{"id":945,"date":"2012-08-28T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=945"},"modified":"2012-08-26T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T22:27:19","slug":"ironing-and-folding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2012\/08\/28\/ironing-and-folding\/","title":{"rendered":"Ironing and Folding"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On those rare occasions when I actually sit with my colleagues for lunch I\u2019m always amazed at where the conversation goes.\u00a0 I guess I shouldn\u2019t be because when you sit together 5 or 6 hungry, intelligent and funny women then the most mundane subjects can take on a comical life of their own.<\/p>\n

Take ironing.\u00a0 I don\u2019t iron, like ever.\u00a0 My summer sister Kyle is an accomplished seamstress, costume designer\/maker and with that comes ironing.\u00a0 She\u2019s a master.\u00a0 She once remarked that I, am, one of the best people she has ever seen iron a wrinkle IN\u2026not out.\u00a0 You see where this is going.\u00a0 (She also thinks I\u2019m the only one who can incorrectly roll up my sleeves\u2026it\u2019s why I have her.)<\/p>\n

My niece Kate visited a while back and asked where my iron was\u2026..nope didn\u2019t have one.\u00a0 Ok I went and got one, a travel iron, which I can assure you, will never find its way into any of my luggage going anywhere.\u00a0 So with that little travel iron I bought a folding ironing board, which I\u2019m told by someone who attempted to use it, isn\u2019t worth diddly. Shocking.\u00a0 My idea of an ironing board is a towel thrown over the top of the washer and dryer.\u00a0 And apparently some of the women at lunch agreed.\u00a0 Just sayin.<\/p>\n

Why would I iron when I have a dry cleaner?\u00a0 For a tiny little bit of money they will launder your cotton shirts (light starch) and press them to within an inch of their lives. Steam the hell out of anything else that you can think of including dresses and pants with the most beautiful knife sharp creases.\u00a0 For every other thing I own, I am perfect fine being poised at the dryer when the buzzer sounds to whisk everything out and into folded bliss.<\/p>\n

Now folding I am great at.\u00a0 I recently spent time at my friend Sandra\u2019s while she was laid up with her two broken legs.\u00a0 She was in organization mode (from her wheelchair mind you) and the linen closet, which was upstairs in her then very big house, was annoying her.\u00a0 Ok, let\u2019s take a look.\u00a0 Big mistake.\u00a0 Flat sheets here, fitted sheets there, pillow cases somewhere else.\u00a0 Really? \u00a0That sent me a folding.\u00a0 Flat sheet first, before you fold it over the last time\u2026..place the folded matching pillow cases and the folded fitted sheet inside to make a wonderful bed in a packet. By the way, lessons on how to fold a fitted sheet to within an inch of its<\/span><\/em><\/strong> life; free for the asking.\u00a0 \u00a0Why the hell would sheets and pillowcases be in different places\u2026these are the things that make me crazy.\u00a0 PS my colleagues will now be folding their sheets MY WAY. I do what I can to save the women I know from the lunacy that is disorganization.<\/p>\n

Finally, to those few people left who actually still iron their sheets\u2026God bless you.\u00a0 For the life of me I will never understand that.\u00a0 Buy yourself some fabulous, wrinkle resistant, high thread count linens and be done with it.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Or you might just hang them on the line (line? what line?) for that wind whipped crisp feeling from the old days.\u00a0 I know like I know that feeling and that smell is like heaven and long gone never to be replaced by any fabric softener sheet, ever. Too bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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