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?!

Get different coloured cloths for different things ie high chair, kitchen sides then throw them in the washer or use blue roll (I use this for the bathroom) that’s a lot of kitchen roll you are getting through!

That’s probably half a months wages for a lot of people. Insane

cloths - in washing machine or dishwasher.

Kitchen towel is - I assume- bad for the environment. I may be wrong in which case put me right please

That's ridiculous
As to this unhygienic idea, I can say that I never use anti bac product on my work top or floors and no ill effects at all. Only things DC got were Noro when it was going round school, nothing else. I also use 5 second rule for food dropped on floor (unless jam or suchlike)
I think the poster below has a good point about antibacs killing all but the worst bacteria
I use e cloths - I have about 20 - and put them in wash at least daily
I used tea towels to wipe toddler mouths etc and just popped them in washer too after meals

I bought some new towels last year and I cut up all our old ones to flannel type size for cleaning. I also do this with old tea towels so the ones in the kitchen are just used for drying.

Once used I just bing in the machine and they go in with the next load. Obviously if I feel some need a 90 degree wash I would do them separately, but often I am just using them to wipe up a spill.

Use reusable stuff. You can buy cheap micro fibre cloths in poundshops or use old muslins etc.

Yeh that’s pretty bad
£2 a day! A whole roll

Reusable muslins. We have a bucket in the corner of the kitchen and stick those in it. Nightly wash (because leaving them to fester would be grim, agreed), job done. Muslins work quite like paper - thin, absorbent etc and they're cheap to buy by the million.

That's insane money, and environmentally awful, too. Agree changing it is an idea.

We stopped using microfibre and j cloths because they're plastic, by the way, and shed micro plastics into the water supply.

I have loads of microfibre cloths, and wash them with tea towels regularly with a little bit of disinfectant in the machine, sometimes zoflora, sometimes lavender Dettol sometimes a few cheap own brand sterilising tablets. I got a few packs of 18 for £4 each a few weeks ago, so I always have enough. These ones

www.studio.co.uk/shop/en/studio/18pc-microfibre-cleaning-cloths-p-24129771--1

The e cloths being bad for the environment is surely the same with any artificial fibre in cheap clothes? It's not specific to e cloths

Christ, talk about being environmentally irresponsible.

Use cloths. Wash them. Done.

By the way, this insistence on antibac everything, all the time, is creating resistance, and the bugs are going to wipe us all out if it goes on like this.

I use cloths that I wash on a regular basis (once a week or so?) Never had any hygiene-caused problems.

Dish cloths u can stick in washing machine, or leave in bleach and hot water in kitchen sink!! Also you can but your wet cloth in a microwave for two minutes that kills all germs. I like the old fashion white cloths. Still use paper towels but only big one a week.

So muslin cloths when toddler was tiny, a good bib or just stripped and shoved in the bath when too messy... Now we only had kitchen roll for when people come for cake related celebrations or visits as I can't be arsed with all the plates.

We have loo roll of you really need to clean your face as it is cheaper, smaller and easy to hide away.

I use big dish cloths for the big spills but having stuff like a pvc easy wipe mat made my life so easy as I could fold in half and point into a bin then wipe down anything left with a muslin.

Only used our 6 pack over a year because two fell into the sink at one point...

Blimey!! Just get a big pack of dishcloths, use a clean one everyday if you're worried about germs then stick them in the hot wash with your towels.

I use a facecloth for DS, rinsed between uses and fresh one every day.
I use a sponge instead of dishcloth. It goes in the dishwasher every night when it goes on.
You can also use antibacterial spray with it on the high chair, or anti bac washing up liquid on it

I thought about this thread when my savoy cabbage, bathered in gravy, dribbled down my chin, this evening.

Obviously I'm not a proper grown up.

It was swiftly dealt with using a tissue from a value box of tissues, mind.

Poundland microfiber cloths....wash them in the dishwasher on top rack together with the cups or roughly under the tap and then stick in the.microwave for 1 to 2 minutes.

It works

I can’t even remember the last time I bought kitchen roll.

Our kitchen sponge gets used for high chair/surfaces/spills on anything except the floor. Another sponge lives under the sink for floor spills.

After use I wash them under the hot tap with some fairy. When they get ratty/holey they get binned.

I must be a proper slob...all this talk of bleaching and hot washes with cloths and sponges. I don’t even do that 🤷🏻‍♀️ You’re wiping up crumbs and normal household liquids, not cleaning toxic waste 😂

I got a stack of the microfibre yellow clothes from the costco car cleaning aisle. They're huge, so I cut some of them in 4 for little wipes, and keep the rest in a big pile. I use one a day (or more if I can't be bothered to rinse them properly, or if I have to mop something off the floor since I won't use them on a surface after that), and put the used one into a basket (so they don't get slimy and stinky) where they all get chucked in a wash at the end of the week with the teatowels etc.

I also got the blue roll, and a dispenser for it from costco, for those times when you just want to be able to wipe and chuck - but the clothes are much better than kitchen roll or blue roll really because they're more strong and absorbant than either

wash them in the dishwasher on top rack

We whack the dishwasher sponges in the cutlery basket - seems to do a good job.

We put DS’s high chair through the dishwasher - joys of a basic one - and use microfibre cloths quite a bit. We spend around £1/week on kitchen roll.

You actually need advice how to cut down on spending around 13 quid on kitchen roll a week??
Words fail me 🙄

You must be buying expensive ones!
Sainsburys own brand ones are 2 for £1.
Just saved you £350