I like things to be ironed but am very happy OH does it all whilst watching golf/cricket/rugby/whatever.
Like @BenCotto I love a good rummage in a street market or flea market and a good foreign supermarket. I even quite like my weekly SM shop here but shopping for the sake of it is off the menu. Once I know what I need or want I like to go straight for it and then get on with something important or fun.
Odd curmudge today. Rasta, 18kilos of terrier mix and 15 in 10 days' time, has decided she doesn't like sleeping in her cage anymore and has started chewing at the bars. She's managed to bend the door fastener so out of kilter I couldn't open the door and had to pull out the whole cage and use the side door to let her out.
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)."
But you have to scrunch up dusters and cloths to use them🤔
I scrunch up hankies, but iron those too. Admittedly I haven't reached the point of ironing sheets or duvet covers, but I DO iron pillow cases. How irrational is that?! But for me, dusters, cleaning cloths, tea towels - they all store more easily ironed. But, it's all a matter of personal choice.
As for shopping - I leave the food shopping to my wife. She is less likely to forget things, plus, I don't drive, so it would be local shops, which are more expensive.
However, I collect old postcards, so an antique shop I can get lost in, happily.
I like my really basic iron with nothing fancy about it at all. If I need a steam function I use a £1.50 sprayer from Wilko. I can’t say I love ironing but I also iron almost everything - underwear, flannels, cleaning cloths etc.
I also like shopping and enjoy rootling around antique shops, IKEA, John Lewis, art galleries, charity shops etc. A slow wander round a new supermarket pleases me and an expedition to a foreign hypermarket is bliss.
Sounds like me! Especially about shopping, not so much ironing. Since I bought a new steam iron the cheap sprayer is now for blasting the greenfly on the roses. I don't iron underwear or cleaning clothes but I do iron all the bedclothes.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Five years of living on a boat cured me of most things, not only ironing but clothes and shoe hoarding as well, which left me with a feeling of 'what's the point of shopping' ;(.
Surprising how neatly folding the dried washing can take out most of the wrinkles. The only things I did iron were t-shirts and cotton/linen tops.
No been a land lubber for 2 years now @AnnaB, ill health I'm afraid stopped that way of life. We wanted to tour the UK's nooks and crannies when we retired and what better way was to buy a narrowboat. With over 3,000 miles of waterways there's always something to see. But gardening was severely restricted to 5 pots of plants on the roof, 3 of them we lost due to low bridges and high water
I also iron hankies, flannels, towels, tea towels and dishcloths. I was told years ago that if you don't want to wash them at a high temperature (60 degrees C or more) you should put a hot iron over them for hygiene. Plus they fold up flatter for putting away.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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Like @BenCotto I love a good rummage in a street market or flea market and a good foreign supermarket. I even quite like my weekly SM shop here but shopping for the sake of it is off the menu. Once I know what I need or want I like to go straight for it and then get on with something important or fun.
Odd curmudge today. Rasta, 18kilos of terrier mix and 15 in 10 days' time, has decided she doesn't like sleeping in her cage anymore and has started chewing at the bars. She's managed to bend the door fastener so out of kilter I couldn't open the door and had to pull out the whole cage and use the side door to let her out.
But for me, dusters, cleaning cloths, tea towels - they all store more easily ironed.
But, it's all a matter of personal choice.
However, I collect old postcards, so an antique shop I can get lost in, happily.
Surprising how neatly folding the dried washing can take out most of the wrinkles. The only things I did iron were t-shirts and cotton/linen tops.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.