Use Rags to Keep Your Riches

I refuse to use reusable rags to pick up cat vomit.

I use rags, paper towels, dish towels, each for its own use. The right rag makes a good dust rag, than I trash it, usually. I noticed that frabric softner sheets after use, make good dust rags on the right things. Each person just has to do what is right for them. No poopy shoes in my house, if you wipe them off with paper towels, you had better wash your hands, If one has grass a nice way to wipe away most poope shoes. So, picky these days, I am still alive, we had not paper towels, used same rags over and over. A regular string mop worked just fine. I stayed just has healthy as kids these days, actually more healthy.

Send them to the Middle East so they have something to wear on their heads.

Better hang on to those rags. We may be wearing them between now and the next four years.

There's a reason people stopped using rags in the 1960s. When you use a rag you not only have to clean up the original mess but now you have an additional item to clean - so twice the work. The idea that rags are better for the environment is a crock too. It takes a long time for fabric to decompose - even cotton fabric. Paper towels will fall apart quite rapidly.

And of course those Walmart towels are made in China.

Or just tear up old socks and shirts after their useful life, and spend $0 on towels/rags. I have not used a paper towel in many, many years (except when I was at my friends' house who did not have rags). Washing your hands in public? It takes less than 1 minute for your hands to air-dry, and even less time if you pat them on your pants. I am proud that I do not contribute to the 13 billion tons of paper towel that get senselessly used in the US every year. To me, breathing oxygen is more important than having instantly dry hands.

Here is a hint don't use fabric softener on your dish towels, it causes them not to absorb as well. The shop towels they say to use, don't work that well, the dollar store has some that absorb the best and last for many years. I don't use paper towels that often. I have had some of my dollar store towels for over 20 years and use them for everything in my kitchen.

Your lucky if your Walmart sells a package of dish towels. All of our local Walmarts carry BAR TOWELS. Ever try to dry dishes with bar towels? Who ever the buyer was should be fired. Ours do not carry bulk dish towels. You have a choice between bar towels/bar mops or printed dish towels for about 4 busks each.

I think it's mostly a matter of sanitary practice, after cleaning anything with a rag or dish towel, they should be washed, otherwise you are just spreading the germs around when you use them again. Of course if you have a big kitchen with washer dryer in your home, it might be worth it, but as an apartment dweller i dont have the luxury of space or washer dryer right there to afford to have so many towels i am still be sanitary.