Most of these errors are easily avoidable by some simple tag and precaution reading. I know it's a lot to ask to read and understand every manual of every appliance in your house, but an iron can literally destroy buildings when misused. PLEASE be vigilant and educate yourself a little before you heat one of these up!

Folks, you CANNOT IRON SYNTHETIC FABRICS. 🤣🙈 IT’S PLASTIC. (Synthetic fabrics don’t wrinkle as much but if you wanna iron you HAVE HAVE HAVE to put something like a cotton cloth on top and use the lowest heat possible. Better just hang your clothes to dry so they don’t wrinkle...)

There's basically just two fails here: "let me iron this plastic piece of clothing" "let me place this iron, hot side down, on this random surface"

I don't understand why so many people leave their recently used irons hot face down. They literally have a flat edge so that they can be propped and kept upright until they cool down. I remember rooming with this really messy and careless girl for 3 months on a film shoot. She always asked to borrow my personal iron and I would watch her iron on the bed and then place the hot surface down on the white sheets. She ruined 3 different sheets with burn marks and had to pay for them. She asked me "how come you don't burn the sheets" so I had to do this entire demo of myself ironing and then I showed her how I would place the iron on my bedside table while adjusting my clothes and not facedown on the sheets. She was like "ohh...."

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I was making our Halloween costumes, when my son walked into the ironing board and the iron fell face down on his face. I hallowed much longer than he did. At the ER, I asked why they didn't consider this child abuse. They told me abusers don't cry much less sob. Until it healed completely, I went to his daycare center several times a day to apply cream. As a result, he doesn't have a scar. My ex wanted to catch me acting irresponsibly, so he went to the doctor and asked how negligent they thought I was. He got a loud, long lecture about my dedication to our son. They were impressed I drove from my office to the day care center twice a day. If only I had explained how hot the iron was to my son. He had never seen one. (At his request, we dressed as a witch family, because boy witches have swords and he really wanted a sword. He told me after the costumes completed. It did look cute tucked into his gold belt.).

TL;DR- people are morons with no basic life-skills.

I feel attacked by all the people judging these pictures.

A long time ago I was in Air Cadets and we were billeted in a brand new officers quarters for the night that wasn’t even officially open yet. One of the other cadets was ironing his pants on the carpet of his room and left the iron face down. No surprise that he burned the iron shape into the brand new floor.

If these weren't so unbelievably stupid they would be out and out hilarious! I have never laughed so much at so much stupidity. For one thing, there are a lot of neat gadgets at the store to hold your wayward iron to keep it from getting in trouble! You can spend $10.00 on a rubber rippled mat to setnyour iron on. Hot or cold, it doesn't matter. There is also a wire rack that you lay your iron in and it keep it from falling. Please people. Save some money and go to your department stores or shop on-line for one of the gadgets. Much cheaper than buying new carpet!

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The level of stupid here is unbelievable.

Plot Twist: They're trying to tell us it's the new illuminati symbol!

A friend bumped an ironing board once, the iron fell off and ran down her leg, burning her as it went...the iron had been left on for days, she was not ironing, big badda burn