Posted by How to on Saturday, May 31, 2014
�I love ironing�.
This is the mantra has helped me get over my lifelong aversion to ironing. If I could choose something to wear that did not require ironing, I would. Even though I love wearing a fitted and crisp cotton shirt with jeans or wide-leg pants I just couldn�t stand ironing in the morning. And I told myself that my shirts would get crushed and wrinkled in the wardrobe if I did them ahead of time, but really that was a bit fat excuse for my laziness.
One day on my day off work I set up the ironing board with an audiobook playing and set to it. I ironed every one of my shirts and hung them like in a boutique buttoned at the neck. I was so proud of my wardrobe and getting dressed the next day was very exciting. Everything felt so new! And I was finally wearing and enjoying all my lovely shirts.
After that it was a simple matter of ironing a handful of shirts a week. Every so often I�ll get behind but then I�ll just have another big ironing afternoon with a good (audio)book. I don�t have the �they�ll get crushed� problem anymore now either. Because there are less clothes in my wardrobe they have room around them to breathe and stay nice.
What really cemented my newly created mindset of �I love ironing� was that one of my most slender, stylish and elegant friends who went on a Scandinavian cruise last year told me she asked for an iron to be brought to her cabin because she irons everything, absolutely everything she wears - she just cannot not iron her clothes. I found that really cute, and if her ironing OCD is how she always looks so polished, I�ll take it.