Do you think that a bundle of rags save you a bundle? Yes of course! Next time your kitchen counter’s wet, reach for a cloth instead of a paper towel. You’ll save a lot of paper – including the small, green kind that fits in your wallet. Want to try the following:
- Organic cotton tea towels – naturally dyed organic-cotton.
- Seventh generation paper towels – if you got to use paper towels, go with non-chlorine bleached and 100% recycled.
- You can also knit your own damn dishcloth.
You can definitely roll in the dough. Or at least a little of it, if your household uses a roll of paper towels per week, you could save more than $100 per year by switching to dishcloths and tea towels. This is also less mess. People send 3,000 tons of paper towels to landfills each day. A much safer sopping up, to make paper towels white, many producers use chlorine bleaching, which releases cancer-causing toxins into the environment. And more substance, cotton tea towels are thicker and can hold more water than paper quicker picker-uppers.








Fantastic post on both the environmental stand point, and the cost effect of using rags. Great post!