My mum would spend hours ironing clothes when I was a kid. I dont think I’ve ever seen an ironing board at any of my friends houses. A whole generation just said “fuck ironing” and we did. Good work everyone.
@robb
My great aunt used to iron her bedsheets 💀
@ana @robb My parents had a special ‘rotary iron’ — a big padded rotating drum with a curved hot plate pressing onto it — which was used for sheets and similar. 😱 It was actually quite fun to use.
Something like this, though ours was a table-top model.
https://www.miele.co.uk/e/rotary-ironer-b-990-7222710-p
@betschart @KimSJ @ana @robb well, let me contribute to this glorious thread: when I was a young boy my mother would collect all the newly washed bed linen and table cloths, and wander down the street to some place that was called a "Heißmangel". The quarter's female population would gather around the gargantuan ironing appliances there, and take turns...