Did your ex notice a difference oldfort? Was he that much more comfortable with ironed boxers?
I am with @doschicos. As long as I am on vacation (and not visiting colleges in small towns where hotel choice is limited), I prefer the duvet cover wrapped in layers of pressed white covers, and many large white pillows laid against the leather headboard.
Some family members in Ireland iron sheets and towels when the older generation comes to visit. Dryers are still not widely installed, even in 2 million euro flats in Dublin. Towels dry very stiff. Challenging to schedule laundry in a country where it rains a lot. But I digress…
When I was in college, I spent a summer in Provence. A very wealthy French professor took a group of students to her fully-staffed and gorgeous farmhouse in Provence each summer and charged only a small pittance – it was heavily subsidized. The sheets were dried flat in the lavender fields on top of the lavender and took on the scent of lavender. Stiff, crisp sheets naturally scented with lavender – those were the best sheets I ever slept on!
The ex loved his ironed boxers.
L’Occitane used to sell a Lavender Pillow Mist that was great but they don’t offer it any longer.
Ironed jeans are great. (Don’t worry, I rarely iron them.)
Speaking of hotels and duvets: I stayed in an upscale place, loved the bedding so much that I ordered some, including the duvet. I asked the phone rep about how the duvets last or stand up to washing, should it be something I clean weekly. And he said, I don’t think we wash them that much. Yikes. (I figure he was ignorant of how housekeeping worked. I hope.)
They wash the sheet-like duvet covers with every new guest at every hotel I know. Seriously. You can’t convince me otherwise.
In fact, when youtube first came out, I watched a bunch of hotel-housekeeping videos to learn how to put on a duvet cover in two minutes flat. Not sure if they still are there but worth taking a look!
Plus, the covers are snowy white. If they don’t change they must have the most fastidiously clean guests ever.
First thing my husband does upon entering a hotel room is peel back the covers and inspect the bed to check for cleanliness plus any evidence of bed bugs. And a thorough bathroom inspection.
Feed and walk our puppy. Take my meds. Check calendar to see what I have to do…dinner (home or away)…md appointments…workout…I will fluff the duvet. Tackle my newest project…now it is dusting and straightening up the library.
I am not a cleaner. It is not for lack of trying…I just “miss” stuff.
My H is uber methodical about chores. You can set the clock by his day, laundry, vac, dusting, dog logs, dinner, kp, evening news. I go to work everyday, my only daily chore.
Ok I read through all 9 pages! Y’all like chores a lot more than I do :).
For me personal grooming is separate from taking care of the house/kids/car, but I can see where it’s just one more aspect of care.
I am not a creature of habit-not even a little bit. But I hate clutter and I’m a germaphobe, so my cleaning and care routine consists of uber-efficient bursts of doing something all day, like washing and waxing all the wood floors in the house, then not doing that again for 6 months or so.
I tend to save up administrative stuff like health care bills until I feel like mowing through all of them at once.
Mostly it’s my nose telling me what to do when-like sheets when I can’t smell the freshness on them anymore, (probably between once every 2 weeks and once a week, if my husband forgets to take a shower after crossfit it’s the next day (GROSS)). The dogs when they stink (probably 1x a week I’ll stick them in the shower with me because they’re tiny).
I have house cleaners in every other week, but I do vacuum occasionally. Laundry is not regular-when H says “I have no more underwear” I’ll do it all and get it all put away. 
Dishes-the girls are on unload duty, I cook, and H and I take turns loading. We just got a new Bosch dishwasher and I am loving it.
I don’t know where my iron is. I use it for crafts more than chores. Wrinkly stuff goes to the dry cleaners.
I also re-arrange the furniture and pictures in my house a lot. I think I get restless, and I also don’t want wear patterns worn in the floor/carpets/couches. And it’s a good excuse to vacuum under and around everything (like baseboards behind beds), when it’s all out in the open.
If you told me I had to do all these things on a schedule, it’d make me SO unhappy.
The ex loved his ironed boxers.
Did the ex iron his own boxers, or is that one reason he is an ex? 
Absolutely love the idea of sheets dried on top of lavender.
Ironing sheets made some sense when laundry was rung by hand or through the rollers on an old style machine and then hung to dry. Ironing probably restored sheets to their actual size, eliminating all the ridges and wrinkles.
Our bed is made every day either by DH or myself, depending. I am out of bed earlier than he is during the week as I am still working and he is retired. The dishwasher is loaded after every meal and it is run when full or close to full. The kitchen counters, sink and stove are wiped down every morning and night. As it is just DH and myself, either one of us do laundry once a week for clothes and once a week for towels. I usually do a load of two sets of sheets. I also love freshly ironed sheets and pressed clothes but shamefully I don’t love them enough to do much about it. If clothes need to pressed of course I or DH will do it but we don’t keep an ironing basket of things that go from laundry to being ironed.
To all the non-ironers - How do you get clothes wrinkle free without ironing? I can’t use any softener due to the fragrance. Do the little ball “things” in the dryer really work? (have only read about these, not seen them, but haven’t looked too much)
We (and that would be over-use of the plural pronoun…I!) handwash all dishes and do it as soon as we use them. I have a real aversion to dirty dishes in the sink. I do have no problem with them air-drying in the rack in the other side of the sink basin. H does, so he often puts them away.
I wipe the counters daily, kitchen and bathroom. I spend too much time wiping my black glass-top stove, which is more from the dust than food. We sweep the downstairs 2-3 times per week and the kitchen 4-5.
" I can’t use any softener due to the fragrance."
Have you tried unsecured Downy?
Yes, even the unscented has too much fragrance. I know, sigh, they all have some smell. I don’t really like how softeners make my clothes feel anyway, but I would really like it if I didn’t have to iron so much.
Jersey fabric and a good washing machine (Miele frontloader) are the secrets to wrinkle-free wardrobe.
@sryrstress What do you use for laundry detergent with your fragrance sensitivity?
Tide unscented or All unscented. I can’t sense any fragrance on them. H’s thick heavy jeans and polo shirts seem to especially be culprits in need of ironing.