Wrinkle free!

You too can be wrinkle free with our amazing offer on the Bosch Sensixx steam-generating iron.  Down from £179.99 to just £89.99.

I’ve (reluctantly) road tested one this weekend and can say that it truly cuts the time spent on the job that I most loathe (the runners up were unloading the dishwasher, putting Thing 1’s train tracks away and raking moss out of the lawn).

Don’t ask me why I dislike ironing so much, or how that hatred started… I really don’t know. I think we can be quite certain that it’s not because I’m a perfectionist and I feel like I need to get every seam and wrinkle worked out perfectly when I iron. Perhaps it is because it is such a mind-numbingly boring chore. Certain animal hairs make me wheezy and cause my eyes to water and the sight of a pile of laundry, waiting to be ironed, makes me feel much the same.  In my crazy, carefree (but besuited) singleton days I did pay for someone to iron my work clothing because I had Expendable Income (this is now fully absorbed by nappies, Lego, Sudocreme and oven chips).  I love the feeling of freshly laundered & ironed bedlinen and don’t really like to leave the house in clothes that look like they are fresh out of a crisp packet, so I do appreciate the loveliness.

When I was asked to review the Sensixx, my first reaction was to say no.  Actually, that was my 2nd reaction but the first is unprintable. Once I thought about it, however, I figured I was the perfect person to review an iron. If an iron can win me over, it must be pretty ruddy good, right?

So, you ask, did this iron make me enjoy ironing? No.  Definitely not. I don’t think this chore will ever be considered one I truly enjoy doing, but this iron made it a LOT quicker, and for that reason alone, it’s a winner in my eyes.  I can also recommend doing the ironing whilst slowly quaffing your way through some sauvignon blanc, watching back-to-back episodes of Breaking Bad and demanding sustenance in the form of some nice lemon chicken.  You become completely unaware of time passing… but you may not pay too much attention to the quality of your ironing!