Having a Rag Bag used to be common in most households. People used them for dirty jobs instead of paper towels. I remember my Dad having one when I was a little girl. In our household, we don’t buy paper towels. We use reusable wash cloths and hand towels instead which we keep in a drawer in our kitchen and then throw into a kitchen hamper when we are done.

Lately, we have had some messier projects that I have wanted to use something to clean with that I could throw away or wash. I decided to raid our clothes donation pile for items that no one would really want and then cut them up into rags. I turned the items in the above laundry basket into the below pile of rags. It was easy to do while watching TV and now we have our own rag bag/box for cleaning. This was easy, free and fun. Even better, I still don’t have to buy paper towels and now I have less clothing to donate.