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Mrs Fiddlesticks



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 05 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Lozzie wrote:
We ran out of kitchen towels and it occurred to me that to mop up spills - not oily ones, necessarily, but most other stuff, I could use old cotton sheets that have long passed their sell-by date, cut to an appropriate size.

Cotton is good because it can be washed at high temperatures or even composted if it gets too soiled for words.

This Christmas none of my family is going to have their presents wrapped - instead, I will be putting them in old pillowcases


i knitt dishcloths, from simple plain cotton ( sometimes called dishcloth or craft cotton - about £1.85 a ball and it does 3 cloths) and use them instead of those sponge things. And yes once falling apart they can be bunged on the compost heap.

Lozzie



Joined: 25 May 2005
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 05 8:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Would you knit me some?

I am soooo fed up with OH buying the sponges from the supermarket and them me trying to figure out what to do with them when they reach the end of their natural life.

judith



Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire
PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 05 10:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Lozzie wrote:
I am soooo fed up with OH buying the sponges from the supermarket and them me trying to figure out what to do with them when they reach the end of their natural life.


If you can't convert him to knitted dishcloths, then at least nudge him in the direction of the cellulose sponges. I mostly use those - they go from sink to dog bowl to floor and finally to compost heap, where they decompose beautifully!

I know I ought to use something more permanent, but I just don't get on with knitted dishcloths.

Lozzie



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 05 11:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I didn't know you could get cellulose sponges! I shall have to do some research

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