Hee hee! My mum hated ironing and taught me to iron as soon as it was safe enough for me to hold the iron! I used to be a nanny to a gorgeous little boy whose dad was a doctor. I thought I’d help out and iron his shirts but I’m such a bad ironer, one day I burned a hole in one of his fancy shirts. I kind of gave up on ironing after that. These days I only iron PJs and doona covers because clearly I have some OCD thing about creases and dreams! That said, my ironing skills are so pants, even if I had ironed something, it would still look so creased, you’d never know 🙂
What did you do about the shirt? Did you fess up?
Sure did. They were very good about it but I never had to iron for them after that 🙂 We’re still friends today and that little boy is now nearly 15!
No judgement here. I don’t iron either. Miss 3 would be the same as lulu and lacey
Oh good! 😛 😛 Are we failing as adults? I hope so. I want to go back to being a kid.
I think we are clever. We have more time with our kids instead of standing at an ironing board
I don’t even own an iron, much to my mothers distaste! It was an ongoing ‘joke’ between us, so much so that I even mentioned it in my speech at her funeral not long ago! Haha. I tell you what though, chuck something in a dryer for a while and that get’s the crinkles out or I use my hair straighter on my hems etc works a treat…. and saves me having to buy a dreaded iron! 😉
HAIR STRAIGHTENER? You are onto something. I’m trying this. Thank you!
I have literally never ironed in my life, so I’m with you 100% on this!!
Yay Ness! We should have a No-Iron Club! 😛
Ha, my kids associate an iron with my parent’s place, not that my parents are mad keen ironers at all! When they were slightly smaller and in a motel room they’d both open the wardrobe, spot the iron and say “Look, just like Grandma’s”! When I pull the iron out here (about once every 18 months) I get an audience too! When the kids came along ironing truly went out the window here!
Who has time for ironing? Honestly, I’m just stoked if I have clean clothes to wear. Anything else is a bonus.
My 8 year old explained to my 5 year old what an iron was recently… ‘it’s that hot thing mum uses to iron the bead things that stick together’…. yep my kids only know the iron in the context of craft! LOL
But next year I will have two kids at Catholic school…. someone is going to have iron school shirts, but it won’t be me!
Oh yes! The bead-y things! That’s the best use for an iron!
Good luck next year. I hope you can wrangle someone to iron the shirts!
This happened to my mum when I was a kid… Also I’ve had to call my partner at work to ask where the iron was. He absolutely lost it when I found it and was like “oh, is that what our iron looks like?!”
Haha! This makes me so happy!
haha this is hilarious and SO ME! I am not an ironer at all.. the husband has accepted it and enjoys ironing his own work shirts 🙂 I don’t think I have ironed an item of clothing in over 15 years and I wouldn’t want it any other way 🙂
Oh gosh, I wish I could have kept up my long run of not ironing. I think there should be a medal when we get to our nursing homes – Best Non-Ironer Lifetime Award. Don’t you think?
Hahaha! Loved reading this. However I am one of those rare people who actually LIKE IRONING! Yes, I’ll say it again, I like ironing. I find it quite therapeutic, and creative. I would even iron for other people. I used to iron tea towels, underwear, everything. Since living on the boat, I have had withdrawal symptoms as I can’t iron onboard. I hate dusting though, and vacuuming.
I love that you love ironing. I get it. I went through a stage when I was heavily pregnant with Lulu and I ironed all her little clothes and it felt blissful. The moment was fleeting, but it happened and I understand it.
I hate dusting {probably why I never do it, having two kids whirling through the house must move the dust, plus I’m into minimalism!}, but vacuuming I don’t mind. 🙂
I don’t iron either. It goes sooooo slowly and I’m not good at it. My gran-in-law is a ironing addict and she does the ironing around here. That said: I almost never hand over my clothes, I’ve learned to own the crinkled look, and my little boy’s clothes aren’t there either. Why on earth would a three year old care about flat clothes?
