every night. It's just the way it's evolved.

If there's something I want to wear and it needs ironing, I'll obviously just get on and do it, but that doesn't seem to happen very often.

 

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Iron as you go. If I don't, it won't happen, but I'm not spending an entire afternoon ironing a washing machine load.

 

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My missus insists on doing it...seems to get some kind of weird perversion out of ironing everything in sight, including my gruds...just let her crack on with it.

 

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afcb said:

My missus insists on doing it...seems to get some kind of weird perversion out of ironing everything in sight, including my gruds...just let her crack on with it.

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Well you might get run over by a bus as my nan used to say............

 

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dazzer6666 said:

Have always done my work shirts.......Missus tends to do the rest though. I don't mind doing it at all, quite therapeutic. Happy to have the radio or TV on while I do it.

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You sound like my sister. She loves ironing - irons everything from bedding to socks and underwear and tee-towels. If fact, if you walk past her, she will iron you and the clothes on your back if she sees a crease in them.

 

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I iron my stuff, military standard. Can't help being anal about only wanting one crease per sleeve or trouser leg

 

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NooBHA said:

You sound like my sister. She loves ironing - irons everything from bedding to socks and underwear and tee-towels. If fact, if you walk past her, she will iron you and the clothes on your back if she sees a crease in them.

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Think you quoted the wrong post [emoji23][emoji23]

 

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Yes I always iron my own clothes.

 

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Wife does it. I do the cooking. I hate ironing and love cooking, vice versa for her.

Effective division of labour. Both happy.

 

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NooBHA said:

You sound like my sister. She loves ironing - irons everything from bedding to socks and underwear and tee-towels. If fact, if you walk past her, she will iron you and the clothes on your back if she sees a crease in them.

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Can I borrow her for the wife?

 

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Generally my domestic worked does/did it
Not ironed anything in years

 

Goring-by-Seagull

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I do all the ironing every Tuesday morning.

 

Marshy

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Mounds of it !

 

Beach Hut

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Sometimes but normally Mrs Hut

 

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dazzer6666 said:

Think you quoted the wrong post [emoji23][emoji23]

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No I quoted your post because she does it without even looking down. She irons watching TV as well and hardly even looks down at the ironing board she has got it down to almost robotic ''Stepford Wife'' perfection