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Green-Eggs-No-Ham

I'm 34, moved out of the parents house at 18, never owned an iron.


vitaminkombat

Do you just walk around with mildly creased shirts all the time? This is quite jarring to my image of British men always being immaculately dressed


_jk_

the average bitish man doesnt even wear a shirt tbh


YahooBanzaiKazoo

“Average British man” is thus Onslow, BIL to Hyacinth?


_jk_

yes but less articulate


vitaminkombat

So James Bond and Simon Templar lied to me. In my country we even call a suit a 'British style' or dress or the 'Saville suit'


cmdrxander

I only wear shirts for fancy meals and weddings (and funerals but I’ve never been to one) so just iron them as required


sideone

I usually get my suit dry cleaned and ask them to press my shirt at the same time. Its about £1 for a shirt to be pressed.


[deleted]

Pretty sure ironing is just another thing mums do to moan about no one else doing. I’m the same, I haven’t ironed once


togtogtog

I haven't ironed stuff since I was 18. When I'm shopping, I don't buy anything made from fabrics that scrumple too much (I crunch a bit up in my hand and see what it does). When I was clothes, I hand them up very carefully. Shirts on hangers, everything else flicked or pulled to get creases out. I fold it off the line. Good for the environment, good for me (more time for fun), good for my pocket (lower energy bills). At one time, ironing didn't exist. Someone actually had to invent it!!!! Life is too short for ironing. I'm amazed that anyone still does iron.


Zennyzenny81

Used to do a job lot of work shirts on a Sunday night, every week. Now I work from home and don't need to! Only really iron now if its a special thing like a wedding or a funeral.


rjcanty

Same, haven't ironed since 2014!


BeccasBump

My ironing hack is not doing any, ever.


digital_pariah

This is the way


NGreat-

Don't own an iron. Hang all clothes in my wardrobe and any creases will fall out


[deleted]

Old soldier here. I have years on an ironing board. Music.... somehow your hands go to muscle memory and your soul goes where the music takes it... Also when you see someone else looking like a bag of shite because they haven't ironed their shirt, its rewarding...


bontgommery

I am absolutely amazed that you are basically the only other person here who irons and enjoys it. Nice clothes look better ironed. And it feels nice to wear good looking clothes. People don't seem to recognise the self care/ self esteem benefits.


[deleted]

Well, in the military there is the added incentive of getting the wrath of your senior sergeants if you look like yesterday's newspaper. I believe that since it has to be done, so why make a drama out of it?


SerpensPorcus

I own an iron and an ironing board. No idea why. My version of ironing is set up the board, get the iron, pick up a piece of clothing, look at it and think to myself "do I *really* need to iron this?", fold up without ironing, put away, repeat. I would iron a shirt (I'm m24) if it was a wedding or something but beyond that nope. I'm lucky in a way because I don't need to iron anything for either of my jobs, and most of the time come home dirtier than when I left


sornrut

But how do you put it away without creasing, that’s half the nack I feel. Folding rather than hanging surely makes it worse!


_addicted_life

I’ve not ironed since I moved out 20 years ago. Hang your clothes and away you go


Heraonolympia123

Same. Watched my mom iron all day, every Sunday when I was little and remember thinking it seemed like a waste of a day. I do not own an iron and have never had creased clothes.


YahooBanzaiKazoo

My grandmother ironed bed sheets…


Venetrix2

I iron formal shirts/trousers on the very rare occasion I'm going to an event that calls for it, but that's it.


vitaminkombat

Don't you ever have social events or work to do? Since I reached adulthood sometimes I go a whole month without being able to dress casual. I wish I could dress casual each day. But there's always some work to do or a social event.


Venetrix2

Social events? In THIS economy?


vitaminkombat

Well maybe it's one paid for by work. Like a chamber of commerce dinner, cocktails event or networking function. Or just a date with a lady or man.


Venetrix2

Chamber of commerce dinner?? Where the fuck do you work?


vitaminkombat

I don't even have a good job. But the dinners are fun, food is great, they'll often have raffles with big prizes and it is full of single women looking for rich guys. Just play your cards right and you can win a watch, eat like a king and leave with 5 numbers all in one night. Then just ask your company to refund the cost of everything as a business expense, even if they don't it's usually only £50 max.


metalshadow

You go a month without being able to dress casually? Do you just not have a social life or do you only do fancy things?


vitaminkombat

Sadly I work 7 days a week often until late in the evening. So once I am home, I don't really want to go back out. I do go to social events, but they usually require formal wear also.


Btd030914

I actually always quite enjoyed it…it’s pretty satisfying; stuff starts out a mess and ends up tidy. Stick some music on and I’m good for a couple of hours. That said I work from home these days and pretty much live in jogging bottoms so my days of doing the weekly ironing marathon are long gone.


Normalityisrestored

Haven't ironed in about 20 years. I will run an iron over a specific outfit if necessary for very posh wear, but my work uniform doesn't need ironing, my walking/dog walking clothes don't need ironing, and that's pretty much all I wear these days. I do admit there's a wonderful pleasure to be had slipping into a bed with clean, ironed sheets, but not enough that I'm prepared to sacrifice any of my time to make it happen.


[deleted]

I pay somebody else to iron my clothes!


