I must admit not much makes it into the ironing basket....but bed linen I always do. I find freshly pressed sheets are one of life's simple pleasures.

I love flannel sheets and use them year-round; no ironing for me!

I do iron sheets n pillow cases.... OCD might be at play here, but also as you said, the memory of clean ironed sheets when at my parents place... Where everything was so perfect.....Am probably trying to recreate those things in a land far far away :)

... you can iron bed sheets?

I, honestly, don't iron anything -- I make a point not to own any clothing that requires such care ... of course, I'm a grad student, so can get away with showing up at the lab in jeans and a t-shirt ... I guess I'm going to have to eventually grow-up and buy adult clothes! But, until then, there shall be no iron in my house!

Our mothers were able to iron and do other stuff we no longer do anymore because they didn't have Iphones and text messaging and other millions of stuff that were created to occupy our time. That said, I don't iron anything...period. I hate ironing more than...cleaning bathroom or any other chore I can think of.

I'll iron the bed skirst only because I know they wont' get wrinkled 20 minutes later.

Bed linens are just about the only thing I don't iron. Wow! I never knew other people did. What a funny post here. I'll never do it though. I really dislike ironing.

When I have time I do, I wish I had more time.
Always the pillowcases though, and absolutely when someone has a cold.
Changing the pillowcases and ironing them makes me feel I've destroyed the germs haha.

Generally, no. I do iron a few really wrinkled pillowcases and my quilt fabric. I steam the clothes that need it with a garment steamer (which is the best thing ever for shirts with cuffs) and I use our clothes dryer's steam setting a bunch. But I do love bleach for my white sheets!

yep, pillowcases and the top third of top sheets. makes what we call 'getting in the envelope' so lovely.

Haha! Yeah, right!

Never. But I don't have linen sheets so that helps. Of course, I don't iron my clothes either. The only reason we have one in the house is for my boyfriend's work shirts. I tend not to wear clothing that requires ironing.

We don't use a top sheet (we use a duvet in stead) but we do iron the pillow cases--well, actually my husband does the ironing in the house--he likes his shirts done just so and he does it while watching movies I don't want to see, so it is a win/win. Freshly ironed pillowcases are a small, accessible joy of life--especially when someone else is doing the ironing!

If I fold it right after coming out of the dryer, good enough.

Yes. I avoid ironing most things, but I adore ironed sheets.I also eschew bleach (mostly), and am pretty green when it comes to cleaning products, but I cave and bleach my white sheets from time to time. Freshly ironed and bleached sheets are heavenly.

I am so bad at ironing that things tend to look even more wrinkled and creased when I'm done. Therefore, I have adopted the following policy: Linen looks good rumpled.

Two words for those who like ironed sheets. Laundry service.

I'm with most of the other commenter. I don't typically iron anything - except my sheets. I also make my bed everyday. I love the look of a crisp, clean well-made bed.

I totally iron at least the edges. It just looks so much better.

... if I had time to iron bedsheets, I'd have time to do a hell o fa lot more things. And I still wouldn't iron bedsheets.

I'm yearning for linen sheets (and I like the wrinkled look), but what with moving/appliance buying/wedding this year, it's a wee bit out of the budget. LLBean has some great sheets in a cotton shirting fabric that last forever and don't wrinkle much. Done.

I have ironed my sheets. What a task! They're so big, you seem to iron forever, your arms get tired, and if you burn yourself, Ouch! That pain lasts forever. I'll do it for the guest room when we have company coming, other-than-that. (In my best wise-guy voice) Forget about it!!!

no, but my mom still did when i was little. she eventually quit that. i just remember her sitting on the couch surrounded by a mountain of laundry... i was required to iron all my clothes on the weekend and pickout my outfits for the week as a kid. hated it! i don't iron often, but i don't mind doing it. have to admit...doing it all on a Sunday while watching tv would be a load off the rest of the week.

I never do because I, too, hate ironing. Add to that a kitten who chases the iron cord and the clothes dangling from the ironing board and I do it as little as humanly possible.

That being said, I always WANT to iron my sheets once I unfold a new set to put them on the bed and they're all wrinkly. #firstworldproblems

I sometimes iron pillowcases, but rarely sheets. However, I do like to hang them outside to dry, if possible, because they smell so fresh then. Also, I use Mrs. Meyers lavender laundry detergent for sheets because they smell wonderful afterwards.

