Ever send something to the cleaner's just because you don't want to iron it?

April

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I have just done so with a Kut optic white denim jacket.

It was *so* crumpled for *so* long, I sent it as a PRESS ONLY item.

- April
Lazy Loathers of Ironing, President pro tempore

2 years ago

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RobinF

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Haha - I am so lazy that I hate sending things to the dry cleaner more than I hate ironing!

2 years ago

Lana

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I don’t iron. At. All. This is my iron below and it works so well!

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2 years ago

Stagiaire Fash

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When my son was 5 and we were packing for a move, he saw me pull out the iron from its spot in the laundry room. His eyes got wide: “WHAT is THAT?” I explained & he thought it was amazing. That child was with me all the time, but had never seen me use that device. I currently don’t own one.

Bizarrely, when I took my pleated silk skirt to the cleaners to get the bike grease out, she scolded me for having tried to do so myself with water, said I’d ruined the skirt. Not the fabric—the pleats. When I picked it up, the grease was gone, but pleats faded away in that area. There is a different cleaner I’m planning to take it to so they can repeat it.

2 years ago

Joy

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I have sent fussy blouses to the cleaners because they would be difficult to iron. Now I try to avoid buying anything that fussy..

2 years ago

Runcarla

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What Joy said. I don’t mind ironing, and never have. As a sewer/quilter the iron and ironing board were out daily. That said, DH is the family Iron Man, and took over all the household ironing in the early years of our marriage.

2 years ago

Angie

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You crack me up

I DO iron! A lot. And loathe it.

2 years ago

April

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RC I love that solution and Mr. April actually loves calming, tedious, instant gratification tasks but so far he has yet to volunteer to wield an iron.

He might be happy to sit in front of my Miele rotary iron and feed linen napkins through but then, who wouldn't.

2 years ago

Kathie

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I don't mind ironing, but every now and then, I get backed up on it, and take a few pieces to the dry cleaners for iron only. It's a quick walk from my house, and on the way to the train on days I'm in the office, so absolutely worth the expense for me to get caught up.

2 years ago

cat2

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I don’t iron. Neither does my husband. We have a substantial laundry and dry cleaning bill as a result and I am not ashamed of it.

2 years ago

rachylou

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Hehe. I never thought of that. That’s brilliant!

2 years ago

April

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I used to work in a dry cleaner's, so I know that PRESS ONLY is one of the services they can tag your clothes with.

If you'd rather launder than dry clean but hate to iron, feel free to request that service!

2 years ago

Anonymous

Never done that, but it's understandable. Most people do hate to iron. I'm one of the (odd? disturbed? kinky?) people who truly enjoy the chore of ironing. For me, it's an anxiety reliever to take a wrinkly piece of cloth and make it nice and smooth and wearable. Ironing -- it's a pleasure (for some of us, that is)!

2 years ago

kkards

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ALL THE TIME! I don't even own an iron any more
so glad that we have moved to a much more casual work place, now unless its really bad, i use the streamer cycle on the dryer or the hand held streamer.

2 years ago

The Cat

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No. Never. Very expensive here.

2 years ago

delurked

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may I present to you...

https://youlookfab.com/welookf.....id-to-iron

2 years ago

Stagiaire Fash

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Xtabay, my mom has the same kink! The woman who cleaned our house when I was growing up did as well—they used to argue over who would do the ironing.

Delurked, I have that same thread linked for when I grow up and finally get a steamer.

2 years ago

delurked

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SF - mini steamers are much easier from a space standpoint. They definitely don't give as crisp a look as an iron though.

2 years ago

cat2

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I strongly feel we should each decide without judgment from others how much women’s work to do and how much to farm out. So I vote for outsourcing pressing without guilt. I don’t think any of us needs to win a housekeeping decathlon.

2 years ago

Jaime

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So funny! Sending things out just to be ironed is common here (here being central Israel, not our house!). My grandmother used to iron everything including socks and sheets. This trait was not passed down, to say the least.

2 years ago

Bijou

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This is the reason I refuse to buy any garment made of viscose - it crumples so badly and only seems to be able to be salvaged by a professional. I am all for getting professional help with items like this, but I generally find they make their way into the donation pile very quickly. Ease of laundering is as important as comfortable to wear in my opinion.

2 years ago

Jenni NZ

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I think I’m with Bijou on ease of laundering. I wash almost everything in the machine ( if it says hand wash only I use a delicate cycle or a wool cycle depending on what it is) and then line dry or occasionally flat dry on a towel. We use our iron about once a year and I think use a dry-cleaner less often than that. So for me I don’t. Maybe lots of you wear crisper more corporate clothing than I do!

2 years ago

slim cat

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I do occasional ironing - like my daughter dress after hand washing, or white linen jacket for work. A little bit of ironing could be therapeutic .
If I could afford it - I'd send more items to dry cleaners ( some things do come better looking after professional cleaning ).
I'd take viscose and deal with it - silk is too much for me and polyester gives me bad skin reaction.

2 years ago

Stagiaire Fash

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Cat2, funny that you’re worried about people throwing shade for sending laundry out for pressing. For me, it’s the opposite—I don’t wear crisp, corporate clothing and know for sure that some people are not into the RATE sometimes rumply part of my style. Shrug. They don’t have to live in my skin—or my clothes.

2 years ago

April

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In case anyone is interested, Patric Richardson (aka The Laundry Evangelist) spells out specific instructions on how to wash any item in his book Laundry Love.

Use at your own risk.

It's a witty and hilarious read, BTW.

2 years ago

kkards

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April, yes I use the press only service often. In fact a couple of years ago I tried the dry cleaners at the grocery store, because so convenient, but for some reason they did not have the press only option…well that ended that relationship

2 years ago

JAileen

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Just the other day my mother was mentioning how when she was in college she worked in a laundry. She was in Beverly Hills and received the laundry of many famous people. She said their chauffeurs generally brought the laundry in.

I do iron from time to time. I prefer wearing knits and am ultra casual, so ironing isn’t required very often. I leave my ironing board up all the time, though, for sewing purposes,

2 years ago

Zaeobi

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I don't even own an iron in my new place, lol... That said though, I don't use a dry cleaners either.

But I am ashamed to admit that I have *purposefully* left stuff in the wash a second time, just because I couldn't be arsed to fold & put it away after the first. Does that count?

2 years ago

bella

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My husband was ironing some clothes earlier, and this is exactly what I suggested to him! Great minds think alike!

2 years ago

April

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Zaeobi, you're in. You can chair the Committee on Folding Procrastination.

The topic of laundry and our relationship to it is fascinating to me. Obviously.

2 years ago

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