How big is your ironing pile?

I don't iron (I use gravity)

The last option. Mr. Casual, that's me.

I throw it in the dryer for 5 minutes. But only for formal occasions.

for some reason i loves to iron

I am horrible at ironing, I really am. I somehow seem to just move the wrinkles around to new locations.

Please note the lack of an option for "My partner does it". ILX: progressive or pathetic?

I. Ron.. ing?

I don't iron (I can't be arsed).

you forgot "i pull my clothes out of the dryer so fast they dont need ironing"

the last one. i struggled greatly when i last had a job that required ironed clothes. with shirts particularly, i found that just as i had attained perfect smoothness on one side, i had ironed a whole fresh bunch of creases into the other - bah!

its fackin huge m8

I only iron shirts. I drape these over things while they hang around in the nether world between leaving the clothes horse and being ironed, so it's not really a question of 'how high is the pile' but more 'how many available surfaces does your ironing cover'.

Our cleaning lady. That said, I quite like ironing.

something went wrong in my life when I started ironing clothes.

I have this one shirt that must be ironed that I keep washing and then lying it down, meaning to iron it... but then I never iron it. I just washed it again yesterday and I took the bold step of hanging it up; even if I never get around to ironing it, at least I've broken the cycle.

I hate ironing.

i need to buy apartment sized ironing board. kitchen counter + towel is really just not good for attempts at non-dirtbag lifestyle

i can't say ironing without thinking irony and vice versa

I should really start ironing, but man, I already waste so much time on that shitty washer/dryer in my house, it's hard ot convince myself to do this.

I've never had nor used a dryer which is why I probably forgot that option. I was brought up to believe they are really expensive and eat a lot of electricity but I don't know if that's true these days?

I actually like ironing for about an hour and then it starts to get me down. Usually at about that point I am looking at the stuff that has been in the ironing basket for about two years and it looks so forlorn and neglected that anyone would be depressed.

Please note the lack of an option for "My partner does it". ILX: progressive or pathetic?

Well progressive obv. but I guess there should have been an option, sorry.

Doing the laundry: Classic or Dud?

At the start of each season I always put things in the ironing pile and never get round to ironing them, so when the pile starts to grow I start putting stuff away unironed. When it comes to putting clothes away when it gets cooler/warmer my ironing pile shrinks back down again, hurrah!

Funny this should come up now, after I did ironing on TWO days last week, having not done any in like, a year. I'm of the "cant be arsed/most of my clothes don't need it" persuasion. But I've been going through all the nice clothes I hardly ever wear and washing and sorting them, and decided to iron some of the nice dresses and shirts for something to do the other day while a mate was over. It was strangely soothing ironing to Devendra Banhart hahaha.

My mother on the other hand irons weekly and is one of those nuts who irons hankies and towels and underwear and sheets and things.

I caught my sister once ironing her MONEY. That little tableau is a perfect summation of her character.

If you did that here you'd end up with a nice wallet full of shrinkydinks.

OMG I want AU dollar shrinkydinks made into earrings.

Hahahah awesome! I will risk a fiver in the oven and see if it works :D

(wait, is that like, illegal?)

YES

remember when paul keating (?) autographed a bill for someone when he was pm? SCANDAL

Does the shrinking this still work with chip packets? I tried to explain it to PP a while back but he had no idea what i was talking about.

would be bigger but I compact it. I don't want to go near it at the moment. Everyone else claims they don't iron, which puts me down

Starts big just after a load of laundry, then gets smaller without me ever doing any actual ironing, as I gradually extract items that on reflection don't really 'need' ironing, that much, and I'm in a rush...

MIne is back up to a metre+ following three large washes. My children are going through clothes at an astonishing rate. When they were little it was so easy, but now my sons school shirts (for instance) are actually quite a faff to iron.

I do it in a oner every week, but I haven't got around to it yet this week.

ironing? izzat a verb?

I mostly just buy wrinkle-free fabric or take it to the cleaners. I hate ironing the darts on shirt sleeves. They get me everytime. If there's more than one of them, it's practically origami trying to keep them from crunching on top of each other.

I even buy dress clothes that don't require ironing. (Granted, not expensive designer high quality dress clothes, just ones from a department store.)

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i have a full basket of clean clothes, post-wash, but i might be able to get away with not ironing any of it.

I was reading about mangles somewhere - my grandmother had one in her basement and we were always warned about it "because your great-aunt somebody got her arm caught in it". I always thought it was just a giant clothes wringer, but they are great big mechanical irons - two heated metal rollers you guide the wrinkled stuff through.

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I have ironed nothing since October 2006.

^^^Naturist

rather big as my iron crapped itself last week. Inconvenient! I am a diligent ironer by habit, I don't like to see ironing piling up.