ironing cotton shirts

[Annie456]

Please help! I am spending about 4 hours of my sunday evenings ironing my partners 5 100% cotton shirts. How can I make this easier and quicker? it is driving me mad. Can someone please offer any handy hints or suggestions. Many thanks!

[chazza]

I use spray starch on 100% cotton shirts - tumble dry them, take them out of the drier as soon as it finishes and hang them up, then iron them with plenty of starch

[heathfield]

Cotton will iron most easily if it is still slightly damp. If it's too dry from the tumble drier, use a mist of water from a spray bottle to dampen that part of the shirt you're about to iron. Hang each ironed shirt on a hanger to dry out any remaining damp and prevent creasing.

[Miss-taken]

Dead easy solution - get him to iron them himself - that would be both quicker, easier and give you 4 hours to do something more productive!

[kwicky]

1. Increase the number of shirts you have.
2. Look in the Yellow Pages or local newspaper to look for agencies that carry out ironing on your behalf.

[BBWCHATT]

In my family we wash and dry them - then take them to our favorite dry cleaners to have them pressed.

[janetsflower]

It would be a lot easier and quicker for you if you told him to iron them himself. problem sorted. You put your feet up and have a glass of wine, you can always pour him one too

[WendyS]

Never put them in a tumble dryer. It will crease them to blazes! . Hang them on a washing line outside, or get one of those fold away washing lines you can hang over the bath. The creases should largely drop out. Then iron them while still slightly damp on a hot iron. If they're still a little damp after this, hang them on wire hangers in the airing cupboard to become wardobe dry. Once you've got the hang of doing this well, reach your partner how to do it and tell him to get on with it

[maggie01]

Get him to buy polycotton. My husband had one dress shirt which was cotton and I conveniently lost it in the wash. Drove me mad trying to iron it.

[spudqueen]

Get the best iron you can afford. Mr Spudqueen had a couple of cotton shirts, they drove me mad, in the end I ended up ironing them straight after they came out of the washing machine then hanging them on a coat hanger and hanging them up somewhere (not in the wardrobe!) to dry. I did change irons and found it much easier with a really, really good iron. Thanks goodness he hasn't got any cotton shirts now, all poly/cotton - yeehaw!

[BBWCHATT]

Annie -
Can you tell us if we need to continue to look for solutions for you, or if the ones we posted were the kind you were looking for please? Thanks in advance for your help.
BBWCHATT