I, too, unplug when I am done in my sewing room--iron, a dozen sewing machines, my LA, everything but the TV (and you would think I'd do that, too, as we lost a TV to a storm for that very reason some years ago--gotta rethink, like Jan). We have "old house electricity" in some parts of our house, so those (one outlet in each room mind-set) outlets have surge protectors on them and don't always get unplugged. I always move my iron off the ironing board because of the likelihood of a cat jumping up and knocking the iron off, but don't always unplug it (pretty hard for me to bend over, etc. off and on all day long) or in an instance of someone bumping into it out in the sewing room as it is too close to the LA walking space. Need more room? Yessssssss.....