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It occurred to me the other day that my children might actually not know what a "paper towel" is. In their lifetime, I may have only purchased one roll which we used on a camping trip. Otherwise, they do not exist in our house. I get a bit tight-chested thinking about spending money on something that was literally made to throw away. Therefore, our house is full of 100 rags.  Attractive, no. Most of them are old burp cloths given to us when the kids were born, but some are pieces cut from my old sweatshirts, or old towels. We use them for literally everything: sanitizing the counters (that is not purchased cleaning product, by the way; I refill the original bottle with vinegar and water), cleaning up spills, wiping faces, etc.    (Also for the record, I only bought that individual cottage cheese and fruit cup because it was in the clearance section of the dairy aisle.) Using cloth rags, napkins, and towels for cleaning up definitely makes for more work on laundry day, but I'm alright with it.  This is by no means a novel idea - my family, as well as most of my extended family, used only fabric when I was a kid too. I always felt like paper towels were the holy grail of other people's houses (and even as an adult when I'm at other people's houses I admit I still do kind of revel in the ease of simply wiping up a mess and tossing it away...) But now that I'm paying for groceries, I totally get it.
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