Hi all

I just wondered if anyone else was like me in that I usually wash my hankies either on their own (most are white and the rest are very light colours) or with a couple of towels. I always boil wash them as I've noticed (ewww warning!) that sometimes if I wash them on a normal wash they can still be left with the odd dirty mark. Mainly because of the dirty London air I suspect.

I've just spent 30mins ironing about 25 hankies. I know this may seem mad but this is probably 3 weeks worth of hankies as I usually only use one a day. For some reason I find it quite theraputic listening to the radio and ironing hankies.

I can't imagine going over to not bothering to iron them as I love a nice pressed hanky in my pocket and there's never any doubt that it's clean when someone sees you unfolding a perfectly pressed hanky for a blow. Though why anyone should even wonder whether someone else's hanky is clean is obvously just a figment of my overactive imagination.

Enough rambling already!

HH

I too like a good ironing session. I wash my many hankies with my underwear, just a normal temperature wash, but then I save the ironing until I have some shirts to iron too, so I alternate between the two. If I have a large collection of handkerchiefs to deal with, I will iron a shirt, then three hankies, then another shirt/t-shirt etc. Usually thought, the amount of shirts and t-shirts I have are far less than my hankies, so I invariably spend the last 10 minutes solidly ironing handkerchiefs.

last Sunday however, I didn't have any shrits to iron so spent over an hour ironing 45 hankies, whilst watching a DVD, and I hate to say it, but at the end, I could cheerfully thrown all my hankies away! (nah, could never do that!)

I'm like Kleeny, I iron hankies when I do shirts (now that I've given up the shirt laundry as a cost saving measure). I wash them with towels or underwear, at a cool or warm temperature. It seems to me that ironing makes the hankies softer, although this may be a figment of my imagination.