Signs that standards are seriously slipping.

ReadyMeals Live a little. Who knows, your immune system might delight.

TwiceAsNice
It's liberating to dust with items destined for the wash.
Don't be so uptight. Live a little...??

I did the same with fluffy bedsocks. A flick around the polished chrome pedestal on a kitchen chair/stool. ??

Done it! Used a sock too usually having dropped it on the way to the washing machine. You should try it they are perfect for skirting boards.

My last post was supposed to be a reply to SueDonim

I hadn't thought of using my knickers for dusting. I halve the effort by putting a sock on each hand, though a pair of knickers on each hand would work just as well. ?

What a great idea, actually. One can butt-dance for some fun, exercise and lose some weight and have spotless furniture all at the same time. I see this as a win-win.

Our garage is attached to the house and DH uses it as a workshop. He's got a small-scale steam engine which is kept lovingly polished but recently he needed a new polishing cloth. I was turning out my knicker drawer at the time so handed over a very clean but almost worn out pair for his use. He went off brandishing said knickers (the somewhat matronly kind , in a fetching shade of rather faded peach). The garage door was open to our shared driveway, and our neighbour popped round for some man-to-man chat just as DH started polishng.

I have bought him some mictrofibre cloths now.

I mainly use my knickers as they can dust such a vast area at one time! ?

I often back out of the bathroom swiping the floor as I go using the damp towel I’ve just used, it’s a great dust picker-upper!

OMG! Thank you so much for the laugh!

Oh mrswoo, where's a camera when you need one? Hilarious thread - the outraged replies are as funny as the others. DM also used old knickers, first for dishcloths and then floorcloths but, being DM, they were boiled and disinfected first even though they were spotless to start with. You can see I don't take after her! I've never dusted with knickers but standards are def slipping as I haven't touched the vacuum cleaner and the sewing basket has been out for 3 weeks.

Nina Rosa, done exactly the same thing, so don’t backpedal, you are not Alone! ?

Nanarosa that made me laugh out loud! I think if most of us are honest then we've all done things like that.

Reminds of me of my Mum. She never wasted anything, so her when knickers were worn out, she would cut off the elastic and crotch and use the remaining cloth as a dish cloth! (She did bleach it)

No! It doesn’t bear thinking about but I’ve done it before with a pile on the way to the laundry basket! No body thought it amusing when I admitted to it! How honest we have become!!

Why not, at least you’ve done some dusting and no ones going to know except us lot on here and we won’t tell, but open the windows just in case!

LOL. so funny. I confess I use my OH's face flannel to wipe things down in the bathroom - but do put it in the wash afterwards. It's never mine!

Make sure you only bury natural fibres, ladies, otherwise future archaeologists are going to be puzzling over all the frilly nylon thongs they keep finding in old backyard suburban gardens.

Sorry I’m with the Yuck group! I damp dust ( dust gets wiped away rather than just recirculating) and the cloth ( which is only used for this) is put on a hot wash with similar things. Can’t imagine using used underwear .

That should be off to laundry basket, btw. Reminds me of journalist Katherine Whitehorn. She caused a sensation by saying that she had taken a dirty bra out of the laundry basket to wear because it was cleaner than the one she had on.

That is fantastic Sue! I know where I’m going for my afternoon walk now...

What a brilliant idea! Of to the laundry basket.

Sirchenjin, there is an experiment akin to bugs on underpants that can be done!

We could all bury our knickers and compare disintegration times.

www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/11/02/farmers-urged-bury-underpants-improve-quality-beef/

You’ll be able to use your knickers as a mop if you do