Do you guys have j cloths in the USA. That’s what the first example looks like to me. I see them used for cottages and camping more than at home here
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They’re in gas station windshield washer setups and we had rolls like HaH behind the counter
The cellulose dish cloths are showing up all over the place in the last ten years, mostly as Swedish dish cloths (cuz minnesota) but Trader Joe’s has had them for years. My mom found some at Walmart.
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We use cotton face washers for the kitchen now. The same ones we used for Pikelet when she was a spewy baby. We have a big supply due to the aforementioned spewing. We use them for dishes (that don’t require heavy scrubbing), wiping surfaces, cleaning dirty faces, cleaning up toddler crafts, etc. They have been going for over three years now and will get tossed in the compost/worm farm when they are done.
Those blue cloths HaH posted are very standard here in Australia. They come in rolls and are often considered disposable after one or a few uses. We call them chux which I guess is the brand that marketed them so hard that they became ubiquitous here.
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Wait! Maybe they are like the disposable cleaning cloths they sell at the auto supply store?? I’d not think of them for dishwashing.
Such an interesting cultural difference!
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Ah, another easy piece for my Christmas presents…
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Like a shop towel? But I think those are just heavy paper towels.
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They’ve got something different about it them though because people were using them for mask filters.
I would never get one wet and then reuse it. I wonder if that’s cultural or it’s just hard to tell what kind of fabric it is from the picture.
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What are compostable dishcloths? Is that the same as the swedish dishcloths? In which case, we really didn’t like those.
We just typically use cotton dishcloths, so I think no microplastics, and they are about 10 years old now.
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Yes, I used them for mask filters a bit - found an old roll of Scott brand in the barn. They seem to be paper? They do survive accidental washing and drying in mask-filter form, surprisingly.
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The ones we use in Aus definitely aren’t paper, they’re a plastic fabric.
I wouldn’t know - that doesn’t seem to be a term we use here!
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… like the chux pads that the birth center gave me for leakiness after childbirth?
googles OK, I think they’re different.
I use handknit cotton dishcloths–some knit by me, some by a friend, some by MIL.
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I found some compostable scrubber sponges at Target, which is nice because then I don’t have to change my routine or convince my husband to do so. If they work. Haven’t tried them yet.
I wound up getting Blueland cleaners and they seem nice. Hand soap also fine. I have been putting only bar soap in the children’s bathroom but I don’t think they wash their hands properly, so now that I have found an option that doesn’t involve shipping a bunch of water (Blueland is tablets that dissolve), I am switching them back to foaming hand soap.
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We’re using blueland dish soap, dish washer tabs, hand soap, general cleaning supplies, and laundry tabs. So far so good!!
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I have used cloth gift bags, tins, or cut-up paper grocery bags for wrapping all of my presents so far this year!
All of my family understand how much I love my tins, so they all get returned every year, even the ones I give away with Muddy Buddies in them.
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Ponder is in charge of wrapping presents, and is happy to do some of our presents with Xmas fabric instead of paper, as long as I can show him options and help with it.
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I’m really happy with how fabric bags worked this Christmas. It’s still insane how much trash piles up opening the boxes for toys people sent, but at least no wrapping paper.
The kids seemed quite amused trying to do the various fasteners (but they are 1 and 3.). Zippers were easiest, then snaps, then velcro. When I ran out of Christmas table cloth I used old tshirts, so those will work as gift bags for birthdays too. I might paint designs on them.
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I’m super impressed you went to the trouble to put in zippers in present bags. That’s above and beyond.
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I figured I have 17+ years to use them. The zippers actually went quicker than the snaps.
I’ll make some drawstrings next year, but untying still is hard for them.
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To whoever suggested the ethique shampoo and conditioner bars:
I asked for them for Christmas and my mom got them for me.
MY HAIR HAS NEVER BEEN SO SOFT AND SHINY IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.
Thank you for posting that here, I cannot wait to try some of their other products and really ditch the (plastic) bottle for good. I am so impressed, and I was skeptical about using them because I haven’t heard great things about shampoo and conditioners in the past. They have detailed instructions on how to use the product effectively because it is different than my normal liquid shampoo/conditioner products.
I highly recommend them and thank you to who posted about them here 
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My house is full of rubbish. I’m going to start separating waste better so I can see what we’re throwing away. I think picking one thing at a time is the only way I can figure this out. I’ve tried tracking everything at once a few times, and it’s just too much for me.
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