<p>HImom, steamers have mixed results, depending on the brand and what you are trying to de-wrinkle. They require using distilled water versus a self-cleaning iron, which is a pain. They also are not very good at putting a crease back into a clothing article such as a cotton pair of pleated pants or shorts or resetting the memory on a collared shirt or a placket-front in need of a hard press. They also take up more room than a PORTABLE ironing board and iron.</p>
<p>Thanks–yes, I’m aware that there are a TON of steamers on the market. I even have purchased a few, only to get rid of them as no one in our household ever used them much. I’ll leave it to S to figure out what will work for him. He’s quite resourceful and I’ve been very impressed with all his choices thus far.</p>
<p>My brother swears by his Costco steamer–loves it & uses it every morning on all his clothing or it would wrinkle like heck!</p>
<p>This was the one my son used, not fancy, but okay for what he needed and small.
<a href=“https://www.target.com/s?keywords=Fabric+Steamer+-+SF-435W&searchNodeID=1038576|1287991011&ref=sr_bx_1_1&x=13&y=10[/url]”>https://www.target.com/s?keywords=Fabric+Steamer+-+SF-435W&searchNodeID=1038576|1287991011&ref=sr_bx_1_1&x=13&y=10</a></p>
<p>We have a wonderful way to get out wrinkles for dress shirts.</p>
<p>It’s called Dry Cleaning by Louis.</p>
<p>Sorry, couldn’t resist.</p>
<p>We did get a chuckle one summer when we were staying at a fancy hotel on points in Chicago. Housekeeping mistakenly knocked on our door to deliver a pair of freshly laundered socks, neatly folded and tied up in a pretty little box. It probably cost as much to provide this service as the pair of socks.</p>
<p>Poor guy didn’t have a choice, though. As we found out later, there were no laundry facilities in the hotel. Now, whenever we travel, I make sure there are laundry facilities wherever we’re staying, as best as possible. We did use the tide in a sink packets, though, on that trip, so it was a good learning experience.</p>
<p>Visited son this weekend to set up hardware for new computer, and went in the laundry room to check out these mystery machines. Found the analagous cold setting and hottest dryer setting, as well as the “bad” dryers, ie, don’t dry well. Other young men in the laundry room were thrilled to see a mom in there, and I was bombarded with questions on which fabrics, colors, would be okay to wash together. They were just adorable.</p>
<p>D1 was an RA for 2 years as an undergrad and 2 years as a grad student. Each semester RA’s were required to “put on a program” for the students on their floors/buildings. D always volunteered to do the first one at the beginning of the year. The program? You guessed it… “The Essentials of Doing Laundry.” It was her most popular program all year and very well attened, especially by freshman boys.</p>
<p>Oh, Peachy, that is great. If anything, just familiarize them with the machines. It would also be a good idea if they would show them where the trash chute is. Based on the amount of trash built up in my son’s suite, I would have thought they didn’t know where it was. Found the culprit, though. The trash chute was locked. After being told by the RA and desk assistant, we happily piled all the trash in the trash chute’s outer room. By the end on the day, it was all gone.</p>