I have a raft of microfiber cloths color coded for various uses. Green are kitchen only. Blue are floors. Yellow and white for baths & dusting. These absorb really well and they are lint free -- a big plus. They pull grease out of the oven better than cotton IMO because they are petroleum based. They are cheap and they last a long time.

Wash them in hot with mamapinky's Tide Pro which gets them very clean. If they have stains, I don't care.

Only downside is they need to be dried on low or they shrink.

Thanks, Roc. I also have a ton of these but I don't love them. They are extremely static-prone and I get tiny burrs of things stuck to them. But they're awfully stain resistant and I do appreciate that. We are way overdue for a trip to Costco so I'm thinking of picking up a pack of their much-loved washcloths.

Alex, I'm with Mama here. I can't stand the feel of microfiber on my hands so I use the washcloths from WalMart or Target. They come in plain white or multi-colors. I almost always get the plain white ones because I can bleach them.

I do, however, put up with using microfiber on my car when I detail it. Nothing beats microfiber when it comes to getting water spots, cleaner, wax, and clear coat sealant off of my car.

Those are what I have Alex. So sorry.

I have to go with roc on this. Nothing and I mean nothing beats microfiber, i cant use anything else because it feels like I just are pushing dirt around.

They launder perfectly and I never dry them on low. Have collected lots of them over the years and even have floor mops for both wet and dry.

Got 2 mittens recently that have lots of 1 inch long fingers on them, great for dusting and washing the car.

I do agree about them being harch to skinoils but over time I have gotten more used to it, if I need to do a big cleaning job I wear gloves.

I use cotton baby diapers and have for 35+ years. The pre-folds work best for most jobs around here. Ours are probably 10+ years old and are washed in HOT water every week, with some oxy-bleach. They are just now starting to look a bit ratty and I dread having to shop for more. Cloth diapers are NOT what they used to be, and some of those pre-folded types have a foam-ish absorbent layer in the middle... some of them "pill"..... eeeew.

I've got some regular old-fashioned cotton diapers that I use also. They're ancient and are starting to look ratty.

I cannot stand the feel of microfiber "terrycloth" type fabric. They seem to want to stick to my hands like Velcro. ;-p I have also had that stuff permanently scratch the dashboard "glass" (really plastic) of a new car so I learned that lesson the hard way and only use the diapers in the car.

Cavimum - I had the same thing happen to dashboard "glass!" You can buff that out with some toothpaste but it's tedious. The velcro-like feeling is exactly what I don't like about MF, though it does have its purposes in some applications. Diapers -- not a bad idea.

I can't tolerate the feel of microfiber on my hands so I have been using 100% cotton wash cloths and white cotton "bar mops".

Microfiber for most things. I recycle old sheets, towels, white socks for a variety of cleaning cloths.

Irish - absolutely love your tile. Primo.

rps - In fact I have a bunch of sheets that are no longer bed quality due to holes or other issues, so cutting them up with some shears might just work. If only I had the mad skillz to put a nice hem on them after...

I use old towels, old wash cloths, old dish cloths that are too ratty to be seen by the public. I also use microfiber for some things, like drying off the glass shower door every day. The bar cloths from Costco are also good. I do not put the microfiber in the dryer and they are soft.

Ecolab microfiber cloths from Sam's Club. Orange are for "dry work" ---dusting and such and orange are for wet cleaning. Those do the bath rooms and floors. My cleaning company hand washes the kitchen and bathroom floors by hand. These are washed separately and I do them in the hottest water a SQ fl can manage. Mountain Spring Tide and old fashion Clorox.

Yes micro fiber for the shower. I have several large auto detailing microfiber towels that I use to wipe the whole shower done. So much easier than a hard to hold and awkward squeegee. The best microfibers are reportedly from Korea. They can be washed in hot water but should not be washed with other fabrics. They will pick up lint. I have mine folded and away from other things. I always keep a small microfiber at my bathroom sink to wipe up water spots that hit the faucet. I have mine color coded to the room and task. But not too much. I am a mediocre house keeper. But my cupboards are organized, lol.

this is the one I got for my shower and I love it. I just hang it on the door to dry. I wipe down the entire shower (except the floor), and that includes shelf, walls, doors, fixtures, and the cloth could dry another entire shower before it needs wringing out. It is always dry the next morning. I have not had to clean my shower since I put it in 2.5 years ago. I don't put any product on the towel either. I have 2 and I switch them out every couple weeks then wash in hot h2o with other microfiber only.

ETA that I don't like micro fiber texture either!!!

edgeless avalanche from The Rag Company

I use The Rag Company's Waffle Weave Microfiber towels for household cleaning, windows and auto glass. They don't cling to skin.

If one wears a latex glove when cleaning, the regular or plush MF towels won't cling to skin.

Surgical Huck Towels are also a good choice. Doctor Joe Blue.

I use diapers from Green Mountain Diapers. I don't like the prefolds as much as I like the flats. I have some cotton "shop rags" that I sometimes use, and some microfiber, but I always come back to the diapers.

For those of you that like the flat diapers, than you would like the flour sack towels. Walmart carrys them, a pk of 12 measuring 24×24 for 8 dollars. Soft, lint free, absorbant, and fast drying. I have found many uses for them and couldn't live without them now. They are bleach friendly, but I've found just using oxygen bleach and they wash up as white as new. LOVE them.

I bought the yellow microfiber towels from Costco and I use them for everything. They work great but wash and dry them a few times prior to using so you eliminate the lint. Wash on hot and dry on low.

I always wash my rags and microfibers in hot, albeit separately. I use the whitest whites cycle which utilizes a quicker tumble and higher water level. Tide powder, a little tide oxy boost, and about a teaspoon of dawn. Sometimes a splash of bleach for the rags PRN. The sanitize cycle is tannin the washer around once a month to keep things nice and fresh.

I'm a big fan of the Tekla towels at IKEA in place of paper towels and as casual napkins.

http://m.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/art/10100909/

@enduring - Thank you for that link. They look to have better stuff than most I've seen. I also use a microfiber for the shower. So much easier.

Agree the microfibers seem to work a bit better, but the static and feeling on dry hands was too much. I also wonder if the static happens to push dirt away versus absorbing it which I've seen with lint sometimes.

Went with a cotton bar mop towel which I've bought in some restaurant supply places and also Amazon. They are amazing, and after a few years, they are still oddly intact and good condition except for a few set in stains. I tend to move them from the kitchen to cleanup duty after they get major set in stains where I wouldn't want to display them on the counter.