Dishcloths
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citygirl
friendly fire
No no no...the phrase you're thinking of is 'dull as dishwater', not 'dull as a dishcloth'
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
But but if you wipe your worksurface or cooker or anything with a sponge it's still really wet. I hate that. 
Cloth, rinse, hang.
Cloth, rinse, hang.
I fella just leaves them in the sink, which is usually still full of greasy washing up water
Do you know what REALLY irks me? A washing up sponge scrubber left in the sink...not in the washing up bowl, but in the sink, where I imagine a bajillion germs are breeding.
Now I'm not one for worrying much about germs, but this really fucks with my head
citygirl
friendly fire
Do you know what REALLY irks me? A washing up sponge scrubber left in the sink...not in the washing up bowl, but in the sink, where I imagine a bajillion germs are breeding.
Now I'm not one for worrying much about germs, but this really fucks with my head
it's usually safer for my sponge IN the sink, than out of it
baldrick
hmmmmm
Do you know what REALLY irks me? A washing up sponge scrubber left in the sink...not in the washing up bowl, but in the sink, where I imagine a bajillion germs are breeding.
Now I'm not one for worrying much about germs, but this really fucks with my head
we don't have a washing up bowl. anything left in the sink irks me - manky water, dishcloths, the leftover bits of food that get caught in the plug thingy, stray teaspoons.....
(you've got yours trained better, obviously)
Oh yes! I've paid my girl to wash up for the last few years - I only do dishes at weekends
anything left in the sink irks me - manky water, dishcloths, the leftover bits of food that get caught in the plug thingy, stray teaspoons.....
Arghh, yes
I'm forever fishing out bits of bloody penne, veggies, salad etc from the plughole. Keep reminding them we don't actually have a waste disposal, and that it really IS just a fucking plughole - in one ear, out the other 
Geri
wasn't born to follow
Exactly. This is what I do (I only use the cloth for wiping the surfaces, I wash up with a combination of sponge scourer, metal scourer (for pans) and a brush.
After a couple of days the cloth goes in the wash.
You must all use 'proper' dishcloths. I only ever get those disposal blue gingham ones that cost about a quid for 12. and I leave them until they get discoloured and a bit sus-looking before I chuck em away
I once again claim my domestic slut crown *waits for missfran to turn up and go one worse*
I once again claim my domestic slut crown
*waits for missfran to turn up and go one worse* Yeh, but I have a teenager who consistently disregards the need to WRING and HANG
Vileda would be wasted on us
Stig
Condimentalist
You must all use 'proper' dishcloths. I only ever get those disposal blue gingham ones that cost about a quid for 12. and I leave them until they get discoloured and a bit sus-looking before I chuck em away
I once again claim my domestic slut crown
*googles gingham*
oh yes we've got one of those. It's reclining behind the sink in the 'fester' position. I've no idea what it's for or where it came from. I'll ask the boyfriend, he might know.
We use kitchen minges for all purposes, and I have a long list of usages which they gradually work their way down, as they age, from brand new > washing up > side wipage > yukky side wipage > cooker cleaning > cupboard and cooker sides OR floor OR bin wipage > in the bin.
There is a separate but similar list for the bathroom ones.
a kitchen minge, yesterday:
avu9lives
famous five member
^ this, although b/f lets em fester, cant touch em when he's had a run of pot washing or cleaning.
I use combination of cloths, sponges & scourers.
God I must be bored
*googles gingham*
oh yes we've got one of those. It's reclining behind the sink in the 'fester' position. I've no idea what it's for or where it came from. I'll ask the boyfriend, he might know.
We use kitchen minges for all purposes, and I have a long list of usages which they gradually work their way down, as they age, from brand new > washing up > side wipage > yukky side wipage > cooker cleaning > cupboard and cooker sides OR floor OR bin wipage > in the bin.
There is a separate but similar list for the bathroom ones.
a kitchen minge, yesterday:
You made ME google gingham then, if only to see what came up
minge? oh lord
mine do a gradual descent too...in fact, i keep a couple under the sink permanently, to clean the scummy bit under the cats' food bowl - fuck knows how they manage to smear food all over the floor, but they do
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Christ, that's almost precisely what I do. Although mine tend to migrate to the bathroom after they're done in the kitchen. Microwaving a minge can boost it up a level, though not if it's encrusted with hair and bits or falling apart, which it usually is.
Stig
Condimentalist
fuck knows how they manage to smear food all over the floor, but they do
I have investigated, as it happens
They lick the food round the edge of the bowl, then out of the bowl and on to the floor, then round the floor, until they have licked it clean of any jelly or gravy bits. Then they leave it there until someone treads it in.
Sometimes they both go at one bowl together, in which case they heave great lumps of jelly out between them, which settles in and sets to the floor like metamorphic rock.
Stig
Condimentalist
REally!
This I have to try! *Gets set to boost minge to new levels.*
*ahem. sorry.*
I have also been reliably informed that Ras actually picks the food out of the bowl with her paw, in order to eat it off the floor
FINE, let's dispense with the fucking FOOD BOWLS then ya cunts
Geri
wasn't born to follow
I have also been reliably informed that Ras actually picks the food out of the bowl with her paw, in order to eat it off the floor
FINE, let's dispense with the fucking FOOD BOWLS then ya cunts
My cats have dried food, and one of them likes to scoop it out of the bowl and eat it from her paw. Or she dips it in the water bowl, or just tosses it all over the floor.
Stig
Condimentalist
For some reason, every day when I change the water, there is exactly one piece of dried food in there, all puffed up and floating around. One. no more, no less. Do you think it's some kind of scientific testing they are doing?
mine used to do that, when they had dried food. these days it's either full of hairs where they've been scrapping, or 'froggy'.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Another pointless household item, along with dishcloths - teatowels
