70s kids did your mum used to wipe your face with her J cloth?

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Or was it just mine

No she used to luck her fingers and use them. Removal of a dirty mark from a face was preceded by, "come here, mummy's spit."

The one used for washing up and wiping down? Certainly not.

In the 60s my mum had a bit of Vim on it

A wet flannel kept handy.

not envy.. but also, strangely... envy.

I wipe my sons face with my licked finger 🤷‍♀️

Spit on a used tissue was a favourite.
I was a scruff so constantly being wiped or rubbed.

My mum always licked her fingers and did it that way which was vile, I hated the smell of her spit.

Not sure, definitely on the tea towel though and spitting on a hanky.

I remember not being allowed to stay at a particular friend's house as her dm had a
'hands /face /floor and dishes cloth'!!
I have been known to use a kitchen cloth to rub sticky hands but not a face.

A J-cloth is just a cloth until you use it for something.

So if she's just used it to clean the loo, it's gross. But if it's clean, then it's not any different from a flannel, is it?

Oh yes dish cloth (which I don't recall being changed often) used on our faces when at home and when out and about used tissue with her spit on it. I suspect my dcs would object to both options!

2020s Mum here and I daily wipe my children's faces with a wet soapy dishcloth. Same gets hot bleach washed daily and a fresh one every other day or so. Don't see difference between using it to wipe jam off faces to jam off plates!

DM and DGrandma's dishcloths always smelt damp. Bleurgh!

J Cloth! Luxury! My mum preferred to lick a (probably used) tissue and attack our mucky little faces with that. Still traumatized!

Yep. She'd be washing up and just grab us and give us a wipe down with the same cloth.
I'm not sure why she felt a greasy dish cloth was better than a bit of dirt on my face! Still, I have the constitution of an ox so I don't think it did me any harm.

Yes!

Yep. She'd be washing up and just grab us and give us a wipe down with the same cloth

Yes exactly this. It was the same cloth for about a week or two at least, used for all manner of cleaning, washing up, wiping the cat, whatever.

I think to be fair she did also do the 'spit on a tissue' for out and about

Not a J-cloth (they were too expensive) but the cotton, woven, string vest style cloth that always smelt mouldy and damp.
I'm just grateful it wasn't her wire wool pot scrubber. (The type with the pink/white chalky residue seeping out of it).
Granny spit shifted everything but she would pull out the hanky from her pocket with a Pan drop still stuck to it.

It was spit and a tissue in my childhood. Grim. I was at my friends house when her son was a toddler and she used the kitchen foam square thingy to wipe his face and hands. That was also grim.

My DM would spit on a tissue or handkerchief and wipe my face with that - yuk!

I don't remember explicitly, but all things considered it's quite likely. Many similar practices were used in our frugal 1970s household 🤨

Spit wash here as well! 🤢

My mum did. As a teenager and even now I have quite good skin so maybe it helped

Oh yes I remember the string vest ones. They'd always have bits from the pans stuck in them. And those wire things with the pink coming out. On the sink next to the orange rubbery things that stuck on the ends of the taps

even now I have quite good skin so maybe it helped