The Paddock

Same here. I will not allow my wife to touch my S.O. uniform. Anything else is okay, but when I have to iron my S.O. uniform I do it. She doesn't understand, and I really don't give a damn.
She actually does a great job when she irons clothes, but like you, my uniform is off limits. I don't let her shine my work shoes either, as I'm very particular about how my shoes look too.
Yeah, I guess being 'military' men, it is something that is just hardwired into our consciousness in basic training & AIT. That, and learning to hate your drill sergeant. LOL!
I was ragging on my part-time guy the other day about this same exact topic. He rolls into work looking like he slept in his uniform, and his work shoes look like they've been shined with a Hershey bar. Plus, he doesn't have enough backside to properly fill out his uniform anyway, he's always hitching up his pants because they're sliding down his backside. He's just a friggin' mess, that kid.

I will iron, vacuum and wash dishes. Also, I usually do the cooking. There aren't too many things better than making a delicious, juicy steak.

I'm the worst ironer in the world, thankfully we have a maid for that, I'm going to suffer when we leave VN!

I don't iron shit. I press my clothes. Most of the time though if its some kind of dress attire outside of church I will take that junk to the cleaners. Also if I'm having something pressed its always heavy starch. Little known fact of the War household, I do all the laundry including folding. I don't like how the navy taught my wife to fold so I do it the correct way.

YOU BET YOUR ASS REAL MEN IRON CLOTHES!

I send most of my work clothes to the cleaners (I wear suites) and I also dig heavy starch. I also have some housekeeping help for my wife 3 or 4 days during the week, and while she does an outstanding job ironing clothes she and everyone else knows that NO ONE touches my clothes! LOL. If I didn't iron it, its not right. Hell, I iron everything ...Ill iron a t shirt.

I've done that too... but at least I can say I've never ironed my socks or underwear.

If mama-san means maid, err, yeah lol, its pretty damned cheap out here to get a maid to clean the apartment and do laundry service, just not worth doing it yourself considering the price!

Nope... can't say that I have

I'm horrible at ironing. Hope that doesn't make me a "fake man."

It must be really damn cheap.

Can't beat that. Although I wouldn't want other people handling my clothes or really in my apartment to begin with but that is a great deal. Its definitely hard to keep on top of everything when you work all the time.

Yup, its sweet, the only problem is you get used to it, I was backpacking around Asia last year and I was down to my last pair of boxers before realising that I had to my own laundry, I hadn't done it in over a year, it was weird lol! If we move to Japan next year like is looking likely it will be problematic as we won't be affording a maid over there lol!