If I could find a nearby, convenient laundry service, I would definitely have them laundered and ironed. It's not about how they look, it's about how the feel and smell.

I have so much more to do in a day than iron the sheets - plus that ruins the comfort of them in my opinion.

what a waste of time!

oh gosh! i thought no one did this until my friend told me she sprays her sheets with some lavender scented stuff and then irons them. i wonder if this is a habit people pick up from their parents or develop on their own after moving out.

Years ago my work had a visitor from France for a year. When he was equipping his apartment, he was flummoxed by "no-iron" sheets - do some sheets contain iron (Fe)?? And no, I use neither the hot iron nor Fe on my sheets.

I don't, but solely because of laziness. I love the feel of crisp sheets and a freshly made bed.

No, I don't iron my sheets and I would never imagine doing that...they're sheets. You sleep on them, squash them with your weight, and they get wrinkled right away anyway.

@MonicaK I don't think technology has as much to do with it as women entering the workforce permanently. As a culture, we've shifted away from women doing the housemaking and dedicating themselves to creating those perfect little corners all the time. To hell with that - we have jobs and careers. More important things than making sure the silverware is perfectly shined. Also, fabrics are a lot better now and there isn't as much need to iron everything.

@ lazy_lurker - do you mean that the visitor from France didn't understand what "no-iron sheets" meant and asked if sheets contained iron? If so, that's hilarious.

When I first started reading this, I was astounded that people would waste time on such a silly thing - ironed sheets?! The thought of clean, crisp sheets is too seductive, though...

I'm washing and ironing my sheets as soon as I get home.

I hate ironing clothes as well. (Freshly purchased yards of quilting fabric are another story though!)

I iron my sheets every so often, but not regularly. There always seems to be something more demanding for me to take care of.

If my husband and I ever take the plunge to move back to my parent's farm in Maine to be self sufficient, I may have the time to iron sheets... but until that day....

Yeah... the only time the iron gets pulled out is if I'm going to sew something. I can't imagine taking the time to iron sheets, of all things.

Oh.Boy.

You mean people actually do that? ... It's my least favorite task - I don't even iron my clothes (except dress shirts) I will use the dryer and then hang or fold as soon as laundry is done. For dress pants, I don't put them in the dryer, I take them out wet from the washing machine, smooth them over with my hand, and then hang from the bottom of the pant so the weight does away with the wrinkles.

I do like clean laundered sheets, but I don't even know what ironed sheets would feel like...!

Always! I hate to iron but bed linens are the exception... nothing better than nice, crisp sheets.

This must be cultural because it's the first time I hear of this.
My iron gets a lot of work, but only from sewing projects, rarely from clothes, and never from be linens.

I love to iron. I'd choose to iron before washing dishes or laundry etc., but I've never done sheets. Isn't shaking and smoothing after the dryer enough?

Do I iron sheets? Yes -- but I'd send them out to be done just like my grandma used to if I could!

I have cotton damask bedding which needs to be heavily starched and ironed. My grandma used to send hers out to be done -- yup, in a Communist country such a thing existed! They used to come back to beautifully starched and ironed that when you unfolded them to put the on the duvet, it was like turning pages in a book...

I can't find anyone in my city who can do such work. Maybe the commercial outfits do it for hotels, but not for small individual orders. It's a real pain!

Even the non-damask stuff gets pressed in our house though... so yes, pillow cases and duvet covers definitely get ironed in our house. Bottom sheets not so much -- I have a great dryer which avoids creasing, and if you take it out in time and fold it, all is well. That's good enough for bottom sheets.

Despite the intelligent dryer (a Miele), I put too much in the ironing pile. The only time the pile was ever completed was when we had a cleaning lady though. I like ironing, but not for hours on end.

Ha, ha! I did it once ever when I still lived at home with my parents out of curiousity. My mom saw me with the sheets on the ironing board and thought I was out of my mind! I've never done it since.

Yeah... about as frequently as I iron my own face.

