Kitchen Towel - Do you use it?

recovering_spendaholic

I must admit that I do use it all the time. I buy it when it is on offer in Costco - usually when it is on 3 for 2 so you get 60 rolls for £20 and that lasts me for about 9 months or longer.

kayjay1809

Crazychik wrote: »

OH use to use loads when cleaning out the rabbit hutch, now he's got into the idea of using rags more!

I can get through a roll at a time and I have four rabbits and two guineapigs. Do rags work just as well, and do you then wash and reuse - I'm guessing they're pretty yucky once the hutch is cleaned out?

ps don't know if you know but rabbits can be trained to use litter trays very easily and it makes cleaning out the hutches much much easier

AussieLass

I very rarely used kitchen roll except for draining fried food. Used dishclothes etc but now I find I"m buying the cheap paper to use for spills, etc as I'm become really aware how much water I'm wasting washing out the cloths.

It's probably not as enviormentally (sp) friendly using paper towels but atm water is more important.

LJM

i always use it

Crazychik

kayjay1809 wrote: »

I can get through a roll at a time and I have four rabbits and two guineapigs. Do rags work just as well, and do you then wash and reuse - I'm guessing they're pretty yucky once the hutch is cleaned out?

ps don't know if you know but rabbits can be trained to use litter trays very easily and it makes cleaning out the hutches much much easier

He has a bowl of jeyes fluid or other disinfectant to hand, and rinses the rags/cloths out, but once used, it goes in the bin! Sometimes, in the grains of the wood, he also uses a scrubbing brush, but this is left to soak in a bucket of cleaning fluid, and only used for this job! I certainly wouldnt like to use the same cloth for my kitchen units, knowing it was used for the rabbit, even if it had been washed! :eek:

Yes I was aware that they can be litter trained. Its fantastic if it works, but the people who we had her from, never gave her the attention, so she is quite a nasty rabbit. She has the roam of the secured garden in the summer. But sadly, she is in the hutch rest of the time! Think she is gone past training now!

Quasar

I also do not use kitchen towel, but microfibre cloths. I have several and as they wash well and are hardwearing, I've always have a few on the go. OK I'm on my own and don't do elaborate cooking every day so the kitchen does not get a lot of use, but still.

Zed42

we used to use it like it was going out of fashion...

then we had a DD ... still got her ..... and we used cloth nappies, then flannels ... and now discovered how much better a flannel (cut up old towels) are ...

when used ... lob 'em in to an old ice cream tub with stardrops in to soak and wash when I have a white load.....

Much easier and cheaper and more effective....

jackieb

I've been watching Cleanaholics on the TV this week, and the amount of people on there who use masses of kitchen roll is amazing. Two rolls will probably do me more than a month. Some of these people were going through 12 a week! I'm amazed at the waste. Some of them go through packets and packets of babywipes, and bottles of bleach each week.

CFC

Kitchen roll is an evil waste of resources. I have never bought it in my life.

My wretched other half buys it when he does the shopping and always uses it; despite being a rabid recycler: he's a toy boy and a product of the consumer generation

orchid-96

It seems like quite a variation on whether we use this or not, I think I am going to try to 'wean' myself off kitchen roll...I do only buy the budget stuff or the better stuff if it is on offer....dh is the biggest culprit though, if he spills something he more or less uses the whole roll to clean up :eek: