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?!

I use cloths created of cut up old clothes and sheets. I only cut up things with holes in them. I use different ones throughout the day, and chuck them in the washing at the end of the day.
I only use kitchen towel for very mucky stuff like oil.

We spend more than that once we work it out... :0

I use plenty. You can wash it and re-use it when cleaning highchair etc. Then a roll should last at least ten days!

Just use flannels. Wash at 30 (like you should everything else!). Stop using sponges, wet wipes and microfiber cloths, they are synthetic and won't biodegrade. They will sit polluting our planet for who knows how long. Also the making of them is crap for the environment. But really OP, please stop using so much paper. As others have said, think of the world we're leaving for our children. Two rolls a week is obscene, never mind two rolls a day! Hope you manage to change your habit.

Oh God, this makes me feel so inferior. We never have kitchen roll.

@perfectstorm I meant about double. I spend about £35 a week, so it works out a bit more than double. I have a £150 monthly budget.

I heard an interview once with Ellen MacArther, the Yachtswoman who sailed single handedly around the world. She talked about how space and weight were limited and that she would eke out the kitchen roll to half a square of paper a day. She now is an ardent campaigner for the Environment. TBH, and in the words of a previous post, £700 a year on kitchen roll IS obscene. All those trees! Nothing wrong in microfibres cloths which can be soaked every night in Sterilising solution or washed in a wash cycle. I have found something brilliant though as an alternative, it's like kitchen roll but made of bamboo fibre. So each square is tough and durable, washable and reusable and lasts at least a fortnight. Two big rolls for £10 lasts me a year so if you used them you could save yourself £690 a year, (small holiday)! And seriously, being too clean can be detrimental to your health, unless your children have weak immune systems, a bit of dirt is healthy. Many studies attribute the huge rise in allergies can in children may be attributed to our obsession with cleaning sprays and anit bad this and that. My mother never used anything like this and I am well and healthy, no allergies, no asthma.

Anti bac not anti bad

@leontine seriously, I take my hat off to you. You must be a brilliant cook as well as very savvy with your money.

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

Okay, Hyacinth.

@perfectstorm I’m not so much of a brilliant cook but I am very savvy with my money!

Two rolls a day is absolutely ridiculous. Soak cloths in Milton and they will be fine.

Just think of how many trees it took to make those rolls how can that be worse than washing cloths. you just add to a normal towel wash

I have a very umpty tummy and have had food poisoning half of the times I have eaten out so I have a careful cleaning regime,in my kitchen.

I have plenty of dishcloths and put them in the washing machine every time a load goes on. Since I use the quick wash mostly they do not get boiled and seem to be fine.

I use kitchen roll a lot but only the cheap,stuff. Tesco’s sell single, huge rolls at a pound each and they work out cheaper per sheet than the multi packs. I can make one last over a week.

I also use Flash kitchen cleaner with bleach or Mr Muscle as they both kill germs.

I think you could keep things clean and save money while retaining a high level of cleanliness with cloths and fluid.

Jesus- use a cloth. And stop being so obsessive about germs. Half the allergy problems these days are likely a result of over sanitisation!

We have kitchen roll on the worktop but can't remember the last time that I used it! I've estimated that we probably use around 6 rolls per year.
We use cut up old clothes and old socks for bathroom cleaning which are binned after and a washable dishcloth for the kitchen. The children have washable cloths if they really need them.
I feel that your children are going to pick up all sorts of bugs when at school as you are not exposing them enough to any.
It makes me sad that you are so wasteful through laziness - physically and financially. It's not just your planet you know op.

I wash up the high chair tray in the sink, like a normal plate. No wipes needed. Grubby hands and face likewise get a wash from the tap and blotted dry with a towel.

If someone antibac sprayed my dirty plate and wiped it down then expected me to eat off it later, I'd be all about that, as I think would most people!

@Leontine I think we all NEED to know how many you are feeding and HOW???!!!

@stellenbosch only 2 plus pets! I’m not feeding a big family on that!

I still need more details!

Wtf!?! That is ridiculous!
I use cloths and wash them with the laundry. Rarely ever buy paper towels. I have kids and pets and never need that much.

@stellenbosch I eat mostly frozen stuff for dinner, including veg. Dinner for the week will be around £10. Then for breakfast I’ll just get a box of cereal. I’ll sometimes get soup for lunch or I’ll get a loaf and some cheese, pickle etc. I’ll get some fresh fruit, yoghurt and then some snacks like biscuits or crisps.
It involves eating a lot of the same things but it works for me.

I never use a napkin at home, as an able bodied adult, I don’t smear food over myself, so have no use for one. OP needs to read up about how fucked the planet is and what future her kids have to look forward to hanks to humans absolutely trashing the place in a few decades.

The only thing I use it for is mopping up cat sick so it all goes neatly into the bin. Otherwise I use a microfibre cloth, changed daily. I usually pour just-boiled water onto it a couple of times a day when I am making a tea or coffee and having a kitchen clean up at the same time. The cloths last for years. And years.

I have microfibre cloths. Buy a stack, use 2-3 a day. Just rinse in hot soapy water after use and chuck in the washer at the end of the day. 30-40 is fine.