I loathe ironing, I won't even buy linen clothing since it always looks horrible after you wear it a few minutes. But in college I read about freshly ironed sheets, tried it and it is all I willingly iron. I iron the pillowcases for our bed and it makes them so soft, smooth and cool against your face. I will iron the top hem of the flat sheet, but after that I'm usually burned out-but ironed pillowcases are so worth the effort! I don't use starch on them, just mist with a spray bottle of water, flattens all the fibers that have gotten fuzzy or wrinkled in the wash.

I really do like having ironed pillowcases, but the actual sheets would be way too much work. It only takes me a minute to iron the pillowcases when I'm doing the other ironing, though.

@ Ruthtooth- ROFL- that is about the same reaction I had.

No, why would I?

I have ironed pillow slips, but sheets? Never. However, I would if I had a mangle iron.

I've always fantasized about ironing my sheets. It seems so luxurious, but i'm just way too busy. I stay home with my three small children and i have so many other daily chores i can't even keep up with the laundry, much less iron it.

@RUTHTOOTH..haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..and I SHOULD iron my face, never mind my sheets!!!!!!

I remember my grandmother, standing in her living room in August ironing everything including my grandfather's boxers and all the sheets. I've never ironed my sheets, I would be afraid that it would take away from the fresh line dried scent it picks up from outside.

I come from a former Soviet republic and people iron there everything, bed linens, clothes (underwear is a must!), handkerchieves, except for socks, maybe. People don't walk in wrinkled shirts there. My husband is American and, when we had our first newborn, I made him iron all the baby clothes and linens, every little thing that belonged to the baby because I was taught to do so. I insisted on ironing for 2 months, and then I saw how much time it takes, we stopped. As for bed sheets, I also ironed them until we had children. No more! I can use that time on other things.

They iron everything in Italy, partly because it's their culture, partly because they don't have dryers and all their clothes are crunchy off the clothes line (ironing gets them soft). They do notice that other cultures don't iron as much. The last time I was there, someone made a crack about wearing his shirt like an American, ie unironed.

Kinda. I fold them and I iron the two sides thus obtained. I grew up in France where you iron everything (same thing, no dryers) and there's nothing I hate more. But truth be told, if you iron all your clothes and all your linen, it takes far less space in your closet/your luggage.

Yes! Pressed sheets are one of life's easily attainable luxuries.

I put my sheets in the dryer for 15 minutes and then air dry them the rest of the way. I don't know why, but that process leaves them very soft and nearly wrinkle free -- close enough for me!

I've never ironed my bed sheets. I don't care much, but if the time comes that I do... I will probably follow my mother's method. Her trick has always been to never dry sheets in the dryer all the way -- someone above also mentioned this. One thing my mother also does is put the fitted sheet on the bed just very slightly damp, then let it finish drying on the bed -- so that it is all stretched out perfectly smooth -- and then add the air-dried top sheet, etc. Mostly, I have seen her do this to hundred of bed when she takes care of other people's vacation homes or condos and it always makes the bed look perfect.

I hate ironing, and the ONLY things I will iron are my antique linen sheets and pillowcases - it makes them feel even heavier and more luxurious. I don't bother ironing regular cotton sheets, which I think look and feel better crumpled.

I don't actually own an iron, so my answer is a fairly firm no. My bedding is made of bamboo anyways, so I much prefer softness over crispness.

I hate ironing but I also hate creases so I have a little trick up my sleeve... I throw my sheets & pillowcases (when they're dry so I don't have the dryer going for ages) in the dryer along with a damp cloth and it seems to get rid of most, if not all, creases. I also use this trick to soften my towels too!

In the warmer weather, I just line dry my sheets & they get nice & crisp. When it's not warm out, I use the dryer & iron them. Free luxury & I love it. I don't iron the sheets for my kids' beds though. Just mine :) And the sheets for any visiting guests.

I iron a shirt for work every night and i do it that in my bedroom. On a cold night, I will run the iron over the fitted sheet and pillows but strictly for extra warm before I get in.

I used to be one who'd say "HECK NO" to this question. However, recently I began running the iron over the top edge of the flat sheet because I hated how it got all weird and foldy. Ditto on the pillowcases. It just makes the bed feel fresher. I doubt I'll ever press the whole flat sheet and definitely not the fitted sheet.

I did once. My husband thought I was crazy! :)

I try to make the bed as soon as the sheets come out of the hot dryer. No wrinkles!

My mom does that for me :)