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 dont even buy kitchen roll and I have 4dc.

How do you use so much? I buy the Morrisons The Best kitchen roll and it’s brilliant. Much more absorbent than anything else

@CoperCabana where did you get your bamboo kitchen roll from?

I don’t use a boil wash or bleach for our dishcloths - just a regular wash. We are very rarely sick - just get the odd bug that spreads around the school.

I've never bought kitchen roll in my 65 years on this earth.

I can't believe I go to the bother of recycling, being minimal, reusing everything, avoiding buying plastic etc and then there are people using 2 kitchen rolls a week. Makes me feel a bit sick.

I’ve got 3 young dc and I don’t use 2 kitchen rolls per day. In fact I don’t even buy kitchen roll.

You need a cloth, soap and water to clean a high chair not mountains or kitchen roll.

YABU to be so wasteful. Today's washing powders are very efficient at low temp, so just chuck a microfibre cloth, or, as I do, bits of old t-shirt etc into the wash with everything else. We use recycled paper towels approx 1 roll per week.

Confession. I’m using old flat nappies. That belonged to DS. they’re finally getting to bin stage and I’m just going to buy more. Because they wash up great you can bleach them and they’re big enough to wipe not skiddle the dirt along.

Ha ha ha ha how the hell did we get to 2018 without kitchen roll?

J Cloths. Washable. That from an environmental health expert.

Need a facepalm emoji

Take your high chair outside and hose it off, leave it to dry.

I thought I used a lot. We get a 6 pack from home bargains for £1.99 and that lasts just over a week.

Using 2 rolls a day is overly excessive and such a waste of money

Another to add to the “OMG that is so fucking ridiculous” crowd

I don’t ever buy kitchen roll here. Get by just fine.

We are a family of 2 adults, 2 messy teens and a 10 year old. A kitchen roll lasts me about a fortnight.

Two rolls a day is pure madness. Not really interested in the finances of it, spend your money how you like. But the paper, the resources, the waste, the bleach and chemicals used to process the paper in the first place, the plastic packaging.....

Just use a cloth. Or a sponge. Use it more than once. Wash it when it gets dirty. Disposable, throwaway items are killing the planet.

STOP IT.

My kitchen towels were by Bam and Boo on Amazon. Price gone up a bit but still good value. There are several others also.

I never use kitchen roll and manage to live a normal life

I don't use anywhere near as much as the OP but I guess we do use a lot. I don't really understand how you can use a dish cloth to clean say a stainless hob or the tap, or the bin? Won't they be wet?

I use microfibre clothes for my bathroom through.

We buy the American kitchen roll from Costco for dirty jobs/hand drying. It’s so much stronger and more absorbent than the UK stuff that a roll lasts a good 2/3 weeks. I don’t use chemicals with them so they can go in the food waste bin.

For non dirty jobs like wiping counters etc I use micro fibre cloths and tea towels that go in the wash every night.

I don't like dishcloths, as they spend most of the time wet and are hideous germ-fests, but I do have a lot of teatowels which hang up and get dry. Use the teatowels to mop up spilt drinks, wipe down surfaces, wipe up spilt flour or oil etc. When a tea towel has been used for a mucky job, I chuck it in the washing machine pile. I will also take other things out of the pile (e.g. a t-shirt or bathmat) to wipe up spilt water or similar. Then it all goes in the wash.

For more solid muck that I don't want in the washing machine, I use cleaning wipes (biodegradable ones), but try to keep that to a minimum.

I do have kitchen roll as it can be useful but a roll lasts a couple of weeks.

I have several dishcloths so that I can wash them frequently, and I use clean flannels (dedicated for the purpose) to buff surfaces dry rather than kitchen roll

I don’t remember the last time I bought kitchen roll it’s that long ago.

I use too much kitchen roll. But not two a day, that's ridiculous. One a week I would say and that's me going a bit crazy using it for everything and we have 3 little ones plus a dog.
The person who mentioned the blue roll, the reviews aren't very good on that one you linked? I used to work for NHS and the blue roll there was very heavy and the roll lasted forever, these ones on amazon say the roll squishes, I don't think they're the same.
I'm going to make a bag of rags as suggested and try to cut down my kitchen paper usage.

Buy it in bulk, we buy 24 at a time and it does work out slightly cheaper. We prob use 4/5 rolls per week.

Microloths bunged into wash,dry quickly .
Why are you using roll for the floor?
I only find a need for paper rolls when I'm decorating.