Do you still use an ironing board?

Lethe200 said:
Got rid of the ironing board, did keep the iron as I occasionally - VERY occasionally - do mending on my sewing machine and sometimes it's useful to iron a seam down. I think it's been maybe 6 yrs or more since I last used my iron, though!
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Have you seen the new portable small steam irons they use for pressing seams when sewing?

I would love to get one.
 
For most of our working lives we had someone else do our ironing, we called her our ironing fairy, and very good she was too. Now retired, that's both me and our ironing fairy, the duty of ironing falls to your's truly.
Some like their shirts to have a pressed creased down the arm, it's achieved when ironing the sleeve flat. Our ironing fairy always presnted my shirts with crease free, impeccably pressed sleeves. Her trick was to use a sleeve board. Something which I now copy, but still can't quite achieve her same standard.
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Yes. It folds u p and lives in broom cupboard when not in use . I do iron some clothes - and do ironing usually twice weekly, I wouldn't go as far as t o say I enjoy it but it isnt a job I mind doing.
 
I used it a few months ago. Oh yes for the new shower curtains for my bath. They were too long. You can make em shorter with this:
 

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Some years ago I got a really cool white jeans jacket from someone. Wore it once. Too lazy to iron it. It was wrinkle fabric.
 
I was going to reply to this topic to say I still use my ironing board because I dislike wrinkled clothing, but then checked back to page one and see I posted on July 31, 2017!
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Horseless, if I were as active as you and your wife with all your lovely outfits, I am certain I'd still need that ironing board. But............these days? Not on your life.
 
I just ironed some collared shirts the other day. If I can get them out of the dryer quickly and on a hanger they're fine but sometimes they need a press.
 
Lewkat said:
Horseless, if I were as active as you and your wife with all your lovely outfits, I am certain I'd still need that ironing board. But............these days? Not on your life.
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There's a couple in our social group of friends who, whilst not exactly on hard times, do have to watch the pennies very carefully. They are quite a bit younger than us, about fifteen years or so. When I suggested that they might be able to trim, mow and tidy our garden once a week they were delighted. So, in addition to the ironing fairy we also have a couple of gardening fairies, and what a fine job they do too.
Lewkat; I am certain I'd still need that ironing board.
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Something that I really shouldn't be admitting on a social forum and that is: My shirts, when ironed, are hung on hangers rather than folded away in a drawer, but even though they hang well, if when I come to wear one to a function, it hasn't faired to well on the hanger, it gets another press. A shirt looks so much better when it's crease free. Fastidious? Who, me?
 
I use a table top mini board and iron my long sleeve cotton shirts.
The collar always gets rolled and pockets won't lay flat eventually, plus
they get wrinkled in the closet if in there a long time hanging.
I like the airy ones for a dressier look over a T at times.
 
Yes, I drag it out of the closet now and then, not very often. Thankfully, most of my clothes don't need ironing. But I do use it when needed.
 
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