Cloths or wipes?

i use mix, clothes and wipes.

clothes at home..and like one mentioned, sometimes, i forget to hang them, they stink in the sink at the end of the day, so i have to do laundry either early morning or late night.

wipes - disposable ones outdoors.

angie

I use cloths and everyone has a pattern or colour. However, I don't run them through the washing machine daily. After each meal, I wash them by hand with some dish soap in the kitchen sink. I hang them over the edge of the counter to dry and they've not been stinky yet. It only takes a couple minutes and fits well with the dish washing routine.

Rinsing the cloths to get rid of especially the milk in them from wiping up the kids is one way to limit the smell. Then hang at the end of the day and in the morning toss in the bin. I have enough cloths to have one per child per day and wash them the end of the week. I do use bleach on them in the washer because they have come in contact with faces and germs.

Thanks everyone! Seems I was doing everything except letting them dry out. I too use one per child a day and have different colors for each child but I was putting them in the daycare wetbag without letting them dry! Now I do :)

I am a major germ freak, and only use my dish cloth for one washing of the dishes...I hate that rags will sit on the counter or sink edge and breed germs, yuck. That being said, I use wipes and take turns with ALL parents supplying them, I ask every so often for a new supply and go through all theirs then a supply of my own, then request again for more. I just find it a lot easier than worrying about whether a child grabbed anothers rag and wiped their mouth with it them I wipe that childs and the spread of germs goes on. The only way we can use rags per licensing is if we only use once and wash. With my obsession over the dish rags AND that?...I would be crazy with laundry every day, even more than I am now.

I'm like you kidlove and can't even stand it when somebody wipes the counter and then does the dishes (my Mom)! I get out a clean dishcloth and clean teatowel every time I do dishes. That's also why I use a clean little baby cloth for each child for each meal. How much room do they take up in the laundry? Not much.

If I see boogers I use wipes other than that face cloths.