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Towels or Paper towels? What do you use to clean?
When you clean the kitchen/bathroom and dust do you use paper towels or old towels? I know paper towels are easy to toss out and you dont have to clean, but it can get expensive...but towels you have to clean after you use them and the idea of re-using the towel that cleaned the toilet just doesn't sound appealing.
What do you use?
What do you use?
Re: Towels or Paper towels? What do you use to clean?
I use cheapie white washcloths from the dollar store or the dollar section in target for cleaning. For dusting I use a barely damp microfiber cloth. For my Swiffer, I use cut up microfiber cloths that are cut to the same size as the disposable cloths they sell for it.
Everything goes in the wash together (bath towels and the t-shirts I use to dry my hair) and gets washed in cold water with EF detergent, a little clorox 2, a little borax, a little baking soda, and some white vinegar in the fabric softener dispenser.
I don't get why the rag used in the toilet gets any less clean than the washcloth I use in the shower to wash my ass, you know? I reuse that after it's been washed so.. washed is washed in my opinion.
/shrugs
I also use the cheap washcloths from Target for cleaning.
I never thought twice about it. It goes through the laundry when I'm done with soap and water. I assume my machine does it's job so they come out clean. I make sure to do sinks and stuff first and hit the toilet last, but after the rag is washed, I don't care where it's been.
This. I've been using cheap washcloths as well. Love the money that I save by not buying paper towels or Clorox Wipes.
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Towels for sure.
And your kitchen sink has more harmful bacteria in it than your toilet. Food for thought
Amen. The bacteria in your poop lives in your bowels 24/7 and you're not dead, whereas who knows what kind of bacteria are growing in your pipes.
Anyway, we use rags. I do use the Clorox Green Works wipes to wipe down my toilet, though. I only use the wipes in the bathroom, so a container of them last quite a while.
Both. I use paper on the toilets mainly because thats what i grew up doing and so i just always have. I like spraying, wiping, tossing. especialy for the everyother day and quick wipe downs because of company comming over.
I use washcloths on the sink, counters, tub, dusting, windows/mirrors and floors.