Do you wash cleaning cloths with normal laundry?

Remember the old yellow dusters? You had to hand wash them as so much colour came out with every wash.?

Can we get this thread to run until Christmas??

I have some microfibre cloths and love them but if you read the small print on many items these days, it recommends NOT cleaning with microfibre,as this causes microscopic scratches which will dull a surface in the long run and possible damage it.

Also, I haven't read this anywhere but I think they may also give off tiny non-biodegradable particles when washed.

So I'm not buying any more.

Microfibre cloths great for cleaning, last longer than paper towels, j- cloths etc. but not particularly good for the environment..
I decided to recycle what I already have so cut up old tea towels , pyjamas etc. in a tiny effort to be greener..

I have discovered microfibre cloths which I love. I bought loads, use one a day then wash them separately in a 60 degree wash. I wash tea towels at 60 too usually with sheets but iron them so germs should be killed.

I dreamt about dish cloths last night, or rather one particular one - a yellow, handknitted one made by a friend. In my dream, the cloth disintegrated in the dishwasher and I asked her to make me a new one.

Afaik, this friend doesn’t knit IRL and I woke up utterly bamboozled as to why I had such a weird dream. Logged onto GN and hey presto, the Dish Cloth thread! ??

Tea towels ,dish cloths ,cleaning clothes same , not a big task and gives my hands arms exercise they need washed by hand always in sink ,

I just soak dishcloths and wiping cloths in bleach periodically

I have a bag on the kitchen door for cleaning cloths , tea towels etc. They go in for a hot wash altogether once the bag is full. Have done this always... my mum had a stove top boiler that did the job for her..MiL boiled her husband's cotton handkerchiefs each week...

I must be such a slut. Two types of wash here - light and dark - and the tea towels and kitchen sponges (mostly changed daily) go in with the lights. Always done that - been married 49 years - rarely get colds or bugs.

They cover up the lockdown hair very successfully!

I might just run up a couple of festive turbans during our new restrictions. To enhance my passing resemblance to Norah Batty.

lemongrove

Of course they do! They just don’t admit to it?

Oh, I will! I’m quite brazen about my Christmas kitchen towel. I’m pretty sure I put half a roll away (somewhere ] that was left over last year, so I can save a bob or two this year, hurrah!

People are still appearing to give us fascinating insight into laundry housework etc. Unbelievable!

lemongrove

Tell us about your turban Callistemon ?

Well, every cleaning lady wears one, surely? They hide my curlers.
Think Hilda Ogden.
Mostly they match my overall and the cleaning cloth of the day (sometimes they clash but I can never do a proper job on those days).

I like to do a Proper Job.

I hadn't thought about knitting red and green ones for Christmas. I must see if I can get some knitting cotton in those colours

Just to be sure is this thread about tea towels ? Or cloths for giving the counter tops a quick wipe ? for cleaning windows ?
For doing the bathroom ? The possibilities for discussion are endless.
Personally I save them up dye them a pastel,shade and make them into a toilet roll cover

Tea towels and dish cloths together on 90 degree wash. Towels and face cloths 60 degrees. Bedding and cotton underwear if it can take it 60 degrees otherwise 40. Dusters etc in with cats blankets and gardening gloves 40 degrees. Other washing as per labels. Never mix whites and coloureds - my mum would have had a fit! We have towels and clothes that are years old so shows it pays to take care with your washing. Probably I’m just old fashioned but have always done it this way.

lemongrove

Tell us about your turban Callistemon ?

Don’t encourage her Lemongrove

Greenfinch and I’ve come back to it.

Tell us about your turban Callistemon ?

Of course they do! They just don’t admit to it?

???

JackyB

The next step will be someone telling us they have special dishcloths for Christmas!

Does no-one else buy Christmas kitchen rolls and toilet rolls?

And tea towels of course!