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?!

How are you disposing of two rolls a day?? Surely your bin is just brimming with kitchen roll. Honestly this is one of the weirdest threads I've ever read. It's an insane problem to have. And I agree with PP that have said it's absolutely obscene. It's also not normal.

We used to use a lot of kitchen roll... not this much but still a lot. Then I just stopped buying it and now we just use dishcloths and I keep them in a bleach solution. I realised how crap kitchen roll was and how much you had to use to absorb or clean anything... we now buy a roll maybe once a month or two, it tends to only be used for when me or DH need to blow our noses

It takes me weeks to get through 1 kitchen roll. Are you eating them or what?

This thread is bizarre

Especially the sub-thread about the necessity of daily napkins and lip licking.

I've started to use bamboo cloths to wipe DD's face and hands after every meal. Then I use the same cloth to wipe the highchair down. They are brilliant at getting the tray clean - more effective than kitchen roll, baby wipes, dishcloth or sponge.

I use one cloth per day and then just chuck it in whatever wash is going on next.

Boil washes and antibacterial spray etc. are completely unnecessary.

Sounds like an awful lot. If it's your preferred way then go ahead. I buy in bulk from Amazon. I tried the Bamboo recycle ones and although I like them they aren't the same so I stopped. I have torn up old sheets and such and washed them like the old nappy system. But I always go back to K roll.

I do use loo roll a lot too - I take it out with me when the roll has got smaller and fits my bag. It's ok for wiping faces of children and cafe table tops for nasty splodges. I also use it indoors on some cleaning jobs like windows sometimes and round the edges of skirting boards etc. It is cheaper than k roll.

I use microfibre cloths and wash them. Using two rolls of kitchen roll a day is ridiculous

What?

I dont use the stuff.

Microfibre cloth. Bung it in the wash with other stuff.

I cleaned half the worktop with a microfibre and half with a JCloth last week, the difference was amazing. It even felt 100 times cleaner. Smooth & shiny.

Sad I know.

PS I also use dishcloths and bung them in bleach. It depends what craze I've got on the go at the time...

Oh yes Yonijust that's one of my favourites actually! I was going to go entirely microfibre cloth cleaning but still find it useful to have a bit of loo paper for nasty bits of dirt that I don't want to make a cloth all mucky with.

I wash the JCloths as well

Im definately a microfibre convert though. I could advertise them on the shopping channel. A before & after

Microfibre cloths are brilliant. Use them instead. I never buy kitchen roll.

I bought piles of cheap flannels from the supermarket to do the weaning clean up. (High chair, table, floor, hands, face etc). Have since bought two stacks of cheeky wipes. They are fantastic. The texture is so much better for effective cleaning too. They go in the washing machine after use.

It upsets me so much that I try to minimise the environmental impact of my family so much and then other people do things like this. Awful.

@Bitchywaitress,

Not every kitchen. At McDonald's we use cloths (all colour coded for different things) that are sanitised and changed frequently.

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

You wash cloths more often and at higher temps, though.

Having said that yes, artificial fibres aren't great environmentally. We all have microplastics in our guts now, and at measurable levels in almost all tap water, apparently. God knows what the long term implications for health might be.

Thars about £7-50 a week on Kitchen roll! Wtf! Waste of money and it is not eco. Use dishcloths. Put them in the wash them daily or twice a day if you must.

When they get battered save them for floor cloths and wash them daily.

Jesus! I only spend double that on all of my shopping in a year!

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

It's not good manners to load your fork so much you need to do either, so that's a weird standard to set.

Get about 20 microfibre cloths and wash them frequently (daily or more often where necessary). If you use a hot wash, or with some dettol laundry disinfectant in a normal wash, there shouldn't be any build up of bacteria.

Use face clothes to wipe the children's faces and hands- ditto wash frequently.

Save kitchen roll cleaning only the nastiest things e.g. vomit, spilt chemicals.

Jesus! I only spend double that on all of my shopping in a year!

You spend 26 quid a week on food? Seriously?

(I want these threads on mythically bountiful chickens! Where are they? Mumsnet, you promise and never deliver. )

Getting sauce or something on your lips has nothing to do with ‘loading your fork’ what a strange idea.

On the microfibre cloths (and artificial fabrics in clothing) front.

Cotton cloth is much, much better for us all than microfibre, or j cloths. I used them until I learned that, and now use muslins. Really cheap, and pure cotton. Works well and no plastic in our guts.

Getting sauce or something on your lips has nothing to do with ‘loading your fork’ what a strange idea.

Well no, if you use fingers to get food into your mouth I can see the problem in going without napkins - we use them a lot at barbecues, too. Competence with cutlery helps reduce mess when eating, though. Tip for you!

Well done Stellenbosch

Now, all you have to do is get used to using it all. Remember, if there's a smell, germs dwell (taught on hygiene course I took).

The knitted dishcloths dry quite quickly so bacteria can't flourish in them then. In between washes mine get pegged out in the summer or put over the kitchen radiator when the heating's on. They're the only things I dry on the rads as I'm paranoid about condensation and mould.

If you dry them between use and throw them in the washer every time it's on you'll be fine.

PP mentioned Costco microfibre cloths. These are fab. There's a huge difference between quality microfibre and the cheap stuff. The cheap ones will not absorb even if they've never had a sniff of fabric conditioner.

If you have a cloth that you may think needs sterilising quickly just put it wet (not soaking) on a plate in the microwave. Once it's steaming hot right through, the germs are dead. If a cloth has a whiff, it needs this or washing.

You can also throw them in a bucket of sterilising fluid for a few hours.

Kitchen sponges are good - easier to keep clean in the dishwasher, microwave or just by a quick dip in the bucket with the cloths. Dry between uses.

One of the dishcloths wrung in hot water and washing up liquid will take care of most things that need cleaning in the kitchen. Get used to using gloves, though, or your hands will suffer. If you don't like standard wash-up gloves, buy a box of latex-type gloves in a larger size than you need, wipe your hands with your cloth then take them off carefully and you can re-use quite a few times.

You don't need to go mental on anti-bac stuff as it's good to keep a few germs around. If someone is ill in the house with a stomach bug, then be a bit more thorough, but a lot of anti-bac stuff won't kill stomach viruses anyway.

Have fun with your new supplies. It's a great feeling keeping your house and family clean and healthy while saving the world Juan Sheet at a time

Competence with cutlery helps reduce mess when eating, though. Tip for you!

Who would have thought napkins could make some people so defensive? 🤣