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  • Even though we live in a world filled with steamers and fancy smart driers, if I

  • want my clothes looking fresh, clean and perfectly pressed, nothing beats an iron.

  • The concept of using a heated object to smooth out fabrics, that dates back to the

  • first century but 20 centuries later, today, at 21st century, when we need our

  • clothes to look their best we're still using irons.

  • To honor this handy household appliance, I am going to share with you some of my best

  • ironing tips. Start at the lowest temperature and work your way up. When you

  • are preparing a load of clothing to iron what you want to do is sort through and

  • look at the fabric care label. That's going to tell you the temperature that you

  • should be ironing the garment at.

  • That way you can order your clothes from coolest temperatures to warmest

  • temperatures and your iron can work its way up and heat as you work your way

  • through the piles. By doing this you ensure that every piece of clothing that

  • you're ironing is being ironed at its optimal temperature. So no scorch marks.

  • Keep your iron clean. If you ever noticed strange marks or stains on your clothing

  • after you've ironed, it's a really good chance that stain came from your iron.

  • It's really important that on a regular basis you're keeping the plate of your

  • iron clean. Cleaning the metal plate is quite simple. Just create a paste using

  • two parts baking soda, one part water and apply the paste to the iron. You also want

  • to avoid any of those steam holes when you're applying the paste that way you

  • don't have to worry about cleaning it out.

  • You can apply this using a soft cloth or even a cleaning toothbrush. Then use a

  • clean cloth and wipe everything clean and dry. Iron in a back-and-forth motion. If

  • you iron in a circular motion, you can actually stretch out your garments and who

  • wants that? If you iron in a steady back-and-forth motion so you are not going

  • too fast and you are not going too slow and you using somewhat of a heavy hand.

  • You will be sure to get out those wrinkles but without ruining the fabrics.

  • The aluminum foil trick. If you are looking for ways to cut time when you're

  • ironing you might want to give this a try. Take tinfoil and line the underside of

  • your ironing board with the shiny tinfoil facing up. Then replace your ironing board

  • cover and start to iron your clothing. What you'll notice is that the tinfoil

  • retains heat and it reflects it back onto the clothing. So every time you pass your

  • iron over a garment, you're not only applying heat to the top of the garment

  • but the tinfoil is helping the bottom of the garment get ironed as well. It's

  • definitely a good time-saver.

  • Hang your ironing ASAP. The whole idea with ironing is getting rid of wrinkles in

  • your clothing. But how can you make that happen if you throw your freshly ironed

  • stuff in a laundry basket? So, the idea here is as soon as you finish ironing something

  • grabbing a hanger, stick the item on hanger and hang it up. If that means you

  • iron in your bedroom, great or you hang up a little rack like what I have, perfect.

  • If you don't have that find something to hang it on, a belt loop, a doorknob, I

  • don't care just get it vertical.

  • Keep your ironing board cover clean. Like any garment the first thing you want to do

  • is check the care label. Because many of these ironing board covers are indeed

  • machine washable. If it is, put it in your machine with gentle detergent at a gentle

  • cycle and hang it to dry. Then you want to reapply it back onto the ironing board and

  • tie it up nice and tight once it's dry so that way it will stay nice and shaped so

  • you can get as good iron out of it. Now, if it is not machine washable, it might have a

  • special coating on it or it might be made out of a special fabric- no problem. Just

  • take a sponge, dip it in in some soapy water, all you need is a little bit of

  • dish soap or a little bit laundry detergent. Clean off any of those stains,

  • work that product in, rinse it well, dry it in your ironing board

  • cover is good to go.

  • I hope that straightens things out for you when it comes to your pressing ironing

  • questions. But you know what? The good news is I have lots more ironing

  • information on the way and a lot of it is up on the website already. You can visit

  • that cleanmyspace.com. This week's comment question and it's an important one, "what

  • are your ironing questions?" I know this is been a burning hot topic for a long

  • time around here, I know I'm full of puns.

  • Leave me your questions down below because I think we are going to get more ironing

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  • Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next time.

  • Well it's the end of the video and it is that time of the week where I get throw

  • you to a couple of other videos, I think you're going to love. While we are on the

  • topic of household appliances, why don't we learn we learn how to clean, I don't

  • know, a microwave? While you're at it if you're a coffee drinker or a tea drinker or a

  • hot chocolate drink, why don't you figure out how to clean your Keurig?

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  • Thanks guys and I will see you next week.

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