Reddit reviews Utopia Kitchen Flour Sack Dish Towels, 12 Pack Cotton Kitchen Towels - 28 x 28 Inches

Try plopping right side up. Get your towel under your hair along your neck and pull it around towards your forehead and tie it up there. Make sure your curls are inside your towel, but not squished against your head or on top of your head. I was getting really tangled, kinky curls when I plopped. Now I just kind of tie my hair into the towel and let it sit in the towel instead.

Edit: For anybody curious... I use these towels . I fold them in half diagonally so they’re a triangle. It makes it really easy to tie up and adds an extra layer of towel to catch the moisture so your towel doesn’t get suuuuper soaked immediately.

Patch together some tea-dyed floursack-towels? That way you get the relic-feeling/looking fabric without the mustiness/fragility of genuine vintage or the roughness of burlap?

Get some flour sack towels. You can line a colander and pour the stock through once and it does a great job of filtering out the insoluble bits.


They are cheap, multipurpose and reusable. I rarely have a need to buy cheesecloth any more.

Cloth diapers - flour sack towelsfrom amazon as the stuffers - cheap and clean easily. Bamboo liners for the poop. Rubber gloves for swishing it in the toilet for the parts that don't come off with the liners. Lot's of covers that can be used from newborn to 35 lbs. You can use any bum cream if you use the flour sack towels as well FYI because it doesn't ruin them. Also pick up a couple of these laundry bags. Wipes.

Cleaning is easy - "quick wash" with a bit of soap, then a hot long wash for extra soiled diapers.

Baby nest was nice to have but not a necessity. Blankets/towels can help. Also a wrap is nice for the first 6 months but not necessary.

Gripe water for gassy baby, Punkin Butt teething oil

A pump, even hand pump will be handy. Especially in the first few weeks she's regulating her supply.

Zip up sleepers (snaps suck)

Baby Bag (backpack style)

Don't worry about a baby changing table, you can change anywhere. Don't worry about a diaper genie since you're cloth diapering.

Breastfeeding scarf/carseat cover

Older baby (6-12 months will come fast)

- snack containers

- Food holder thing(frozen bananas are awesome for teething)

Lint free cotton dish towels. I don't like the towels that have nap to them, as I like to avoid things that can get hung up in the tines, and nap can get into the breather hole and be caught between the tines.

For a quick and easy, https://www.amazon.com/Cotton-Craft-Flour-Kitchen-Napkins/dp/B00S5Y5184 or https://www.amazon.com/Utopia-Kitchen-Pack-Flour-Sack-Towels-28-Inches/dp/B00XK69NRW would work well. When new, wash them once or twice to remove all of the sizing, and then you have a nice, lint free, soft cotton towel use on your pens. These are big, but after a while they will look great with all of the ink colors on them.

I'd suggest flour sack towels (Link is to the ones I have from Amazon, but my understanding is that you can get them for about a dollar a piece at Walmart) with covers (I like flip covers but I think the brand is less important).

Flats, like flour sack towels, are multi-purpose, cheap, and super fast to dry. My dryer died on me a few months ago and I realized how much easier the single layer flats were to wash and dry. I agree with the last response that probably 20 or so flats and a few covers would be reasonable, but because they are cheap and multipurpose having 40 of them around wouldn't be the worst thing either!

It sounds like it was more of a compression leak than anything. A compression leak is basically when the baby pees and then lays on it/squeezes the wet diaper for so long that the pee just leaks out of that absorbent layer. I'd add a layer or two, but specifically fold or layer it in a way that there's extra absorbency around the sides of the diaper. You'll probably have to experiment with it a few times to get something that works well. You could try using OsoCozy flats or even some flour sack towels because they're large and you'd be able to fold them in a way to add absorbency to the sides without them sliding around.

Yeah, I only put my wool in the dryer on air dry because it was winter and I couldn't hang dry it. :) Then I figured out that it seemed to affect the waterproofing so I ended up just hang drying it by the fireplace, lol! At least it smelled good after that!

Here is what we use to wrap our clean toys in. Utopia Kitchen 12 Pack Flour-Sack-Towels,28 x 28-Inches https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XK69NRW?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf

These were the flour sack towels I bought and still use. I could honestly get by with just these still. They're my main diaper during the day still. And at just over a dollar a towel, the price can't be beat. I'm with your husband, I LOVE learning new diaper folds!

sorry, switched to laptop now so here's the page link without Pinterest

https://www.frugallivingnw.com/amazing-no-knead-bread-step-by-step-recipe/

Basic No-Knead Bread

Slightly adapted from Jim Lahey’s My Bread

Ingredients

6 cups bread flour (recommended) or all-purpose flour, plus more for work surface
1/2 t. instant or active-dry yeast
2 1/2 t. salt
2 2/3 c. cool water

1. In a large bowl, combine the flour, yeast, and salt. Add the water and stir until all the ingredients are well incorporated; the dough should be wet and sticky. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Let the dough rest 12-18 hours on the counter at room temperature. When surface of the risen dough has darkened slightly, smells yeasty, and is dotted with bubbles, it is ready.
   
