Iron Woman

You know what, You could always get someone else to do the ironing for you. In the Uk, I run an ironing service, that does washing as well. Cant guarantee the normal 48 hour return though, and the return costs might be expensive. LOL. But if your ma is soing the ironing, just let her.

I hate ironing, but I do it on occasion. I don't think that I could get with the crease in the jeans though...

my momaaaaa too!!! She talks about me sooooo bad cause i think a lil wrinkle never hurt anybody. My mom told me "why you lettin my grandson walk round here lookin' lika step chile?"

I hadn't even noticed. HAHAHAHAH.

You can't deny that a person looks best when clean and pressed. If you've got that kind of time and it means that much to you, by all means, iron away. I on the other hand operate just this side of bum. In the 7 1/2 years I've been retired I've probably worn pressed or dry cleaned duds a total of 10 times.
I remember ironing Chris' pleated school uniforms, that was a pain in the ass.

I just finished ironing Olivia's clothes. Hush Yo mouth woman. I like ironing.

I hate wrinkled clothes and I hate ironing (but I do it.) I have a whole section of clothes in my closet that I can't wearn to work because I don't have time to iron them in the morning. Instead, for clothes that are dryer safe, I just mist them with water using a spray bottle and toss them in the dryer. =) ( I just read other comments so you use this trick too)

You must have a golden p**** if Donny woke up to connect your game. Any other man would have rolled over and put the pillow over his head (rightfully so.)

I knew I loved your mom.*

*No, not because she irons. Because, she, too, thinks you need your butt kicked... and often. :)

I loved this.

And just so you know, I have woken (us that a word?) the PB up for similar missions on many occasions.

Your mom sounds great.

This Animal Crossing scares me. I am too busy as it is.

I cannot wear crease in my jeans or any pants. If someone irons my pants for me I tell them how I like it iron right away. No creaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Ohhhhh. Just thinking about it makes me feel anxious. I also don't use spray starch.

I find that if you fold clothes right after taking them out of the dryer then you rarely have to iron. But I do own an iron and board. My grandmother use to iron her slips.

My daughter found that she likes to ask me for things when I'm sleeping or half asleep. I talk in my sleep so I can have a full conversation with someone and not remember. At all. One night she scared the crap out of me. I woke up and she wasn't around. She says she asked me to sleep over my cousins house and I said yes. My aunt was there and verified but I don't remember at all. lol Now I tell her ask before I go to bed or make sure I'm awake wake. lol

I own two irons, but NEVER iron. I have them for these little craft project my daughter has. She got the craft before we had an iron, and my silly ass tried to heat up a sauce pan and use it to heat the little plastic craft thing. My stepmother heard about this and bought me an iron, but I had since gone out and picked up a cheapo one.

“That’s no excuse. You need your ass kicked.”

THAT IS EFFING CLASSIC. CLASSSSSSSSSIC!!!!!!!!

You don't iron? WTF? Y'all be walking around with trial sized bottles of downy wrinkle release? :P

Man, they don't make sistas like they used to... =) *runs* I KID!

I was talking to my former PM (project manager) about a coworker of his whom had her mom move in with her and her husband. That's against Man Law #3248: Men are NOT going for any one's momma staying with them in the house, unless it's THEY momma.

In this case, his co-worker shared that her husband loved the fact that her mother stayed with them. Apparently that raised a few eyebrows, because of the well known rule #3248. Not only that, she went on to say he got anxious when his momma in law wasn't around. That really raised eyebrows.

Turns out it was momma who did the cooking, ironed his shirts...did all the lil' things, and my former PM and his male coworkers figured it out.

If it wasn't for her momma moving in, divorce was going to imminent... Momma was there to keep her daughter married....lol

I remember Saturday afternoons as a kid, after the laundry was washed my mom standing in front of the TV ironing. I remember cause her cord was always getting in the way of my dad's view, I guess. That was mostly for her work clothes but she did press whatever I might have had the needed it too now that I think of it. Eventually she paid the older lady who babysat me to supplement her social security to also iron.
I might add that although I am not much on ironing, things always 'feel' cleaner when they are freshly ironed. I don't know....

I iron my kids clothes every morning before they get dressed for school. I ain't the one to have them looking like they Mama don't give a fuck. Depending on the type of shorts or pants/jeans their wearing I usually don't do the crease - unless I'm ironing the boys Dickie's pants or shorts. Dickie's look tight with creases! No need for starch with them either - they come starched to high Hell already... My hubby on the other hand is a starch & crease freak! But he sho' look fly as hell when he steps out the house. I only iron when I got to be somewhere... like work or something important.

