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 1 roll a week!

Dishcloths are used for general cleaning/mopping up crap. They get used once and then put in the wash. I have a big stash of them under the sink and do a 60 degree cloth wash (dishcloths, tea towels, washable baby wipes for mucky faces) every few days.

I use flannels for wiping kids etc, which just get thrown in the washing machine with the clothes. I use a broom and a mop for the floor for big messes and spills, or just wipe with a flannel/dishcloth if its just a drop or two.

I use it very rarely.

I have a good supply of cotton cloths for wiping stuff, I use two or three a day, chucked in with the laundry and dried outdoors.

I could think of more fun ways to spend £700 than on kitchen roll.

Wtaf, just use kitchen cloths? Use or two per day, rinse with hot water after each use. Leave to dry overnight and sling in with the rest of the washing, or do a wash for them alone once a week. They do not need to be done in a boil wash or left soaking in bleach (unless outrageously stinky), especially if you're using a kitchen cleaner as well.

It's only the two of us at the moment, but even with looking after my 1yo niece at least once a week our kitchen roll consumption is about one roll every four months.

Are you buying really cheap kitchen roll? I find the better quality ones like Plenty, or Aldi do a great one, last much longer, as you only need to use a couple of sheets. They can even be rinsed out and reused. They work out much better in the long run.

I don't think I spend £7 a year on kitchen roll, let alone £700.

El cheapo cotton dish cloths. Use for a day, then chuck it in the wash bin. Gets washed on the hottest setting (90) and then used again and again until it falls to bits. Then it gets used for general DIY/car maintenance. Then it gets chucked in the bin.

Have to buy a pack every couple of years...

I bought 10 flannels from Ikea and they get chucked in the wash with the tea towels and cloths on 60 when they run out.
1 per person, per meal. I generally clean the kids faces/hands with them and then use to clean the table.

Please stop using so much kitchen roll. For the 🌏!

I agree with others, that is obscene! Cloths and wash them regularly.

I just suggest you change your username to JuanSheet.

We use a fair bit (dyspraxic DD2 = stuff gets spilt a lot) but nowhere near that amount!

Gross. Use clothes.

I have lovely knitted (100% cotton yarn) dishcloths in a kaleidoscope of colours. Every couple of weeks I put them in on a hot wash, together with my teatowels, handtowels and facecloths. Definitely not smelly or germ-infested.

No need for bleach, although I'm not sure why the OP would worry about the harmful environmental effects of bleaching a few dishcloths when she's apparently unconcerned about the harmful environmental effects of the bleach used to create £700 worth of paper towels. not to mention the single-use plastic wrappers they are sold in.

Used to be able to buy sun cloths from Tesco's , they wash and wear well , try them , they are quite absorbent too

Cut up old t shirts into flannel sized squares, you know the ones that are too old/holey for the charity shop - then just use them and throw in the wash each day and throw them away if they get too grubby. With kids you'll always have some more old T shirts to replace them with.

I do buy kitchen roll but I moved into my house in Aug last year and I know I have bought two packs since and I have a full roll and a bit of the first roll still of the second pack, so I manage on very little of it.

Fuck me!

I have only ever used kitchen roll when the cats were kittens and I bought the cheapest stuff for cleaning their litter trays.

Cloths! Use cloths!

Bloody hell! Do you all wear disposable clothes as well!

I don’t even buy kitchen roll.

We use tea towels for drying stuff and soaking up stuff and wash them on 60 degrees in with towels. And use sponges and cleaning spray for wiping down surfaces which we replace regularly.

We get through a fair amount of kitchen roll. More so than alotof people on his thread..... am closest to 2 rolls a week rather than 2 a day

Sorry to be repetitive but 2 rolls a day is fucking insane.

@ElectricMonkey

Two rolls a day!!!! Aaaaaaaahhhhh!! What the actual hell

OP you do realise that you need to pull off each square at a time and not just use the entire thing as a sponge right?! Otherwise I have no idea what the hell you are doing

You might as well just put bin bags or newspaper down on the floor and bin those, would actually be less waste

Two rolls a day!!! Wow. I don’t even buy kitchen roll, only very rarely maybe twice a year. I just use a cloth and put it in the kitchen laundry bag, then once that’s full bung it in the wash with towels or bed clothes 🤷🏻‍♀️ No need for bleach either!

If OP stacked all the kitchen roll she used throughout the year (1.5 rolls per day) on top of one another, it would reach the same height as the tallest building in Birmingham.

-gets back to work-

(I have a 3 year old and a VERY messy 11 month old so I do feel your pain re high chair etc)

I have always been slightly outraged by kitchen roll. It's the HEIGHT of laziness. Just wring a blinking cloth out! Use a bit of organic cleaner.

That's utterly deranged! Think what you could do with £700...

If you're worried about germs in a cloth/sponge then microwave it (damp) for a minute each morning and evening - kills any bacteria.

And use antibacterial spray!

There is truly no need to use so much kitchen roll.

Aside from washing them in the machine, I stick my dishcloths in boiling water from the kettle with a bit of soap powder for a quick clean.

I use a mop for the floor and washable floor cloths.

And then have other cloths for the sides and surfaces.

All go in the machine.

I only use it for cooking, drying poached eggs, blotting fried stuff and suchlike.

We have ecloths and cheeky wipes.

Ridiculous on all levels, and for all kinds of reasons - get a grip OP