I had several in my sewing room but they went away with the flood water. I did buy a little steamer. It's in my office.

I rarely iron, but I do have it in a convenient location. Just recently I bought a tabletop ironing board. I used to just throw a towel over my kitchen table and iron on that.

Lucille, what would happen if you took them out of the washing machine, smooth out the wrinkles and line dry? I think you will get a longer life out of them if you don't dry them in the dryer.

Nickel, I'd sew 'em down. I know exactly what you're talking about and have found that even when I iron them, they still end up sticking up. I will put my money where my mouth is, and when I get my capris out for spring, I'll grab needle and thread.

Mine is on the ironing board in the sewing room. My daughters is in the landry room on the folding table, so I can iron their things on fridays wash day.( I don’t iron on Monday wash day)

Me! Me! I know! Mine is in the laundry room. Not collecting dust, but not getting a lot of exercise, either!

Mine is in my sewing room. I mostly use it when sewing.

Mine is on the ironing board in the sewing room. I iron clothing as needed, but we rarely wear much more than work pants and t-shirts. I think I have one dress shirt hanging in the laundry room in wrinkles.

I love to iron, and I love to use spray starch. Starch makes cotton look better. I iron about every two weeks. I had the prettiest napkins at Easter because of ironing with starch.

Mine is in the laundry room. I like to iron my sheets, table linens and cotton shirts.

Eld I live in a minuscule apartment and there is really no place to hang a line. Even if there was, drying is just easier. I might take them out when they are still a tiny bit damp and iron them then.

Ladypat1 do you use commercial spray starch? What brand?

Drier does an acceptable job usually! Ever notice all the stuff that collects in the dryer filter each time? That is part of one's clothing that gets taken off the clothes by drying in the dryer!) Where does it go if things just hung to dry on the cothesline' ( you know: ..the 'lines that hang between two two poles?!' :) ? I love the fresh smell of laundry dried on clothesline....usually just sheets & thinner cottons that dry soft & wrinkle free- not heavier things like towels, etc.

-vieja

My iron for clothes is in a cupboard in the laundry room and hasn't seen the light of day in many years. My crafting iron is on a shelf in my craft area and does get used every so often.

Yes it gets used regularly around here.

Do I know where my iron is? Yes, I do. Its sitting where its been for the last 10 years.

Yes, I use it to iron cotton pillow cases. Don't iron many clothes other than some summer pants and tops.

In the cabinet in the utility room....but seldom gets used!

Sorry, this post will be a little long. With time passed, it is a funny story.

One of my friends is lovely but very disorganized. Her best friend was also lovely and disorganized. Her friend passed away from a very long illness. Friend's husband asked her to come over and help pick the dress for the burial, and then to iron it. They searched high and low and could not find the iron. They tried to think like her, but it didn't help.

Friend says no worries, I'll just go home and get mine. She doesn't even remember the last time she saw it but is sure she owns an iron. She, along with her son, turns the house upside down and cannot find one. She then suspects she has not seen the iron for about the 15 years she had lived in that house.

She ended up just going to buy a new iron. I asked her recently if she even knew where it was (she was attempting to organize her house). She started laughing and said she may have left it at her friend's house because she doesn't really remember seeing it since. My bet is she will find it in another couple of years!

I iron almost every day. Work clothes. I need my dress pants with a nice crisp crease down the center of the legs. I can't stand the look of a blouse or shirt that is rumpled and messy. Nice and crisp. :)

I actually iron more than I used to because my clothing choices have changed, but I sure don't like it. Robert has always ironed his own things.....he came that way, lol.

I iron most everything including sheets and pillowcases. I was setting up my ironing board one day and one of my grandchildren asked me what it was. That was the first time I ever realized I was in the minority!

No idea! Probably still in a moving box in the basement. I did borrow DD's to iron some sheets for the guest room about a month ago. No fun! The only things I enjoy ironing are my white linen hemstitched napkins, but those are still missing too. I know they are backed in a white shirt box inside another moving box (could they be in the same moving box as the iron?). I really need to finish unpacking boxes in the basement. We're down to only a few left and I just can't seem to tackle them yet. I try not to buy clothing that needs ironing. DH works in crisp cotton shirts, but just two days a week takes them to the cleaners. I do have a steamer that I use occasionally and love my new dryer with steam. I'm really good about pulling things out of the dryer and hanging them up or folding immediately.

