Going paperless in the kitchen

In the past few years we have been trying to go more green little by little. One of the decisions we have made is to get rid of paper towels and napkins. At first I didn't think we could and the daddy was dead set against the idea but now it seems so long ago that we even used or bought paper towels/napkins, except for the occasional kids birthday party. If you are deciding to go paperless in the kitchen you need to have a plan that works for your family. We have a large supply of face cloths for the kids already that I use for wiping off messy hands and faces. I went out and bought even more dish cloths and towels as well as cloth napkins. For us more is always better. I like to have a large supply so we never run out. We have two drawers in our dining room off the kitchen counter; one is for face cloths and one for all the kitchen cloths (cloths, towels, napkins). I buy white kitchen cloths and towels so if the kids are helping me sort it's easier. When the kitchen cloths start to get nasty and stained I take a fabric marker and mark them with a B and we use them for cleaning the bathroom or rags for anything else undesirable, I keep these ones in a closet across from the bathroom. I have just been buying our facecloths and kitchen cloths in a big cheap package from Walmart, we also have some cloth napkins from Superstore. I just buy whatever is the cheapest and looks nice. One of the problems I ran into was we are a large family and we generate a large amount of laundry so the cloths always seemed to get lost in the laundry pile. I needed a solution that didn't take up any space, that everyone could follow, was easy, worked well and looked good too. I saw some ladies online raving about Sweet Slings Kitchen Wet Bags and after checking out her Hyenacart I knew I had to have a couple.


I purchased 2 bags with a kitchen friendly theme; one with apples and one black and white one with knives, forks and spoons. Usually after using a cloth we hang them up to dry and when they have dried we throw them downstairs to go into the laundry. Now when they are dry we put them in a Sweet Slings Kitchen Wet Bag hanging in the kitchen, when the bag is full I take it down to the laundry room and dump the cloths out straight into the washer and add in some towels to make a full load. I replace the bag in the kitchen with the second clean wet bag. On Sweet Slings hyena cart they show the bag being hung on the stove handle but I tried that and everyone in the house complained so I have moved it to out freezer door which is on the bottom of our fridge. This seems to be a better solution for everyone as it's not in the way of the stove drawer and I think it also looks better. I am so happy with this system, it's made using cloth work so much better for us and I LOVE my new wet bags. We have the wet bags have two button snap tab handles for hanging and they are 13"x 20", they come in many sizes, style and patterns, they also wash very well and still look fabulous many washes later. Preschool L recently had a party and I think almost every mom at the party asked me about them. I am mulling over getting another one for the bathroom cleaning cloths and one for the side of crib for night time changes, I just need to decide on prints.


Sweet Slings Kitchen Wet Bags retail for $18.00US and can be purchased through their Hyenacart, Etsy or Lilypad Landing all three links can be found here. Sweet Slings also sells wetbags for diapers, diaper stashers, unpaper towels and more. Be sure to "like" Sweet Slings on Facebook you can get notified of all their contests and sales. If you have any questions on our paperless set up or how we do things please drop us a comment and we'd be happy to answer.