Husband doesn’t understand the whole dishcloth/cleaning rag thing!

And me Sago🤭

It never occurred to me that there are people who don't understand the significance of and differences between various types of household cloth. Until I met my SO, that is. He was genuinely baffled as to why I turned into a screeching harpy when I found him using my face flannel to clean the windowsills.

Hold on, it's not quite the dance of the seven veils
Love it 🤣🤣🤣

BlueberryPie

I mean, sometimes I dust with a washcloth. Other times, a paper towel or a sock or even the cat. No difference. shrug

When I do any cleaning, my little dog joins in by licking the laminate flooring and the wardrobe doors.
When I do any gardening he licks the parasol bases all the way round.
He likes to help 🐕

About three years ago, husband found a cleaner and said she cleaned better than me. He was right because I had very bad cataracts in both eyes but after the complicated surgery I now have 20/20 vision and find both of them lacking as I can see every breadcrumb etc. It drives me crazy but I am so grateful for my wonderful eyesight as I am a writer and not a cleaner. Lots of laughter.

I have my collection of cleaning cloths .
Most of them are old cut up T shirts
Linen tea towels are precious and there's nothing quite like them .
My oldest tea towel is now 50 and I keep it out of sentimentality .

Oh dear, I must look after my dusters better.
They're stuffed in a bag hanging from a hook in the cupboard, along with the polish.

In my cloth drawer at the front left hand side I have my cotton tea towels, folded over in quarters. If for some reason there are too many to squeeze in I find the raggiest ones and use them for dusters. At the front right hand side go my dishcloths- folden in half. Behind them at the back go the cotton dusters, some of them made from cut up tea towels or my old dressing gown! At the back left hand side go my white cotton kitchen hand towels!
So glad this is a thing! Sad, but I love folding my dusters and knowing when I need one all will be well...

Now, I knew someone who ironed socks but ironing rags? 😯

I even iron my rags😱

Ps I have a basket under the sink in the utility room where I keep various cleaning cloths, Sago!
They're precious items 😁

I have several linen tea towels which have never been used, inherited from MIL who used to collect them. They're commemorative ones, too nice to use!

What are Lancashire dishcloths? Never heard of them.
Perhaps I'll knit or crochet some with some cotton yarn from the stash.

Of course I salute your reverence for pure linen teatowels ; I share it but mine must be red and white. Dh doesn't get it but he knows never to abuse them.

He just doesn't get rags at all. He knows that old cotton clothes end up in the rag bag , saved for one-off use then get chucked. What I just can't get through to him is that a man sized pair of denim jeans , however old, cannot be used for mopping dog sick because they are not a rag. Or soft or absorbent. To become RAGS, most old cotton clothes have to be cut up. Into squares, The right size. Unless they are already quite small, like his y-fronts. There is no need, or point, cutting defunct Y fronts into squares because they will be too small to have any use. Rags are kept in the rag bag. So its easy to find a rag. There is no need to take out all the rags and wonder which one to choose or what it used to be... before mopping dog sick or wiping engine oil. Priorities.

Life is too short to worry about cleaning cloths, surely? 🤷🏻‍♀️

So do I Rosiesmaw. She is even more exacting about her cleaning implements than I am! She has a whole schedule pinned up on the inside of the cleaning cupboard door. 🤣🤣

I haven’t got a cat either BlueberryPie 🙁

I have a cleaner

I do not know what OPs DH doesn't understand. I didn't understand either. I had to look up what a 'Lancashire dishcloth' was! It is whaat I call a stockinette floor cloth and I do not like them.

I have drying up clothes for drying up crockery cutlery etc. Floor clothes - much sturdier, more heavily woven cloths than the 'Lancashire' that I use for washing paintwork and surfaces during a regular clean and I have old towels cut down in the cleaning cupboard with the spray polish for polishing off.

I dust with a feather duster and have a spontex cloth on the sink. I have a window cleaner for the outside of windows and a chamois leather for the inside.

And this is the first time in my life I have ever given these matters a thought. - and probably the last.

I mean, sometimes I dust with a washcloth. Other times, a paper towel or a sock or even the cat. No difference. shrug

V3ra

BlueberryPie

So, your husband thought you'd like newer cleaning rags but you don't.

You wild things.

Hold on, it's not quite the dance of the seven veils 🫣 🫢

Whoops, I meant to quote this seven veils thing because it cracked me up.

BlueberryPie

It really doesn't make much difference and isn't important.

Haha!

It really doesn't make much difference and isn't important.

BlueberryPie

So, your husband thought you'd like newer cleaning rags but you don't.

You wild things.

Hold on, it's not quite the dance of the seven veils 🫣 🫢

I have dishcloths, for dishes, cleaning cloths for cleaning, dusting cloths for dusting and old tea towels as rags for drying windows after washing them etc.

And dishcloths, yellow dusters, polishing cloths must be 100% cotton. Mixed fibre items are hopeless, especially for polishing mirrors and windows.