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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'm pretty sure that you just point it at the ironing basket, stand back and press the app on your phone. It gets on with the ironing. The more expensive ones have a fold and put away in drawers mode. 
    It's just flashing to tell you to go away and let it do its job.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Isn't the more expensive model called a woman?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You can get the Y chromosome effort for a bit less but they don't come with a guarantee
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Actually, I do most of the ironing - and have done for years.
    My wife does some, but I find it strangely relaxing. However, before some of you ladies jump in and offer to assist in my relaxation process, I have sufficient, thank you.  o:)
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Hubby LOVED ironing. Socks, pants, even his face flannel 
    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Couple of years ago I bought a craft lamp,  on a stand, nice bright daylight bulbs.  I had a query from Amazon customer ‘Does this work with Google’
    I answered back saying’ it’s a craft lamp,  what’s Google for to do with it’   Maybe it’s related to the iron and kettle. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    @Lizzie27  If it is a "smart" iron, surely you should just be able to park it on the ironing board with the clothes next to it and it will do the job without interference from a human ( man or woman ) ?  If it is really smart, it will also put the ironed clothes away in drawers/wardrobes. :D
     
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    My wife hasn't ironed a thing in all the time I've known her but speaking of flattening things...
    We took the kids to the park on the weekend but first we decided to do a quick bit of shopping. My wife wanted to go into a shop that is very small and full of delicate things, which is just the kind of place you don't want to be taking two small boys. Since the kids didn't have any shop training over the Covid period we have a strict 'one keeper per monkey' code for shops at the moment while they learn about looking but not touching. They're pretty good though to be fair. My wife wanted to look at something and pay for her stuff so she handed over to me to look after both kids at once in violation of the code. I swear I only turned my back on her for a second and she managed to knock over an entire display stand of jewelry. Luckily nothing was broken and the shop owner was more amused that she did more damage than the kids could have done. In a shop full of glass display cabinets she felled the thing like an expert tree surgeon into the only clear space available too.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @Lizzie27 my "smart" iron only works when connected to my OH.  I have a smaller, ordinary steam iron in my sewing room.

    @wild edges your wife is clearly out of practice too.  Maybe you should take her shopping more often....
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I am obviously very lucky, my wife hates shopping almost as much as me, it does however mean, that sometimes we go without certain items for a bit too long, but who needs pants?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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