what's the deal with flannel cloths?

daisygirl17

i'm ordering birdseye clothes for "unpaper towels"...we're converting as we use wayyyyy too many paper towels...but i also see tons of flannel cloths for sale...what do people use these for and do you rec them?

ETA: what's little lion? can't find it...

papagena

A lot of people use flannel wipes for diaper changes.  Perhaps that's what you're seeing?

Little Lion - Don't they have prefold diapers?  I could be wrong, but I think that's one of the other highly touted prefolds out there.

ElloPoppet

I can't say much about the flannel movement, but I went to IKEA and bought 4 4packs of simple cotton dishtowels - it worked out to about 50 cents per towel. I use them the same way I would use paper towels, they are absorbent, lightweight, and when I'm done I toss them in my whites load & bleach the daylights out of them even though they have blue stripes. Works great for me.

 I also like microfiber towels for certain things, but I buy them in the automotive department instead of the kitchen linens area - you end up with a 12 pack for the same price as two "pretty" kitchen towels.

I do purchase a round of paper towels from costco on occasion for things like doggy poo accidents, killing bugs that "attack" Hubby, napkins, etc, but I'm still on the same bundle I bought like a year and a half ago.