A few months ago, we stopped using paper products in our kitchen to reduce waste (and conveniently save money at the same time!). My dad is a paper towel-aholic so he brings his own roll to my house if he is watching my kiddos for any length of time longer than 5 minutes. (Yeah...I'm working on it...) He left his last roll here in case of any catastrophes.
We had one.
A giant milk spill while all my kitchen towels were spinning happily in the dryer.
Uh oh! I decided to grab the paper towels since they were here for this. exact. reason.
I grabbed one off the roll and headed in to attack the spill. Hahahahahaha!
One paper towel didn't even make a dent in the milk spill...by the time it was over I used a huge handful and was pretty P.O.ed! Seriously, I had been using paper towels for years and I never realized how inefficient they actually are. One of my kitchen towels could have easily cleaned up the milk and lived to tackle more messes. Hmmmmm....
Just a little prelude to June...(June is FREE month!)
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I would highly suggest investing in a pile of microfiber towels, too (unless you're averse to synthetics- if so, good for you!). If you catch them on sale at Target they're super cheap (in the automotive section)... or I have a friend who bought some for a song at Harbor Freight... I was pretty impressed, I would have never thought to look there for them.
ReplyDeleteI would love to forgo paper towels but what how do you clean certain messes....like chicken drippings in the bottom of a roasting pan with out paper towels? I want to throw that mess out
ReplyDeleteThat is a great question Andrea! I was thinking about this and decided to see if anyone else had a good solution...basically no-one does! lol! I think this is one time those towels actually can come in handy although I did see alot of people suggest using the recycled towels (Marcal has coupons out there to try their new Small Steps products free! I think they were only in newspaper inserts, but maybe ask around and see if you can find them.)or using other paper that was on its way out anyway (newspapers, junk mail paper, printer paper, etc..)
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