Gadgets you thought were stupid until you used them....

[happyroo_bunji]

Stealing the idea from icy

What gadget you thought was stupid/useless until you used one?

For me its a t-shirt folding board, now that I work in a clothing retailer I really appreciate having something that folds the t-shirts exactly the same

[lis351]

My smart phone. I resisted for ages, didn't think I needed one. I'm so lost without it now. I think it's smarter than I am. LOL

[icyfroth]

Ha haaaa Roo! re stealing my idea and  the t-shirt folding gadget.

My mother used to work in a shirt factory (Whitmonts) when I was a kid and she showed my sisters and me how to fold a shirt. Remember when they used to come folded around a piece of cardboard with pearl-headed pins to keep them in place then all wrapped up in cellophane?

Folding up shirts is a skill I have that has now become obscure.

Your T-shirt folding gadget reminds me of the steam ironing machine they have at our local dry-cleaners. None o this busniness of laying the shirt on an ironing board and using an iron to flatten the wrinkles out and put creases in sleeves and back pleats.

Nuh uh.

They have this Mr Torso there. It's just a male upper body. They put the shirt on it, still damp from laundering, hit a switch, and hot steam blows it up until the shirt is totally dry and wrinkle free. I looks a bit grotesque, actually, but it sure does the job. The sleeves flap around a bit like one of those windsock puppets they put out the front of car yards.

I don't like that there's no razor sharp creases down the sleeves and in the back pleats, that way. I'd never let my hubby go to work in a shirt without them.

[imastawka]

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@happyroo_bunji wrote:

Stealing the idea from icy

What gadget you thought was stupid/useless until you used one?

For me its a t-shirt folding board, now that I work in a clothing retailer I really appreciate having something that folds the t-shirts exactly the same

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 Thank you.  Everybody thought I was a numnut when I got mine.

 I love it to bits.  Can fit so much more in drawers now.    

[icyfroth]

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@imastawka wrote:

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@happyroo_bunji wrote:

Stealing the idea from icy

What gadget you thought was stupid/useless until you used one?

For me its a t-shirt folding board, now that I work in a clothing retailer I really appreciate having something that folds the t-shirts exactly the same

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 Thank you.  Everybody thought I was a numnut when I got mine.

 I love it to bits.  Can fit so much more in drawers now.    

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cool!

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

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@icyfroth wrote:

I don't like that there's no razor sharp creases down the sleeves and in the back pleats, that way. I'd never let my hubby go to work in a shirt without them.

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Why?

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

My kids do it this way:

[icyfroth]

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@buzzlightyearsgirlfriend wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

I don't like that there's no razor sharp creases down the sleeves and in the back pleats, that way. I'd never let my hubby go to work in a shirt without them.

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Why?

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Because.

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@buzzlightyearsgirlfriend wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

I don't like that there's no razor sharp creases down the sleeves and in the back pleats, that way. I'd never let my hubby go to work in a shirt without them.

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Why?

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Because.

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So, do you iron the razor sharp creases down the sleeves and in the back pleats, that way?

Or does he?

And why would equal partners even speak about "letting" their partners wear a shirt ironed a certain way in 2014?

Are you for real?

Do you have daughters? And if so, would you be proud of their ironing skills and the way they "let" their partners wear certain creases in their business shirts?

[the_great_she_elephant]

I gave up ironing years ago. I just hang stuff up or foldit and put itaway  in drawers. If something I want to wear looks crumpled I iron it before I put it on.