Airing Cupboard.

[Goodsoulette]

When I do the washing, I dry and Iron it and then I stick it in the airing cupboard, until the next lot goes in there and then I put it in the wardrobes etc. My friend asked me why I did it? I had no answer, I just said to air the clothes. Since I had my immersion heater thingy taken out cos I have a combi boiler now, I even had a little fan type heater thing put in there, like my nan has to help air the clothes some times. Why do I do this? Do my clothes need airing? I have just been doing this blindly because my nan did it and then my mum did and I do it and have done for the last 11 years with no idea why.

[Beads]

Generally I get the clothes in and if they need airing put them in the airing cupboard.

My mum is the original 'pop them in the airing cupboard' so I alway grew up with fully aired clothes!

I class them as 'needing airing' if they feel a bit cold/damp.

[Sweetie77]

I can't remember the show but some girl asked her mum why she always cut the end of her pot roast (it was an american soap) and she said becuase her mum did it.

She then asked her Mum who said her mum did it.

They then asked her mum and she said...because the pan was to small!!

I think a lot of us are guilty of doing things just because our parents/grandparents etc did them!!

[Goodsoulette]

Thats brilliant, Sweetie!

[B00]

lol Goodsy, we all do things like that because our mums did.

However I draw the line at putting a tea towel on the work surface to keep it clean (the worktop) like my gran used to.....honestly, i kid you not!

[confused79]

I dont do that, i wash, dry them on the line, iron them then put them in the wardrobe, i thought aring them was on the line?? i dont get it either, but then again my mum dont either so maybe its cos your mum and nan did it.

When you put them in the airer do they not get creased seeing as you have already ironed them?

[4getmenot]

I dont get why people do piles of ironing only to put clothes straight in a drawer. I iron clothes when I get them out to wear them

[4getmenot]

that show was 8 simple rules. :-)

[confused79]

4get i would do what you do if i had no kids, but having 4 kids at home well 5 if you include my partner, i get short of time and dont fancy ironing everyday, most of our clothes are hung up anyway and i fold a certain way so creased arent formed in the draw.

[whiskeysheri]

Aww! LOL! I do everything the same as my mum, but none of it's like that! ;o) Only kidding, I think it's just that no-one has pointed anything out to me yet. Give it time, though, I only moved in with my two housemates a couple of weeks ago. :o)

I'm the same as 4get. I only iron something when I need to wear it (and only if it needs it!). My bloke's mum is strange: she irons everything and then when she wants to wear something, too! :oS

[4getmenot]

oh yer when I have children I would have to iron their clothes for them and if my bloke ever moved in, because he tends not to and I really want to rip is t-shirts off and thats just to iron them

[4getmenot]

never iron bed sheets either, they soon iron themselves out on the bed

[taliesin238]

I never air or iron my clothes!! my tumble drier does it all for me!! HOnestly my clothes dont need ironing after the tumble drier!! I think the trick is to not put too many clothes in at a time! I do actually love ironing though

[Octavius]

Mrs O tries to emulate her mother's strange rituals like those mentioned above, since she feels her mother knows best. I however disagree, since my mum knows best.

We don't have an airing cupboard and my wife is insiting the new house has to have one! If it makes her happy....!

[confused79]

No i never iron bed sheets either or pj's.

Thats something i dont do that my mum does, she irons everyhting even the fitted bed sheet!!! i say mum your wierd!

[confused79]

octavius<b/> please come and do my mountain of ironing then!!! please please please i HATE it with a passion

[confused79]

sorry i meant talesin lol sorry

[4getmenot]

Its the people that iron pants that I worry about

[confused79]

my mum irons boxers!!!! she is mad!

[rabbitygirl]

Its true - we do as Mum showed us - until we develop our own ways. When my Mum was ill (you couldn't tell because she was full of energy and irritable as hell) she asked me to do some ironing. I decided to collect and return and not have her glowering over me. I declined to take her nylon slips because they had no creases and I was worried I'd melt one (I never iron such things). She hit the roof, said dont bother if I didn't want to help, and told me to go before we both said something we regretted.

We didn't speak for 3 months!!!

I have had an airing cupboard thru out 34 years of marriage and now have to do without in new place when combi boiler goes in. I know its sad but I am quite concerned!!!!!

[warpig3]

I wonder if it is to do with the fact that many years ago our mums didn't have 1800spin washing machines and tumble dryers and did have loads of terry nappies etc to wash. Perhaps with the mountains of washing and not so much room to dry them, they were put into the airing cupboard to dry them out completely. My granny used to iron everything or 'smoothing' as she called it, you name it, fuffly towels, socks, pants, everything. I would also think that in that era it was easier to 'smooth' things when they were slightly damp, hence put them in the aring cupboard afterwards. Personally, I iron very little, mrwarpigs work shirts and trousers, duvet covers (but only the nice ones), everything else is done as and when I feel like it, if ever!