Broken promises

[Brengirl]

I have never been houseproud in the everything clean and tidy sort of way and when it came to ironing a good shake was good enough. However, my real weakness is very fine cotton bed linen and there is no way I would use them crumpled. Ironing cotton is like beating a dead horse so I further invested in a steam generator. I love ironing so much now that I could nearly be tempted to iron socks but not quite.

[northepaul]

I iron when I need to, ie when I run out of clothes or my daughter's school uniform.
In my previous life (=marriage) I had to iron my ex's shirts, trousers etc and if they weren't perfect I would get them back.

I tend to do it when there's something on TV ie an hour and a half Wallander....

I dont make promises to anyone, except my DD but only if I can keep it.

[Alison]

In my previous life (=marriage) I had to iron my ex's shirts, trousers etc and if they weren't perfect I would get them back.

Blimey - I take it that behaviour is why he's in a previous life!

[binley100]

In my previous life (=marriage) I had to iron my ex's shirts, trousers etc and if they weren't perfect I would get them back.

.........my answer to that would be - you don't like it then do it yourself.

[northepaul]

Blimey - I take it that behaviour is why he's in a previous life!

Thats just a drop in the ocean!

[SueA]

My O.H. irons his own shirts, he does it better than me, there's something to be said for 'appearing to be not very good at ironing'

[ginger ninger]

When I was working I use to pay a lady to do my ironing, now I have the lived in look. Most of my cloths are the kind that don't need ironing but if I'm going out anywhere special I'll iron what I'm going out in.
With regard to promises... my Mum use to say "If ya can't keep them, don't make them"...works for me. I hate the disappointment that comes from broken promises.

[lizzylemon]

It took me 36 years and 3/4s to finally get an ironing bored and it was only because of the patchwork that I did so - I'm rather proud of that achievement.

I do make promises and most of the time I do keep them, but am not always able to so I try to remember that when someone has broken one to me. Ce la vie!

[taff]

think positive bob, caving occasionally to impress is no bad thing.

If you really wanted to never iron again, you wouldn't have one, like me

[kentvegplot]

My husband needs ironed white shirts for work, I don't - ironing is his contribution to the housework :-)

[Hilary B]

Ironing is often a waste of time anyway. You iron a shirt, put it on, over it with a jacket, get in the car and drive for an hour, might as well have not bothered ironing, so these days.. we don't.
The iron gets used for hemming alterations (we use the iron-on webbing stuff), T-shirt transfers (I'm doing personalised T-shirts for family C......... presents this year) and VERY OCCASIONALLY a smart outfit needs ironing, but otherwise, NO WAY!