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A pressing engagement.
May 9^th, 2009 at 7:51pm

Maybe the boys out there can help with this one

Walking past the spare room this morning and feeling pretty buoyant, with my good wife standing ironing,
Without thinking said “I’ll do you that love”
“Are you sure”
Yep no problem.
That looks hot! Shhhit!!! It is!
Now, when I looked at the task ahead thought no problem until picking up the fitted sheet.
How come this board’s only 4 foot long and this thing appears to be 6?
Where’s the bloody corner!
Well I tried to fit it long ways and I tried to fit it short ways being careful not to knock the iron over which I almost did a couple of times until the dock stared me in the face.
It used to have a piece of asbestos there but was removed, you know sshh! (Health and Safety).
Anyway couldn’t decide how to fold and iron this sheet with Stretchy corners, so decided to try and work out the pleating.
Went back down stairs, got the paper, pen and ruler out and thought “Triangulation”
Have you every tried to work out true lengths of Elasticated corners???
Giving up even after in desperation trying the radial line method went back up stairs to the daunting task.
In the end resorted to the clean the windows routine, do the middle leave the corners and hope she doesn’t notice.
I reckon the girls don’t do the corners either.
What do they say about us, men can't multi task, I think a lot of multi went into that task dont you??

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Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: A pressing engagement. Reply #1 - May 9^th, 2009 at 7:54pm Having on rare occasions had similar urges to take on a task on which I am clueless.....I've learned........best to just sit down, pop a cold one, and wait for the ill fated urge to pass! But that's just me! Joe
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Re: A pressing engagement.
Reply #2 - May 9^th, 2009 at 9:04pm

Gentlemen........the answer to this conundrum would be
1-dryers
2-high thread-count sheets........

Buy some gorgeous 800 thread count sheets, wash as usual.........dry as usual, removing from dryer as soon as they are done........
THEN(here comes the togetherness we wimmen all crave.........
join with your spouse and fold them as a team.........VOILA! No wrinkles.
as for the fitted variety. pinch up the 4 corners......fold in the excess and finish the folding process.......and, justifying the cost of the higher tc sheets.. they last forever!!!

If you find this useful, please share with me any ideas you might have as to how to keep the sheets on a waterbed.......and how to keep the cats from chasing the air while laying down the top sheet......

Happy Housekeeping!

Cathi Cheesy

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Lefty CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 759 Gender:	Re: A pressing engagement. Reply #3 - May 10^th, 2009 at 6:35am Quote: with my good wife standing ironing, What's this ironing activity you talk off.... Lefty...!
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Melissa CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't give up! Posts: 7238 Central WI, USA Gender:	Re: A pressing engagement. Reply #4 - May 10^th, 2009 at 8:23am I'm with Lefty!
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Linda_Howell CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Do not feed the Moderators Posts: 11927 Santa Maria, Ca. Gender:	Re: A pressing engagement. Reply #5 - May 10^th, 2009 at 3:06pm Why in the world would anyone iron sheets???? Take them out of the dryer and put them on the bed.
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Kilowatt3 CH.com Old Timer Offline 1952 Jag Posts: 300 Lake Charles, Louisiana - USA Gender:	Re: A pressing engagement. Reply #6 - May 10^th, 2009 at 4:46pm 1. Remove fitted sheet from dryer. 2. Stuff in pillowcase. Regards, Jim
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AussieBrian CH.com Hall of Famer Offline CH - It's all in your head! Posts: 3851 Cairns, Qld, Australia Gender:	Re: A pressing engagement. Reply #7 - May 10^th, 2009 at 7:44pm I have an iron-deficiency.
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Charlie CH.com Alumnus Offline Happy to be here Posts: 18971 Jamestown, NY Gender:	Re: A pressing engagement. Reply #8 - May 10^th, 2009 at 8:08pm I dunno..........Even Mom never bothered with fitted sheets. We're happy to read about your OCDs though Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or Charlie
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ClusterChuck CH.com Alumnus Offline The BEAST rises again, and again, and again, and . Posts: 5394 Greenville, North Carolina Gender:	Re: A pressing engagement. Reply #9 - May 10^th, 2009 at 10:18pm It is really a simple formula to figure it out ... I just don't think that Deej has enough band width for me to type the whole thing out ... So, with that mind, resort to Kilowatt's solution ... BTW, as a kid, we always used a "mangle" to iron those large objects.
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Peppermint CH.com Alumnus Offline Work it out baby! Posts: 2908 New York\|USA Gender:	Re: A pressing engagement. Reply #10 - May 11^th, 2009 at 4:45pm oh good god.. I'm in tears. triangulation... the RADIAL LINE METHOD? .. iron deficiency?? ocd?? hoooo... thanks boys.. nothing like a good laugh at 4:45 in the afternoon. I'm sure you wife was watching you through a crack in the door. She must luv ya ta pieces! ThanKS! Pepp
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