Does your wife iron your shirts? (1 Viewer)

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It all depends on how crisp you want your shirts. If you are wearing a SC or suit to work you need to iron your shirts. If you are wearing khakis/jeans you can do wrinkle-free without ironing (assuming you take them out of the dryer promptly and hang them up).

Bingo here. Anything I'm wearing with a tie and/or suit is getting professionally cleaned and pressed. I love a good iron-free shirt but that only takes you about 80% of the way. Don't kid yourself.

1. My oldest has later theater classes that end at 6:30 pm 3 nights a week, and I pick her up.

2. I do all the grocery shopping.3. I fix dinners every night.

She doesn't work and you are cooking and buying groceries?What is she doing during the day?

Seriously.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

My wife used to be a teacher, but now she stays at home. Long story short, I have a bunch of cotton shirts that I like because they breathe, but they get wrinkly. I'm trying to save on dry cleaning, so I broached my wife about ironing them. She laughed in my face and said. "#### off! This isn't the 1950s! If you need ironing done , YOU do it! Or go buy some rayon blends!"

Is she out of line? Or am I?

Do you have kids? I don't think it's out of line if she doesn't work and you don't have kids.

Two daughters. But-1. My oldest has later theater classes that end at 6:30 pm 3 nights a week, and I pick her up.

2. I do all the grocery shopping.

3. I fix dinners every night.

I'm not trying to sound like a chauvinist here; my wife does plenty. Its a partnership. But I'm the one earning all the money.

She doesn't work and you are cooking and buying groceries?

What is she doing during the day?

Drinking heavily? There's no way tim's spouse isn't a raging alcoholic.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I iron my own shirts.

 

[Andrew74]

My wife irons my shirts.

 

[Sweet J]

I can't tell if this is shtick or now. But whatever. I really don't think your weird questions or observations or whatever are shtick. But they are weird.

This is such a losing battle, dude.

If your argument is that you do all the work for the household in addition to earning the money, then the solution is for her to do more household work. And here's a newsflash: Ironing your shirts is not household work.

If my wife did all the work, and I was at home with the kids (assuming there are actual duties that went along with it), she may ask me to do any number of things to help with the house, and I'd probably go along with a bunch of them. But I'm not interested in shining her shoes, or setting out the correct nail polish for her, or buffing her purses, or whatever other personal item she does for herself. It's deamining. Iron your own damn shirts, and let her cook, or wash the bathrooms, or a million gazillion other things. But she ain't your personal assistant.

 

[belljr]

My dryer or shower does my ironing

 

[Mister Martie]

My wife irons my shirts while I'm wearing them because I'm not a #####.

 

[17seconds]

I can't tell if this is shtick or now. But whatever. I really don't think your weird questions or observations or whatever are shtick. But they are weird.

This is such a losing battle, dude.

If your argument is that you do all the work for the household in addition to earning the money, then the solution is for her to do more household work. And here's a newsflash: Ironing your shirts is not household work.

If my wife did all the work, and I was at home with the kids (assuming there are actual duties that went along with it), she may ask me to do any number of things to help with the house, and I'd probably go along with a bunch of them. But I'm not interested in shining her shoes, or setting out the correct nail polish for her, or buffing her purses, or whatever other personal item she does for herself. It's deamining. Iron your own damn shirts, and let her cook, or wash the bathrooms, or a million gazillion other things. But she ain't your personal assistant.

I can't tell if this is Tim anger or if you really think ironing is that horrible

 

[Stinger Ray]

I can't tell if this is shtick or now. But whatever. I really don't think your weird questions or observations or whatever are shtick. But they are weird.

This is such a losing battle, dude.

If your argument is that you do all the work for the household in addition to earning the money, then the solution is for her to do more household work. And here's a newsflash: Ironing your shirts is not household work.

If my wife did all the work, and I was at home with the kids (assuming there are actual duties that went along with it), she may ask me to do any number of things to help with the house, and I'd probably go along with a bunch of them. But I'm not interested in shining her shoes, or setting out the correct nail polish for her, or buffing her purses, or whatever other personal item she does for herself. It's deamining. Iron your own damn shirts, and let her cook, or wash the bathrooms, or a million gazillion other things. But she ain't your personal assistant.

I can't tell if this is Tim anger or if you really think ironing is that horrible

You totally missed his point.

 

[T J]

I iron my shirt/pants every single day. I also iron both my 10 and 13 yr old son's clothes every school day.

How you present yourself is extremely important and it's something I want my kids to be aware of as they go through life.

As far the original OP's question, it's not at all unreasonable. If she's not working, she can pick up an extra task. It's a team effort.

 

[The Big Guy]

No work-Iron your shirts. She would rather volunteer and yenta it up with the other moms then help her husband.

 

[Hot Diggity Dog]

so she does all the laundry but the final 20 minutes of ironing a few shirts is the demeaning part but touching your dirty underwear is fine? Bizarre. no more dinners until I get my shirts ironed or some other rational explanation why I deserve a f*** off comment for just asking that.

 

[NutterButter]

it's $2.19 at my local cleaner on "workshirt Wednesday" to get my button down work shirts cleaned and ironed.

I'm a noted extremely cheap person and this is some of the best money I spend every week.

You pay $2.19 per shirt? Holy christ. Why not just go wrinkle free?

 

[gianmarco]

I don't iron

 

[Peyton Marino]

I have never found a dress shirt that doesn't need to be ironed. Wrinkle free just means you can steam iron it in about 20 seconds.

You need to get into Banana and Brooks Bros more often my friend.

