From informal polls of friends I know that my generation avoid ironing and tend to choose easy care fabrics.

I don't iron underwear but I do iron jeans and tea towels!

I used to always iron jeans but have found you don't have to with skinny fit ones!! ;-)

clothes and anything made of fabric

Everything. Just fold it straight off the line or out of the dryer. If it needs more attention, fold and slide between the lounge and its seat cushions. It'll be fine.

only iron work clothes and one good thing about Winter I don't have to iron my work pants and since I wear knits on top I don't have to iron them either..

I do iron jeans though and going out clothes ..rarely..

I hate ironing as the more I do the more creases I get..hubby used to iron for Country Road when he was younger so if I'm nice to him he irons my going out clothes ..

we live next door to a dry cleaner now so if we are organised we pop our going out clothes to him the day before for him to press..or dry clean

When I moved out of my family home, I didn't use my iron for about 7 months - I used my hairdryer when I was really desperate. I now only iron rayon or cotton shirts and tops.

JEANS. Seriously, denim is meant to be durable.

NOTHING! I make sure when I wash my clothes I lie them out flat so they dont wrinkle

So, I guess I'm strange then. I like to iron. I like the way thing look and feel when they're all crisp and smooth. I don't wear jeans anymore , but I don't understand ironing them.

samanthalloydfrancis..I taught my kids how to iron when they are about to start high school ..that way they iron their own stuff if not they just wear wrinkled clothes

Vy, that was my Mom's idea too. When I was old enough to handle an iron safely she taught me to iron. Then she paid me a nickel a garment to do the household ironing. I think that's what made me like ironing come to think of it.

In Africa, items that are hung outside to dry HAVE TO BE IRONED because moths lay eggs that causes humans to suffer from maggots in their flesh. In New Zealand we do not have the same problem, so I only iron items that need ironing due to wrinkles. If using the drier, much of ones items can shrink (even on the cooler settings), but if taken from the drier asap after the cycle ends, the items often can go without ironing. Sheets I never iron, nylons and polyester types of fabric I never iron, underwear I never iron, 99% of my clothing never gets ironed (choose clothes that do not need ironing), tea towels, bathroom towels, bed covers like duvet coers (Doona's) I never iron. In fact if I can avoid ironing, I do and I do not make more work for myself if I can avoid it. It is said a housewifes job is never done, there is enough that can keep us going 24/7 if we are fanatical or super women - I am neither. God bless you all and enjoy the life you have chosen for yourself. We are all different. God created us to be...but together the floral arrangement is stunning!

What is an iron again??

Iron?? just another 4-letter word to me!! Hateful concept.....nothing gets ironed as I pull everything into shape as it goes on the line, choice of fabrics is easy-care, but anything that dries too fast in our Perth summer is treated to a rumble in the dryer.

I don't "hate" ironing, but I've come to recognise it as a waste of power, so I hang and fold everything flat, and only have to iron about once a month, and that will only be about 3 or 4 nice shirts.

As a mother of 10, only necessary items were ironed such as going outs and school clothes. On an overseas visit with 6 children to Croatian relatives 40 years ago I guiltily explained my strategy for this. 5 years ago we visited again and the person I had spoken to the first visit told me she had taken up my non-ironing practice and blessed me for saving her thousands of hours of useless ironing.

for wrinkeled clothes off the line, put them in the dryer for 10 mins with a damp towel, get them straight out and hang or fold. This will leave only about 10% of the stuff that still needs ironing. Pillowcases, teatowels I always iron, for hygiene reasons, kill any germs, nits and other nasties.

We iron pretty much everything...

evrything - do not own an iron! 58yo mother who had 5 children

Haha Wuff, we have an iron lurking in the laundry after my husband decided it was necessary..... I do not have any relationship whatsoever with the pesky thing!!!

I have an iron...... I think it still works.

everything! If I have to iron it, I won't buy it...