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T-Shirts as Cleaning Cloths

This weekend, 2nd Man and I realized that it was time for some new T-shirts since we both wear them everyday under our work shirts and the previous ones were pushing a couple years old.  So we ran down to our favorite store and bought new ones.  Since we strive, in our own little ways, to be as green as we can, we decided the farmhouse could use some cleaning cloths.

So we washed a load of whites with just the old T-shirts, folded them, and found this really cool basket to keep them in.  They are now located in the "farm holding room" (formally known as the "guest room") at the city house, waiting to go out to their new home the mudroom at the farm.

T-shirts make great rags to use for cleaning.  They are 100% cotton, lint free, soft (usually very soft after having been worn and washed a hundred times), and they work for all sorts of projects.  You can clean windows with them, counters, walls, dusting, use them for painting and staining projects, really just about anywhere you need to grab a quick rag to wipe something down.  And best of all, they are free!  Free in the sense that we've already gotten our money's worth and use out of them and we might have otherwise thrown them away.  Now they will have a new home and use in the country.