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.