It has been a hectic week back to school and yesterday (Monday) was not a great day. I have barely needed to iron all summer long and if I did I just laid out a skirt or a shirt collar on the rug and ironed for about 30 seconds and was done. Hubs of course was on vacay all summer and no ironing was needed.With school back in session he has been getting out the ironing board in the morning to quickly iron pants. Yesterday I told him to leave it up for me (he leaves the house before I do). Big Mistake. Before I hopped in the shower I set up the iron on the ironing board and turned it on. About 7 minutes later I return to the bedroom and find the iron on the carpet, face down.
Here's the iron now:
Here's the carpet:
Melted carpet fibers in the traffic area of the bedroom. At least it is not black....it looks like someone spilled something. I guess I'll be buying a small area rug for our bedroom.
Hubs called me at about 4:30 p.m. He was heading out to do an errand and so I told him about the iron incident. He says, "Oh, I'm right by Target, I'll get a new one." The new one is called a Shark. Now, 20 years ago he would have reacted, but once you have 3 kids the incidents are way more frequent and some things just mellow out over the years. (Some things don't: Middle Schooler left the garage door wide open on Saturday for about 1.5 hours after we explicitly told him to close it before he left and use the front door. But no, he skate-boarded down the driveway and away to a park. He is now grounded. I hope the neighbors didn't hear all of the ranting about how the tools could have been stolen, the door to the kitchen is right there, etc.).
I noticed the new iron had a shiny silver bottom and not the dark Teflon kind and I commented on that. Hubs said he likes these better (I bought the last one last year). I think that Hubs really wanted a different iron anyway.
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All I can say is- YOU IRON? AND SO DOES YOUR HUSBAND?
Wow.
Your husband sound SOOO much like mine. The way the previous builder did things wrong, gets really anxious about locking doors and about stuff being stolen, and he even bought our iron which is a shark! I have loved it for about 4 years by the way. The only thing is the auto shut off seems to come on quickly and to reset it you have to tilt the iron downward and push the bottom at the same time to let it heat up again.
No one touches my iron (it's one of those built-for-sewing steam irons).
But most of all, my iron never touches hubby's clothes. Problem solved.
That could have been bad! Poor carpet. I'm glad that the marital peace was not disrupted!
You must be British. That's the only explanation I have. My Brit husband irons. The only thing I iron are those fusey-bead crafts my kids make.
Totally with Patois I have invested a lot of time ironing fuse beads!
Oh and my husband never irons (and I won't do it for him - hello drycleaner for him) even though his mother insists she taught him how.
Ms. Moon--A lot less compared to years ago.
Messy Mom--Good tip about the shark.
The Mother--I never touch his either but he will iron mine if we're going out!
Becky--He got paint (as in from painting pictures on canvas) on our porch carpet so maybe that's why he was so mellow.
Patois and Making It Work--Fussy beads? never heard of them! Hubs has a dry cleaner do the shirts he wears every day but for some reason stopped sending pants. He got new ones since dropping a waist size from appendectomy surgery!
Oooh, sorry for the rug and messed up iron. I had to get an automatic shut off iron, my ex was notorious for leaving the iron on and burning all sorts of stuff.
If I told my husband I'd have sex every day for a month should he locate it, he still wouldn't be able to find our iron.
Dry cleaners and professional highlights - two things in which I indulge.
(glad the house didn't burn down!)
Oh crap. Just when we were all recovering from OCD. I think I'll throw my coffee pot out now. It's just too stressful.
It's been so darn humid here I think if something needed ironing, we could just hang the item outside for a natural steam press.
I have to admit that I had no idea there were different types of iron bottoms. I can't remember the last time I touched one.
Well, I have a twin to your iron mark. Except mine was caused by my 3 yo dd wanting to iron her clothes. Luckily she used plenty of downy wrinkle release so it wasn't a full iron, but rather a half iron shaped area of melted carpet.
You know, the iron mark was the one that ticked me off too. The pet pee, the baby vomit, the spilled food -- I understand all those things. But when I saw this iron mark on our carpet, when I noticed the melted fibers and the burnt smell, it turned my whole world around.
That's when I called the carpet cleaners (Indianapolis, IN area) in a heartbeat. It was just too much for me! Thank God for carpet cleaning (Indianapolis services). It brought me back to sanity and opened my eyes to the fact that there's no stain that can't be removed.
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