[Chief Pancake Ma...]

I am always reading in the forums people complaining about house work that needs to be done. Washing clothes, dishes, cleaning, vacuuming I get, but whats with folding laundry? I just dont do it.

I have been to other peoples houses and seen a laundry basket full of beautifully folded laundry, people are always saying if DH, MIL etc could just help out and maybe fold some laundry that would be great etc etc

I wash clothes, I put them in the basket. Sheets and towels get roughly folded and put away, things get hung in the wardrobe or put in a drawer - evenutally. I dont iron either!!!!! Never in my life have I sat and folded a basket of laundry.

Is it really an essential chore?

[RatbagBob]

I fold t-shirts chiefly so I don't have to iron the buggers

[LookMumNoHands]

I fold, because I don't like the rumpled look

[KarenBubMachine]

I dont like the rumpled look and I refuse to iron so I always fold from the line. It only takes a second of two more per item to bring the washing in folded, then it can sit on the laundry counter for a month or so until needed!

[Justaduck]

For our shirts (DDs are too small) I just hang them on the line on their hangers...saves pegging, unpegging then hanging them. A lot of friends have come over and commented on it and then go and do it themselves.
Yes my washing baskets usually never get emptied properly

[~THE~MAGICIAN~]

Yes, it's essential to avoid the rumpled look.

And I iron almost everything.

You can tell if things haven't been folded or ironed. Seriously.

[squeekums]

I can say ive never sat down and folded a basket of washing.
Sheets rolled/scrunched in to a ball
Clothes rammed in to drawers
the odd thing gets hung
Simple lol

[Heather11]

Everything gets folded as it comes off the line in this household. It may sit for a couple of days folded in the basket waiting to get put away but I don't have basket loads of unfolded clothes lying around.

Anything that needs to be ironed - apart from DH's work clothes, very little - gets done as needed.

[Fanny McPhail]

You can tell if things haven't been folded or ironed. Seriously.

I can't but then I'm probably not looking.

[PurpleNess]

I fold but stuff generally stays in a basket in our room until it gets worn again, we don't have a huge wardrobe :-)
Ironing - NEVER! I own an iron but it circa 1975 lol.
Oh & for people telling it hasn't be ironed...for me it's a matter of I simply don't care....

This post has been edited by PurpleNess: 21/11/2012, 04:06 PM