Dishcloths / scourers etc - where do you keep them?

[FlatsInDagenham]

I try to hang my dishcloth over the edge of the sink to dry but it gets in the way and looks messy.

DH leaves it in a sodden heap at the bottom of the smaller one of the double sink, tangled up with the scourer. Then I come to pick it up, it's still sodden, cold, covered in bits and smelly. Yuk.

Where do you store yours?

Also - do you use the same cloth for washing dishes and wiping over surfaces, or do you have separates?

Oh and while I'm at it - how often do you change / wash your dishcloths?

Thanks.

I have 2 separate cloths for washing up and wiping surfaces and use 2 different colours so I can tell them apart. I rinse and squeeze them out and put them on the plate rack to dry or on the worktop side next to the sink.

In the bathroom I have 2 cloths in 2 different colours, one for cleaning the sink and bath, the other for cleaning the toilet. They're on the tiled windowsill over the bath.

I change them for new ones when they look manky or worn or when I think of it.

I use a sponge, never clothes.

I use the sponge on surfaces, and a brush when washing up.

When the sponge is looking old I use it for the toilet.

I have different coloured gloves for the toilet and kitchen ( I don't use gloves for bathroom sinks and bath).

To answer your question, I keep the sponge and brush in this

I keep mine in this from Lakeland. I was sick of stuff all over the sink and windowsill.

I use a small sponge with scourer on one side for dish washing, then a sponge cloth for wiping surfaces. I also use dettol wipes if needed. I change them when they look like they need it, but not often enough as far as dh is concerned. Every time he does the dishes he gets a new sponge. Luckily washing up is mainly my job or we'd be broke through cost of sponges

dishcloths are unhygenic.

A nylon brush is better for washing up and the brustles dry very fast.

Sponges are OK for wiping. A fantastic tip, after use, put a squirt of WUL on and squeeze to foam through. The foam squeezes out easier than water, helps it dry, and prevents bacterial growth so it will not smell.

Old sponges get demoted to bathroom, then utility room, then for use in the car (not for carwashing) including cleaning the windows, steering wheel, fingery bits, under bonnet.

I use the white knitted? dish clothes from Lakeland. Use for a few hours, never more than a day. Under the sink in a pull out drawer I've got a washing up bowl to chuck dirty ones in, along with tea towels, then wash them all every few days.

I have around 50 clothes (but in bulk from Costco) and change them after every use. Then when have full washload of cloths and tea towels - put on hot wash.

I have one of the Lakeland sink tidies that Fresh has linked to.
Drips get caught in the bottom - I empty/rinse it out daily when I remember and put a splash of a cheap dettol type of disinfectant in the bottom to neutralise any smells.

After buying one, I then got another as a freebie with a large order so that is in the bathroom.

I use microfibre clothes and have a brush for washing up. Washing up brush goes in dishwasher. Cloths go in bowl under sink after use and I chuck the whole lot in hot wash with tea towels and bath mats if I can be bothered to go upstairs. Cloth never lasts longer than a day. Usually much less.

I store the current one in a plastic tub under the sink in water with a drop of bleach. Kim and Aggie recommended doing the soaking in the sink but I like everything tucked out of the way.

Probably change them nearly once per day and use a different cloth for the sides.

Tesco value dishcloths. Use for a few days, bleach overnight, use for a few more days, bleach again and so on. Bin when looking past it (after three or four weeks). Gets rinsed and hangs over the bit of sink between full/half bowl.

And bicarb to clean the sink so it shiiiines!

if you bung your wet clothes and tea towels in a bowl under the sink until you've got enough for hot wash, doesn't it pong?