Do you wash cleaning cloths with normal laundry?

Crikey - I have a basket full of cleaning cloths - use about 2-3 per day and wash them at 90° every couple of weeks. Wouldn't dream of washing them together with clothes and certainly not with towels, dishcloths or teatowels. Shudder at the thought!

Where do you keep the dirty ones for a couple of weeks?

I bleach my dish cloths. Tea towels go in with normal white or light coloured clothes and dusters etc go in with dark towels or dark washing. I also use colour catchers in my washing too depending on if I need to use one. My washing machine is set on 40 degrees constantly.

Ah, well - they just get chucked in a basket. I spread them out a bit so they can dry a little before the next ones go on top. I have a laundry room in the basement (sort of standard here in Germany) so the unsightly dirty cloths are not on general view.

Ah, I see.

That sounds great, apart from going into a basement..

I have a basket full of cleaning cloths - use about 2-3 per day and wash them at 90° every couple of weeks

Oh!
I must be going wrong somewhere

MerylStreep

Callistomon
No teasing. Come on, tell us, I know your gagging to.

I did buy a couple of packs of coloured ones from Lidl
No particular colour for different jobs (although I think I should).
The colours cheer me up!

i put my dishcloth in the dishwasher every evening and the cleaning brush.

I belong to the disgusting group, clean dish cloths daily dirty ones go into the standard wash. My only concession is white vinegar and disinfectant instead of fabric softener.

Oh dear- I thought I was pretty hygienic but it seems not competed to otgers. Tea towels go in the wash with the towels. I use a fresh j cloth every week (not daily)for washing up and bleach it a couple of times during the week (or put it in dishwasher.) . At the weekend it’s bleached again and then used for bathroom. So recycled. After a week as a cloth for cleaning the bathroom it’s thrown away. Dusters I wash by hand every now & again or throw away if too mucky. Most dusters are torn up old sheets, towels etc though I do have a proper yellow one for polishing.

Dish cloths are soaked in bleach and then go in with the towels to be washed at 60 degrees. Don't wash them in with clothes and underwear as I don't think the wash is hot enough to kill bacteria.

Wash towels, bedding, tea towels and learning cloths at 50, clothes at 40. Occasionally bleach cleaning cloths and rinse then wash.

Separate wash for cleaning clothes for me. They are too manky to go in with anything else.

I have recently bought some very strong kitchen paper. Comes in a large roll - 2 pack. I made a small box from a tissue box then I tear off a portion, fold it then cut into small squares, pop them in box and if i make small spills I just grab a piece, wipe and throw. Saves dirtying cloths. J cloths, I bleach in a separate bowl.

Ok, that’s enough now....PLEASE

I wash cleaning cloths on their own. I don't put tea towels in with the main wash either. I don't fancy the idea of them going in with pants.

Everyone is too ‘germ phobic’ nowadays I think, it’s the reason younger people have weak immunity. All this single use throwing away is what’s killing our planet.

Poppyred

Ok, that’s enough now....PLEASE

8 Pages about washing dishcloths, really ?

I am certainly not 'germ phobic' so please don't include me in 'everyone'. Sorry,I am being pedantic but this is my pet hate.

Washing up cloths in dish washer or washing machine or bleach... dusters by hand, tea towels with washing, micro fibre by hand or in washing machine but with no conditioner... that's my way and never had stomach upset or anything else! :-)

Greenfinch I was just wondering if I’m a really sad person for reading this far, feel much better now you’ve posted as well.

Hi dustyangel I know what you mean but I am such a poor"housewife" that I am always looking for hints on how to improve. I loved the thread on limescale removal and immediately went out and bought some Harpic.???

Greenfinch

I am certainly not 'germ phobic' so please don't include me in 'everyone'. Sorry,I am being pedantic but this is my pet hate.

What is your pet hate ?

The misuse of the inclusive word everyone. Sorry !
See I am still reading this thread !

No I wash things separately,
Whites , Sheets, Towels ,Undies, Colours ,I never mix washes.
Cleaning cloths are boiled separately then I put washer on empty and run a cycle to clean