Iron or Steamer?

STEAMER!!! It's the best thing I ever bought! Saves me so much time and head ache.

I have a great trick for clothes that arent too wrinkled but too wrinkled to wear out of the house. When I'm blow drying my hair in the morning I just run the dryer over my clothes, smoothing them as I go (I have them on already) and it works like a charm.

I have a Conair steamer (the same people who make curling irons) and I love it! I've had it for over 10 years and it wasn't very expensive. We almost never get the iron out. About the only time I do is if I really want to press a crease in something or am sewing and need to press something. It's totally worth the cost! Plus it's nice for things that you can't wash but want to sterilize a bit. For example our basinet cover is not washable; it has all kinds of metal rods in it that don't come out. So in between children I just steamed the heck out of it. Our steamer is also good for things like getting furniture marks out of carpet if you rearrange. It has a specific tool for it even.

I rarely iron.
Do you pull your clothes out of the dryer into a basket and let sit until someone gets around to folding them? That's what most people do. That's when they get all wrinkly.
Here are a few tips:
1) Dry your clothes just until damp, remove immediately, shake well to remove wrinkles and hang to finish drying.
2) I also find that 100% cotton clothes do better if you shake them out real well BEFORE you even put them in the dryer.
3) If you are going to transfer the clothes from the washer to the dryer immediately, rinse in warm water not cold.
4) Use a fabric softener in your wash.
5) If something does get wrinkled, toss it into the dryer for a few minutes with a wet washcloth. The heat and moisture will usually steam the wrinkles out. I only use an iron for stubborn wrinkles, creases or pleats if desired, or collars that aren't laying right.
Hopefully this will minimize your ironing. Good luck!

Well, I have very little experience with steamers, so I can't really help you. Although my sister in law swears by her $300 steamer!

And it's not that I'm an iron 'expert' either, but a different sister in law and my mother in law swear by their Rowenta Iron. I went through 3 in 2 years and hated them! I had dozens of issues. I kept going back to my little Black and Decker, which did and OK job. But I guess going back to my nursing days when our uniforms had to be clean and crisp before we got thrown up on, I felt I still needed something a little heavier. So I wend to a DeLonghi? Something like that. I think it was about $80 but I had a 20% off coupon at Bed Bath and Beyond.

I do have friends and family who swear they don't iron anything. But as I said above, as much as I dislike ironing, I do like the way ironed clothes look.