How much time do you spend ironing your clothes...in Thailand?

[brianthainess]

2 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

I really needed to know that - my day, no the week - is complete.

Glad I could help........ in fact I went back to the UK years ago, and was with my mate and his son, I was looking in a bathroom fittings shop window, when I said I haven't had a bath for years, he said " Don't tell my son that"  presuming he didn't like taking a bath. ....

[simon43]

I never iron, nor indeed need to iron my clothes. They are all non-crease...

[howto]

GG personally I think you've gone bonkers.  

For the 30+ years I lived in Thailand, the maid or nannys(s) did  

- the washing, ironing, folding for all 5 of us, inc themselves.  

Including all the cleaning, cooking, shopping for darn near everything.     

wtf is wrong w/ you. 

Stop complaining. 

 

[Happy happy]

zero time...my laundry shop does the ironing

[save the frogs]

22 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Yes, but God will see.

And, I will be judged, accordingly, in the near future, or the hereafter...whatever....

 

 

 

make sure you take clean neatly ironed underwear with you to the afterlife for judgment day

[Marcous]

Polyester is your answer.

[herfiehandbag]

41 minutes ago, simon43 said:

I never iron, nor indeed need to iron my clothes. They are all non-crease...

Perhaps, but "Liverpudlian formal" is not a style to which we all aspire...

[GammaGlobulin]

7 minutes ago, Marcous said:

Polyester is your answer.

 

Is that considered a natural fiber (fibre)?

 

 

[brianthainess]

33 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

make sure you take clean neatly ironed underwear with you to the afterlife for judgment day

Mine will be Extremely scorched..............

[herfiehandbag]

How much time do I spend ironing? As much as is necessary. 

 

Standards my dear fellow, standards! If we let them slip, how will we end up? Chaps will be sleeping in their vests and all sorts of ghastly things like that, quite unconscionable - it is extraordinary how quickly the rot can set in in the tropics if we do not maintain standards!

 

Of course, man made fibres such as polyester ( as I believe they call it) don't need ironing, but no gentleman would wear them, do you wish to be mistaken for a politician?

 

Someone persuaded me to try nylon sheets once - frightful business, terrible elbow burns when cornering!

[worgeordie]

Why do you think I have a wife , that's one of her jobs ,mine are

fixing and repairing stuff around the house,and making sure the

doors and windows are all closed before going to bed.....

 

regards worgeordie

[jvs]

3 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks,

 

The main reason I ask this is....

 

When I lived closer to the university, I was able to take advantage of the same shop that the students used... for clothes ironing.

 

Normally, I would first wash my clothes and bedding, sheets, etc....

And then I would just take the stuff to the shop in order to have everything professionally steam ironed.

 

Now that I have moved away from the uni, I no longer have this service.

 

At the moment, I rely on a very small clothes iron.

Even though it might be a steam iron, yes, ...yet it doesn't get hot enough, nor put out enough steam....

To get that nice, sharp, crispness to my sheets and clothes.

 

In the past, I looked really sharp, having had the benefit of a real pro to help me with my pressing.

I really do miss that about not living closer to where the students live.

 

Therefore:

 

a.  How much time should one, normally, require to do one's ironing for the day?

b. Do you use a regular ironing board, which I think takes up too much space in the home?

c.  Or, do you just use your spare bed mattress, if you might have one?

 

You know, it is just part of normal bias that women believe that men do not care about ironing their own clothes...

To look neat.

This is not true.

Even if I might live by myself, and not see anyone, even for months...

Still, I do enjoy a well-pressed sheet, and a shirt that looks just-from-the-cleaners.

 

I also like keeping my house tidy.

And, if I had a vacuum cleaner, then I would use it, as well.

 

Sometimes I think that I spend too much time fussing with my ironing.

 

And, I would like to know how much ironing you do...before going out each day.

 

I guess everybody recalls FREDDY....such an amazing performer...who also loved to vacuum.

 

But, THIS Topic is not about vacuuming, and more about ironing.

 

IF Freddy had only lived long enough, so sadly he departed way before his time, then he might have done a music-video...

About ironing.

 

One of my problems is that I purchased a too-cheap clothes iron in China, when I was last there.

Just not enough heft to it.

And, not nearly enough steam.

 

Also, I wonder if most of you even have an iron, other than a FIVE IRON.

The 5-iron is one of the most versatile clubs one could ever find.

 

Just a thought....

