mojo11

How sad! I learned to iron clothes at a very young age. I still iron my blouses and all my husbands shirts. I make them and are made of cotton. I think most people live in t-shirts so no ironing is necessary.

Cactus Stitchin

When I was working my company had an agreement with a dry cleaners to pickup laundry and drop off cleaned and pressed clothing twice a week. There was a designated location to drop off your large blue duffle bag and pickup your finished laundry. In addition to dry cleaning, they also washed and pressed shirts and pants. You would be surprised how many people brought in all their outer garments to be cleaned and not just executives. I also remember one man who wouldn't drop off or pickup his own laundry. He had his assistant call his wife to come from home to do that chore.

Also, many companies with large campuses, Nike comes to mind, have a dry cleaners/laundry business onsite so employees can drop-off and pickup the same day.

cashs_mom

I'm there with you. The house next door to me is for sale and I dread getting a pair of the little "snowflakes" that seem to be moving in this neighbor. OMG, the things they don't seem to understand that I have always considered common knowledge . . .

sJens

So believe this as my iron has never seen a shirt or pants. LOL I do have a friend that irons sheets and underclothes maybe she like them warmed up!

jetayre

I worked in a grocery store for ten years and the floors had to be done and the bathrooms. I had to show every kid that was hired how to sweep, mop, and clean!!! Boys AND girls. They didn't like to do bathrooms (neither do I) but it was part of the job. I was told they did not have to do that because it was their mother's job....I would ask what if their mother was sink or gone.....someone else would do it!!

trolleystation

A different generation. Sixty years ago we received an iron as wedding gift. Try doing that now !!!!!!!!!!

redstilettos

ROFL...that cracked me up!

plainpat

The old days were not always better to the people who lived them.My Dad's father left his
Mom with a son & 4 DDs.There were no jobs for women,no baby sitters.She took in washing & ironing.

Dad,being the oldest at 8 yrs,picked up & delivered clean,ironed clothes with a wagon.He found a job at 13, delivering big chunks of ice on his shoulder.The money helped his Mom raise her family,with never a penny of support from their Dad.

He often helped with ironing & did his own shirts all his life.

I try to catch myself from mentioning how good things used to be.It's all relative.JMO

tranum

Thank Heavens for no iron fabric. I had to starch and iron DHs National Guard uniforms. I sure envied wives who sent them to the cleaners but it was money we didn't have. I took my sewing machine to our DIL's house so I could shorten some curtains and I asked her to find her ironing board and iron. She had to think awhile to remember where it was stored. 😧

pewa88

This a true story.
A good quilter friend of mine was flying back from Tampa last week and sat by a young woman on the plane who had just graduated with a degree in fashion design and something else tagged on to the name of the degree. In making conversation my friend told the young woman that she had graduated with a Home Economics degree and was a quilter and an heirloom garment maker. The young lady proceeded to tell her that that degree was not needed in modern times because all that stuff could be learned on You Tube.

And I can testify to the fact that these young women practice their art of so called "homemaking" like they indeed learned it on You Tube too. Friends this is really sad. If they had an iron they could not use it.