>>> Diane wrote: I'm not sure exactly what tea towels are used for, but whatever it is they would go un-ironed in my house, as does most everything else.
*** Tat: Diane, I love your attitude! Life is for living; not for ironing every bit of material that one can get one's grubby paws on! Tea towels do not need ironing. They hang on hooks and get dirty and wet within moments of being put to service. Tea towels do not go to malls. They do not have a social standing. And they will not be ostracised by their pals for looking scruffy. Tea towels, oh brothers and sisters, do not need ironing. My clothes go into the cupboard [sorry American friends: "closet"] the moment they return from being washed. Jeans are never ironed (they look geeky ironed, anyway) and "smalls" [or jocks (as we SA men tend to refer to our undergarments] are also never ironed. Please don't tell me that someone out there irons underwear??? Does anyone truly believe that a man picks up a pair of underpants from a drawer and says, "Oh, how lovely! They look ever so smart; all ironed and gently folded!" That scene would only ever occur in a TV commercial, good people. As far as shirts are concerned, they are ironed as and when they're required. If I need to wear a particular shirt tonight - to go to the movies, for example - I'll iron it on my way out. Maybe some harassed mothers out there should ask their teenaged offspring to iron their own shirts "on the way out". It doesn't take me - an undomesticated bachelor - more than 5 minutes to iron the most difficult of shirts. Doing it that way, I'm never faced with a mountain of ironing to do. [Anyone remember Divine doing the ironing in John Waters' wonderful movie, "HAIRSPRAY"?] Today's parable is: DO NOT IRON! LIVE! Life isn't smooth and simple - why should you clothes be? Tat in Jo'burg, South Africa (Hopefully too far away for your teenaged offspring to wreak revenge...) --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using World Mail. http://www.worldonline.co.za *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Journey from clutter List Website http://journeyfromclutter.com Members Only Page http://journeyfromclutter.com/MembersOnly/MembersArea.htm Unsubscribe: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in the 'Subject:' field to be removed from the main list. To Unsubscribe from the Digest version of the list send the unsubscribe message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
