Have you ever wondered WHY they call it an ironing board? Seems like a weird name for something meant to just hold things.
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Um how do I remove the wrinkles from my clothes every morning??
I iron on the regular. 
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Spritz your clothes with water (we use a spray bottle). You can do it while the clothes are on you, since you aren’t actually getting them wet…just barely enough to loosen the fibers. The wrinkles fall away within a few minutes. We almost never iron after I learned the water spritz technique. The iron now is just for extreme situations, or for when my wife is sewing and needs to press in a hem, etc.
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I do that as an occasional shortcut but it definitely does not have the same result as a hot iron with steam
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True. After all, the hot iron with steam’s “result” is taking up much more time. 
Granted, there are situations we will iron…when formality is involved. But like 99% of the time, it isn’t needed for us!
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Buy polyester? Get a housekeeper? Teach your children valuable life skills and then drink cocktails while they practice?
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Apart from the cocktails part, this actually happened to my wife. Once, as a youngin’, she decided to be nice and iron the clothes for her mom. This, of course, backfired, because her mom promptly said, “Oh! You did such a nice job. We’ll make that your job from now on.”
She quickly learned to despise ironing…and also learned never voluntarily do something nice for your parents!
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Sounds familiar to what my DW said to me.
And that’s how I ended up being the Iron Man in the house.
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Guilty as charged! 
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earworm of the day
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I don’t have a picture of it, but there used to be a sign at a certain location in Ann Arbor that read, “No Parking in Parking Lot”.
I never figured out what the parking lot was for.
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Ooh, here’s another one from my archive folder:
Working on genealogy and going through DNA matches on MyHeritage, I took a peek at the tree of someone I matched to see if could could find any surnames in common.
WHO DOES THIS?
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Sound like an offshoot of the old George Carlin routine - “Why do we drive on the parkway and park on the driveway?”
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Your family has an interesting and unexpected last name.
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Thank you 
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Well, as a fellow genealogy nerd, they may have copied a tree from someone else but wants to do the research on their own to get the names/facts. This way, a particular incorrect entry doesnt muddy the waters for other possible facts. It does seem odd that EVERYTHING is unknown. Maybe its a “dummy” tree and shouldn’t be public. I have a couple of those.
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Oh sure, I’m sure a lot of us have unknowns, but to create an entire tree of them?
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Maybe they were adopted?
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Ha, sure, anything is possible - but why create a tree to that extent with unknowns?
Normally you build the tree as you identify - personally, I’d only add an unknown for the next generation back I plan to tackle.
Or if I know, say, a family has 3 kids but that’s all and I don’t want to leave a hole plus hope to fill it in soon.
Also, if you notice in that tree there are other tiny trees on many lines - if you click them you then would go to see more people. In this case, all of them were also unknowns, so it wasn’t like they knew a great-grandparent’s name and were trying to fill in the large gaps. (And even so, I’d argue it would make more sense to create that person and build things around them.)
Why spend all that time clicking
“New person”… “Unknown.”
“New person”… “son”… “Unknown”
“New person”… “son”… “Unknown”
“New person”… “daughter”… “Unknown”
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