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    9 months ago

    Oh hey! It’s that thing I use to put on decals and melt perler beads!

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        9 months ago

        Yup, and honestly, looking at the particular takes Gen-X’ers had when they/we were in charge of the culture, this is completely unsurprising.

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      9 months ago

      No, the boomers with all their magic environment poisoning synthetic fabrics with antiwrinkle coatings did. The next seven generations will have microplastics in every part of their body, but I haven’t touched an iron in a while.

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        9 months ago

        This stuff was invented and worn by the parents and grandparents of boomers. Just because it’s old doesn’t mean a boomer was involved.

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      9 months ago

      I iron only when I need to wear a suit and be presentable. This is less than once a year

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      9 months ago

      I don’t have any clothes that need to be ironed. If I buy a shirt it comes out of the dryer wrinkled, it’s fucking gone. Ain’t nobody got time for that shit.

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    9 months ago

    I just put everything on a hanger and gravity gets rid of the wrinkles

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      Two options for dealing with wrinkles:

      1. Wet a washcloth or small towel, place both the wrinkled item and the wet item in a dryer and turn the dryer on low-heat for 20-30 minutes.
      2. Hang the item on a clothes hanger in the bathroom and take a steaming hot shower.

      There is a third option: wear wrinkly clothes and dgaf.

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        9 months ago

        i mean, i just put it on the hanger straight out the dryer and then the wrinkles never develop

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        9 months ago

        A dryer??

        I live in a apartment without laundry in unit…

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        9 months ago

        I’ve never had success with #2.

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        9 months ago

        you do you but that seems like more effort

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    9 months ago

    Rubbing damp hands over wrinkled shirt.

    Well, that’s ironed enough.

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      sometimes i would sit in front of a space heater and pat down the wrinkles

      didnt work that well

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        9 months ago

        It’s not the heat that dewrinkles clothes. It’s humidity. Try it in a room full of steam.

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          Interesting. Maybe we can make a tool that directly applies the steam onto- wait a minute

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          9 months ago

          Hanging your clothes in the bathroom will help more or less depending on how hot and long your showers are.

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    9 months ago

    My mum would iron everything. Then I moved out a few years ago. I still do not own a clothes iron.

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      9 months ago

      My mum used to iron my boxers.

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    9 months ago

    I used to know someone that wore a suit to work but he never took his jacket off. Reason being is he only ironed the front part of his shirt.

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    9 months ago

    I personally like to steam my stuff, I hate wrinkles too much.

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    9 months ago

    I finally got rid of my iron a couple years ago. I had used it like three times in 15 years. It always felt like I was the only one who hated ironing this much though

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    I guess I missed that meeting. Though I couldn’t imagine going to work or somewhere social and being wrinkled. I don’t notice many people wrinkled in these environments either, so what are ya’ll doing?

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      I have a steamer or I throw the clothes in a dryer for ~20 minutes while I shower or whatnot. My dryer has a “wrinkle release” setting I use. But if I want crisp lines in a collared shirt or dress pants I think I’d still need to use an iron.

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        I’ve always found it sufficient to hang clothes off of something in the vicinity of the shower and let the steam from the shower release any wrinkles.

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        OK, that makes sense. I have a steamer, too, that I use for lighter fabrics it just wouldn’t perform on my work or winter clothes.

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          9 months ago

          Ah yeah. I don’t really have much of a winter climate where I live.

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              Usually my temps range from 30F-101 F , but occasionally it cold snaps to about 15 F.

              I wouldn’t say it gets boring, but I do wish it snowed more than once every few years.

              I’m happy to not have to shovel a driveway every other week though.