Do you wash cleaning cloths with normal laundry?

I have discovered microfibre cloths which I love. I bought loads, use one a day then wash them separately in a 60 degree wash. I wash tea towels at 60 too usually with sheets but iron them so germs should be killed.

Microfibre cloths great for cleaning, last longer than paper towels, j- cloths etc. but not particularly good for the environment..
I decided to recycle what I already have so cut up old tea towels , pyjamas etc. in a tiny effort to be greener..

I have some microfibre cloths and love them but if you read the small print on many items these days, it recommends NOT cleaning with microfibre,as this causes microscopic scratches which will dull a surface in the long run and possible damage it.

Also, I haven't read this anywhere but I think they may also give off tiny non-biodegradable particles when washed.

So I'm not buying any more.

Can we get this thread to run until Christmas??

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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!

What is this “dusting” of which you speak?

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!

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!

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!)

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.

I wrap my homemade bread in them.

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.

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.

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??

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.

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)?

But do you iron them ?

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.

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"

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!