Ironing (Edinburgh)

We will collect a bag of up to 20 washed items professionally iron them, fold them, hang up if we’ve been given the hangers and drop them back. You may be tempted to give this gift if you’ve seen the following symptoms in the gift recipient:

·baskets of ironing lying around the house

·recipient grumpily banging round in their pyjamas every morning desperately looking for something to wear to work

·muttered comments such as “its time you lot learnt to do your own ironing”

·triangular shaped scorch marks on your shirts.

So, you could give a gift of an ironing voucher and think you might get a gift of a couple of weeks of peaceful and serene mornings. But this can be a hard gift to give – after all, you don’t want someone getting the very mistaken impression that, well, you think their housekeeping standards aren’t up to much.

So, try these strategies:

·get your personalisation right on the ironing gift voucher – words such as “so you’ve got time out with girls”

·give it alongside a pamper or experience gift that she can enjoy guilt free whole someone else is ironing

·give it with a giftedpeople.co.uk “gift of time” open voucher. However, if you are Mum, you can give an ironing voucher with near impunity.