Does anyone starch their bed sheets?

It's a fair amount of trouble.

If you don't have anything better to do with your time . . .

Sure and my underwear 😜

Mangle: British a machine having two or more cylinders turned by a handle, between which wet laundry is squeezed (to remove excess moisture) and pressed.

What's your point, R3?

That I had to look it up. I didn't know what a damn mangle was.

Ah. It makes quick work of ironing flat pieces.

$2400!

^ 😂 Do you know how many times I can send my sheets to the cleaners for $2400? A lot

It doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense to starch modern fabrics. If you want stiff non-wrinkly material there are all sorts of synthetic alternatives.

It would be faster and easier to change your sheets every day.

You must be new here.

You know a sizable number of DL prisspots starch their sheets.

And harshly judge anyone who does not.

"Trash! Pure trash with those unstarched sheets!!!! Hiss!!!"

Funny - I was just wondering to myself whether I could use starch to uncrease the top end of a flat sheet so when I fold it over it would be neat and tidy. I had tried simply steam ironing it, but it didn't really work.

They all seem to get creased in the dryer no matter how full or empty the machine is.

Percale is nice when starched, and it's a good summer sheet...crisp and cool. I wouldn't recommend starching sateen, a gentle pressing is ok.

Always dry your fitted sheet separate from your flat and cases to minimize wrinkles, take them out before they are completely dry and spread them flat on your bed.

Don't use fabric softeners, they just leave a coating on things.

[quote] It doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense to starch modern fabrics. If you want stiff non-wrinkly material there are all sorts of synthetic alternatives.

Ah, but what if I don't want synthetic alternatives? I want cotton. Percale, to be precise.

[quote] It would be faster and easier to change your sheets every day.

This is not at all what I'm asking about. Even freshly washed sheets lack the nice feel that starched sheets have. Changing one's sheets every day would not make them feel starched.

I know my way around a mangle. I grew up in a converted school house that had 28 huge tall windows. Our curtains were made of cotton voile and it was my job to take them down monthly, launder them, and press with a mangle. We also used the mangle for our percale cotton sheets, which were laundered weekly. With four kids in the house, we took turns pressing the sheets, so once per month I'd press bedding for 5 bedrooms. I still press my sheets, but skip when my aches and pains get to me.

My mother would get her sheets starched at the cleaners. You could cut yourself on the edges. I wasn't a fan.

In the US, mangles are called wringers.

We had one when I was little. Six kids and all the laundry went through the wringer, as did every kids' fingers at one time or another. By the time kid number eight came along, dad could finally afford to replace the wringer with a washer AND a dryer. Much rejoicing, even though we hardly used the dryer since hanging the wash out was still cheaper.

gays use unholy starch on their sheets

R18, may I asked your age and location where you grew up? It sounds either idyllic or Pennsyltucky-adjacent.

Consuela! It’s for you.

My grandmother's washing machine had a mangle/wringer attached, so I'm guessing there may not have been a spin cycle?

Everything dried on the clothes line that went from her second floor window to the telephone pole at the far property line NYC two family..

When she had to replace the old one - and I think this was in the 70s - she managed to find a new machine that had the same set-up. I have no idea where the hell she found one.

Looked something like this but it was in the apartment rather than in the backyard in the snow

[quote] In the US, mangles are called wringers. We had one when I was little. Six kids and all the laundry went through the wringer, as did every kids' fingers at one time or another. By the time kid number eight came along, dad could finally afford to replace the wringer with a washer AND a dryer. Much rejoicing, even though we hardly used the dryer since hanging the wash out was still cheaper.

[bold] WRONG. [/bold] In the United States, they are called mangles or rotary irons. They are not wringers and have nothing to do with the lack of a washer and dryer. In other words, one wouldn't replace a mangle with a washer and dryer. A mangle is an iron.

Wouldn't starched sheets get pasty when you get sweaty? Though I'm betting that those who have time to iron and starch sheets aren't getting any action between the sheets.

[quote] Wouldn't starched sheets get pasty when you get sweaty? Though I'm betting that those who have time to iron and starch sheets aren't getting any action between the sheets.

Those of us who can afford to have a mangle and starch and iron sheets have someone do that.

My grandmother had an Ironrite mangle like this. There are knee-operated levers to run the motor backward or forward.

They are not wringers, which wring water from wet clothes.

After discovering masturbation as a child. I starched my own sheets and underwear daily.

No, nor do I cover my furniture with plastic. Who comes up with this shit?

[quote] No, nor do I cover my furniture with plastic. Who comes up with this shit?

Covering one's furniture with plastic or leaving plastic on a lampshade are both tacky, middle-class things to do.

Starching and ironing bedsheets shows an attention to detail and an appreciation of making everyday things nice.

^^Are starched sheets resistant to prune juice stains?

[quote] Are starched sheets resistant to prune juice stains?

No. Sheets stained with prune juice should be treated with white vinegar.

Starching sheets…JFC.

What's the matter, R34? You don't like a well-made bed?

Sounds like someone needs some prunes.