At some point in my youth, I was semi-traumatized by being unable to figure out which cloth I could dry my hands on, so went to paper towels. My grandmother has strict separation between hand towel and dish towel, and for whatever reason, I couldn't remember which was which.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Dec 23, 2009 9:40:58 am PST #27011 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
smonster - Dec 23, 2009 9:44:09 am PST #27012 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
This sounds like a job for your husband.
Flea is wise!
My grandmother has strict separation between hand towel and dish towel, and for whatever reason, I couldn't remember which was which.
So does my mom, and I sort of do, too. They have distinct textures, though - hand towels are fuzzy or waffle-weave, dish towels are smooth. I once had a roommate that kept trying to use cloth napkins and placemats for dish towels. On the placemat, I had to ask her, "Didn't you notice that it wasn't very absorbent?" She just thought it was a crappy towel.
msbelle - Dec 23, 2009 9:45:03 am PST #27013 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I do not dry dishes so all kitchen towels become hand towels/hot pot holders/snap atthe kid or cat towels.
Cash - I'd just use the packing tape, or staples.
Fred Pete - Dec 23, 2009 9:47:48 am PST #27014 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
My mother was big on re-using Ziploc bags. They were fairly easy to wash, a major pain to dry.
Jesse - Dec 23, 2009 9:49:05 am PST #27015 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So does my mom, and I sort of do, too. They have distinct textures, though - hand towels are fuzzy or waffle-weave, dish towels are smooth.
Now I totally get it -- and also, the different towels go in different places in her kitchen! It was just one of those things that, as a kid, I couldn't care enough about to get.
smonster - Dec 23, 2009 9:49:10 am PST #27016 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
For drying plastic bags, I have one of these: [link]
But sometimes I get lazy and toss them.
I try to avoid them when I can.
Scrappy - Dec 23, 2009 9:50:31 am PST #27017 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
My MiL will only use a towel ONCE. This includes hand and dishtowels. One of the reasons her family refers to her as "The Queen of England."
Jesse - Dec 23, 2009 9:52:59 am PST #27018 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
For plastic bags, I usually re-use for the same thing as long as possible -- like, I have cheese in a ziploc in my fridge, and just put the new cheese in the same bag.
This actually fits my recurring theme of being "green" more out of laziness and/or cheapness than anything else.
Cashmere - Dec 23, 2009 9:53:34 am PST #27019 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
This sounds like a job for your husband.
I just sent him an email telling him to pick some up on the way home!
§ ita § - Dec 23, 2009 9:57:03 am PST #27020 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am a ziploc bag fiend. I really should re-use. Or at least recycle more consistently--I tend to only recycle plastic food containers I bought food in, for some reason.
Actually, most of my ziploc use is non-food. Office supplies! Peripherals and cables!