Merry Microfiber Blog

Want a microfiber mitt to dust with – make your own. All you need is a 16 x 16 all purpose cloth, or a suede one that is used for dusting electronics and delicate items.

Just fold the cloth in half, lay your hand on the cloth and trace around it in the form of a mitt, using the sewed edges as the bottom edge of your mitt.

Either machine stitch or handstitch using a “blanket stitch” to finish off the edges, but donot sew the bottom edges together.  Turn the mitt right side out, and there you have it your own microfiber dusting mitt.

Or use a 12 x 12 waffle weave facial cloth and make yourself a mitt to exfoliate your skin.

In today’s Everyday Cheapskate’s newsletter was ideas on how to save money by cutting costs in half. Some other ideas are as follows.

One way is to use less paper towels – cleaning up with a microfiber dish cloth will save you on paper toweling. They wipe up spills quickly and easily without leaving hardly a film behind. Wash windows with a microfiber all purpose towel and not only will you save money on paper toweling but you don’t need window cleaner either. Just use water!

Dilute out your soap by using foamer bottles. I found some foamers online @ http://www.bottlesandfoamers.com, quite reasonable. You can get a 7.1 oz bottle for $1.19 plus shipping. Buy a bunch and save money on shipping.

You can dilute your liquid soap from one-half to one-fourth, thereby stretching out your dollar.  These are great for hand soap, most of the time one pump will do, we dilute out our soap for the shower too, using one of these.  Got kids then you need a foamer. Get some for all of your showers and sinks in your house. 

On my natural cleaning products site I have concentrated hand soap and hair and body wash, We use them in our foamers. Diluting them at a half was a little thick for the foamer to work well, so I suggest about filling the bottle one third with the soap and the rest water. Then shake it up to mix.

Use less laundry detergent, when my daughter got a water softener put in, the installer told her not to add detergent to her laundry for the first few times; because her clothes probably contained laundry detergent residue. Look closer at the lines in the cups and use less. As suggested by a reader of Everyday Cheapskate, I did discovered I didn’t need a whole capful, but only a  quarter of a cap. Don’t be fooled into thinking that you have to put in a whole cap of laundry detergent. Figure out your ounces as suggested in the directions on the label.

This week, my husband and I have been working on redoing a build in desk at our church. First we had to remove some old tiles off of the desk top and then lay down new tiles.

After we had pulled up the old tiles, sanded the rough edges of the glue, I used a wet microfiber cloth to wipe up the dust, created while sanding. Microfiber is great at picking up all those fine particles of dust and dirt.

Then while putting down the new glue and laying the new tile I used an older microfiber cloth to wipe my hands off with, and to remove any of the glue, off the tiles as I laid them. It helped to remove some of the glue off of my hands,  then I finished using  “Goo Gone”.

I used one of my older cloths, since I didn’t know if I would be able to get all the glue back out of my cloth.

After that was dry, I painted the back splash on the desk, instead of replacing the tile. The “desk” was built like a cupboard, without the sink, but with a built in desk. I used the microfiber cloth to wipe up all my spills and drizzles off of the countertop. The microfiber cloth picks up and “holds” the paint, dust or whatever inside the cloth better, than a cotton one would, helping you to completer your job faster and more efficiently.

So the next time you have a “project” to do, that requires clean-up, try using a microfiber all purpose cloth. If you have cloths that have gotten stained etc, saved them and use them on all those grungy projects that you wouldn’t want to use a new one on.