Ditch the Habit

Since there’s been this Ditch the Disposables Challenge we talked about the other day I thought I would share some great replacement options. I used to have a pretty powerful paper towel addiction. It was ugly. It took a serious re-wiring of my brain to adjust to not pulling a paper towel out for EVERY.SINGLE.THING. However, I am proud to say that I was victorious over my addiction. Thanks to an army of dish rags, flannel wipes and cotton napkins, I find very few occasions where I just need to use a paper towel. Instead of going through a roll every few days, we now go through one every month or so. I’m not tooting my horn, It was just a REALLY hard habit to kick. Plus I only end up doing one load of these a week so it’s really not as labor intensive as I anticipated.

And here are a few of my favorite options that will last for the long haul. Oh and honestly if it’s a choice between some organically grown bamboo, über expensive fabric and coventionally grown cotton product that’s from used fabric, I’m always going to choose used. Old cut up t-shirts make awesome all-purpose rags. I use them for just about everything. Oh and certain kinds of sweaters work well too. These are great for dishes and stubborn floor stains and you just throw them in the machine. Oh and these we use…well for the obvious but they also have a dozen other uses. We do keep them seperate so the butt ones don’t get mixed with the face and hands ones. They are excellent for quick cleanups after meals and I always stuff a few in my purse/diaper bag for when we’re out. Really anything work ya know. Just ditch the paper habit. If not completely then at least you can reduce it.

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