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

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Or was it just mine

I did about five years ago. It gets rinsed with hot water so why not?

ugh ugh ugh licky tissue. because dried spit is better than bean juice any day of the week.

Ugh another for spit and tissue here.

Dm smoked and drank a lot of coffee too. I hated the smell of her saliva, and it used to dry sticky.

Spit on a tissue for a quick tidy up & for days out it was a damp flannel in a little plastic bag.
It was years before baby wipes were a thing & I still like the smell of damp flannels as it reminds me of those long ago days out

No, but I remember visiting a friend in the nineties when she had a toddler. She wiped the highchair with a cloth, wiped something up off the floor, then rinsed the cloth under the tap and wiped the baby’s face. 🤮

No but she used to spit on a tissue and wipe my face. I hated that!

Urgh no.

If we were out and I'd got food on my face she'd get me to spit on a hanky myself - so not really different to licking your own lips.

Ugh I remember the spit on a tissue and wipe my face and hands 🤮

I kept a pack of facial wipes in my bag for when we were out and about as a toddler and she face planted into her food.

100 per cent Can still smell the dishcloth to this day.

DM did this to my DS when he was about a year old ... I was very

When we were once discussing our home hygiene standards (or lack of) a colleague once told me that when she couldn’t find anything else, she used to wipe her kids’ faces with the floor cloth.

Her two were hardly ever ill, and incidentally both high achievers who went to Oxford.

Spit on a used tissue from the depths of her bag. It was warm!

I’d have loved my DM to use a J cloth. She used to spit on a lace-edged handkerchief and exfoliate my face with great energy at the slightest hint of grubbiness, it used to turn my stomach.

I once found my FIL cleaning my MIL’s face (she had dementia) with my dish scourer sponge ... using the scouring side

Yep! I remember because I didn't like the smell. The best was the wet, soapy flannel that she kept in a plastic bag for days out. To be fair it was very echo-friendly and better than the endless wipes I use on my kids messy faces!

Yes. Wipe kids, wipe table.

My mum didn't like j cloths, she uses those woven, white dish cloths. But she'd lick on a tissue, or get me to lick a tissue and wipe it on my face.

80s child. My mum did and still does to my kid and it makes me cringe.

... for days out it was a damp flannel in a little plastic bag.

Ooh, get you Miss La-di-dah with an actual flannel to clean your face! Proper posh in your house!

Yes and I do now with my children 😂 Just wet it in warm soapy water and voila!

We have a clean one every day and I boil wash them. They’re great!

Another one whose Mum used to spit on a tissue and then wipe off the dirty marks on my face. I never thought there would be so many of us!

I think the ones whose mum took out a flannel were very lucky. Can't believe there are still people doing the J cloth face wipe even now

Did J cloths exist in the 70s?

And those wire things with the pink coming out. A Brillo pad, perchance?

No J cloths here, Mum used a particular brand called a Wettex cloth, quite a thick textured cloth, I remember them in pink and yellow, subsequently she used to call any dishcloth a Wettex cloth.

Same here, 82 kid

Spit on a tissue here too.

Never a dish cloth. Well, not that I remember anyway.