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02-05-2012, 07:42 AM

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onaemtnest

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Quote:

Originally Posted by PghPat

BJ.........you could try plugging ONLY your iron and a small lamp or night light into a strip and turning the light on. You will know when your leaving the room that you havent turned the iron off if the light is still on. Sure has helped me.

This is exactly what I had to do too! Extra lamps on my sewing center are plugged into same power strip as the iron and I cannot tell you how many times I still to this day walk out of the sewing room flip the wall switch and realize I have left the iron on, because those extra lights are still on....once the power strip is turned off, the extra lamps are off hence iron is off!

Before this simple solution for me, we would be on the road somewhere only to return home to make sure I'd turned off the iron.

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