Amen-Moses

Whadya mean UNPAID, she get's free rent, no bills, free food, free clothes, free toiletries, a free taxi service and free entertainment.

Amen-Moses

Amen-Moses

Can someone tell me wtf a 17 year old male is doing with 11 dress shirts!

At 17 my entire wardrobe was one pair of jeans and three t-shirts, even whilst in the air force I only had 5 shirts total, 1 dress 2 light duties and 2 work shirts.

Anyhow the time to iron a shirt is 10 seconds before you put it on, every bloke knows that.

Amen-Moses

FoE

On the very rare occasions i have to wear a shirt that could be ironed (not once this year so far) my fiance will usually do it. It doesn't matter to me one whit if my single dress shirt is ironed or not. In fact i'm not all that sure we sure an iron anymore. My girlfriend spoils me though!

Stiletto One

Well...*takes a deep breath*

I live in a dorm.
I spike my hair.
Normally in the morning, I go for the usual shit/shower routine, but if I wear dress shirts (like I do all the time), I can also go ahead and spike my hair on that first trip. If I wear T-shirts or some other pullover shirt, I would have to make two trips to the bathroom. Alternately, I can do everything and grab a shirt on the way out, buttoning up on my way to class or whatever.

I generally wear my shirts with the sleeves rolled up for temperature reasons; and in general, dress shirts breathe a lot better than T-shirts. So I wear dress shirts all the time because I'm slack and because they're more comfortable. As for buttons, I usually leave the top two open (rather than just the top one), also for ventilation.

Accordingly, I've been accused of being well-dressed, and I've even managed not to be called 'preppy'. I'm not complaining. I don't really care, either.

Tip: if the shirt's your size and has normal-width cuffs, then rolling up four times (without folding the cuffs) will usually get the sleeves to to right around, and little above, your elbows.

As for having eleven shirts already, that's also because I figured I may as well stock up, since I'm through with skeletal growth. (6'3", growth plates pretty much gone away)

braces_for_impact

Go to store, go to isle with the ironing supplies. Get Wrinkle Erasertm or something similar. Spray garment, throw in dryer for 6 or 7 minutes.

Bam, no more wrinkles, no more ironing. Works on the most stubborn wrinkles too.

*Brought to you by a man with no wife (who most likely wouldn't do it anyway) who also sucks at ironing.

Rushianbeing

For the record, gentlemen, I live in Elizabethton, TN, a rural backasswards corner of the South, and my husband knows WAY better than to ask me to iron anything for him unless both his arms are broken!! He also does laundry, dishes, cleans the litterbox, vacuums...yep, a real man. I actually found one. They're quite elusive.
Yo Stilletto-I am 33 and I still have "i don't want to be an adult" moments all the time. Mostly at concerts. Growing up is totally overrated in some ways. But not too bad in others (no more need for fake id's and the like).

godfry n. glad

Hey... No need to rationalize with me. I just figured you didn't care to sit around watching the washer/dryer unit with small loads.

I acquire enough of the clothes that I like to wear so that I only have to wash once every two weeks...that means more shirts.

As for wrinkled shirts, who cares? If somebody cares that my shirts are wrinkled, they can iron them.

godfry

Ab_Normal

My solution for wrinkled dress shirts is to 1) get those Levitically-questionable blended materials (poly-cotton, something like that) and 2) take them out of the dryer and hang them up the instant the dryer quits. I haven't ironed a work shirt in ages.

My husband learned to iron in the Army, and he usually ends up doing what little ironing we have because he's better at it. Our tax dollars at work!

dangin

You men who are trying to keep women in their place make me sick. I can't stand to hear women should only be in the kitchen and the bedroom. They can go anywhere in the house as long as they are cleaning.

My wife bitches at me all the time too about not doing stuff around the house. But damnit, that's why I was born with testicles. Now where's dem pork rinds, that female musta runnd off wit dem.

Seriously, I take out the trash to the curb, I clean the cat box, I cook dinner, and do the dishes. I don't do the laundry, I do about 20% of the vacuuming, I mow the .8 acre yard(walking), I finished the 1100 square foot basement, I built the kid's swingset, I built her shoe racks in her closet, I do at least one of the two kid's bath every night, I read bedtime stories, I watch the kids on the weekend. I don't take them to school or pick them up because I commute 80 miles a day, the wife commutes 20. But I still get bitched at mostly for not doing laundry, or picking up toys everytime the kids leave a room for half an hour.

The women over 40 in my area at work all say they wish their husband was just like me, but I'm a slacker extraordinaire according to the wife.

So I'm just going to revert to a Deliverance type husband. "You gotta pretty mouth."

kkholiday

Downy makes a really good Wrinkle Releaser. You mist it on lightly and stretch the fabric (just a few tugs usually), and the shirt air dries in less than five minutes wrinkle-free. You don't even need the dryer.