Do you wash cleaning cloths with normal laundry?

People put pet bedding in the washing machine?
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I have to dust at least twice a week. If I leave it any longer, I have a thick grey fur on the duster (actually I use Swiffers. In winter I can burn them on the fire)

It really is very bad here. My mother never seemed to do any dusting, but where we lived hardly any dust ever settled.

Even my DS said that the worst thing about returning home after living in California for 5 years was the thought of all the dust around the home. Especially with 2 small children.

Kitchen cloths and dusters, yes, bathroom cloths no, soak in bleach and rinse.

Good idea, I must try that.
We use a broken piece of an old plant pot but a couple have got blocked lately.

Old tea towels and t-shirts are cut up for window, dog, shoe and bicycle cleaning - and put in the bottom of plant pots to stop the compost leaking out. Sometimes one piece for all of the above!

Maybe Mr C could send him some of your dressing gown Callistemon.
No chance, I might patch the bits together again and make a short version.

My MIL collected souvenir tea towels and I have a pile of them, never used!

Hope you weren’t wearing it at the time?
No!
But I preferred it to my new one, which I was wearing this morning when the postie knocked on the door with a parcel.
I apologised to her but she shouted back over her shoulder "I'd still be in my dressing gown if I could!". I said "that's ok, tell all the neighbours"

Who knew a thread about dishcloth washing (or not!) could be so fascinating !!

Are we all ageing Stepford Wives I wonder?

I must confess to being a bit of a hygiene freak so dishcloths, tea towels, you name it get washed or bleached to within an inch of their lives.

I run the washing machine on a 90 deg wash once a month along with a machine cleaning product.

But do you iron them ?

Teatowels! A whole new subject.Wherever we travel to I like to buy a teatowel ( and the bloody things never wear out) so I have two teatowel drawers ( and a dishwasher)?

Lord Lemongrove is constantly after ‘an old towel’ to do some mucky job in the potting shed ( don’t ask!)?Maybe Mr C could send him some of your dressing gown Callistemon.

Callistemon

DH has a large, old bin in the garage and all the old cotton rags go in there. He was using part of my old towelling dressing gown the other day to clean the bbq and I thought, oh, sad, I loved that dressing gown and I can't find another one like it.

Hope you weren’t wearing it at the time??

Old tea towels? What are they? I’m still using ones from the Queen’s Jubilee in 1977, and some from my MIL’s that date back even further.

I also use them as drip bags for fruit (unless they have a large hole in them in which case it doesn't work).

Come on - any more uses? This is riveting stuff.

I wrap my homemade bread in them.

DH has a large, old bin in the garage and all the old cotton rags go in there. He was using part of my old towelling dressing gown the other day to clean the bbq and I thought, oh, sad, I loved that dressing gown and I can't find another one like it.

All right now tell me ladies what you do with your old tea towels? I give mine to my OH for decorating/ other job cloths as in "have you got a bit of rag I can use to..." What's your best use? (This thread really can run until Christmas!)

I have some yellow ones somewhere but I don’t use them or even dust often. You’d need a lot of dirty ones to warrant a wash on their own!

I have a load of different coloured micro fibre cloths arranged in the bottom of a small trolley I use for cleaning materials. However, these are so pretty I rarely use them, but resort to a box filled with old sheets And shirts etc, cut into squares!

What is this “dusting” of which you speak?

susieq3

mumofmadboys
I’m with you Not enough people are thinking of the environment.

I should have said that I wash during the day and have solar panels!

I still use yellow dusters - I have lots - they go in the machine strictly on their own. Once found DH about to ‘help’ by putting several in with a normal wash?. Had to explain that they ‘bleed’ like buggery! As I once found out the hard way.

lemongrove

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

I use yellow dusters, but then I do dust occasionally, lemongrove.

Are you saying you don't?
The things posters admit to, I tell you, it's a revelation on here!

What do you mean "old" lemongrove? I am still using mine ( occasionally)

lemongrove

Can we get this thread to run until Christmas??

Probably it seems to excite posters so much!
I don’t know what half of them are talking about to be honest.