Ironing towels, undies, socks, sheets & pillowcases is just SICK!

If someone dies, gets married, or I'm single and going out and I need sex, I'll iron. Other than that.....pffft.

Yeah...I dont iron anything. I throw clean clothes in the dryer for a few minutes if they are too winkled for my taste. Im not picky. Doing laundry is a constant battle as it is, I DO NOT need another step.

Another thing about ironing clothes. if you remove the clothes from the dryer while they are still warm an iron never has to touch them. Flick the shirt out like a flag, fold it or hang it up and keep it moving.

I own an iron, but no ironing board, I live in an apartment and don't have room for the damn thing. if something is SUPER wrinkled I iron it, on a towel, on my bed.

My mother does the same thing to me. My mother is 84yrs old and believes every pair of pants needs to be ironed and every shirt she can lay her hands on too! She freaking ironed my cargo pants till I started folding them and putting them on the top shelf of my closet! At least I got her to stop ironing my jeans though.

Now quit cuttin up rough and let your poor mother iron and starch those jeans LOL!

I can't leave the house without ironing my clothes, unless I'm wearing sweats and a tshirt to go workout. My mama would reach up from her grave and slap the black off me.

Donny is great because my husband would have told me to take my ass to bed. No way would he have gotten up to find the code or, get me connected.

Hey..... I still iron. I can't stand to see our clothes not pressed. My husband tells me I could cut off about 30 minutes to my morning regimen by not ironing our clothes. But again I don't like wrinkled clothes. I think it's because it was something my mom required of us when we were children. I remember being 8 years old learning to iron my own clothing.

Starch is great. Tell your mom she could save on dry-cleaning by doing the heavy duty starching herself. At WalMart (and I'm sure everywhere else but I do alot of household shopping at Walmart) they have a brand called Stay-Flo (comes in a blue bottle almost looks like a small bleach bottle). All she has to do is dilute it with water to how thick she wants it. When I was a teen I used to make my jeans stand up by pressing them so hard (how dorky was I).

I don't say "an iron" I do say "the iron" though.

My mother claims to hate ironing, but she irons all of my father's work clothes (because she thinks it's a "wifey" thing to do), and she irons all of their sheets and pillowcases. Sometimes she skips the sheets, but the pillowcases always get pressed. She says there's nothing like pressed pillowcases to sleep on. I will never know, because I don't do it. And I don't remember my childhood pillowcases being all that, either. Mine chases you with an iron in one hand and she's pulling off your shirt with the other. "Let me iron that for you!" Your mom sounds rad.

I iron a lot....but I'm not a starch freak. My grandmother starches EVERYTHING, even my grandfather's dickies.

I finally got the Wii set up in my bedroom and finally bought AC:City Folk. I started playing last night and am just exploring as of now. I can't get a friend code yet though, our internet is all screwy.

My mom also says, "an iron." I don't get it. I only have an iron because my mother bought me one before I moved, but I used it once on fusible interfacing for something I was sewing, not for any of my clothes.

I don't know the last time i heard someone say: you want me to run an iron over that shirt.

Your Mom's momisms makes me happy she reminds me of family members.

This was hilarious!
We are the same age, Nina. My little brother, who is 5 years younger than me, told me that he'd better not EVER hear me tell my son to iron his jeans again. He was mortified that I'd even made the suggestion. Then he told him to just iron down the front and back but don't put them on their sides so that he doesn't get creases. The creases are apparently a big no no. That child looked like a damn paper sack that had been pressed down in a garbage compactor.
I rarely iron because I don't wear fabrics that require ironing much. I only iron cotton shirts for Sunday church purposes. But, sometimes you just need to. Our iron broke and I feel LOST. I can't let my little ones go out to school looking like vagrants that stand a sure shot of being casted in Oliver! So, I feel your mom. But, I definitely raise a sharp side eye at her for sending jeans out to the cleaners. I know where the cleaners is because it's next door to Starbuck's.

LMAO "who still irons?"

unfortunately sometimes i have to. dont like it tho. you know i was wondering when you were going to post something about your mommy and you, it kinda falls under mommy monday lol are you still doing sundays with kali? hows that going?

I'm with Raeann....I only iron when I have to be in hearings the next day. A regular work day usually finds me wearing wrinkled pants AND shirt!!! LOL

and when I'm not at work.....pfffft

God I love that your mom can live with you. I rue the day when my parents will have to move in with me. You're a lucky family lady my friend.
be well and enjoy it all

Dry cleaning jeans eventually puts a line down the front in them. I have a friend who irons her underwear. I don't understand it. I am lucky I wear a shirt that isn't wrinkled.