To think kitchen roll is too expensive to use more than one sheet?

[reql]

I buy good kitchen roll because I find the own brand stuff to be rubbish. This means it can be 2-3 pence per sheet. I use it sparingly. I use a cloth to wipe things up, but you need kitchen roll sometimes.

DP loves the stuff. He uses multiple sheets at a time. For example, if he brought me a piece of fruit like a peach, he'd rip off two maybe three pieces of kitchen roll to use as a plate. If he spills something, he'll use a few sheets because he doesn't like the spilt food getting near his hands.

AIBU to think that this stuff, is too bloody expensive to use multiple sheets? He says I am a scrooge, and it's become a joke amongst friends not to use more than one sheet of kitchen roll.

Oh, and i wipe fat off of pans using anything else going in the bin. Banana skin is good or the thin plastic cling film type stuff that supermarket things are wrapped in.

I have discovered that there are people who never use napkins. 😒

Question though: what do you do with all those bits of cloth though? Handwash or wash in the machine with your clothes? 😐

I have discovered that there are people who never use napkins. 😒

Millions of them I would say.

We do this too. Blue roll is the way to go if someone is wastefully spooling off yards of the stuff. We get industrial-sized packs of 9 rolls. There’s loads around on eBay. Lasts for ages. It isn’t absorbent but you don’t need to feel as guilty about sacrificing it.

We have one actual kitchen roll and it’s been sitting there for ages. We barely use it now.

I do use it, but not like some people do, my mum goes through tons of the stuff.

This must take the prize for one of the most trivial posts ever on MN @reql

You argue over kitchen roll?

Own brand is fine.

You're wasting your money on branded.

You need washable cloths, husband needs a plate....

I agree with buying the cheapest and using as many sheets as you want.

I always feel guilty when I use kitchen roll because my mum always used to act like the kitchen roll was gold 😂

I use what I consider to be a normal amount (a roll lasts a few weeks in this house) but get a rush of pleasure each time I decide for myself that I will use two sheets for something and nobody shouts at me 🤣

Yet you still have a view

Lately I use the tea towel I used to carry the hot tray/pot/whatever to the table, for my hands. It goes in the wash after that anyway as its the end of the day.

We do buy it, but we don’t use it much. We use washable cloths (in with the normal washing), tea towels and actual plates. But there are some jobs it’s handy for, so it’s staying. Not something I give much headspace too though and yes DH uses it more than I do.

We don’t use napkins regularly. I have some cloth ones for “posh” meals, and some paper ones in the cupboard somewhere leftover from birthday parties. I manage to eat my home made meals 3 times a day and not require a napkin and little kids get hands and faces wiped with a damp cloth if needed.

This must take the prize for one of the most trivial posts ever on MN @reql

I doubt it.

This nonsense is the very foundation of MN. Not every thread is hard hitting political issues or criticising each other's parenting. Just like in real life, sometimes people discuss less weighty issues.

It is a talk forum.

And comments like yours are the reason people say it's not as witty or interesting as it used to be. Lumbering unnecessarily on to threads with no intelligence or humour.

Kitchen roll in our house has 1 role only, which is wiping oil and grease out of pans, bowls etc. I guess we use 3 or 4 sheets a week maximum (husband does all clearing away/washing up) It depends what I've cooked and how I've cooked it.

I never buy kitchen roll. In your example he should use a plate or bowl. So wasteful otherwise

You either have kitchen roll or dishclothes. When you work out the cost to clean them properly (detergent / hot water etc) there is no difference.

We use cotton or linen napkins for a few days in a row, then wash them as normal.

This is exactly what I use it for - cat sick and grease! The value stuff works just as well for that. I use proper cloths for wiping down in the kitchen.

Buy your DH some cheap stuff he can use to his hearts content? Then save the good stuff for whatever you want to save it for.

aldi do some very reasonably priced kitchen roll.

I don't buy it, as far as I'm concerned it's just throwing money in the bin. It costs money and it's a waste of resources.
Nothing wrong with using cloths.

I've found my people! I usually buy cheap kitchen roll for a variety of specific uses and it lasts for ages because I also use washable cloths - which go in a basin of bleachy water kept in a specific place to collect all the dirty cloths before I finally wash them all.

Recently bought a more expensive roll and was 😮at the size of the sheets so cut them in half at least.

For the poster that uses whatever including plastic wrapping for cleaning oily pans - you can recycle soft plastics at many supermarkets; I clean mine when generally cleaning, hang it to dry over tea towels and store in a sliced bread bag. And I put the oily paper towels in my food compost.

I am generally very crap at house work though.

I use kitchen roll. I use at least four sheets a day. Two to pick up the decapitated head and entrails of Mr Mousey, and two to wipe down the blood with anti-bac. I am never going to use rewashable clothes for that.

Kitchen roll has it's uses.

I don't use them as we get through far too much.

I use cloths to wipe the sides down or a tea towel to wipe my hands on. My washing machine is on at least twice a day, and I just scoop the cloths up and throw them in.

Buy the cheap crap for him and keep a roll of good stuff under the sink.