I forgot I even had an ironing board in my closet. I haven’t needed to use that thing in 10 years.
Ironing
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AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Veedem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Steamer game, represent.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think gen x did that… You’re welcome.
Lifebandit666@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Sometimes I iron. Someone mentioned school uniform and yes.
But mainly I look at say a t-shirt and go “Meh” shrug and throw it on. Bang a leather jacket on and nobody knows it’s wrinkled and they fall out.
Now we’re having our 1 week of summer in the UK I’m having to iron my t-shirts because it’s too hot for my jacket, but it’s only a week.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
as a swede i am legally obligated to vomit at the idea of school uniforms
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I hate them too but unfortunately the vast majority of schools require them. It pisses me off how much time and energy is spent enforcing meaningless rules.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I am not Swedish, but I would like to join you in the procedure of vomiting at the idea.
Nothing like making the masses complacent since childhood by controlling nonessential fashion choices.
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Can you do precision vomiting into Putin’s bunker? Asking for a friend.
NooBoY@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Try hanging them and watch the wrinkles fall away. Other ways you could always get some of those sport tops that breath. Should help with the heat.
nieceandtows@programming.dev 11 months ago
If push comes to shove, I sprinkle some water on my clothes and run them in the dryer for a few minutes. The wrinkles are gone.
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I have an iron but no ironing board so I used to do it on my desks when trousers were really too wrinkled, but it’s been over a year since my desk has had enough room for it, I just don’t know where to put the stuff and don’t have time for that.
DillyDaily@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The number of times I find myself plugging the iron in behind the TV and then holding an old Amazon box against the wall and juggling my pants while I iron because I’m in a rush and that’s the available outlet plug and space.
SpaceByn@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I think what this meme misses is, largely, clothes in the west are now designed to look as if they have been ironed if hung up properly to dry
This is absolutely not a pet peeve of mine that we didn’t just stop ironing due to the lack of social convention (brought on by less time in working people’s lives and less domestic labour done in the home by women) but by new technology in the area of clothing
at_an_angle@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I own an iron because after washing fabric, it gets wrinkles.
Do you know how much a pain in the ass it is to sew wrinkled fabric? Flat and smooth is the easiest way to do that.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Sewing is the legit reason for irons.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Unfortunately the kids school uniform needs ironing, and my t-shirts are always way more creased when they dry on the washing line outside than when they’ve been in the drier.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Nah they don’t. No clothing needs ironing.
Wear it for 10 minutes and they both look equally wrinkled whether they were ironed or not.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Na, they can definitely look worse! I had one on the other day that I didn’t iron and by the end of the day it still looked terrible, more so than if it had originally been ironed.
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I still uses a steamer on some clothes
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not a millenial but the only time i get an iron out is yo declump the pocket flaps on my flannel shirts
dave@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I’m pretty sure ‘Declump pocket flaps’ is in section 1 of the Apollo Launch Configuration checklist, right before Lint Valve Override.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Could be but mine are forever earthbound
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
You’re welcome
~Millenials
obinice@lemmy.world 11 months ago
… You don’t iron your clothes?
Do you just go places looking like you just got dragged through a bush backwards?
deranger@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yes and yes
I’ll take my clothes to the cleaners if I need to look fancy. They do a much better job anyhow.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
man if your clothes look dragged through bushes i think you need to reconsider your washing and storage routine, my clothes just have minor creases and the fanciest part of my routine is rolling things up before stuffing them in a drawer.
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
… You don’t get dragged through a bush backwards? In this economy?
sucricdrawkcab@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A steamer, Iron and that wrinkle spray stays close. “We”, nope.
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who is we
Psythik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Millennials.
I’m one, and the SO is a Zillennial; neither of us own irons. Just don’t see the point. Dryers are fairly effective wrinkle removers, and any remaining creases will eventually come out simply by wearing the clothing.
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I iron for the creases!! I understand why many people wouldn’t have use for them but I like having crisp collars on button downs and polos and a slight crease to certain khakis
Lizardking27@lemmy.world 11 months ago
OP casually admitting his clothes look like shit, or he dresses like a toddler.
I’m sure once you graduate high school you’ll find opportunities to use a clothes iron, in the meantime stop pretending you’re a millennial.
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.de 11 months ago
Millennial here, graduated highschool nearly 20 years ago. Still not ironing or owning an iron. If you hang your clothes up to dry and do it properly, you don’t need to iron them.
joenforcer@midwest.social 11 months ago
Bro has never owned a piece of clothing made of linen in his life.
Lizardking27@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Keep telling yourself that, wrinkles.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
lulz.
I probably have socks older than you.
Lizardking27@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So your clothes are wrinkled and old? Yikes.
papertowels@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I guess my clothes look like shit, or I dress like a toddler.
The great thing about being an adult is I don’t have to give a fuck what others think about me.
jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I still have to put up with it a little bit but I made it my life’s mission to avoid it as much as possible whilst still being part of mainstream society. I’m so glad that this meme indicates that FINALLY other people are not only not doing it but also denouncing it as much as I have. I’ve had to hold back on bitching about how stupid and irritating it is because it was always something everyone else seemed to have viewed as a mundane, at worst neutral and at best good aspect of everyday life that wasn’t that hard and gave you nice looking clothes. You can’t butch at length about something that is considered in those terms because you just come off as a boring crank. But now finally, if only for a moment I can still feel normal whilst embracing my abiding hatred of the pointless and time wasting practice.
