why do people use those oilcloth tablecloths?

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why not have a table you can show off

Don't care - I am middle aged and proud . I'll be getting the aga any day now - I already have the National Trust membership and the varicose veins.

hmm can i just check these naff monitors don't wear crocs or anything from boden.

Two words.

Felt. Tips.

oh i onyl ever bought those crayola ones

Wish I could afford £125 for a table and then bin it.

Although I dont have an oilcloth, I aspire to an oil cloth.

We have a 50p platic birthday cover that I use and wipe and then put away

LOLOL

I've just bought my school run table cloth...havent you?

lol
hey mrs M
did you see the ( inhales) possible school run dress

sassy - I agree why do they do In the night garden ones that dont wipe off. I have binned then

this is it, isn't it?

Do you mean your purple Wallis one? (where Joanna Trollop DEF shops)

LOLO

you make me roar.

and for Mrs maidamess.
insult of the week I think

I aspire to one as well. Haven't got one yet because I am worried, being a complete slattern that it would never get wiped and would indeed get sticky.

We use cloth which are easy to chuck in the washing machine - they don't require any elbow grease to clearn them. Mind you they usually end up stained.

I have this bookmarked for when I can make my mind up.

It's completely different to covering your sofa in plastic, because that would defeat the purpose of a sofa, which is to be comfortable to sit on.

I had a table cover from John Lewis when my two were small, but it came off when they were in bed/not around.

Now they are both older I don't need it any more, but i'm thinking of putting something similar over the carpet between the bathroom & DD's room to catch the hair-dye drips....

We should have put oilcloth on our table as our landlady is going to look like this but with added steam coming out of her ears - when she sees her (Ikea supercheap but she's very finicky) table - we're in a furnished flat. The finish has worn off where DS sits due to many spilled drinks/spilled food, and there's a couple of biro marks... Am dreading landlady's visit She hasn't been for 2 years, but due next month. Last time she came she said we hadn't been thorough enough about cleaning behind the toilet cistern. We do try, but I'm sure there'll be something...

This one is particularly stylish

We have a pine dining table and as someone has previously posted, it absorbs everything.

I bought an oilcloth tablecloth from TK Maxx for about a tenner for a rectangular table. Small spots of food, yoghurt etc wipe off with a bit of kitchen towel.

I throw mine in the wash on 30 degree cycle and line dry in 2 hours. It's good to go again

Just saves your table getting ruined from, in my case, a 1 year old!

I got mine as the table already had some felt tip on it which is hell to get off and I didn't want any more.

Got it here:-

www.norfolktextiles.co.uk/default.asp

cos our table is crap

I don't have one and my table has lots of felt-tip pen marks on it. Was browsing here for something to protect the table, I didn't realise they were a fashion crime.

Great for painting sessions with the LOs, or cooking projects with them. Just wipe clean!

This is probably a dim question but here goes! If I buy some oilcloth by the metre for a tablecloth, do I have to hem it?

I agree they're a bit naff but we have one anyway. We bought it after the first biro on oak table incident, and I'm converted. Once our children are old enough not to completely wreck the table we'll get rid, but in the meantime... We're on our second one; the first started to look a bit grubby after a couple of years.

We get ours fromJust Wipe who are very good and have non-shiny ones which wipe clean just as well as the shiny ones.

no hemming required.

we use oilcoth because purple paint stains.

and because dd2's tremor means that everything gets spilt.

i confess to owning three patterns but i do have cloth cloth as well, and moslty for adults and visitors we just have the table....

Oh great - I was hoping that would be the case . Thanks!