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<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nI was in to my twenties when I embroidered my first (and only) set of tea towels. I was really in to Scotty dogs at the time and picked up a pattern for a set featuring little dogs for each day of the week. I only completed the weekend- Friday, Saturday and Sunday!<\/p>\n
I also received a set of hand embroidered towels for a wedding gift from my Aunt Wilma. They feature animated DISHES (of course!). And although I profess that all of our pretty things need to be used, I have to admit that my pretty tea towels rarely make it out in to the cooking zone.<\/p>\n
I just can\u2019t bear the thought of my pretty towels coming to the rescue when my husband\u2019s spaghetti sauce splashes on the floor. Poor guy just doesn\u2019t understand why I have, as he calls them, \u201ctowel rules\u201d.<\/p>\n
Here is how I define towels and their functions:<\/p>\n
Bar Mop- Spills and general wiping I I was in to my twenties when I embroidered my first (and only) set of tea towels. I was really in to Scotty dogs at the time and picked up a pattern for a set featuring little dogs for each day of the week. I only completed the weekend- Friday, Saturday and Sunday! I...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dirtydishesonline.com\/dishin-dirt-the-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dirtydishesonline.com\/dishin-dirt-the-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dirtydishesonline.com\/dishin-dirt-the-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dirtydishesonline.com\/dishin-dirt-the-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dirtydishesonline.com\/dishin-dirt-the-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dirtydishesonline.com\/dishin-dirt-the-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"http:\/\/dirtydishesonline.com\/dishin-dirt-the-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dirtydishesonline.com\/dishin-dirt-the-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dirtydishesonline.com\/dishin-dirt-the-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dirtydishesonline.com\/dishin-dirt-the-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dirtydishesonline.com\/dishin-dirt-the-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSponge or Dish Cloth (an entirely different discussion)- Cleaning after the wiping has been completed
\nTea Towels (aka Dish Towels)- For drying clean wet hands and clean wet dishes
\nHand Towels- Generally in the bathroom next to the sink for drying clean wet <\/em>hands.<\/em> Tea towels and dish towels serve this purpose in the kitchen.
\nCloth Napkins- For wiping one\u2019s face while eating (not to be converted to a bar mop during clean up)
\nRags- For cleaning spills on the floor. (I keep my rags in the garage)
\nPaper Towels- Although these can be used for all of the above, I limit their use to soaking up oil between tortillas when I make enchiladas. Just doing my part to be green.
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\nI\u2019m curious how everyone else defines these different types of towels. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only one that has adopted such neurotic rules because I have a sister that was brought up by the same mother. (smile) But how widespread is this wiping panic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"