That's the average time spent on laundry* - and ironing is rarely counted as its own line item, because it's rarely done in one sitting.
It's ten minutes here, before a meeting. Fifteen minutes there, the night before a flight.
Add it up properly and the picture changes. Industry research on household laundry time puts ironing alone at close to an hour a week — and total garment care, start to finish, at three and a half hours.
Stretched across 18 years, that's the better part of half a year of your one life, spent standing at a board.
*According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics time-use data
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