Stop Being a Slob: Learn to Iron Your Clothes
In two nicely done videos over at VideoJug, you can learn how to press your shirts and pants yourself. Not only does this save you tons of money in laundry services (not to mention the gas to pick them up), but it also prepares you for situations where laundry services may not be available.
Of all the garments to iron, your shirts and jackets would be the most important. In this video that’s bizzarely devoid of mouth movements on the part of the demonstrator (even though I think she may be the narrator as well), you’ll learn all the basics of shirt ironing, plus a few tips for less common situations. This one isn’t for the short-of-attention span though, it weighs in at an ADD-straining 7 minutes and 57 seconds.
After you’ve mastered making sure your upper half is in order, you can watch the video on how to keep your pants from looking like you slept in them all week (even if you have). This one is a bit shorter, and isn’t as robust in its explanation of certain oddities and tricks, but still very useful.
VideoJug: How To Iron Trousers
Be sure to visit the VideoJug site if these are helpful to you. On the video pages themselves is a complete, written out set of instructions and materials you’ll need to become an ironing master. The VideoJug site is wonderfully laid out and easy to navigate, they also have (according to them) over 26,000 “professionally-made advice” videos. I picture spending a lot of time there in the near future.
Potentially Related posts
Permalink | |
Weekly Expenses, August Edition | SPRCHNG said,
August 5, 2008 @ 12:00 am
[...] There’s a great service in my building that will pickup my dirty dress clothes, wash and iron then, and return them back to me by 6PM the next day. Incredibly convenient and notably costly. Two pair of pants and four shirts costs about $18. Everyone now and then my dress clothes do need to be truly cleaned. More often than not, though, I’m just being lazy and avoiding having to spend time attempting to iron them. Assuming this halves my monthly dry cleaning bill, then I’d be saving about $150/year just by being less lazy. [...]