Spot the mistake in this photo.
Those of you that know me well will know that I always, always, always use plain white kitchen paper. But some tit-head in the kitchen paper stacking section of the supermarket obviously mixed them closely together, or maybe it was some tit-head customer put one back in the wrong place ... well anyway, this particular tit-head of a shopper picked it up and slung it into her trolley without even noticing.
Unfortunately, as it was a pack of four jumbo rolls this particular mistake is going to haunt me for months!!
I am in the process of minimising my usage of throwaway single-use kitchen paper, but I'm not rushing it. I think some new habits need to be acquired gradually and with thought. Hopefully, I will eventually make myself some re-usable cloths, the sort I can mop up spills with and then chuck into the washing machine, and also hopefully work out suitable ways to change the way I do things when I grab at a paper towel for food usage things. But for this to work, I need to be aware of how and when I use them to make changing this particular lifelong habit viable as a long term solution.
One mistake I'm finding quite tasty though is the discovery of some 'volunteer' New Potatoes harvested when I was tipping out a bin of compost that had held potatoes last year.
Not all mistakes are bad ones then 😃
I apologise for the few days of silence, but when I have nothing to say ... I say nothing!!
Sue xx
This made me chuckle and reminded me of the time I took a bite into what I thought was a piece of delicious chocolate chip cake to discover it was actually full of sultanas! Not my mistake however, the supermarket bakery had labelled it wrong. Thankfully, mine was only a short lived disappointment.
ReplyDeleteI glare at the patterned paper towels EVERY time I'm at the sink. I'm glad you could eat your mistake ... lol ;-)
DeleteI have a stacdk ofr what used to be called 'muslins' - used as inner nappies in the days before disposable liners and/or disposables. They are great for everything like that and I use them for straining as well as wiping and so on and so forth. They can take a very hot wash when needed and are just all round good and useful things - that they are very hard wearing too.
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Ahh ... now that sounds like a good idea. Yep, I used to use muslins inside both my sons terry towelling squares, I know what they are.
DeleteAnother thing I want to do as well, we don't really use that much kitchen roll now.
ReplyDeleteI like your style Sue you are so honest and true to yourself, if you have nothing to say no point writing.x
That's another reason this bloody patterned stuff is going to bug me, as I am using less and less ... it's going to last longer and longer.
DeleteYep, no point in inanely waffling at you all and cluttering up my blog pages with tripe when I have nothing of interest to add ;-)
I have certainly cut back on my use of paper towels - but not sure I'll ever truly eliminate it I'm afraid. I bought a dozen small white "hand towels" from IKEA when they were on for 70 cents each and use them for much of the time - I'll pick up more over time.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny - we now only seem to get plain white paper towels and toilet paper over here but I remember when TP used to come in all sorts of colours to match your bathroom and the PT came in all sorts of designs - never see that now. Funny how things change.
That's given me an idea, cheap little face cloths would no doubt work really well as kitchen mop up cloths for spills and things. I do use a dish cloth for most clean spills, but having a stack of kitchen/face cloths would work well and be, hopefully,tough enough for frequent washing.
DeleteFirst World problem.........chill!! :-)
ReplyDeleteI am very 'zen' don't worry ;-)
DeleteI am just trying to find ways of stopping single-use things. If things don't get used up they don't need replacing ... money saved.
Don't you just hate it when you pick up an item that someone has put back in the wrong place. It also helps when you look st the right price tag for the product. Hubby put 3 tins of salmon in my basket he said it was on offer at £1.89 bargain for a large can. No such luck £3.29. I don't shop with him anymore!
ReplyDeleteOuch!! An expensive mistake, no wonder he's banned from shopping :-)
DeleteIt took me awhile to spot the paper towel problem. I agree whole heartedly on the figuring out why and when a person uses something before changing a habit.
ReplyDeleteGood going on the free tasty potatoes.
God bless.
I find that if I stop using something without a half decent plan in place it just doesn't work out in the long run, hopefully monitoring myself this way will mean I can get 'new habits' in place ... and THEN stop buying paper towels.
DeleteI buy the packs of ten white baby facecloths from IKEA for £3.50 and use them as dish cloths and to soak up any oil when cooking. They go in my hot wash with the dishtowels and when they are past their best become polishing cloths. Jessica.
ReplyDeleteAnother good idea ... thank you :-)
DeleteI'm with you on the plain white paper towels. I use them for draining food and I don't want the dye that could leach into the food. My granddaughter is very much into reusing and no waste so I made her a stack of small washable make up remover pads and she loves them.
ReplyDeleteYes I use paper towels mostly for food, so that is part of the reason for wanting plain white.
DeleteYou could stand your kitchen towel in a little plant pot to hide the patterned part but it would also be more awkward to use therefore you might resort to using something else instead of it! I cut old bath towels down to use as kitchen cloths. When our children lived at home we seemed to collect a ridiculous amount of towels. Slowly but surely I'm getting the number down now. The towels usually become dog towels first then they are cut into kitchen cloths and once they begin to look tatty they are finally binned. However I do like paper towel too for things like wrapping my baked potatoes in the microwave!
ReplyDeleteNo, I like the simplicity of the little wooden holder on the work top, it just fits in with everything else in that corner.
DeleteWe only have minimal towels, one each in use, two on the shelves and hand towels for visitors, but yes, like you, once ours become too old they get relegated to being dog towels and then they vanish into the workshop to become oily rags :-)
Great idea to cut down on single use items, I pick-up balls of cotton yarn from charity shops and knit facecwashers, dishcloth and kitchen wipes.The facecwashers are a generous size and the other 2 are about 7 inches square for ease of hanging on the tap to dry quickly, important for germ free then just throw in with other hot wash after a day for two.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to have lots of bright colours to use and when they are raggedy they go in the compost, no nasty chemical cleaning product residue as I make vineagar and lemon peel cleaning liquid.
I used to make my own cloths from cotton yarn, but I haven't seen any for sale at a good price for ages. Perhaps I should look harder.
DeleteHi Sue, I am weeks behind in reading favourite blogs - blame Miss Millie :)
ReplyDeleteI take old, worn out towels, cut them into whatever-size-feels-right-at-the-time and run the serger around them. They are used to wipe up spills, wipe dirty paws, household cleaning, basically anything and everything you can think of, and all go in a hot wash once a week.