OT: does tumble drying reduce the need for ironing?

I think there would be a national outcry if washing lines were banned here in the UK!!! I know more and more people are using dryers, but it is still quite common to see a line full of washing.

I presently have 3 small washing lines strung between my house and the garden side wall- the length is dicted by the shape of the garden and available fixing points. My set up consists very simple of a hook or fish eye at the height of the line on either side and a fixing lower down so I can anchor and tighten the line. My favourite line has a steel core covered with a plastic outer - doesn't stretch a bit!

Sarah

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Yo, I'm the NG zoning code expert. Joy's local code should be here:

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they are updating it from 1982 to allow drive-throughs andindustrial uses. Bloomfield Hills is a huge township with a small planning staff, and every residence is required to have a satellite dish, 3-car garage, circular drive, private putting green, and privacy hedge. [kidding!] Seriously, I r-e-a-l-l-y doubt there's anything on the books about clotheslines. DH is likely doing the lazy thing. If I cite chapter and verse of the ordinance, he'll say, "we don't have room" or "it's too

----- [weather, darkness]" or "it needs a cement footing and Home Depot is out" or anything else that (doesn't) works.

HTH

--Karen D.

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Veloise

I've always felt that "iron' is a 4 letter nasty word, and I tell people not to even use it while I'm around. I don't iron. I may PRESS while sewing, but I don't iron...

Jeanne

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Jeanne Burton

Same here in Australia. I remember going to an alternative energy conference where someone quoted the statistic that 99% of Australian households had a "solar powered clothes dryer". They would almost all be Hills hoists (eg

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was some years ago now, and there are many more people living in unitsnow who would probably not use washing lines, but I think the Hills hoist isstill the norm.

Liz

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Liz
300 days for unnecessary rudeness.
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joy beeson

Don't whine for me. I get a lot of satisfaction out of ironing, the same as I do in painting or buttering bread -- the satisfaction of doing a job to perfection. When my oldest was in diapers and I had just quit my job to be a SAHM I took in ironing.

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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS

*linking arms with Jean in the enjoys-ironing camp*
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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS

I don't hate it, but I can't ever get long sleeves to come out right.

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Angrie.Woman

I don't whine, but I don't iron either. If I can avoid putting it in the ironing pile, I do. If it goes in there, either it stays long enough that it's squashed flat and doesn't need ironing, or DH does it! (Or I've shrunk so much it no longer fits and goes to the charity shop! ;D )

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Kate Dicey

Me either, and even so I do a better job than American Cleaners.

Kathleen

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Kathleen

Kate wrote >

"... If I can avoid putting it in the ironing pile, I do. If it goes in there, either it stays long enough that it's squashed flat and doesn't need ironing, or DH does it! Or I've shrunk so much it no longer fits and goes to the charity shop! ;D "

That reminds me of a friend who had her Mending Box....on the front she had taken a marker and written "mending"........and the family would toss stuff in. But what they didn't know was that on the back of the box it read "DONATIONS!" Joy

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Joy Hardie

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Joy Hardie

I press my pillow cases by putting them on the bottom of the pile in the linen closet.

Stuff to be ironed goes on hangers on a hook in the sewing room -- it gets ironed when I heat up the iron to press my sewing. There's only one shirt on the hook now, but I have to get it done by Saturday -- it's my only white shirt, and I've volunteered to wait tables at a luncheon.

Sigh. Embroidered linen-blend is *not* a substitute for printed linen. The embroidery shrinks, and has to be stretched out again when I iron it. But it isn't as hard to iron as it was when new -- perhaps I've permanently stretched the embroidery. (Now what do I do with the *rest* of the five yards? It isn't really thin enough to make a sarong, and I don't want any more hard-to-iron shirts.)

(And the pants I'm wearing just developed a hole in one knee

-- right next to a patch that I *thought* covered all of the thin spot.)

Joy Beeson

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joy beeson

If they were cut right I find that folding along the underarm seam gives a good flat sleeve to iron. But there are some that simply will not lie flat. I just do my best, knowing it isn't my fault.

Jean M.

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Jean D Mahavier

When I iron long sleeves I so the cuff first. Inside then outside. I center the under arm seam so that there are 2 creases on the slleve, Do the bottom and flip it over and do the top. Works for me, Juno

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Juno

Important thing about ironing sleeves is to make sure the underarm seam is flat and smooth the sleeve upwards from there. Once the area is flat and smooth, ironing is a snap. Personally, I iron cuffs first (French cuffs and or fancy pleats are done on a sleeve board, then taking the above advice, flatten the rest of the sleeve and proceed.

Don't really mind ironing shirts, but many of those high end bespoke and European shirts give me fits. More often than not they are thin percale with tight stitching so one has to rassle areas into a flat shape to iron. Prada with their new logo made of red wax is the most dumb idea. The darn thing melts when an iron gets any where near (don't ask how I know, just take my word for it and thank God for Goo Gone).

Am finding most laundries today simply do not do a great job of shirts. Some iron well but washing is bad, others are the reverse. Many are equally bad at both washing and ironing. But then what can one expect for $1 or so a shirt. Have found a few local hand laundries that do a great job of hand washing and ironing shirts, but the cost is dear, so only the best things are routinely sent to those laundries.

Speaking of laundries and ironing, does anyone remember when laundries would return your wash "rough dried or damp dried"? This was so one could do the ironing part one's self.

Candide (who is being very lazy with a fridge full of ironing that should be seen to).

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Candide

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:49:17 -0500, Jean D Mahavier wrote (in article ):

I'm like you. I really enjoy ironing. I just iron for myself now (though I'll occasionally sneak in something of Dave's too. He's appalled--he'd never ask me to iron anything). But I did iron for an army once--5 kids all in catholic schools is a lot of white shirts and blouses--when I was growing up.

It does take far less time with the steam press, but some things still need to be done with an iron and a spray bottle.

Maureen

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Maureen Wozniak

My name is Val and.......ummmmm......I love to iron, too *sigh*

Raises Bic lighter high and sways to Vivaldi 'ironing music'. I find ironing relaxing. I also have an Ironrite mangle ironer which should be owned by any ironing addicts, lots of soothing fun, the methodical operation of which is almost Zen like. I iron just about everything, including dish towels and pillowcases. I just turn on the Classic movie channel and "go away" to the land of steamy starch scent and knife blade creases.

Val

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Valkyrie

"Valkyrie" a écrit dans le message de news:

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I'm in the love ironing group. It's my sunday afternoon treat, all my family know not to phone at that time. It's me, the ironing and the eastenders omnibus. English soap opera for those who don't know, thank heavens for satellite television

Claire in Montréal, France.

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Claire Owen

If you lot want to relax with an ironing pile for an hour or two, mine is growing steadily... Nearly 3 feet high again! DH has been busy building a shed and shifting stuff into it, so the ironing has been neglected!

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Kate Dicey

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