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None of these are good enough reasons.

Increasing garment lifespan and reducing waste...

extend fabric life / Increasing garment lifespan

Is there evidence out there for this? I'd have thought it'd be negligible at best, happy to learn otherwise.

Fwiw: Smart shirts are only thing I'd iron, and I try hard to avoid all smart shirt occasions these days.

https://www.polti.com/news/the-science-of-effective-ironing/

Just google for it

For the avoidance of doubt, I am not a fan of ironing as a process—quite the opposite. The results, however, are usually pleasurable. The tension between these two forces is what I use to justify my refusal to iron That T-Shirt and Those Big Skirts That Never End. I’ll do pillowcases, but not duvet covers or sheets. I don’t own any jeans, but will iron others’ under sufferance.

@Chopsicle may have specialist knowledge re fabrics

I had done.

Any evidence from folks what don't make steam iron type products?

Fwiw: Smart shirts are only thing I'd iron, and I try hard to avoid all smart shirt occasions these days.

100% this...

Years ago I used to work in a ‘obligatory shirt and tie’ office so I would do a weeks ironing whilst watching the Grand Prix. Fortunately that job ended around the time F1 became so dull I was in danger of burning my right ear.

yes, I think you can argue that ironing gives more even wear to a product, by avoiding creases setting in sooner and distributing stress more evenly on cotton/plant-based fibres. Get starching too if you really want to delay the decline ....

On the other end, merino is so good is it doesn't need laundering so regularly and doesn't need ironing (plus it doesn't fade like cotton). Some call it easy-care, but I think Active-Laziness is a better term.

Ironing is what the man wants you to do. You’ve all fallen for the big con. Free yourself from the shackles of ironing, sheeple!

Since everyone is working from home you can increase the life of your clothes even further by not wearing them. You might want to turn the heating up a notch.

And keep the clothes in the freezer for even longer life.

You have clothes moths too?

My wife used to be one of the most feral slovenly people i'd ever met. Piles of clothes across the floor, cups growing mould etc. Ironing was anathema to her.

Since we had kids she spends several hours every week locked away upstairs studiously ironing the whole week's washing. She irons everything. She makes out like it's a major ballache but I'm pretty sure it's a great excuse to escape the children while she stands there mindlessly ironing away whilst binging cheesy US TV boxsets and drinking diet coke.

I've offered to do it but she won't have it.

Ha, you've got her rumbled...

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My colleague's cough: she has a cold or a cough or something and keeps clearing her throat really loudly every minute or so. Our office is often quite quiet so although she's not that close to me, I hear it every time. It's driving me irrationally insane.

People riding round with a blue tooth speaker playing their shitty music.

It’s never good music. Even if it was it would still be a dick move.

I used to do it when I worked for Deliveroo. Mostly to try and reduce the number of clueless/pissed nobheads that would walk out in front of me every day. (It didn't really work).

Lots of people do it on trails here, which feels even more egregious as it's beautiful countryside being spoilt by shitty chinese EDM.

I used to do it on the commute for similar reasons. But my music wasn’t shitty, everyone loves a bit of Kylie.

I used to do it on my commute but it was Radio 4 / Today. Is that better or worse?

Lots of people do it on trails here, which feels even more egregious as it's beautiful countryside being spoilt by shitty chinese EDM.

I once knew someone who played Opera on country lanes, whilst cycling to Glyndebourne....

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