But now you’ve made me curious about the dress…
It didn’t look like a dress that needed ironing online. For the record, it does!
Is it bad that I’ve only worn a dress once because it needs ironing? I blame Nikki at Styling You because she featured a really lovely off the shoulder dress i had to buy! But it needs ironing :(. its the Hunt Kelly label dress- and didn’t look like it needed ironing in the pic! http://www.stylingyou.com.au/2016/01/the-dress-of-summer-2016/
I hate ironing too, and the only times my children have seen our iron is when I need to iron on labels for their clothes!
I have recently discovered that if you throw 5 or 6 ice cubes in the dryer for 10-20 minutes with your wrinkly clothes, there is a definite improvement. May not be quite the quality a top barrister requires, but definitely less wrinkly!
Hahaha. Ice cubes in the drier? That sounds like an electrical storm waiting to happen, but I’ll try ANYTHING not to iron. And I totally just realised that we put WET clothes in the drier. I am so blonde sometimes.
Thanks for the tip!
Haha snap sista! I don’t think I’ve ironed anything except the odd tablecloth for my family in well over ten years! The huz does his own ironing and always has. The teen boys don’t care. I do have a steamer though, super quick and easy.?
SNAP! Does a steamer take up lots of space?
By the way, I totally had you for an ironer. You’ve kind shocked me, in the best way possible!
Nope, tallish and slimline so goes in the cupboard. Mine is one I bought through a boutique I worked for years ago, gets the job done in a jiffy.
Oh gosh, I can SOOOO relate to this! I don’t buy clothes that need ironing, I’m hopeless at it! I had a moment a few weeks ago where i had to iron a shirt for my husband as we were running late for a dinner- I didn’t even know where we stored the iron (or what colour it was) or how to fill it! He came downstairs and laughed at me trying to work it all out. I did my best, but then he had to go over a few bits again that I’d mangled 🙂 Its hard getting the sleeves flat on both sides!! I wont be offering to that again in a long while!
Hee hee! My mum hated ironing and taught me to iron as soon as it was safe enough for me to hold the iron! I used to be a nanny to a gorgeous little boy whose dad was a doctor. I thought I’d help out and iron his shirts but I’m such a bad ironer, one day I burned a hole in one of his fancy shirts. I kind of gave up on ironing after that. These days I only iron PJs and doona covers because clearly I have some OCD thing about creases and dreams! That said, my ironing skills are so pants, even if I had ironed something, it would still look so creased, you’d never know 🙂
What did you do about the shirt? Did you fess up?
Sure did. They were very good about it but I never had to iron for them after that 🙂 We’re still friends today and that little boy is now nearly 15!
No judgement here. I don’t iron either. Miss 3 would be the same as lulu and lacey
Oh good! 😛 😛 Are we failing as adults? I hope so. I want to go back to being a kid.
I think we are clever. We have more time with our kids instead of standing at an ironing board
I don’t even own an iron, much to my mothers distaste! It was an ongoing ‘joke’ between us, so much so that I even mentioned it in my speech at her funeral not long ago! Haha. I tell you what though, chuck something in a dryer for a while and that get’s the crinkles out or I use my hair straighter on my hems etc works a treat…. and saves me having to buy a dreaded iron! 😉
HAIR STRAIGHTENER? You are onto something. I’m trying this. Thank you!
I have literally never ironed in my life, so I’m with you 100% on this!!
Yay Ness! We should have a No-Iron Club! 😛
Ha, my kids associate an iron with my parent’s place, not that my parents are mad keen ironers at all! When they were slightly smaller and in a motel room they’d both open the wardrobe, spot the iron and say “Look, just like Grandma’s”! When I pull the iron out here (about once every 18 months) I get an audience too! When the kids came along ironing truly went out the window here!
Who has time for ironing? Honestly, I’m just stoked if I have clean clothes to wear. Anything else is a bonus.
