Domestic advice please!

[julesapple]

Thank you Capt Mainwaring, sir, permission to panic?

[binley100]

No ironing of sheets here or of anything really ......Anyway by the time you've slept on them they're creased again anyway .......

[Glutton4...]

I missed this thread yesterday! Now, I'm not known for ironing much, in fact, when we moved recently, it took me well over a month to remember to bring the iron from A to B!

However, I will only ever have cotton bed linen. I (we ) currently have Egyptian Cotton sheets, and they would be looooovely ironed, but himself (slob ) hates ironed sheets - well, who am I to argue!!!? I prefer fitted sheets, and, if I do ever iron them, I just fold them in half across the width, then in half again, but long-ways, and bung 'em on the ironing board, and iron them on hot (steam iron) sometimes with a spray (plastic squirty bottle) of water, if they're very dry. But I don't worry about the corners - no one sees them anyway!

I am actualy a really sad c*w, coz if I had time I would iron my bed linen - sheets and pillow cases smell sooooooo much better when they're ironed!

[julesapple]

Do they still make Hoffman presses? My aunt had one, it was brilliant and quick for sheets. Domotec was another type I think.

[Patchninja]

This woman needs to get out more but her sheets sure are pretty!
Comment repasser un drap housse - YouTube

[Hilary B]

This is what we use...you place charcoal in the 'iron' and press firmly over the fabric. It tends to come out squashed - and a tad smudged

Where can I find one of these? The 'heat it in the fire' type are easy, but the 'internal het' ones almost impossible! (I deally I want on that you heat an inner chunk of metal and then enclose that in the iron, but......)

[Nicos]

You see them from time to time for sale over here- but they're flipping expensive!
Didn't even know you could get them with pieces of metal to heat- that's a brill idea- much cleaner I'd have thought.

[Alison]

I am actualy a really sad c*w, coz if I had time I would iron my bed linen - sheets and pillow cases smell sooooooo much better when they're ironed!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!, they smell horrible, nothing beats them smoothed over onto the line, dried in lovely fresh air and then straight on the bed. Smell lovely and fresh that way not that horrible funny smell you get from the iron - not quite as bad as the smelly sheets that some people put in tumble driers or the fragranced water you can buy for irons but still horrible. I find the worst thing about going away is the smell of the sheets, so rarely fresh and I'd much rather have some soft creases that you can't see in the dark than an artificial smell.

[Hilary B]

My fitted bottom sheets are cotton-flanellette. Better unironed, softer and comfier, all the benefits of cotton, without the creasing.
I have used the other sort... when unavoidable, poly-cotton, HATE them, but sometimes the only thing going.