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I'm sorry. I have no advice but the image of khaki pants with purple x's down the front made me smile this morning. That sounds just like something I would do!

@aprk: ha same! I think I have ironed maybe three times in my life? When his shirts need to be ironed, we send them to be dry cleaned

The socks thing drives me crazy though...my DH doesn't care about color, but it drives me batty trying to pair up his socks--they're all black but different KINDS of black/pattern. So annoying! I feel like just throwing them all out and getting 10 pairs of the exact same socks so they'll always match.

I iron my husband's shirts and I WOHM full time. At first he wore polos to work so it wasn't that bad, but now that he wears dress shirts, he gets the no iron ones from Costco. Anything else goes to the dry cleaner.

I actually don't mind it, I use it as my chill out time once a week.

@Mrs. Sketchbook: we also actually have mainly no iron shirts (from charles tyrwhit) and they really do rarely get wrinkled!

We don't have an iron. But, my DH works in a warehouse, so his work attire is much different.

My DH keeps track of his own clothes and just tells me when he needs more of something. I only wash the clothes and put them away...or throw away tshirts when they have holes in them.

I buy wrinkle proof clothing...so there's that, LOL.

DH does all of his own ironing. I do his mending when he asks nicely, though

If he's running behind and really needs a dress shirt, he will ask me to do it, though. But it's not a regular thing. I'm not very good at it.

I mend since DH can't. When I wasn't working (unemployed), I ironed too to save money. When I was working, we sent his shirts to the dry cleaner and, on occasion, pants. Most of my stuff that needed ironing we did ourselves since it was too expensive for the dry cleaner to do. Surprisingly DH would do it or myself.

My two cents - would it be possible to send his shirts to the dry cleaner? I find that to be the most labor intensive work with little payoff. I can't do as good of a job as the dry cleaner can. And then you can iron his pants and mend things?

I despise ironing. We used to send his pants and shirts to the dry cleaner but now we're saving that money. I try to pull them out of the dryer as quickly as possible and then use wrinkle releaser on them. If that doesn't work perfectly, I'll give a quick swipe with the iron in the evening after lo is asleep. More often than not, though, I send him to work in "homeless" pants b/c I WORK TOO, darn it and I'd prefer to spend my evening playing just like he does. This doesn't help, I know. I'm sorry. Solidarity?

Yah I'd steam. And I'd ask him to do it too! My personal rule is that if you want something done a particular way, you should probably just do it yourself...

@NaturallyCathy: I should get an iron for sewing, too...I forgot that's why I used to have one, lol.

As for if something needs ironing...I send it out, lol.

I think I've ironed one shirt in my life. My husband, however, likes things ironed. He owned his own iron when we met, and really wanted (!!!) an ironing board for himself last time we went to ikea. I think it's weird, but it helps the few times I've needed things ironed. He does it!

I do all the laundry and keep track of the socks. DH has a lot of crazy colored socks which are easy to pair up, and all his white athletic socks are the same brand, so that's easy too.

When it comes to mending...doesn't really happen. I give it to my mom to do a lot. I'm pretty hopeless when it comes to that kind of stuff.

I'm sorry, that sounds like a lot of work.

I'll stop teasing DH for wearing shorts, t-shirts, and flip flops to the office. I never considered the alternative laundry.

We each do our own ironing. And he sews buttons back on because I pretended I didn't know how to do it.

I really want to know, if you don't have an iron or don't iron, do you really wear clothing wrinkled? If I do a load of laundry during the week and I do not get it out of the dryer in time, the clothes are a rumpled mess. When I was at home, most of the time I would be able to get the clothing out of the dryer before the bell went off, but if I didn't, I would have to at least press some of the clothing.

@looch: This is why we have a steamer . . . rolling in to the office a wrinkled mess is not an option for either of us (nor is it confidence inspiring!). A long time ago, someone told me that the most important things in your closet were an iron and an ironing board . . . that as long as you look neat and presentable, it (almost) really doesn't matter what you're wearing, or how often you wear the same thing.

I don't iron. Sometimes my husband irons his own shirts, but lately he's just been taking them to the cleaners. I also do almost no vacuuming, and he does most of the cooking. I declutter, and I manage the finances. I am generally lazier than he is. He doesn't seem to mind. I feel guilty about it sometimes, but if it were up to me we'd hire a cleaning lady. Since he refuses to pay for that, he's stuck doing a majority of the cleaning.

My husband wears a dress shirt, tie, and dress pants every day and he dry cleans everything.

To me, it's completely worth the expense and we'd rather pay for it and cut out other things. Ironing men's clothing is just way too much of a hassle, especially because he wears dress clothes every day. Can you shop around for a cheap dry cleaner? In our area there are so many, so they all compete with each other and the pricing is pretty low..

Oh my. DH takes care of his own wardrobe. If he needs something looking extra special, he takes it to the dry cleaners. Frankly, I think that if you *want* to do this it's sweet, but the expectation would drive me batty.