Pay someone else to do it

Find a local lay about who cannot be arsed to find a proper job, and offer them 50p to do it

Engage your children

Your six year old needs skills right? Just put the ironing board up and off they go…

Fire it up

Switch up the oven to 230, baste in oil and roast

Enroll the assistance of you mother-in-law

Tell her she’s looking fat, wait for the steam to start pouring out of her ears and hold the shirt accordingly

Roadworks

Find some roadworks, (your nearest busy road should have some) and wait for them to start rolling the tarmac- voila

The cowboy stance

Whilst damp, swing it around your head- yeeha

Tape it

Heres one to save repeat attempts at getting those creases just right, bit of masking tape here, bit there…

The vodka trick

Get him drunk so he thinks its all straight

The Jesus miracle

Stand with hands outstretched and say…”The shirt is ironed”. Did it work?

The hard bit

If you’ve bothered trying the others you may as well try this….just iron the bloody thing