I love to iron!
Not many people iron anymore. I think it might just
become a lost art. That's sad isn't it.
I grew up ironing everything I wore. Even t-shirts. I usually ironed it right before I wore it.
My mama taught me how and she has a very specific way to iron certain things. I iron the way she does.
I have a hard time watching someone else iron a shirt or pair of pants. I would rather stop them and just do it for them because it pains me that much.
Everyone of my siblings learned to iron our clothes. My brother irons as well as I do.
When we traveled we use to take the iron with us. Now most hotels have an iron in the room and so I haven't packed an iron in years.
My sweet sister in law, has a story she can tell you about when she married my brother. All of his sisters and mama talked him into taking his iron and ironing board to the hotel in the town he was married in. I didn't think that was such a strange request since all our dresses had been packed in suitcases. But I think she tells a pretty funny story. We are a strange family. My only brother is the youngest and has 4 older sisters. I think we just prepared him to make a wonderful husband for her. I don't know that he ever got his way about anything. Poor thing, he did have it hard. But he sure is beloved by all of us and he irons his own shirts.
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I still iron a lot of things and I can't say I love it; it's a necessary evil sometimes - lol. I enjoyed reading your random facts...the ice water with a pedicure - girl friend, I got shivers reading that!
Press on, Gigi!
I sometimes try to wear something not ironed and your mom will take it out of my hand and say 'you're not going to wear that with it looking like that, so she irons it for me.
Yes, I can remember the story of Sandy and the ironing board & iron.I have that picture in my mind of him coming down the hall in the hotel carrying an arm load of luggage,iron & ironing board. Sooo funny. That was going on 13 years ago and he's still ironing.Your mama taught you all real good.
Love,
yo papa
That's a cute comment from Ellen,he he.
Billy.
Being married and having kids has sure changed the number of things I iron, I don't have time, but ironing I still do. I had a moment like Mom and Dads just yesterday with Amelia ... She put her dress on for church w/o being iorned and I made her take it off so I could iron it. Truth be told, ironing has a real calming effect on me ... unless I'm ironing some funky girly material or girly outfit with pleats and darts that starts bunching up, then I get in a foul mood in a hurry. I'm greatful Mom taught me how to iron.
I tossed my iron a yearover a year ago. I switched to steam. I love my steamer!
Oh, Y E S, he did and a FULL SIZE ironing board at that!! But WE all used it!! I remember when I was in the 5th grade and burnt my right upper leg (just a little line) when I paused and held the iron down by my side. Yeah, dumb kid, I was elevenish and I liked ironing!!
I agree daddy, i chuckled too!
Sister Carla
Yes, I must say ironing is becoming a lost art. My mom believed in ironing just about everything my siblings and I wore. When she moved in with my family, she took over doing the laundry. I was so grateful for that. Now I'm trying to instill the importance of ironing in my girls. My son knows the importance of ironing, as the military require his uniforms to be in tip top shape.
It must run in the Valentine family...my mother still irons everything. T-shirts, blouses, pillowcases, anything that has the smallest wrinkle get's ironed. She says it relaxes her. I used to like to iron - something you can see your progress in immediately.
I HATE ironing!!! I NEVER do it! I take my clothes out of the dryer right away and hang up, but I don't think i've ironed one thing in about 10 years......seriously!!!
You know, I am terrible, awful, horrendous at ironing things. I don't know how to do it. I always make sure to get "wrinkle resistant" (stain resistant, too!) work shirts because I am so lousy at it.
My grandpa showed me how--albeit the lesson didn't stick! He once watched me start to iron one of his shirts and had to rescue the poor thing before I burned it to wrinkly pieces ;)
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