I am a huge advocate of using cloth dish towels as much as possible. Paper towels are wasteful, expensive, and terrible for our environment. Paper is however VERY convenient. We do have a roll of paper towels in our kitchen but we go through about 1 roll every 2 months, maybe less. How does this happen with 3 small boys? CLOTH DISH TOWELS!!! I store them in the cabinet right next to the sink in a basket. This way I always have one on hand. I use about 3 a day when all is said and done. Then in the evening after I have cleaned up the kitchen I just throw them into the laundry.
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| 20 Clean Dish Towels: Can you spot them? |
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| Do you need a closer look? Did you find them? |
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| Tada! Clean Dish Towels! |
The other thing I LOVE about this system is I don't have to spend much time folding or arranging the towels so that they look nice. PERFECT for a busy household! All of my requirements are met. Its organized, easy on the environment, and easy on me!
If you use a lot of paper towels try the recycled brands! Seventh Generation is great and available at most grocery stores.
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Designing Domesticity's blog and find out how she organizes her dish towels!
looks so well organized -You are teaching your boys evironmental friendly habits too- I love your blog
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ReplyDeleteI hate the idea of spending money on paper towels that just go in the trash. We bought a "case" of paper towels... a year ago. We still have 4 or 5 rolls that haven't been touched. We generally only use them to clean up dog puke when it's chunky. Gross, I know. Ha!
I keep my dish towels in a tub under the sink. Our old cloth diapers (that weren't ever used as actual diapers but as baby rags for everything under the sun) are awesome clean up cloths. We always have 1 towel hanging on the handle of the fridge and usually one sitting on the counter.
Aha...very clever Sarah! Thanks for the tip. That is a great way to store them. Stopping by from SOYCM.
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Looks great! I love using towels too! THe baskets are a great idea.
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I agree with you about paper towels. Funny story from dear hubby. Yesterday he was fussing because he had just put out a clean hand towel, and I had already put it in the wash. (I use big dish towels to dry dishes, but I use small hand towels to dry our hands.)
ReplyDeleteMaybe I will have to steal this idea so that our towels will be hiding from everyone else in the family. We only have two girls remaining at home, and me and dh but go through about 5-7 towels and cloths per day in the kitchen. Why? Everyone is just too precious to use a towel that has touched something else! Arrrrgh!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! And thanks for linking to my blog!
ReplyDeleteWith soon to be six kids I'm all about the cloth dish towels too. With as much mess as I have to clean, I'd be in the poor house if I only used paper towels. I like your idea of putting them up in the cupboard though. I have mine in a bottom drawer in the kitchen and the kids are always getting them out for spills here and there. It isn't unusual to clean the kitchen at the end of the day and have four or five dish towels used for this or that instead of the one I have ready by the sink. Great idea.
ReplyDeleteApril, OMG 6! Congratulations. I should be asking YOU for advice!! Thanks so much for stopping buy. Your blog is great!
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