Linen Teatowels disappointment

pollyanna_26

JOJO Oh yes ! Son was born 1970 , dd 1 1971, dd2 1979 dd31984 .
I started with 2dozen proper nappies with firstborn then added another dozen when dd1 arrived a year later used them to wipe messy toddlers mouths etc . I was going to pass them on ,glad I didn't as second generation arrived .
Son is now 47 and a dad of 3 and yes there are still some of those nappies here , that was british manufacturing at it's finest .
DIL rejected my offer to buy 2 doz for their first baby . In fact a lot of people gaze in horror that we used to soak and boil dirty nappies .
I'm happy that as much as possible my eco footprint is as small as possible .
polly

Floss

I had 2 dozen Harrington terry squares for DS1 in 1986 and another dozen for DS2 in 1988. The last ones were used as mop-up cloths and to clean my old house before moving here in 2006, and when we emptied my mum's house in 2005 there were 3 Harringtons nappies in her airing cupboard (we couldn't decide if they were DB3 then 34 or DS1 & 2's emergency ones!)

wondercollie

An aunt sent me a dozen terry nappies for my first born. When I was finished with using them, a friend of the husband wanted some of them. He uses them to clean his Harley Davidson!

Grumpysally

I'm still using my children's nappies from the early 1990's. They still have a lovely thick pile.
Back to tea towels. I inherited a few 100% linen tea towels from MiL. Lovely. They wash really well. Linen also dries quicker than cotton, I read somewhere, something to do with the fibres not holding on to water like cotton.
A pet hate of mine is laundry labels on tea towels that tell you to wash them at 40c and have a no tumble dry symbol. What's the point? What they mean is. These tea towels are cheap carp, and will shrink to the size of a hanky if you dare to launder them at a temperature that is hygenic. Same for face cloths and towels.

jackyann

Yes, I still have the odd lurking nappy (last used 1988) and there were some of mine left in my parents' house when we cleared it - I took them to mop up after the grandchildren.

My dear DiL, who is concerned about the environment, was set to use cloth nappies, but her own grandmother demonstrated her love by buying a year's supply of disposables! On learning of the pregnancy, she bought a pack with her weekly shopping, gradually buying bigger ones. She, who had of course, washed nappies by hand, thought it a wonderful gift! DiL was so touched she accepted graciously.