thrifty kitchen towels

I often find unused souvenir 100% linen kitchen towels at thrift stores and estate sales. People buy them on their travels and then, I suppose, they feel they're too nice to use. Or perhaps they received them as gifts and didn't use them. Anyway, they last forever and  have only starch, no softeners.

The first thing I thought of at the title was shop towels. I've got BUNCHes of worn out clothes in the shop for towels. Heck, I still have boxes of laundered (I liked heavy starch) oxford white and blue long sleeve shirts. These days when someone sees me in the forest and I am in a button collar dress shirt and beat up denims they look at me strangely, ya think? But I'm a guy. Mention towles and I think of oil or gunk on my hands.

Those are great suggestion for ways to find kitchen towels.

My mother used flour sack way back when flour came in bulk in cloth bags.

Those cloth bags are probably non-existent today.

dear hubby`s grandmother made the kitchen towels out of old curtains.

A few years ago I inherited various items.

Cloth table cloths and napkins make great kitchen towels.