FUCK ironing, and especially fuck whatever dipshit came up with it. Before this was invented wrinkled clothes would have to have been but a fact of life. I’m near certain whoever did come up with this was someone who knew they personally would never have had to do it. For centuries it would have been palmed off on the usual people that had to carry out the shitwork and now, in modern times, we didn’t jettison the practice along with the sexism and classism that forced some to have to do it and not others, we just made it so that now we all have to do it. It delivers no benefit, it’s so fucking stupid aaagghh! Because of the conventions and expectations that formed around it, I’m unfortunately forced to participate in it despite my misgivings, even if only on the bare minimum of occasions. If I have a job interview, or I’m going to a fancy event I have play in to this ridiculous farce that is noticeable only from its absence and help perpetuate it. I sincerely hope this generation really has managed to abolish it and it’s only the remnants of my own upbringing and peers that mean I still have to occasionally do it because the world will be objectively better off if no one ever does this again.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s right out of the dryer and hung up. Also, steam dryer is amazing. Only ironing is for button ups.
QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ooops. Millennial here and I often iron my bed sheets. I have a weird ventless washer/dryer combo thing, and no matter how quickly I pull my sheets out or what dryness level I set it to, they come out quite wrinkled. I don’t really mind if the main sheet is a bit wrinkly, but it drives me nuts when the top edge gets all folded, and then those folds become permanent creases.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I don’t actually do anything about it, but I don’t like the way some sheets get that top hem all wrinkled either, so I honor your commitment to making the thing that matters to you better.
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
And that is the con of having a combo. They do a much better job as separate appliances. Kinda like… All season tires. They do neither well.
QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yep. The dry cycle also takes about twice as long, but supposedly it’s more gentle on fabrics. It’s a pretty nifty option for small spaces without a way to properly vent the dryer, but I can see why they’re not more popular. The machine came with the place, so I didn’t exactly choose it, but I hang dry most stuff anyway, and definitely prefer it over dealing with shared, coin operated machines.
VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like ironing my clothes though and if you show up to a formal family event with a shirt that looks like you rolled around in it, then I will offer to iron for you before the next time.
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Ironing kills bacteria, but if you somehow else do thermal treatment of clothes, then fine.
Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hang them in the sun, the UV radiation kills most of the germs
Zwiebel@feddit.org 11 months ago
Wash them with normal detergent and put them in your wardrobe. The lack of nutrients and water kills them.
frickineh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Man, I iron all the time. I’m not like, ironing underwear like a crazy person, but I have a lot of shirts that would be straight up unacceptable to wear to work without it. It takes like 2 minutes.
CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I don’t usually wear dress shirts to work except for big presentations, but how on earth does it only take you two minutes? Are you only counting active time ironing? Or ironing 10 shirts in one session and giving the per-shirt average?
Start to finish, from getting out the iron, plugging in to start up, setting up my ironing board and laying out a shirt, waiting to heat up, ironing the shirt plus flipping it around and ironing again, then putting everything away after the iron cools down, it’s usually like 15-20 minutes for me. Maybe you can do something else when the iron is heating up, but it still seems like at least 10-15 minutes. Still a short enough period to not be a huge hassle once a week, but way too much to do every morning.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 11 months ago
It really isn’t that hard. It takes about 3-4 mins to iron a dress shirt to look pretty damn good compared to doing nothing for it at all not including the time for the iron to heat up. I also save time by using the steam button heavily and not being afraid to throw on a slightly damp and warm shirt. Still, when I decide to change my shirt right before I’m walking out the door and I only have 10 mins or I’m gonna miss my train I still always have time to throw the iron on and give it a once-over. Like yeah if you want all your garments absolutely perfectly ironed it might take a little longer, but you might just not have the technique down from lack of practice. For the record I’m gen z so idk if I’m just weird or if the meme is maybe not as universal as some think.
frickineh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I leave the whole thing set up in the guest room so I don’t have to mess with it, and I’m a woman, so most of my dressier tops are less complicated than a men’s button-down. I plug it in, wash my face, and it’s ready to go, and it really is only about 2 minutes to actually iron. Maybe twice that if it’s a particularly finicky fabric (which I’m slowly eliminating from my wardrobe).
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Or ironing 10 shirts in one session and giving the per-shirt average?
Or also have chad 230V iron instead of weak 120V.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ironing is for crafts and sewing.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
My clothes only get wrinkly if I get them wet and then let them dry being all balled up so I never really ironed even though I grew up with it being a thing.
maxinstuff@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s the great trick - you really didn’t.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Imagine naming you iron “utopia”
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As a millennial I still iron some clothes, especially for occasions I wanna look nice! I even got a Lil ironing board for it :3
trunklz29@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Millenial here I def iron clothes
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ironing is the only time of the week where I have the time to watch TV or movies. Not that I don’t have free time, but I usually spend it in other ways. During ironing, I’m a captive audience. That said, I don’t iron all that much. I remember the last season of The Boys took me four months to finish…