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It ends up that turning the iron off instead of relying on the automatic shutoff is very good advice.
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I guess the good thing is that it already fell on the floor and cracked the water tank, so instead of trying to remove it, I might just throw it away.

good lesson to learn

Watch out for plastic bags to close to the ironing board also.:)

Yikes! I'm glad it wasn't a new iron!

It could have beenl so much worse! Glad nothing caught fire!

I bet the burning plastic smelled really "great" -:( . Yepper I would be tossing them both too. No way to take a chance with this iron again.

Surprisingly, we never smelled it when it happened.

that may Pop right off though. hopefully.

What I was thinking. Thanks for posting this. It reminds us all to be careful. BrendaK

Can you tell I am a worry wort? .... All I could think is: It is all fun and games until some one gets hurt, or You dodged a bullet here. But, really, I am so glad you are safe......

You've made us all more aware of what our iron is up to.....!

That's scary!

That's the reason I have my iron on a serge protector in a socket that's connected to the wall switch. A lamp is attached also. If the lamp is on so is the iron. If the lamp is off, so is the iron. Then I check it twice before I leave the room!

Glad you are safe.

connecting the lamp is a great idea, thanks

I do the same Sillysusan! I also never leave the kitchen when I boil eggs or put the teapot on the stove.

Oh no!
Glad the bottle was the only thing damaged!

Good laugh for today...….we all know how stupid feels.

Oh wow. That looks like something that would happen to me....

Yikes! So glad it wasn't worse!

Thank you SillySusan for the great 'lamp' idea!

I never trust the auto on/off. Just make sure iron in unplugged !

Oops. I can't quilt if I don't have an iron. You'll have to replace it quickly.:D

My take on it. Laugh and embrace your work of art!:)

Thank you for posting, good reminder and I will be more careful.

Ohhhh my! that could have been a disaster! I will certainly be more careful.

Also - if an iron has an automatic shut-off - when the iron is moved, it will heat up again if one did not actually turn it off.

I usually - or so I thought - click the iron to "off" - so I set a cold iron on carpet - and the iron heated up and melted the carpet.

Now DH put an extension cord up so that it is easier to plug and unplug the iron in - and I always unplug it now when I am not using it.

I love your advice! I'll never forget when a pot of eggs boiled dry and the eggs exploded! Hours later, I Finally finished cleaning the ceiling!

You made my day. That really is funny and I really needed a laugh today. It is exactly something that I would do. Yes, I do feel sorry that it happened though. Guess you just have to look at the bright side. You get to buy a new iron!

Thanks for sharing. Very funny and sort of inspiring. No matter what, we keep on quilting.

Thanks for the safety reminder! I see a commercial in there somewhere. Hopefully, you have a new iron now.

Oh no!! Lesson learned I guess and glad it wasn't any worse.

my iron shuts off while I"m ironing! every time! well it beeps and will shut off if I don't lift it up an upright, then continue ironing a bit more. someone made mine wrong! otherwise it is a good iron. will shut off but i always punch the button to go down and show blue. means off. Then when completely done in sewing room, i unplug from extension cord.

That's "art" worthy. Display it! Seriously! It would even be fun to enter it in an art show. It's almost an Andy Warhol. Lol

Thanks for the reminder.

At first I didn't realize what I was looking at and I thought OMG she did what I did, but then I saw what it is. Years ago I had just bought a new sewing machine and out of pure laziness I setup my iron right beside it. Very convenient for sewing those seams and didn't hardly have to move. Well of course the iron somehow fell over once I had turned it off but before it had time to cool so I wound up with a slight melted area on my machine. Didn't really bother me or the woman I wound up selling it to!

Wowsers!! Lucky this didn't turn into something worse.

Laughing....we are all so "involved" with our projects...we just sometimes forget!

Wow. Thanks for posting this.
It's a good reminder.

Now, it's also a great piece of modern art.