Guys: Do You Iron?

911 said:
I learned how to iron from my mom when I was in high school. I was home alone one day and was going to go to a friend’s afternoon birthday party. I wanted to wear this special shirt, but it was wrinkled to the hilt. I had watched my mom iron dozens of time, so I thought that I would give it a try. It took me awhile, but I got it looking “good enough.”

When I got home later and my mom was also home, I asked her if she would teach me. At first, she was surprised, but she agreed to do it. It took me a few times, but I did get the hang of it. Then, when I went into the military, we had to iron there and I was prepared. No problem. Guys offered me money to do their ironing. Sorry, I’m no maid.

I remember my mom ironing everything, even sheets, hankies, pillowcases, etc. Unbelievable. Does anyone do that today?
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My mother ironed most everything,too. Also several times while I was growing up she took in ironing. I used to watch her sprinkle men's shirts and Iron them. I had tried ironingsome of my own shirts and she might correct my method and show me a better way. Mom was over worked and on a couple or three occasions she took in almost more than she get out when promised. On those time, I did some of the ironing of others shirts and trousers. If they we not so-so mom would telll me why redo them. I got to where she would do several dozen shirts and I would do a dozen.

When I went into the service it was easy to keep my fatigues and dress shirts up to snuff. After I bedcame a four stripper, I sent out my dress pants and my shirts. My wife never ironed and ironing a shirt for me to wear to a meeting was a disaster. After that I did all the ironing at our house, including anything she wanted ironed. While working I sent all my work clothes out to be done. I used to think that nothing much better than to put on a fresh shirt, lightly starched and pressed. Today and in retirement we don't do much ironing. I occasionally sraghten the collar of a shirt that has hung wrong in the closet and I like a good crease in most of my pants, whatever the material. I guess it's what you get used to.

My daughter in law teaches and she also irons every friggin they own. She even press wash clothes. She's italian, her mother did it, her grandmother did it. I suspect that may well end with her.
 

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I still iron a lot. When my kids were young on a Saturday I would iron 10 shirts a week for them to wear to school. Then on Sunday I would iron at least 5 shirts for my husband. I had to do his alone because he had to have them look just perfect. They couldn't have a crease on them. He was and still is a fanatic about his clothes. For my Bridal shower his Mom bought me an iron and hugged me and wished me luck. Of course right before we got married he was in the Navy, so the first things I ironed were his Navy whites.
 
Do I iron? Does taking iron count? Guess not. I recall ironing my husband's jeans (hard crease was the style then) and ironing almost all other clothing but never had a desire or saw any reason to iron sheets, towels, etc. I also would iron my hair sometimes when I was in high school. So I know how but now, with perma-press and me being retired, I never have a need. My aunt was one of those who ironed everything. She did her ironing outside so she could get a suntan while she ironed.
 
I’ve very rarely iron when I go out to eat someplace nice I might need to press a nice shirt we still have an iron and ironing board and my son uses it for work ironing his pants my husband is the best ironer of us all and used to iron all my work clothes he is awesome.
 
We have an iron, may use when we dress up which in not very often any more because casual dress is accepted everywhere we go. The last time I used it was to do an iron-on parch for a hole in my jeans. I hooked everything up in the den, used my drawing board on the carpet as the ironing board. Turned iron on linen setting, held on patch till it stuck. Put iron face down on carpet while I inspected the patch and melted the carpet. We still have the same carpet, with a throw rug over it and it is always good for a laugh when I say, ''ya wont me ta iron dat.'' I think the damn carpet cost $900 to replace so we live with it.
 
I like to iron. I iron pants before I hem them on my sewing machine, and I iron my dress shirts if I need them for special occasions or a nice night out. Most Austinites dress like slobs, though, so I stand out, which is good and bad.
 
Used the iron to prop open a door a long time ago. No idea where the iron went after that.
I don't think I own anything that needs an iron...
NO , you don't iron plaid...sheesh....
 
How about a trial perspiration


Where’s the iron Joe?
In my hare, fat lady.
What? What!
I through it in the yard where I keep the scrape iron.
What’s it they’re for?
Where’d you want it to be, in the icebox.
Not that iron hare lip, the iron, iron.
You don’t know nothing ‘bout no iron.
Who, who’s been doing all the maiden work since I know’ed you?.
I knead fresh ironed stuff tomorrow, see if you’d get them creases strait on my britch.

Joe, what’d you say ‘bout you and me quit breathin on each other for a speal.\?
How long a speal?
How bout five years


treeguy64 said:
I Most Austinites dress like slobs,
Tree, you aih't in Australia, if your going to live in Austin specially if you go down on honty tonk row (by UT_) you gott'a learn how to dress right.
None of them presses britches, okay.
If you want, I can meet you in Marble Falls, me and the 'necks teach you how to dress.
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"Tree, you aih't in Australia, if your going to live in Austin specially if you go down on honty tonk row (by UT_) you gott'a learn how to dress right.
None of them presses britches, okay.
If you want, I can meet you in Marble Falls, me and the 'necks teach you how to dress."