My 8 year old explained to my 5 year old what an iron was recently… ‘it’s that hot thing mum uses to iron the bead things that stick together’…. yep my kids only know the iron in the context of craft! LOL
But next year I will have two kids at Catholic school…. someone is going to have iron school shirts, but it won’t be me!
Oh yes! The bead-y things! That’s the best use for an iron!
Good luck next year. I hope you can wrangle someone to iron the shirts!
This happened to my mum when I was a kid… Also I’ve had to call my partner at work to ask where the iron was. He absolutely lost it when I found it and was like “oh, is that what our iron looks like?!”
Haha! This makes me so happy!
haha this is hilarious and SO ME! I am not an ironer at all.. the husband has accepted it and enjoys ironing his own work shirts 🙂 I don’t think I have ironed an item of clothing in over 15 years and I wouldn’t want it any other way 🙂
Oh gosh, I wish I could have kept up my long run of not ironing. I think there should be a medal when we get to our nursing homes – Best Non-Ironer Lifetime Award. Don’t you think?
Hahaha! Loved reading this. However I am one of those rare people who actually LIKE IRONING! Yes, I’ll say it again, I like ironing. I find it quite therapeutic, and creative. I would even iron for other people. I used to iron tea towels, underwear, everything. Since living on the boat, I have had withdrawal symptoms as I can’t iron onboard. I hate dusting though, and vacuuming.
I love that you love ironing. I get it. I went through a stage when I was heavily pregnant with Lulu and I ironed all her little clothes and it felt blissful. The moment was fleeting, but it happened and I understand it.
I hate dusting {probably why I never do it, having two kids whirling through the house must move the dust, plus I’m into minimalism!}, but vacuuming I don’t mind. 🙂
I don’t iron either. It goes sooooo slowly and I’m not good at it. My gran-in-law is a ironing addict and she does the ironing around here. That said: I almost never hand over my clothes, I’ve learned to own the crinkled look, and my little boy’s clothes aren’t there either. Why on earth would a three year old care about flat clothes?
But now you’ve made me curious about the dress…
You mean, which dress was it? https://bohemiantraders.com/pia-midi-dress-in-black/
It didn’t look like a dress that needed ironing online. For the record, it does!
Is it bad that I’ve only worn a dress once because it needs ironing? I blame Nikki at Styling You because she featured a really lovely off the shoulder dress i had to buy! But it needs ironing :(. its the Hunt Kelly label dress- and didn’t look like it needed ironing in the pic! http://www.stylingyou.com.au/2016/01/the-dress-of-summer-2016/
I hate ironing too, and the only times my children have seen our iron is when I need to iron on labels for their clothes!
I have recently discovered that if you throw 5 or 6 ice cubes in the dryer for 10-20 minutes with your wrinkly clothes, there is a definite improvement. May not be quite the quality a top barrister requires, but definitely less wrinkly!
Hahaha. Ice cubes in the drier? That sounds like an electrical storm waiting to happen, but I’ll try ANYTHING not to iron. And I totally just realised that we put WET clothes in the drier. I am so blonde sometimes.
Thanks for the tip!
Haha snap sista! I don’t think I’ve ironed anything except the odd tablecloth for my family in well over ten years! The huz does his own ironing and always has. The teen boys don’t care. I do have a steamer though, super quick and easy.?
SNAP! Does a steamer take up lots of space?
By the way, I totally had you for an ironer. You’ve kind shocked me, in the best way possible!
Nope, tallish and slimline so goes in the cupboard. Mine is one I bought through a boutique I worked for years ago, gets the job done in a jiffy.
Oh gosh, I can SOOOO relate to this! I don’t buy clothes that need ironing, I’m hopeless at it! I had a moment a few weeks ago where i had to iron a shirt for my husband as we were running late for a dinner- I didn’t even know where we stored the iron (or what colour it was) or how to fill it! He came downstairs and laughed at me trying to work it all out. I did my best, but then he had to go over a few bits again that I’d mangled 🙂 Its hard getting the sleeves flat on both sides!! I wont be offering to that again in a long while!