We woke this morning to the kind of rain that breaks windows, and it hasn’t stopped for a second. So I took the opportunity of this house-binding (after working in the morning) to iron all my suitcase crushed clothes with the posh iron in the (dedicated) laundry room.
Daily Observation #2
Money may not buy love, but it does buy gloriously crease free shirts, and rather a lot of time. I ironed all the clothes I brought with me (except the ones I’m wearing) in less time than it does to do a tea-towel at home, and they now look like I sent them to Phoebe Philo’s laundry. Even my red silk shirt, which is such a pain in the arse to iron I don’t bother to wear it anymore, looks like it’s about to go on display in the V&A. I think I’ll have to start saving. Not just for the iron but for the space to keep/use it.
Now, please excuse me, I have to go and vacuum cat hair off the stairs with a machine* that weighs a tenth of mine and sucks twice as hard.
Header image from Pinterest.
*If I’m not careful I’ll spend this entire trip playing with domestic appliances.
Ironing. Not an Olympic sport.Something I only do when needed.Well, it seems pointless to me to spend time dashing away with a smoothing iron…then hanging the smoothed items in a crowded closet and having to repeat the performance when you want to wear them.
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Hurrah, you’ve just talked me out of buying an expensive steam generating iron!
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I find ironing useful thinking time and I love the smell of clean linen.
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When I had a garden doing the laundry was one of my favourite activities!
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Country singer Chris Jensen has a great song about how money can’t buy happiness but it can buy him a boat and a new truck to pull it and some new fishing rods.
Money can’t buy everything
Well, maybe so,
But it could buy me a boat
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That is very true! Money can buy ease and comfort for sure, and if one is already a happy sort of chap that’s probably a good combination.
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