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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
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Ah ironing, SO do not miss those days. Although it may be coming around again shortly. Right now I fall into the never-iron-dry-clean- when-desperate category. With a wardrobe of shorts and tops who needs to iron?
BTW do we get to know who is who on the list? :)
I don't iron either. At all. Never. If I wash something and don't get it out of the dryer and it wrinkles, back to the hamper it goes. I just re-wash it. My parents, knowing this, bought me a steamer - a very easy way to get the wrinkles out. I don't know much about it but my husband has had great success with it.
I just saw Malia's post. Can we guess first? Ha ha... I'm thinking Kristin is the one who doesn't know you can buy starch in a store. :)
Malia, my stuff doesn't need ironing/drycleaning either, it's my husband's stuff.
I'll leave it up to the others whether they want to fess up or not since I didn't get permission to expose them. :-)
Are we supposed to guess who does what? LOL
I iron, I let it all pile up until my husband says he needs a shirt and then I put on an old movie and set myself up in front of the tv and iron away. Ugh, I hate it. I loathe it. But I am too cheap to do it any other way.
Back when I had some money in my pockets I paid a friend to iron for me, those were the days, course I was also deep in debt. I've learned lessons....
Oh, I want to play...
Diann irons regularly. Colleen's husband irons. Denise owns a can of starch with dust on it and Kristin didn't know you could buy starch.
Am I close? LOL.
And Sabrina only irons on Saturday night for church. ;) (if I have to)
WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK I'M the one who didn't know you could buy starch?? Even if it is true, I think I'm offended. I had to go down and prove to them all my husband's shirts said dry clean only. Imagine my surprise when they didn't say that at all. LOL
My dirty little secret: The dry cleaners for work clothes and a spray bottle for the rest. I LOVE my spray bottle! I just take the clothes out of the dryer, put them on a hanger and spray them lightly. Sometimes they need a good shake. Sometimes I have to drench the color and smooth it with my hand. But this way I don't have to iron. It works! When my kids moved out, one of the first things they got from me was their own "iron"..a plastic spray bottle.
i introduced my brother to another form of ironing -- spray the clothes with a febreeze type product and toss it into the dryer while you get ready, and viola you are ready to go!!!
I think this is so funny because my dearest friend and I have this conversation on a regular basis. She is an ironing fanatic (she even irons her sheets for the bed) and she has not one, but two, top of the line irons.
I am a wash and wear kind of girl and still have the cheap iron I registered for when I got married 12 years ago. (Sadly, I wouldn't have even registered for it but my groom-to-be asked me to.)
I love the Febreze idea. I also take a wet wash cloth and throw it into the dryer with something that requires a bit of ironing. That helps too. Although I do have to say my girlfriends' clothes (and linens, and kids clothes, and tablecloths) always look immaculate and very polished and mine look, well, wrinkled.
And Sabrina, I think you hit it on the nose!
Sorry, Sabrina, I don't iron regularly--though I will occasionally. NOW which one do you think I am?????
I'll say that I struggled for a minute thinking maybe your "principal" husband may iron his own clothes.
Gosh, Diann, now you've thrown off my whole perception of you girls. Sigh. I'll have to think on this. ;)
Kristin, it's because you wrote Ashley and Ashley is you. Ashley would never iron. She's the one that had her khakis hanging in the shower and would never wear them again because there was no way she was going to take the time to get the stain out, right? And what about her shirt that was hanging on her never-used treadmill?
I rest my case :) But we still love you.
He he... We were right about Kristin. Yay. :) Doesn't it stink being so transparent? We make fun because we envy... wait... is that the way that goes? ;-)
I never iron unless I have to. I iron the day I need to wear it! I do not pay others to iron for me though. I even hate having to use a dry cleaner sometimes.
Now, take housecleaning. Would I take a housekeeper? You betcha. Someday! :)
I swear by my ironing method...a damp sock in a hot dryer with a wrinkled shirt...
works every time:-)
Hey, do not mock me...I'm busy readin'!! LOL!!
I have used a blow dryer to get some wrinkles out.
It worked. :)
My washer is 1/3 the size of most American washers. And...no dryer in my dinky apartment, so we have to line dry everything--which means it ALL has to be ironed (even some of the sheets because they get so badly wrinkled in the miniscule washer). I hate to iron, so I pay my housecleaner or my daughter to iron for me every week. If I end up having to iron, I turn on music and sing along. It helps.
Obviously, Kristin didn't know you could buy starch in the store, Colleen irons regularly, Diann's husband does all the ironing, and Denise has the dusty starch.
Am I right?
Sadly, I still have to iron somethings, only because I don't like the dry cleaner lady that much. Sometimes, I'm afraid she's going to do something to my clothes because she looks at me like I'm crazy. Dryell is amazing!
Okay, I have to set the record straight, at least on MY end. My husband does do OCCASIONAL ironing, as in, a shirt or two a week. But PLEASE don't get the idea that he does ALL the ironing. Um, no. I iron my own stuff.
But having said that, neither one of us iron all that much these days. Okay, there was once a day when I actually ironed my jeans--GASP--that is just too embarrassing to admit, but there it is.
My kids quickly set me straight, however, and now I'm happily wrinkled (in more ways than one). *g*
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