2. Lightly flour your hands and a work surface. Place dough on work surface and sprinkle with more flour. Fold the dough over on itself once or twice and, using floured fingers, tuck the dough underneath to form a rough ball.
   
3. Place a full sheet/large rectangle of parchment paper on a cotton towel and dust it with enough flour, cornmeal, or wheat bran to prevent the dough from sticking to the parchment paper as it rises; place dough seam side down on the parchment paper and dust with more flour, cornmeal, or wheat bran. Pull the corners of parchment paper around the loaf, wrapping it completely. Do the same with the towel. Let rise for about 2 hours, until it has doubled in size.
   
4. After about 1 1/2 hours, preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place a 6-8 quart heavy covered pot, such as a cast-iron Dutch oven, in the oven as it heats. When the dough has fully risen, carefully remove pot from oven. Unwrap the towel and parchment paper from around the dough and slide your hand under the bottom of the dough ball; flip the dough over into pot, seam side up. Pull the parchment paper off, scraping any stuck dough into the pan. Shake pan once or twice if dough looks unevenly distributed; it will straighten out as it bakes.
   
5. Cover and bake for 40 minutes. Uncover and continue baking for 10-15 more minutes, until the crust is a deep chestnut brown. The internal temperature of the bread should be around 200 degrees. You can check this with a meat thermometer, if desired.
   
6. Remove the bread from the pot and let it cool completely on a wire rack before slicing.

I really love embroidering on white flour sack towels like these. As far as transferring patterns, there are lots of options. You can buy iron-on transfer patterns from companies like Sublime Stitching, Stitcher's Revolution, Aunt Martha's, and Dover. There are pens you can buy with disappearing ink or special fabric pencils if you want to draw right on the fabric. You can draw or trace a design on paper and then use transfer paper to transfer the pattern you've drawn to the paper. Some people use non-wrinkle polyester fabric for hand embroidery because it means you don't have to iron it when you're done, but I prefer stitching on cotton. I don't use a hoop though, I use a Q-snap frame which doesn't crease the fabric as much as a traditional hoop does.

A flour sack towel would be best. Nothing but the booze would make it through.

The only time you really need to worry about cross contamination is if your towels are coming into contact with raw meat. If you're using proper soap and water or a light bleach solution to clean up, then there is no danger of cross-contamination from towels.

I use these sponges to wash dishes/knives/cutting boards/tools - they last forever and when one does get worn and ratty, it gets demoted to outside/grill related jobs and a new one gets opened for sink and counters:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003TI6Z68

I use these towels to dry things and for general wiping and cleanup - they can be bleached if they get dirty or are happen to get used to wipe up chicken juice. As with the sponges, when they start to get ratty and stained, they're demoted to outside/grill use and I get new ones for kitchen use:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XK69NRW

I have a handful of these that I got at a WS outlet store that are "for pretty" and hang on the oven rail. They're used almost exclusively for drying hands after washing them:
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/9195975

Outside of that, I use paper towels for just general daily use. I'm fond of the "select-a-size" types so I can tear of a smaller piece for just what I need or to use as a napkin (yeah, we're classy like that around here!). I do use paper towels also for the final clean of the counter each night - I spray the counters down with a cleaner (usually it's diluted Lysol cleaner, sometimes it's diluted Mr Clean - whatever happens to be on sale) and wipe them off with paper towels.

Not sure where you live but Target has them in the US or you can get them really cheap on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XK69NRW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Ldo1DbZEM1NPZ)

Jumping in to recommend flour sack towels for your kitchen cloths. They are great.

I just bought these and they work great. Way cheaper than any other covers I own.

We use these as inserts and they work great. I don’t even shove them in the pocket. I just fold them up and lay them inside the cover and snap them on.

Fuck using paper towels. It's stupidly expensive, not to mention the fact that they are bad for the environment. Just buy cotton "flour sack" towels and wash/reuse them. They will last years. They are more lint free than paper towels anyway.

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Also, the entire unit doesn't need to be mopped? That's fucking disgusting. The entire unit needs to be mopped, every single time.

If you don't have trash cans in the bedroom, next to the bed, they are going to throw used condoms on your floor, I guarantee it.