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If you use a lot of paper towels you might be interested.
For years my sister has used paper napkins (the cheap kind) for things for which I normally use paper towels or Kleenex. I always fuss, as I'm the sort who likes everything in its place, and napkins are for meal time, Kleenex are for noses, and paper towels for for cleaning up spills and such.
I finally got around to doing a cost comparison. I didn't dig deeply. I know there are different brands, different qualities, different sheet sizes of all three paper items. I just worked out the cost per sheet for a regular Bounty paper towel, a single Kleenex brand tissue, and a generic brand of cheap dinner napkins.
It turns out you can use three Kleenex, or FOUR napkins, for the cost of one paper towel. So I may put a stack of napkins in my cleaning bucket instead of the roll of paper towels I carry around now.
 
You really want to save on the paper towels? Use rags for cleaning. Cut up pillowcases work well. Old facecloths work well for when you have to dry something like the shower. Then you toss them in the wash and reuse. Have a bag of them so you can swap out as you go.
You'll find the difference in the price of paper goods translates into how well they hold up under duress. You don't expect to reuse tissues too many times or napkins at all. DH washes the floor with paper towels, would not even think to do that with napkins or tissues.
 
Arks said:
If you use a lot of paper towels you might be interested.
For years my sister has used paper napkins (the cheap kind) for things for which I normally use paper towels or Kleenex. I always fuss, as I'm the sort who likes everything in its place, and napkins are for meal time, Kleenex are for noses, and paper towels for for cleaning up spills and such.
I finally got around to doing a cost comparison. I didn't dig deeply. I know there are different brands, different qualities, different sheet sizes of all three paper items. I just worked out the cost per sheet for a regular Bounty paper towel, a single Kleenex brand tissue, and a generic brand of cheap dinner napkins.
It turns out you can use three Kleenex, or FOUR napkins, for the cost of one paper towel. So I may put a stack of napkins in my cleaning bucket instead of the roll of paper towels I carry around now.
and better yet, McDee's gives them away free... ha ha!
 
Arks said:
If you use a lot of paper towels you might be interested.
For years my sister has used paper napkins (the cheap kind) for things for which I normally use paper towels or Kleenex. I always fuss, as I'm the sort who likes everything in its place, and napkins are for meal time, Kleenex are for noses, and paper towels for for cleaning up spills and such.
I finally got around to doing a cost comparison. I didn't dig deeply. I know there are different brands, different qualities, different sheet sizes of all three paper items. I just worked out the cost per sheet for a regular Bounty paper towel, a single Kleenex brand tissue, and a generic brand of cheap dinner napkins.
It turns out you can use three Kleenex, or FOUR napkins, for the cost of one paper towel. So I may put a stack of napkins in my cleaning bucket instead of the roll of paper towels I carry around now.
and better yet, McDee's gives them away free... ha ha!.
We use old small towels for cleaning. Old washcloths for in the kitchen. Cheaper and greener.
Riki
 
if you are cleaning windows or mirrors, use old newspapers. Cheap napkins leave lots of paper lint.
 
if you are cleaning windows or mirrors, use old newspapers. Cheap napkins leave lots of paper lint..
EmptyNest said:
if you are cleaning windows or mirrors, use old newspapers. Cheap napkins leave lots of paper lint.
or coffee filters which do not seem to leave black marks on hands.
 
Y'all shouldn't be too hard on Arks. He's just now learning what comes natural to us women folk
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After two weeks of no TV I am watching it right now and it is extreme cheapskates and the dude says paper towels are reusable. So he rinses them gently and hangs them on a kitchen clothesline to dry out, for reuse.
Gee see all I have missed with no TV...ugh
 
Y'all shouldn't be too hard on Arks. He's just now learning what comes natural to us women folk
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Innkeep said:
Y'all shouldn't be too hard on Arks. He's just now learning what comes natural to us women folk
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You mean being thrifty?
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If he's buying Bounty, he's not so thrifty!
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Breakfast Diva said:
If he's buying Bounty, he's not so thrifty!
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NOT buying Bounty. They were just the first thing I saw at Walmart when I checked prices for my price study. I get the cheap paper towels, and make sure they are perforated to give half the size of a normal sheet.
I do use paper towels a lot for cleaning, but there's a reason. I have apartments with furnished kitchens, and that includes paper towels. Since most of my guests stay 2 or more nights, and use the kitchens, I end up with a lot of rolls of paper towels with just 1/3 roll left, so I use the remainder for cleaning. But I also have my trusty dust rags and cleaning rags.
 