I just used mine about 30 minutes ago. I iron once or twice a week. Sometimes I get thwarted.

The kind of clothing I like, natural fabrics, really need to be ironed IMO to look their best. We also only use the dryer if we're in a hurry (rarely) or it's bucketing down rain; generally I dry my laundry on IKEA drying racks on a wide verandah we have off the laundry room. If I didn't need to get the laundry washed, dried and ironed between Friday evening and Sunday evening when DH comes home from working in the city 100km away, I'd use the dryer even less.

The iron is usually plonked on the living room mantelpiece with the board folded and leaning on the wall next to the fireplace. If guests are expected I cart them down to the laundry and put them away, but since it's generally just be here I don't bother that often. I like to watch TV or DVDs while I'm ironing- it's a good time to binge watch Game of Thrones or Grimm :-)

DD who lives in an apartment also has a dryer but only really uses it for sheets and towels and otherwise uses an IKEA drying rack. Her ironing board is generally permanently set up in the corner as she irons her work outfits just before she heads off to work. I used to iron as I needed it, but I was always running late. About 20 years ago I ironed the whole basket of accumulated ironing and ever since I've ironed each week's worth of ironing before the next laundry day, usually the day after it's washed. I feel so guilty if I leave it too long :-)

My mother gave up on ironing years before she died. Maybe I will, but I doubt it.

For all cotton capris, I'd spritz them with a spray bottle AND use a steam setting on the iron, with the iron on the second hottest (cotton) heat setting. Even better if your iron does a shot of steam for the really recalcitrant wrinkles.

I'm with Fran--I know where all four of my irons are, because I am a quilter! I gave up ironing clothes when I retired....

In the basement on the ironing board. Rarely used, then mostly for sewing, which I seldom do anymore.

Mine is in the dry sink in the powder room and hasn't been used for years. I don't know why I ironed as long as I did. I hang my wash outside and take clothes in and lay them on a solid surface and smooth on both sides. I only wear 100% cotton or linen clothes and although they aren't as crisp looking it works for me.

Sadly I do. I spent a good half hour yesterday with it. I collect things until I have enough to make it worth the hassle of digging it all out and setting up. With 8" of snow falling yesterday, work called off I had no excuse but to face the pile of DHs shirts.

I haven't ironed in many, many decades. I did iron a lot thru the 70s and into the 80s tho. about 20 yrs ago I bought a new one for sewing. Before I ever got to use it, I thought it'd been stolen (a break in where I had some things stored between moves). I figured because it was new and could be sold easy enough. Then when I moved about 5 yrs ago, the girl helping me pulled it out from the back of a cabinet (never opened)! I had been planning to buy a new one (for sewing - which I seldom do anymore). So I was very happy to see that somehow that thing got moved to that place even tho I didn't realize it. It's in the linen closet in the hall bathroom now. And in these past 5 yrs, I still haven't used it.

But about 5 months ago I did buy a steamer. Figured I'd really probably never iron again. This steamer will be good for a touch up (not for my clothes I'm sure) but for when I wash curtains. I don't have a dryer so I usually just hang 'em up and hope the wrinkles will eventually fall out...

I do have one of those old cast iron ones too. and it's been used as a door stop!

I am also a quilter and that's the only reason why. I have a basket of clothes buried up in the back of the closet that I put there to be ironed about 5 years ago, now I've got to go check it out to see what's in it!!

Last night I dragged the board out of the closet and set it up. I decided that for now I am going to leave it set up. I know myself, and even though I've decided to iron my capris and cotton shirts, if I have to drag stuff out and set it up each time I iron, I might not get around to it, but if the iron and board are set up, I'll take the time to do the ironing.

Lucille turn your iron to steam don't forget to add the water.

Mama after I'm finished ironing should I dump any leftover water in the iron or can I just leave it in there for the next time?

