To use dirty clothes to clean with

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I just cleaned my shower screen with my worn (last night) PJ bottoms because the material of it brings it up clean and streak free.

I've also been known to wipe down the mirrors with a worn sock or DH's pants and often wipe DDs nose with her 'dirty' vest if I've just taken it off.

Does anyone else do this or am I just really slovenly! Have outed myself as a dirty cow now, haven't I?

i dust the skirting boards with my socks just before i take them off to go to bed

I do this sometimes - in my head I call it 'emergency dusting'. It's like emergency hoovering when you only do the essential bits!

I always do this, particularly the socks on the skirting board

I do it too - wipe excess dust off a bedside cabinet with pyjamas that are just about to go into the wash, or wipe off splash marks from around the bath or basin with a t-shirt heading the same way. They'll all get cleaned properly - eventually!

I knew I could rely on MNetters to be as thrifty lazy as I am.

Now I don't feel as bad and will treat myself to a Jaffa cake or 8!

teenybash - absolutely 'Emergency dusting' good description

I have never dusted my skirting boards

I do this, but with dhs clothes only....

I wipe over the bathroom sink with used face cloths to get the toothpaste marks off

I'm glad other people do this. I never actually decide to clean our bedroom, so it's a wipe around with a t-shirt that counts as dusting and that's it!

I wipe down the downstairs toilet with one of my son's items of clothing, mainly because it's his mates who use the loo (and leave all their splash marks behind). It's going in the washing machine anyway, and the loo gets a proper wash, but it does make me feel good.

(Yes, Doctor, I have toilet ishoos)

mmm…sock dusting…I hate dusty skirting boards (and in my household apparently it is only me who sees them ). I shall instigate this this very evening

Yes I do this, of it's going in the wash anyway what does it matter?

Dirty + Dirty does not equal clean

Wiping skin flakes, bo and sweat on surfaces I'm trying to make clean... just doesn't make sense!

No no no no no! My heart can't take the gross factor of this.

if it make yon feel any better my mum used to dust her dressing table with her old knickers.
too much even for me! just don't do the dusting I say!

Wiping skin flakes, bo and sweat on surfaces I'm trying to make clean... just doesn't make sense!

You're taking off more than you're putting back, though - just view it as temporary redistribution of skin flakes. They'll all get hoovered up at a more convenient time.

Hmm you might stain your clothes though and any cleaning might actually damage them.

^cleaning products might damage them. Typo.

But surely if you're actually cleaning you'd use bleach or some other cleaning product, and that would damage the clothes?

Polishing a smear off a mirror with your sleeve so you can see to pluck your eyebrows is one thing, but how on earth can you clean the loo with someone's clothes?

I don't even wear my normal clothes to clean, I change into cleaning clothes and slippers so that it doesn't matter if they get squirted with bleach.

Nigella - I tried that, until my little darlings started drawing faces with their fingers in the dust on the TV screen. Little pests

Inertia - this is not proper cleaning - it's an emergency wipe. Totally different.

I use used teatowels to do emergency mop-ups of water or milk in the kitchen. Ditto bathtowels for floods in the bathroom. All of these get washed at 60 with Napisan, so I'm saving tonnes if kitchen roll without being toooo unsanitary I hope!