It all depends on how crisp you want your shirts. If you are wearing a SC or suit to work you need to iron your shirts. If you are wearing khakis/jeans you can do wrinkle-free without ironing (assuming you take them out of the dryer promptly and hang them up).

http://i.imgur.com/AxtqmUs.jpg

Been in this all day, I took it out of the closet yesterday bc i was going to wear it to an event we went to yesterday. Decided not to so I left it on the bed all day, threw it over a chair last night, put it on this morning... Even if I get it dry cleaned, within an hour of wearing it, it'll look exactly how it looks now. These shirts are the best thing ever. Don't know why anyone would buy anything but non iron dress shirts.

I like that pattern. Where'dya get it?

 

[tri-man 47]

Cotton/polyester blend for my dress shirts, and I iron them myself (an easy touch-up). All-cotton are a pain to iron. I have one all-cotton pink button down, and I only bother to iron and wear it on that boob day.

 

[ruthkeith]

My wife used to be a teacher, but now she stays at home. Long story short, I have a bunch of cotton shirts that I like because they breathe, but they get wrinkly. I'm trying to save on dry cleaning, so I broached my wife about ironing them. She laughed in my face and said. "#### off! This isn't the 1950s! If you need ironing done , YOU do it! Or go buy some rayon blends!"

Is she out of line? Or am I?

Just because she is staying at home doesn't mean you would be treating her like your servant! But I suppose her reply was also very harsh!

 

[Freelove]

it's $2.19 at my local cleaner on "workshirt Wednesday" to get my button down work shirts cleaned and ironed.

I'm a noted extremely cheap person and this is some of the best money I spend every week.

You pay $2.19 per shirt? Holy christ. Why not just go wrinkle free?

Maybe he's not crazy about formaldehyde?

 

[NutterButter]

it's $2.19 at my local cleaner on "workshirt Wednesday" to get my button down work shirts cleaned and ironed.

I'm a noted extremely cheap person and this is some of the best money I spend every week.

You pay $2.19 per shirt? Holy christ. Why not just go wrinkle free?

Maybe he's not crazy about formaldehyde?

What's so bad about a little formaldehyde?

 

[Christo]

I can't tell if this is shtick or now. But whatever. I really don't think your weird questions or observations or whatever are shtick. But they are weird.

This is such a losing battle, dude.

If your argument is that you do all the work for the household in addition to earning the money, then the solution is for her to do more household work. And here's a newsflash: Ironing your shirts is not household work.

If my wife did all the work, and I was at home with the kids (assuming there are actual duties that went along with it), she may ask me to do any number of things to help with the house, and I'd probably go along with a bunch of them. But I'm not interested in shining her shoes, or setting out the correct nail polish for her, or buffing her purses, or whatever other personal item she does for herself. It's deamining. Iron your own damn shirts, and let her cook, or wash the bathrooms, or a million gazillion other things. But she ain't your personal assistant.

Laundry isn't housework?

 

[Jayrok]

Married for 30 years. I have always ironed my own clothes. She does put them in the washer, though. So I am extremely lucky there.

 

[Sweet J]

I can't tell if this is shtick or now. But whatever. I really don't think your weird questions or observations or whatever are shtick. But they are weird.

This is such a losing battle, dude.

If your argument is that you do all the work for the household in addition to earning the money, then the solution is for her to do more household work. And here's a newsflash: Ironing your shirts is not household work.

If my wife did all the work, and I was at home with the kids (assuming there are actual duties that went along with it), she may ask me to do any number of things to help with the house, and I'd probably go along with a bunch of them. But I'm not interested in shining her shoes, or setting out the correct nail polish for her, or buffing her purses, or whatever other personal item she does for herself. It's deamining. Iron your own damn shirts, and let her cook, or wash the bathrooms, or a million gazillion other things. But she ain't your personal assistant.

Laundry isn't housework?

You missed the point. Housework is whatever the spouses agreed that it is. And she doesn't define "ironing" (which is different from "laundry") as housework. What, are all the household chores used up? There are no other things in the house that Tim can ask her to do?

 

[mr roboto]

Whenever I ask Tim's wife to iron my shirts she does it happily.

 

[Christo]

I can't tell if this is shtick or now. But whatever. I really don't think your weird questions or observations or whatever are shtick. But they are weird.

This is such a losing battle, dude.

If your argument is that you do all the work for the household in addition to earning the money, then the solution is for her to do more household work. And here's a newsflash: Ironing your shirts is not household work.

If my wife did all the work, and I was at home with the kids (assuming there are actual duties that went along with it), she may ask me to do any number of things to help with the house, and I'd probably go along with a bunch of them. But I'm not interested in shining her shoes, or setting out the correct nail polish for her, or buffing her purses, or whatever other personal item she does for herself. It's deamining. Iron your own damn shirts, and let her cook, or wash the bathrooms, or a million gazillion other things. But she ain't your personal assistant.

Laundry isn't housework?

You missed the point. Housework is whatever the spouses agreed that it is. And she doesn't define "ironing" (which is different from "laundry") as housework. What, are all the household chores used up? There are no other things in the house that Tim can ask her to do?

 

[NutterButter]

Where the hell is Dentist? I'm dying to know how the guy that won't spend a few bucks to get a respectable smart phone is spending $2.19 per shirt.

 

[17seconds]

Washing, drying, folding, and putting away clothes is just normal housework, but making them flat? oh HELL no

 

[shadyridr]

My wife does and she works full time. I love my wife

 

[swirvenirvin]

Picks out and irons my shirts and pants every night for me