I only follow a handful of blogs, because there is only so much that I can absorb in a given day. But one blog that I read regularly is Manspeak, “a daily dose of manliness” from some guys at our sister church in Knoxville, TN. These guys are working hard to preserve biblical masculinity among the men in their church - they put the “men” in complementarian.

Recently these boys posted some interesting statistics from the Knoxville News Sentinel about ironing:

Rowenta surveyed more than 3,000 people in 15 cities to find out about their ironing habits.

Among the findings:

• 72.1 percent iron jeans.
• 55 percent iron T-shirts.
• 27.3 percent iron gym clothes.
• 23.2 percent iron boxer shorts.
• 2.8 percent iron bathing suits.

One of the most interesting discoveries: About 24 percent iron their clothes while wearing them.

Also, according to another survey, young British men are more comfortable ironing than tinkering under the hood.

Ticketbox.net polled about 1,300 guys, and 62 percent preferred the ironing board to the car. Only 10 percent didn’t mind getting in touch with their inner grease monkey.

How about 24% ironing their clothes while wearing them? Weird.

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