Just found this thread. I love the bit about trousers inside out. I have always washed their stuff ( ie husband and offspring) as I find it and it gets folded as it was put - so it might well stay inside out and be ironed inside out. If they want it the right way then put it to wash the right way!
Fortunately my husband is retired so I barely iron anything of his - just fold it judiciously. As for sons - well I stopped ironing anything other than school uniform when they went into 6th form - since I was working full-time - I figured they could iron all their other stuff if they wanted it. However - they don't. One at uni used to ask the girls to iron his shirts for him ( cheek!), the other didn't bother, and the other one working now and living away needs ironed shirts for work so has to do his own!
Life is too short to spend it ironing!! I have never ironed a sheet in my life!
Hurdity x
