What is Ironing again?!?!?!?

Julie at Everyday Mommy, has this new weekly topic called "Everyday Things". This is what she said:

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I thought this was a great idea and since I had already posted about Ironing which is one of the everyday things that remind me of home, I thought I would make this post an "Everyday Thing" post.

You know that I've said before "Ironing" is one of my favorite things to do. But unfortunately throughout the years I've become so busy with kids and life in general that I try to go along with everyone else, doing the washing/drying and then folding and putting away. My iron kept collecting dust and let's face it, there's certain items of clothing that really DO need to be ironed.

For the most part you can get away without doing it, but I think you get to a point where you realize "You know, this is not how I was taught AND the clothes don't look or smell as good as when they're freshly ironed".

Another thing that I love but unfortunately don't do, is hanging the clothes out to dry. It's still done that way in South Africa, or at least the way my family still does it. Nothing more rewarding than washing your clothes, then stepping outside to hang them on the clothes line and letting the beautiful warm sun dry them.

But anyway, the reason for this post is that today I had two full baskets of laundry freshly washed. I decided it's "now or never". So I pulled out my iron and proceeded to get it all done. Within 30 minutes I had my laundry all neatly piled up, freshly ironed (boy do I love that smell) and ready to be put away. Just wanted to share that LOL

Here's some pics to prove it :)

The baskets before:

The process, look how happy I am just to be ironing LOL Kids thought it was funny so they took my picture.

And here is the laundry all done :)