#1: I iron as necessary, most of what I iron are uniform parts or dress shirts. Before I need to wear an item, I wet the item then toss in the dryer with a wet towel and tumble on low heat. When I pull it out, it usually comes out wrinkle free. Then I touch up on the creases or removing packing creases if it's brand new, as necessary.

#1... if I'm off to a job interview ;>

I save it all up for Sunday afternoons.
I enjoy ironing & find it very therapeutic but then we don't have basket fulls as there's only 2 of us. If I'm dressmaking, I'm pressing every step of the way!

I iron our sheets -- 1000 count egyptian cotton is very wrinkly. it's a pain, but so worth it. And i do the rest of the things that pile up during the week at that time. I do have the same feeling of tiny accomplishment from ironing that others described. At least this one thing is under control! I like to paint too, for the same reason.

I wish I were tuned in to my dryer enough to grab the clothes out immediately, but I always get stuck on a conference call and so, like today, my no-iron white button down came out wrinkled.

Real Housewives of BH is my ironing show - mindless activity, mindless show. I only got hooked on it because my former boss knew Cedric personally.

Oh, what a great question.

I'm TEAM 3, no doubt about that. My friends always laugh when I tell them about how I do my ironing.

If I had bigger house and it made sense economically, I'd have a laundry room. The whole process of putting out the ironing table and waiting for the iron to warm up makes it such a torture for me even before I begin. I do not joke when i say I'd rather wash dishes after a wedding banquet for 500 people!

So, here is the little O-ironing-ritual for 30+ items.

1. Wait until we're in desperate need for ironed clothes.
2. Wait until Friday evening! This is important bit, it must be Friday evening, i.e. it's weekend tomorrow and I have time to recover! (Emergency ironing throughout the week is done on a "need to" basis, otherwise it all waits for the giant session).
3. Pour myself a glass of red wine.
4. Put on a fun DVD I love, chick flicks, comedies, anything uplifting and what I've already seen 10 times or more so I know every single line. If you're interested, Sandra Bullock films are the most common choice, although the competition for the Friday ironing spot is quite fierce in fact!
5. Take a deep breath and off we go... it's lasagna-style ironing: easy stuff, then some I hate to iron, then some easy, and so on.

It's not uncommon that I go through 2-3 DVD's (worth of clothes to iron!!) per night. I stay on one glass of wine though

As seldom as possible.

What Alicat said.

I do it whenever the urge strikes, and I've accumulated quite a pile of collared shirts.

Hardly ever.

Usually, if I've just washed something that needs ironing (like a woven shirt), I'll hang it up in the bathroom while I'm showering, since the steam generally removes the wrinkles.

If I have a super fancy event, like a job interview, I will occasionally iron.

Ha-ha, this post is great and very appropriate, because my ironing board literally broke yesterday! (And I mean properly break - the welding somehow sheared apart.) As such, I would say I am for the next week or two having the joyous experience of doing no ironing at all!

When I get my new board, it will be one mammoth session to try and desperately get back up to date and then revert to ironing on an as need basis. Preferably early in the morning before it gets disgustingly hot.

PS: Nice to see you - hope you are all well and happy! x

Thanks for replying everyone!! I had fun reading your responses!

Oh and Katiepea - by and large I am well and happy? How about you?