2021 questions (19/365 and 20/365)

[nanila]

January 19

What life lessons are you most grateful for?

I found this question both under-stimulating and too broad, hence the cat photo yesterday. NEXT!

January 20
What’s your least favourite chore?

Ah. This is easy. As a caveat, I loathe all housework and am badly domesticated. I do chores because otherwise the dust piles up and I start sneezing, and I also like wearing clean clothes. But my least favourite chore is ironing. 99% of my wardrobe doesn't require it, I dislike it so much.

Comments

[cmcmck]

You and I share the lack of an ironing gene then? :o)

[nanila]

Absolutely. It's a tedious task with a very underwhelming payoff.

[annofowlshire]

I’m not even sure we own an iron.

[nou]

I own an iron solely for the purpose of ironing fabric before cutting pieces out for sewing. Pretty sure it’s never been used on a completed garment.

[nanila]

We do. I never touch it though!

[pbristow]

"... ironing. 99% of my wardrobe doesn't require it ..."

I have achieved 100%! [FIST-PUMP]

[nanila]

Well done! 👏🏼

[ursajoanna]

Absolutely - we do not iron here.

The first question, not sure if it's just the phrase 'life lesson' or the general wording or what but it sounds very much like, "What horrible thing that has happened to you have you had to grudgingly accept turned out okay in the end?" which is a bit gloomy.

[ursajoanna]

(Probably a lot of my clothes would look better if I did iron them but I DO NOT CARE.)

[nanila]

SAME 🤣

[silveradept]

The first question is usually meant in exactly that way, as a prompt for someone to tell a story about how they felt they had been wronged, or that they actually were wronged, quite strongly and obviously so, but that suffering like that turned out to be very good, because of some thing that may not actually be related at all but had been entangled in the story.

[liseuse]

I have an iron. And I use it purely for ironing fabric for sewing and occasionally (in the Before Times) a dress for An Event. I do not iron anything else and I am sure my mother is rolling in her grave about this.

[nanila]

Haha, yes, generations past will be full of disapproval. Thankfully we have all manner of fabrics requiring no ironing now. Huzzah for modern textiles.

[liseuse]

My mother used to iron jogging bottoms and pillowcases. I never understood this. Though I also once had a housemate who ironed her knickers so the world is a perpetually confusing place.

[hilarita]

I loathe and detest ironing, and most of my wardrobe is non-iron, except for my linen shirts for summer, which I have to iron.

[nanila]

Ah yes, linen is so comfortable. I can understand a grudging concession to iron it.

[silveradept]

I can only imagine the injuries I could cause to myself if I had to use an iron on my clothing after washing it.

[nanila]

Yikes. Definitely stay away from the unwieldy hot thing, then, please.

[corvidology]

We own an iron but it's way in the back of a cupboard because it comes out maybe once a year, if that.

[nanila]

Very good. Best place for it. Safe in there, not being all hot and inefficient.

[fred_mouse]

My MIL and I once bonded over ironing. They told a story about reading an article on 'taking it easy as a new mother' which recommended not ironing tea towels and bed linen. And then said 'none of the things in that article that I was 'allowed' to stop doing were things I had ever done'.

Both of us considered irons to be a necessary piece of equipment for quilting though. And Partner irons all their work shirts.

[nanila]

Ha, I love that story. Ironing for the sake of one's craft sounds like a worthy endeavour.

[fred_mouse]

Giving in and ironing every single bit of the quilting is probably the one thing that I've done that has improved the output quality. it is so frustrating!

[omnipotent]

I love the feel of ironed bedsheets, but with a king-sized bed, the time-to-satisfaction ratio just isn’t worth it.

[nanila]

That's a very good expression of the rationale, haha!

[jesse_the_k]

I'm very lucky that MyGuy manages my linen shirts.

My grandmother used a mangle iron on her bedsheets -- I as terrified by it.

[nanila]

That *is* lucky. Well done, MyGuy!

The noise the mangle iron makes in those videos is very worrying. I would have difficulty convincing myself to put my fingers anywhere near it.