To spend £700 a year on kitchen roll?

[Stellenbosch]

Yes, I fucking am?!

WTF, how can I cut down on usage? For my bank balance and the environment! .

In my defence I do have a toddler and a rather large family, but still, go through £2 a day worth of the stuff!

I hate dish cloths, they seem so inefficient and full of bacteria!

Help?! Hints?! Tips?!

Nothing to do with eating messily. It’s not good manners to lick your mouth or wipe your mouth on your hand.

Do you live in Downton Abbey?

1. I don’t really lick my lips, I manage to get the food IN my mouth
2. Why is licking your lips bad manners anyway?

Nothing ick about it, if your waving your tonvue all over yes, but most adults can just do a quick bite of the lip tuck to get any food off the lips, which is not going to bother anyone.

Just a bogstandard middle class world.

1. It’s a bit ick I don’t really want to watch you licking away the mayo.

Well that’s what napkins are for, and that’s why most restaurants have them.

I put our dishcloths in the dishwasher - it goes on every night so the cloth gets cleaned then, it also gets changed and put in the wash about once a week.
No ones died yet!

Quick bite of the lip isn't something you'd really notice though and nothing to really see, not like I'd be running my tongue all over my face!

I have these www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/childrens-ikea-products/baby/baby-textiles/krama-washcloth-white-art-40054538/ I bought three packs and they do everything flannel-y wipe-y and wash cloth-y. They get washed with a slug of bleach and demoted to kitchen duty when they no longer look pristine.

We never buy kitchen roll. Have a 4 year old and 18 month old and two cats. I have lots of facecloths that I use as kitchen cloths and put in the wash-use about 4 a day and wash every day anyway.

Two rolls a day? Are you nuts?!

Vote for the shittest ever MN thread, and no i havent read it all because

fuck it

J cloth, or supermarket equivalent, can be washed

We used to go through a fair bit of kitchen roll. Ours are now 10 and 11 and our two packets of cheeky wipes are just starting to give up. I love them. Small, washable, tumble drier friendly. Can be used on bums, in the shower, for wiping up and cleaning. Love em.

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Also makes me feel better about being more environmentally helpful. And their size means our boys can clean and help without my needing to clean a full size dust cloth etc.

My Mother who is now 88, taught us to put all the weeks dish cloths in a large saucepan every week and boil them with washing powder, then rinse well and hang out to dry. No-one ever caught anything. I admit to soaking in mild bleach, washing machine at 95 or chucking them in the bin these days.

I am in the US and never buy even the great American paper towels.

I had lots and lots of cloth napkins for the DCs' laps at mealtimes.

Restaurants provide napkins so patrons can easily keep themselves clean whether they eat there or order food to go and staff are not pestered looking for emergency cleaning cloths or paper towels when patrons spill on themselves. Not everyone is going to use what a restaurant provides. Some are going to need extras. Paper cuts costs for restaurants. Just because restaurants provide them doesn't mean that they are essential for domestic use.

Hi OP, when my lot were tiny I used rinsed out baby wipes, not reusable I know, but because they're strong you can do say a whole highchair with one, rinsing it out as you go along, rather than a big handful of paper towels. Also I don't know how old your other children are but mounting the paper towel holder high up on the wall where only DP and I can reach it cut down on our usage an awful lot!

We do use a bit of kitchen roll, maybe about one roll every month or so but it goes in the compost bucket, not the bin.

Wilko sell 4 rolls for 90p. I use about 1 roll a month, mostly for drying the cat's bowls. I don't want to use human dishcloths and towels and then have to wash them immediately.

I wipe up all spills and clean surfaces with a microfibre cloth that has lasted me over 7 years, I soak it in water, soap and bleach occasionally and it's as good as new

Just use cloths? 🤔 nobody can be this dense

I saw it reccomended (don't remember where) to sterilise cloths and sponges with a quick blast in the microwave

@AGHHHH I’m worried if you’re wiping your arse with kitchen towels!

Each meal - get flannel out of drawer, wipe toddler, rinse, wipe table with squirt of antibac, rinse, wipe highchair, rinse, wipe floor. Chuck flannel in flannel bucket and wash at high temp every couple of days. Same for dishcloth - one a day and chuck in the bucket.

@stellenbosch @ShirleyPhallus

I use a linen napkin across my lap when I eat just incase a drip gets into my clothes or if I need to wipe my hand. I rarely do this and I rarely wipe my mouth with it, if it all. It sometimes gets washed after 1 meal, sometimes 3-4 (therefore a week as we don't always eat at home).

You're the one who uses a whole bloody tree every day to clean up after your child, don't question my perfectly normal lifestyle you nutter!!!

Isn’t the point of eco/micro fibre cloths that you use them without using antibacterial spray or bleach?

we use flannels/towels cut into pieces. 60 degrees wash with bio is all you need to get rid of bacteria (as ling as you are not dealing with vomit or worse). use, put un bucket, put on wash with towels etc

antibacterial spray is an amazing moneymaker for detergent industry, but completely uneccessary. a bit of washing up liquid works as well (used to work in the research and development part of a bug detergent manufacturer). Also, antibacterial stuff kills everything except the really bad bacteria. By using continuously it you are basically breeding the really bad stuff (as you make more space for them). most bacteria are perfectly harmless or even good for you. the only time to use that studf if is you have d&v in the house, and then use it thoroughly