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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, April 10, 2017 - 6:06 pm 
When I was in H.S. my friends mother had a machine in the family room that they called the mangler.
You fed clothes through it and I guess it came out the other side ironed. I never saw it in action, and I wanted to because I was fascinated by it. Has anyone else ever used one, or heard of it?
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Kearie
Member
07-21-2005
| Monday, April 10, 2017 - 6:16 pm
Nope. If I sewed I would love to have one.
My first sewing machine was a beast. It came in a 'case', you took off the top and the bottom was built into the sewing machine. It was a dark teal color and weighed about 30 lbs. Very heavy. The best thing about it, was that it was a deluxe Singer sewing machine, it came with the new, deluxe zigzag ability.
I thought it was old, ugly and heavy. Wish I still had it. Quite the conversation piece.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Monday, April 10, 2017 - 7:40 pm
Actually, we had the "mangler" in our family but it was called an Iron-rite, huge machine. My Mom spent years using it to pay off my ear & spine surgeries, bartering with the surgeons to do their wives' ironing. Mom picked up the clean laundry and then ironed sheets, docs' boxer shorts, everything with that machine! Then redelivered the ironed product.
She was a stay at home woman with 5 kids, and it was a way to pay the bills. She made years long friendships with the wives, sometimes made homemade bread for them to buy. Gotta tell ya, nobody ever made bread like my Mom! Firm solid bread, she beat the heck while kneading, that was also high demand item.
The Iron-rite was triggered to roll the hot rollers by pushing her right thigh against a levered appendage to start/stop. Wonder what ever happened to it.
I remember one wife that became a close friend... had a teenage daughter. Mom said she was happy to continue to iron the teen's stuff too, not a hardship. Wife said No, my daughter is old enough to iron her own clothes. Some day when she's married, I have no intention of subsidizing her marriage so she has to learn to do it herself now.
Hey Mom & us kids all agreed - from an early age us kids had to do our own ironing. That wise woman's thought has always stuck with me.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, April 10, 2017 - 9:12 pm
We MUST have an ironing board in our house. Both Bigdog and I like to iron. Go figure, eh? When he wanted to have his OWN iron and ironing board in his cave in the big house that we sold last summer, I did not walk I RAN to get him his own iron and ironing board. When we moved, we downsized to one set of ironing board and iron, the professional Rowenta iron I bought for Bigdog. The iron is in his office, LOL.
I currently have one of those small two-sided sleeve ironing boards. It is a brand new vintage item I acquired in an estate or garage sale. I think I have used it once, which is probably one more time than the original owner. It is useful for sewing, when one needs to press open a seam on a tubular item, such as a sleeve.
Grade school friend's mother had some sort of disease that she couldn't walk around the house much. She had one of those manglers in their family room. Never saw her use it. In fact, we rarely saw the mother, and we were at this girl's house a LOT. She had like a zillion comic books, and we would go over there and read them by the hours.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Monday, April 10, 2017 - 9:32 pm
I have an iron and ironing board. They're a nuisance to get out of the closet and set up. Have used them in a few years. I don't buy anything that needs ironing.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 7:30 am
My ironing board is set up in the spare bedroom upstairs...likelihood of it being used is relatively slim but since as a larger woman I hang dry most of my work clothes every once in a while I have something that needs to be pressed to make it presentable...50/50 whether it actually gets done or not.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 7:51 am
Roxip, I'm very similar. I only dry things until the wrinkles fall out, then hang them while still damp so they hang out nicely.
I occasionally think 'I should iron this', and it's about equally likely that I'll choose something else to wear as I will iron. 
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 8:50 am
Sometimes I'll just wear it anyway and hope the wrinkles fall out, but I have a relatively new pair of slacks that just seem to wrinkle just enough to look sloppy. So frustrating!
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 9:26 am
Heh, me too. I pretend no one will notice, if they don't fall out too.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 1:41 pm
I figure nobody is ever looking at me anyway.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Sunday, April 16, 2017 - 6:26 pm
I ironed this morning.
1top 1time for Easter as the bottom seams would not lay flat. It did look very nice post ironing. I think I last pressed something in 2002. To be honest, if the iron & ironing board weren't easy to use at the hotel, I would have lived with the wrinkles.
I don't like it when the seams aren't flat but I dislike ironing more.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, April 17, 2017 - 8:13 am
Anybody else remember learning to iron by doing the sheets and pillowcases for your mom? And dad's handkerchiefs?
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, April 17, 2017 - 8:18 am
I used to have to iron my baby brother's diapers.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, April 17, 2017 - 12:26 pm
We ironed hankerchiefs, pillowcases, sheets!, Everything.. Not his suits and ties. Most of our clothing.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, April 17, 2017 - 3:08 pm
Oh, the suits and ties went to the dry cleaners!
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Monday, April 17, 2017 - 4:32 pm
One of my sisters is working as a caretaker as she goes to nursing school. They have some elderly well to do clients who want the caretakers to iron the sheets and do several other chores that the household staffs of their younger days would do.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, April 17, 2017 - 6:26 pm
It was a big to-do to set up in the ironing board in front of the tv and get out the sheets and hankies. You were "grown up" when you graduated to ironing dad's dress shirts!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, April 17, 2017 - 6:29 pm
Yes, my dad dressed very well until he retired. Nice ties, beautifully ironed white shirts, nice suits.
Then in time if he went out he'd wear a jacket, like a suit coat but not really and he started wearing string ties!
So out of character but it was fine..
I am pretty sure we ironed his boxer shorts, too!
My brother wore "wash pants" to school until finally I convinced my mom that he'd fit in better at the new school in California in jeans.. but she stubbornly refused to get him BLUE jeans.. He survived it all.
At least sheets (unfitted) are easy to iron, I guess..
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Monday, April 17, 2017 - 6:51 pm
I' don't want to post about ironing (it's to do with nuns robes).
Dh 's mom would not buy him jeans. But, he found a way to buy them (mailed to him). His father was on the city council (this is in New Zealand). He was finally able to get the board to pass this: allowing city workers to wear shorts. I always thought it a bit strange, though. They also wear socks almost up to the knees.
ETA this was "way back"...... not now.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, April 17, 2017 - 10:16 pm
Bigdog irons our dish towels. He might sometimes iron the sheets too, depending on which ones we use. Man likes to iron. What can I say? I can always get him to iron my shirts if they come out of the wash a little wonky. Oh, he also likes to do laundry. I don't mind doing laundry, but he has completely taken it over. In 1987 I had to go work a temporary assignment in Washington, D.C. for five weeks, so I taught him how to do laundry. And when I returned, he kept doing the laundry! Huh!!! Sure, I have a lot of pink underwear that started out white, but pink is a nice color. LOL.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - 1:09 am
Bigdog is a treasure!
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - 8:38 am
Can I send him some things to iron?
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - 6:59 pm
I agree, he is a treasure!!! and so is his beautiful wife
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - 9:45 pm
 
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Kitkat
Member
08-23-2008
| Saturday, April 22, 2017 - 10:43 am
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