To avoid doing what I should be doing as it's so boring.

Before you start ironing, just make sure what you buy. There are more non-iron clothes in the shop than ones that need ironing!

Another good tip: you never need to chop onions again, you can buy them frozen, ready-chopped and much neater than you would do it by hand.

The above two tips came after I broke my right shoulder - and you know what? It was worth it!

Well I am avoiding cooking the evening meal, DD is doing it for a change and I am having a glass of red.

Welcome to GN auntieboddie

Oh chocolate cake everytime Bez Is there anyone out there who would rather iron???

I have a closet full of clothes and seem to pick the wash and wear clothes over the Always ironed ones.

I now have two baskets of ironing!! Went to visit a friend celebrating their birthday and six of us sat in the sun eating chocolate cake.

If you feel like ironing - lie down on settee until feeling goes away!

You'd think if she took the time to Hoover for marks she might as well of plugged it in!

I have a friend (honest!) who hated housework so used to run the hoover - unplugged - up and down the carpet so it made wheel marks and then sprayed the air with furniture polish so that her DH thought she had done the housework!! i have to admit I have done the spray polish bit before now but not the hoover marks!

my mother told me she ironed my diapers and I was the youngest of three.I think she was pleased to have me cause of a miscarriage before me.

gracesmum your thread gave me a good laugh.great way of dealing with ironing!
Greatnan ironing on the floor! thought of it make my back ache.I couldn't get up and down.
I do minimal ironing- usually whilst watching TV .or listening to a good CD.

Good for you Bez playing in the garden is so much more fun that ironing and you will get more pleasure from planting that beautiful fuschia than you ever will from ironing your smalls !

I managed to avoid the ironing yesterday but feel I really must do it today before I plant up a couple of tubs for the patio - bought a beautiful fuschia yesterday for one of them - that was while I was avoiding the ironing!

Welcome to Gransnet auntieboddie

nelliemoser
Sorry for not introducing myself-yes I am new to GN. Thank you for the welcome.

Auntieboddie are you new to GN? welcome anyway.

If you have a spare bedroom just stick the basket of ironing and the iron in therer and wait untill you need to wear whatever it is needs ironing.
DH does his own but takes hours! He has been known to steam iron everything, sheets included on a single thickness of fabric. #sinkingheart.

I think I have just worked out my DH's strategy for avoiding some of the housework. Pretend that you can't stack the dishwasher, pretend that you don't know that white blouses and black jeans can't go in the washing machine together,pretend that you don't know what day the bin gets emptied...... Bloody hell why has it taken me so long to cotton on?????

[grrrrr I'm on to you emoticon]

Moved, that sounds like a good strategy! A number of couples I know fall out over the stacking of the dishwasher, but as I live on my own, I have no such conflict!

Just after I last posted received a phone call from a friend, she has hurt her ankle and hasn't been able to go out shopping, so off I went and did some shopping for her and then, of course, had to stay for a coffee and a chat - so the damn ironing is still not done!

gracesmum

really like your suggestion. Does anyone else think it would be much easier if we just had feathers or fur? think of the time, energy and money we would save?

You could treat the ironing basket like the compost heap- after 6 months or so turn it upside down and start taking things off the (new) top. They will have been squashed ironed flat by the weight of the clothes on top of them, And it saves on wardrobe and drawer space. Result!

I too still have a basket of ironing and it's afternoon already.

What I really don't understand is that now there is so little ironing, just OH and myself, compared to when there was a house full of teenagers, the ironing takes me twice as long to do! I know I'm getting older but it's ridiculous how much time I take procrastinating-see I'm doing it now.

Aah well-tomorrow is another day!

anno apparently I load the dischwasher so badly that I am not allwed to do it anymore! Oh dear, what a shame.......... Perhaps you should take a leaf out of my book?

Bother - that basket of ironing is still there!

I have never understood people who like ironing - I had a friend who ironed everything - surely you can get therapy for that!

Oh well, it's not going to do itself so I suppose I had better start ..... unless any of you can think of something better

That reminds me, it's time I unloaded the dish washer!

petra you are not alone! I really enjoy ironing, especially when there is something good on the radio. I think it is something to do with getting order out of chaos, quickly! The rest of my life is freuqently chaotic.

Agree with Ana gilly lightened our day. I plan to seek her out next time I am in need. for gilly