so glad for the timing of this, my good iron with auto shut off died this weekend. Dropped 10 too many times I guess, backing out of my sewing machine chair and bumping the ironing board. Tore up the very old carpet, so now the concrete floor threatens to destroy the one I dug out of the closet from my hubby before we got married. I have solved the problem of this one not having auto shut off, I have it plugged into a power strip with a lamp. We both know if the light is on down there, the iron is still on, so hopefully we won't go to bed with the iron still on anymore. We've been lucky too many times!