Dump it out. Also depending on what iron you have it may need distilled water. I have never used distilled water although my manual says to but I have very soft city water. The harder your water the faster the iron will die.

I use RO water for my orchids and other plants, I'll use that. Thank you Mama. (You know I can't ask in the Laundry forum).

The iron is in a convenient place for hubby to use it. He enjoys ironing. We use either distilled or reverse osmosis water in it and the floor steamer.

I still have the iron we got for a shower gift 36 years ago! I've always used tap water to fill it with, never thought to put distilled in it. The first 9 years we had a water softener. When we moved here, we had one put in, and I was still sewing a lot. A few years ago, the salt from the softener started leaching up through a crack in the basement floor. DH disconnected it then, and we have just the city water. He uses distilled to water his African Violets, and I use it in the floor steamer, but, again, never thought to use it in the iron, that almost never gets used.

In my hand held clothes steamer I always use bottled water as my well water had a lot of iron in it. Years ago I always used distilled water in the iron and dumped it out afterwards.

Always dump water as leaving it in can lead to clogged steam holes particularly when using tap water which contains minerals and salts.

In my laundry room there is a shallow cabinet with a built in ironing board and a little shelf with metal all around to store the iron, even when it is hot. Imagine my surprise when I opened this cabinet, about a week after we moved in. I don't know, this could be a new thing or a 70s thing. Cool, if you iron, which I do maybe once a year, but handy as heck when I do.

Uh, you know that dump between Alvin and Santa Fe? That is the first place I would go to look.

When we redid our bedroom closet, I had a pull out folding ironing board installed. Since then, I rarely iron enmass. I generally do touch-ups before donning the shirt, pants or blouse. The board folds up and slides back into place easily and when done, it just looks like another drawer. So, I definitely know where my iron is. It's in the cupboard above my ironing board.

I have two in my laundry room with the ironing board.

I know exactly where my iron is.

I know where it is, but only use it on one shirt that gets worn rarely since it has to be ironed!. I use the downy spray on everything else.

I am another who uses the iron when sewing. Bathroom curtains get ironed after washing. Most of our clothes are dry and hang type or go to the dry cleaner.

In the closet where it belongs! Unless I need it for sewing

My mother's best friend from her first job lived to be 102. I kept up with her by phone. One day she told me how she and her mother laughed when they discovered that my mother had never ironed *anything*.

No, Mom was not raised in luxury! My grandmother earned a living in a laundry when she first emigrated from Scotland to NYC as a teenager. She was the Ironing Lady -- using those big, heavy irons like those that some of you are using as doorstops. (Imagine lifting those things on and off a stovetop in a city laundry in the heat of summer!) She continued to do all family ironing, and there was a ton of it in the early 1900's.

My mother never did iron very well. I remember her washing out a handkerchief in a motel sink and spreading it out to dry flat on the bathroom's tile wall.

Most of the time I do 'thumb ironing': Spreading out a garment before it's completely dry.

I know exactly where mine is, it's in the linen closet. But I can't remember the last time I may have used it. Probably the last time I did any sewing. If it has to be ironed, I don't buy it! "Way back when", 40 years ago or so, I 'took in' both sewing and ironing to help make ends meet. After several years of that, I was pretty much soured on ironing!

Rusty

My iron stays on my ironing board. I rarely iron clothes but its ready for any sewing projects I have

I have two irons, not sure why. I love linen and wear it a lot. It has to be ironed even though ten minutes after putting it on you can never tell. I also restore vintage linens, that's where my real ironing comes in. I love ironing old pieces and see them become usable again. It's kind of like cleaning silver, not that you like doing it, you just like the results.

Mine is in the linen closet. I think..........

I iron quite a bit. I don't wear knits; I wear cotton blouses. Yesterday I changed my bedroom curtains. I always iron curtains before I put them up. The ones I put up are 100% cotton. They were hard to iron. The steam wouldn't take out the wrinkles. I ended up dragging out the laundry sprinkler and sprinkling them before using the steam iron. And I had to go over them twice with the iron. I haven't used the laundry sprinkler in years.