if you are cleaning windows or mirrors, use old newspapers. Cheap napkins leave lots of paper lint..
Can't beat a squeegee for windows and mirrors. Just wipe around the edges with a clean rag after swiping the class dry. No lint, no black hands, and no streaks. And no paper towels needed.
 
if you are cleaning windows or mirrors, use old newspapers. Cheap napkins leave lots of paper lint..
Can't beat a squeegee for windows and mirrors. Just wipe around the edges with a clean rag after swiping the class dry. No lint, no black hands, and no streaks. And no paper towels needed.
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Silverspoon said:
Can't beat a squeegee for windows and mirrors.
Speaking of mirrors, what's with people who can't spit into a sink without spattering the mirror with toothpaste?
 
if you are cleaning windows or mirrors, use old newspapers. Cheap napkins leave lots of paper lint..
Can't beat a squeegee for windows and mirrors. Just wipe around the edges with a clean rag after swiping the class dry. No lint, no black hands, and no streaks. And no paper towels needed.
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Silverspoon said:
Can't beat a squeegee for windows and mirrors.
Speaking of mirrors, what's with people who can't spit into a sink without spattering the mirror with toothpaste?
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Arks said:
Silverspoon said:
Can't beat a squeegee for windows and mirrors.
Speaking of mirrors, what's with people who can't spit into a sink without spattering the mirror with toothpaste?
Electric toothbrush...
 
if you are cleaning windows or mirrors, use old newspapers. Cheap napkins leave lots of paper lint..
Can't beat a squeegee for windows and mirrors. Just wipe around the edges with a clean rag after swiping the class dry. No lint, no black hands, and no streaks. And no paper towels needed.
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Silverspoon said:
Can't beat a squeegee for windows and mirrors.
Speaking of mirrors, what's with people who can't spit into a sink without spattering the mirror with toothpaste?
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Arks said:
Silverspoon said:
Can't beat a squeegee for windows and mirrors.
Speaking of mirrors, what's with people who can't spit into a sink without spattering the mirror with toothpaste?
Electric toothbrush...
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Madeleine said:
Arks said:
Silverspoon said:
Can't beat a squeegee for windows and mirrors.
Speaking of mirrors, what's with people who can't spit into a sink without spattering the mirror with toothpaste?
Electric toothbrush...
As I leaned over with my sonicare this morning I thought about this post. If you smile when you brush then it splatters. :)
 
Yes I have a Sonicare and highly recommend it. I learned on the first day to turn the thing off before removing it from my mouth!
And if the spattering only comes from electric toothbrushes, then 100% of my guests are using them, because I always have to clean it off the mirrors.
 
Yes I have a Sonicare and highly recommend it. I learned on the first day to turn the thing off before removing it from my mouth!
And if the spattering only comes from electric toothbrushes, then 100% of my guests are using them, because I always have to clean it off the mirrors..
Arks said:
Yes I have a Sonicare and highly recommend it. I learned on the first day to turn the thing off before removing it from my mouth!
And if the spattering only comes from electric toothbrushes, then 100% of my guests are using them, because I always have to clean it off the mirrors.
I often wonder if people are manually brushing and then lean forward to pop a zit or something.
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Yes I have a Sonicare and highly recommend it. I learned on the first day to turn the thing off before removing it from my mouth!
And if the spattering only comes from electric toothbrushes, then 100% of my guests are using them, because I always have to clean it off the mirrors..
Arks said:
Yes I have a Sonicare and highly recommend it. I learned on the first day to turn the thing off before removing it from my mouth!
And if the spattering only comes from electric toothbrushes, then 100% of my guests are using them, because I always have to clean it off the mirrors.
Are you sure it's not from flossing then? And good for your guests that they're flossing so regularly!!!
 
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