I realize it can be tedious when you are doing a lot of quilting, you need to use the iron and it has shut off; it's annoying; however, I've lost count of the number of times I have forgotten to pull the plug on my iron, walked away and forgotten it, only to come back to it hours later and see the light blinking telling me it was still plugged in. I'm just glad that the cat didn't jump up on my ironing board, knock down the iron and start a fire. I guess it's just personal preference; however, I grew up in a household where my father was an electrician, so I got a good education on the do's and do not's about electrical appliances, so I'm a victim of my environment.