Clothes steamer - Page 2

flashy · 08-07-2013, 15:24

Charity shops don't wash the clothes, they merely get them out of the donation bag and steam them, they throw away the undisireables (well they go in a rag bin to be weighed in)

susie123 · 08-07-2013, 16:43

Russell, my Richard is just the same, will not wear second hand clothes, though I love charity shops. he puts it down to his parents divorcing when he was five and he and his siblings ended up in childrens' homes or foster care and didn't feel they had anything of their own.

Anyway he embraces the rumpled look - even if it's been ironed, he can wear something for five minutes and look as though he's been to bed in it.

And get yourself a panama - you need one in this weather with that wide parting - and Diane (Mobertol) will love you for it...

You said some time ago that you had taken some of June's things to a charity shop, what a shame she didn't get a chance to wear them but I'm sure the buyers will have got use and pleasure out of them and she will have provided them with that. It's good to see you are coping better with things like that all the time.

Less · 08-07-2013, 17:25

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Originally Posted by flashy

Charity shops don't wash the clothes, they merely get them out of the donation bag and steam them, they throw away the undisireables (well they go in a rag bin to be weighed in)

Perhaps that's true, ruins a good tale though doesn't it?

davemac · 08-07-2013, 19:13

The knack to steaming out the creases is to steam the clothing on a hangar, inside and out if possible, and then hang it up, it can take 15 minutes for the creases to go completely. I have a steam generating iron with a button for continuous vertical steaming, and have used it on many occasions.