 

Regards,

 

Gamma

 

 

NOTE4:   I LOVE this photo of Freddy....simply love it.....

 

 

Is that Fred?I could swear it was a guy named Bob.

 

 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

Skid marks on your cargo trousers then?

 

I am sure that you must be aware that Tricky-Dick Nixon stated, in one of his books, that he did not wear underwear while at the White House.

 

Nixon, it is said, was one of our most intelligent presidents.

 

Personally, I would advise against wearing underwear, for men, unless men might wish to dress up in women's undergarments, which is, at least, something that I can see as a more logical and titillating reason for wearing underwear.

 

But just to wear underwear for any other reason, such as a moral imperative,  seems quite pointless to me.

 

 

[KannikaP]

40 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I am sure that you must be aware that Tricky-Dick Nixon stated, in one of his books, that he did not wear underwear while at the White House.

Why must I be aware of something an POTUS said in one of his books?

I wonder whether Enid Blyton wore nickers.

Wearing underwear makes it so much nicer for Betty Swollocks.

[GammaGlobulin]

13 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Why must I be aware of something an POTUS said in one of his books?

I wonder whether Enid Blyton wore nickers.

Wearing underwear makes it so much nicer for Betty Swollocks.

 

I have always wondered about the use of "an"....

 

And, now I know.

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

Zero, that is women's work. 

[KannikaP]

37 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

I have always wondered about the use of "an"....

 

And, now I know.

 

 

I know, I put an American President, until I changed it. Sorry about the n!

[GammaGlobulin]

47 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

I know, I put an American President, until I changed it. Sorry about the n!

 

No problem.

 

Just please do not let it happen a third time.

 

Because....when you do....I begin to doubt myself.....

 

As you can imagine.

 

 

[JeffersLos]

None. 

 

I only wear shorts and nothing else. They are made and delivered to me every Sunday, 7 pairs for 350 baht. No itchy tags and perfect 54 inch waist. Use once. 

[Ralf001]

3 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

None. 

 

I only wear shorts and nothing else. They are made and delivered to me every Sunday, 7 pairs for 350 baht. No itchy tags and perfect 54 inch waist. Use once. 

 

Thats a lot of fabric for Bt350....good buying !

[GammaGlobulin]

3 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

None. 

 

I only wear shorts and nothing else. They are made and delivered to me every Sunday, 7 pairs for 350 baht. No itchy tags and perfect 54 inch waist. Use once. 

 

Had you ever considered reducing your waist to 32 inches, and then negotiating a lower price, due to savings in sailcloth?

 

The savings might really begin to add up after two years.

 

 

[Burma Bill]

6 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Normally, I would first wash my clothes and bedding, sheets, etc....

And then I would just take the stuff to the shop in order to have everything professionally steam ironed.

 

When I lived in Thailand ALL my washing and ironing was done at a local laundry. Same here now in Siem Reap at a local laundry.  A large laundry basket of clothes, bedding, linen etc. costs around 5$ (3.80 GBP) to wash and iron (where appropriate). The laundry collects and delivers. Excellent value and no hassle, I just throw the dirty items into the basket.

[JeffersLos]

28 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Had you ever considered reducing your waist to 32 inches

 

Have a waist smaller than my turds, no thank you.

[sidjameson]

2 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

None. 

 

I only wear shorts and nothing else. They are made and delivered to me every Sunday, 7 pairs for 350 baht. No itchy tags and perfect 54 inch waist. Use once. 

Really?

[Ralf001]

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Had you ever considered reducing your waist to 32 inches, and then negotiating a lower price, due to savings in sailcloth?

 

The savings might really begin to add up after two years.

 

 

 

Why you fat shaming ?

 

He might be 8ft tall.

[CallumWK]

2 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

Why you fat shaming ?

 

He might be 8ft tall.

 

Jefferslos is a well known troll. Just go through his post history

[JeffersLos]

1 hour ago, sidjameson said:

Really?

 

Yes. No washing. No shopping. No ironing.

 

Only fools don't live this way. 

[Sigmund]

I used to give all my stuff to wash and iron obviously in Thailand.

 

But should it be in Bangkok in any so called reputed area laundry or in Hua Hin...I regularly got my stuff come back from L or XL size and be returned in a XXS size. They just dont care and dump everything in very hot water. Better off getting your own washing maching and iron board and that's it. 

[Homburg]

What is "ironing"?

[Kinok Farang]

Going off the amount of scruffy baastards here in Jomtien,no time at all.