Hmm..... "The Drag" is the main area that runs through UT, and Marble Falls is a good ways from Austin. "Honky Tonk Row" is in Nashville, if I remember my trips there, correctly. If you're going to pose as one of my homies, you need to do a bit of research to get it right. No matter. After forty-one years in Austin, half spent in the music biz, I know the scene, here. Also, nobody needs to teach me how to dress........
 
drifter said:
My mother ironed most everything,too. Also several times while I was growing up she took in ironing. I used to watch her sprinkle men's shirts and Iron them. I had tried ironingsome of my own shirts and she might correct my method and show me a better way. Mom was over worked and on a couple or three occasions she took in almost more than she get out when promised. On those time, I did some of the ironing of others shirts and trousers. If they we not so-so mom would telll me why redo them. I got to where she would do several dozen shirts and I would do a dozen.

When I went into the service it was easy to keep my fatigues and dress shirts up to snuff. After I bedcame a four stripper, I sent out my dress pants and my shirts. My wife never ironed and ironing a shirt for me to wear to a meeting was a disaster. After that I did all the ironing at our house, including anything she wanted ironed. While working I sent all my work clothes out to be done. I used to think that nothing much better than to put on a fresh shirt, lightly starched and pressed. Today and in retirement we don't do much ironing. I occasionally sraghten the collar of a shirt that has hung wrong in the closet and I like a good crease in most of my pants, whatever the material. I guess it's what you get used to.

My daughter in law teaches and she also irons every friggin they own. She even press wash clothes. She's italian, her mother did it, her grandmother did it. I suspect that may well end with her.
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Good for you. I remember my Mom would take a pop bottle and put a sprinkler cap on top and then use that to dampen the clothes before ironing. I'm not sure if we had a steam iron at that time or not. But, even today, I will sometimes take a shirt or a pair of slacks out of the dryer that may still have a few wrinkles on them and take a spray bottle and spray a little water on the wrinkle and then allow it to dry. If the wrinkle doesn't come completely out, most of it will.
 
Lakeland living said:
Used the iron to prop open a door a long time ago. No idea where the iron went after that.
I don't think I own anything that needs an iron...
NO , you don't iron plaid...sheesh....
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I guess it's all comes down to what we want. I'm really getting too long of tooth
to mess with much ironing any more, and I get tired standing up at the ironing
board.
 
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From reading the posts, it sounds to me that those people who don’t iron look at it as work. When I iron, I look at it as doing something that makes sense. I see people all the time wearing wrinkled clothes, some are so bad that it looks like they slept in them.

I went to school in ironed clothes, then the military in pressed clothes, except in combat and then in my job, it also required pressed clothing.

I guess maybe I have become a creature of habit.
 
treeguy64 said:
"Tree, you aih't in Australia, if your going to live in Austin specially if you go down on honty tonk row (by UT_) you gott'a learn how to dress right.
None of them presses britches, okay.
If you want, I can meet you in Marble Falls, me and the 'necks teach you how to dress."

Hmm..... "The Drag" is the main area that runs through UT, and Marble Falls is a good ways from Austin. "Honky Tonk Row" is in Nashville, if I remember my trips there, correctly. If you're going to pose as one of my homies, you need to do a bit of research to get it right. No matter. After forty-one years in Austin, half spent in the music biz, I know the scene, here. Also, nobody needs to teach me how to dress........
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I like Honky Tonk Row. Isn’t that Broadway? On my first visit, I left my wife at the hotel and went into Nashville, parked by the stadium and walked up and down both sides of Broadway. I must have stopped in 10-12 different Honky Tonks and listened to music being played by the different bands.
 
911 said:
I like Honky Tonk Row. Isn’t that Broadway? On my first visit, I left my wife at the hotel and went into Nashville, parked by the stadium and walked up and down both sides of Broadway. I must have stopped in 10-12 different Honky Tonks and listened to music being played by the different bands.
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In Austin, we've got 6th Street. It used to be a pretty cool place to walk around, go in and out of its many clubs and restaurants, have a good time. Now, crime has increased, badly, and the homeless folks are everywhere you turn. Locals generally avoid it, now. My band was a house band, there, in the 80's, but I hardly ever go down there, anymore.
 
I own no shirts that require ironing. I do own two pairs if Dockers that wrinkle in the wash. They get the Old Navy treatment of being placed carefully under my mattress....one night of sleep and they are, not perfect but very wearable
 
Llynn said:
I own no shirts that require ironing. I do own two pairs if Dockers that wrinkle in the wash. They get the Old Navy treatment of being placed carefully under my mattress....one night of sleep and they are, not perfect but very wearable
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Ah yes, that worked well after the Navy upgraded our shipboard bunks. It didn't work too well for some of us who had those 3 inch thick horsehair mattress over wire springs back in the early 1960's. Getting better bunks was a major step forward for those of us who spent time wearing a White Hat and sleeping in tier bunks 3 or 4 levels high.
I was a Chief when the Navy decided that everybody should wear a coat and tie. That was certainly one of the dumber things I ever saw the Navy do. It did not take long for the initial excitement of this uniform change to wear off completely.
 
I served at sea from 1966 -1969. We had metal frames with canvas lashed to it with rope and a light mattress thrown on top. Better than a hammock but the canvas still required the occasional wet down to shrink it and keep everything tight. Good thing we were young in those days!
 
I have an iron and know how to use it but the only thing I've ironed recently was a piece of fabric for needlework. I get things out of dryer, shake out and either fold or hang. Any wrinkles left go with me when I wear it. Anyone not happy with it - it's their problem.
 
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