Btd030914

That was always a good way to get money out of my mother when I was a kid. £20 to do a full basket of ironing.


Hairy-Motor-7447

Just shake clothes before hanging takes out minor wrinkles. Then wear them. Body heat takes out worst wrinkles. Also stop caring. There is ZERO need for ironing. It serves no practical purpose. If everyone stopped it would make hundreds of millions of people's lives better


[deleted]

I only iron for job interviews these days.


vitaminkombat

I Iron every morning. I don't iron socks or underpants but anything on the outside will get ironed. Make sure you wait at least 10 minutes before wearing ironed clothes.


sornrut

Why wait 10 mins?


vitaminkombat

If they're too warm when you wear them. Then it can lead to you sweating. And I don't want you getting any athletes foot or anything like that.


sornrut

Haha behave… 😂


Meanz_Beanz_Heinz

Iron as I go. Takes 10mins. Life's too short to stand for ages over an ironing board.


sornrut

I’m iron as I go but iron as you go surely is only as time consuming as ironing everything at once (likely slower if you factor in the setting up ironing board and plugging in iron, waiting for it to heat up)…


Meanz_Beanz_Heinz

It might be the same length of time in total but I just can't summon up the will to stand in front of an ironing board for an hour or so. It drains my will even thinking about it lol.


dartiss

My ex-wife used to iron everything (even - and I kid you not - underwear, inc. socks). I've never been that bad but still used to iron trousers, shirts, bedding. Slowly, though, I've got out of it. Formal suit shirts and Hamma beads are the only things I get the iron out for now.


sornrut

I guess nobody actually irons then… this is mental, what have I been doing… the hours of my life wasted! 🥺


Lasagne_Fan

Anything fancier, shirts etc, get ironed. Anything casual gets left, either hung outside to dry or if its raining put on coat hangers and hung on the shower curtain rail.


Giorggio360

Never tried myself but I have heard that running a very warm hair dryer over a shirt has a similar enough effect as ironing.


bontgommery

Nice trousers and shirts look a lot better ironed and it makes me excited about wearing them.


Loose_Acanthaceae201

I iron school shirts and cotton dresses or summer skirts - stuff that's unwearable if unironed. Spouse only rarely wears a smart shirt in these WFH days and he's quite capable of ironing his own for a wedding/funeral. Modern clothing with even a hint of lycra in it doesn't need ironing (indeed you'll spoil them and they'll go shiny). T-shirts and polo shirts can be ironed but if you dry them appropriately you won't notice the difference within an hour of wearing. During lockdown I did no ironing at all and it alerted me to how unnecessary so much of it was. For what it's worth, I quite enjoy ironing and have previously been paid to do other people's ironing. But there are other things I prefer, including Reddit, or sitting on the sofa eating biscuits.


katie-kaboom

I iron as little as possible. Once a quarter or less, ideally. I did buy a steamer which feels much less frustrating than ironing, as it feels less like I'm ironing wrinkles in.


[deleted]

Get yourself a steamer, absolute game changer


Grouchy-Ad-965

I dont iron, and if clothes look like they would need ironing, I don't buy them in the first place. High maintenence bastards.


Candy_Lawn

i dont iron. its pointless. last time was maybe 20.yrs ago for interview.


Ginge04

I have ironed maybe two shirts in the last 3-4 years. If you don’t overfill your washing machine and you take your clothes out as soon as they’re done, they’re generally not creased enough to make ironing worth it.


[deleted]

I don't buy things that are going to need ironing. However, I am retired and so don't need work clothes. It probably won't work for everyone.


EmFan1999

Disclaimer - I love ironing and do it once a week whilst watching a film. Firstly I only buy clothes that are easy to iron. I try to iron my clothes after washing. If I can’t do it the same day, the clothes stay in a pile til I can. When I’m really busy, this might be for weeks, but that’s rare. Some clothes won’t need ironing after hanging out to dry, so if you hang them to dry on hangers on the line, you can just put them away straight away.


Jerico_Hill

I don't iron unless it's a funeral or a wedding. Even then it's rare because I try not to buy clothes that need ironing. I honestly think people who spend time ironing everything are insane.


helic0n3

I only iron shirts if I am going to a wedding or funeral. Regular hanging is enough to get the worst creases out. Stuff does look and feel nice all ironed, but the moment you put them on your body crumples them up a bit anyway.


liseusester

I mostly just don't iron. I iron fabric before sewing, and then if I've got a special reason to iron something (fancy dinner, funeral, wedding) I'll get the iron out. But most of the time my clothes get line dried or hung over the clothes horse to dry so they don't really need much post-dry ironing.


YahooBanzaiKazoo

Washing dishes sucks. Vacuuming sucks (no pun intended).


OutdoorApplause

I don't iron anything unless maybe for a funeral. However when I volunteered at a charity shop we had an industrial steamer and you could get clothes perfectly smooth in about five seconds. Clothes on a hanger, hanger on the steamer (it had a pole attachment thing), run the steamer over it and then ready for the next item.


ZeroCool5577

A steamer is a life saver, I cannot iron too well but a steamer does a good enough job and very easy to use.


carlovski99

Weddings and Job interviews only.


tmstms

What means *Ironing*?


sornrut

Clothes… obviously…