I iron on a biannual, maybe quarterly basis. And most things marked dry clean only, truly required dry cleaning, I just wouldn't buy it. I like a simple laundry day.
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Sue - Mar 15, 2010 11:00:11 am PDT #16274 of 30001
hip deep in pie
beth b - Mar 15, 2010 11:01:34 am PDT #16275 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
We own an iron. I know we talked about buying an ironing board, but I don't think we have one. Mostly the iron is used for pulling the dent and divits out of guitar tops and wood floors. It would need some scrubbing before using , I think
Dana - Mar 15, 2010 11:01:58 am PDT #16276 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I have stuff that's been sitting in a dry-cleaning pile since...probably before we moved.
flea - Mar 15, 2010 11:02:46 am PDT #16277 of 30001
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I like to iron! Which is a good thing, as I like to wear little linen blouses in the summer.
I will not, however, be ironing my children's clothes when they are 27. In fact, my children will be doing laundry for me, as soon as they are tall enough to reach the buttons on the washer.
Calli - Mar 15, 2010 11:05:37 am PDT #16278 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
In fact, my children will be doing laundry for me, as soon as they are tall enough to reach the buttons on the washer.
My mom's smiling down on you from heaven, flea.
Trudy Booth - Mar 15, 2010 11:06:43 am PDT #16279 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
In fact, my children will be doing laundry for me, as soon as they are tall enough to reach the buttons on the washer.
Oh absoLUTEly! Reasonably large and healthy children should also be put to work taking out garbage and carrying groceries. There is no reason for parents to do those things.
And when they grow up they can do things like chose hardwood floors because they DESPISE vacuuming. Until then, however... get on it, punks.
Jesse - Mar 15, 2010 11:07:06 am PDT #16280 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That should be pretty soon, right, flea?
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beth b - Mar 15, 2010 11:11:52 am PDT #16281 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I was 10 or 12 when I learned to do laundry. Whenever I got picky about what I wore to school.
I have a lot of chores to do today. Doing them would we make me happier, but I can't seem to get started
SuziQ - Mar 15, 2010 11:15:24 am PDT #16282 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
As a kid I LOVED ironing. Mom loved having linen napkins and table clothes, so ironing them was my job. Both she and my grandma also carried hankies and I got to iron them too.
After mom passed away, I discovered that she still had quite a collection of hankies. I washed then and reminisced as I ironed them. Only time I've ironed anything since we moved.
flea - Mar 15, 2010 11:15:32 am PDT #16283 of 30001
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Casper, I think maybe at 8 or so. Dillo has a ways to go. I think I am going to teach Casper to vaccuum the living room tonight, actually.
Compared to my own mother, I am incredibly lax. I was doing the dinner dishes at 6. On a chair, I assume. She got a dishwasher the year I went to college. I also packed my own school lunch starting at 6 (Casper could manage this if she were more awake in the mornings.)