Cloth Napkins, Cloth Towels

One of the bigger ways to save money/help the envioronment in the kitchen or at the dinner table is to use cloth napkins and towels instead of their paper counterparts.  They do take up some room in the wash (or can be handwashed along with the dishes and hung up to dry), but it's still a better alternative than paper.

And I haven't ever used them.  Nope!  I don't know what it is about them either.  We have 2 dish towels in the kitchen and yes, I use those from time to time to dry my hands off or to dry the dishes - but for regular spills and the like?  Nope.  Christopher doesn't use them either, in fact - he's currently using a cloth napkin as an impromptu mouse pad for his laptop!

We haven't got any cloth towels that I could use for spills in the kitchen, and while I do have a few cloth napkins we've just never used them (properly)!

My 'to change' for the month:  Start making and implementing cloth towels/napkins (and we all know this means buying more fabric!)

Tonight, for dinner, while Christopher is at work - our messy faces will be formally introduced to the cloth napkins I've got stashed around here

(and I am sure they will have no idea what it is and will want NOTHING to do with that crazy object this insane woman has placed near them during their dinner)