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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Adelaide South Australia
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I use 100% cotton nappies. (diapers) They're a little bit big but other wise OK.
$15 for 10 at from my local super market... Nothing like cotton. 
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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Costco white towels, the hand bundled that they sell for $14 or so for 50.
As for washing, look on Craigs List and you can find a washer and dryer for free all the time. Put it out in the garage or back porch and wash the garage items there. Also scarf up a dish washer at the same time and put car parts in there to clean. Works great and does not muck up the kitchen.
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I use the blue paper towels and old socks. Old socks are great for removing hot oil filters. It's so dry in AZ that my heels get cracked and make my socks not last too long. Then they become rags.
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The blue paper towels are my chouce for most clean up. I do have some old towels and hand towels for drying my hands. I wash my dirty jeans and shirts and hand towels in the home washer.
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I always used the blue paper towels in the dispenser box. Looks like as of 1/1/2011 that will be illegal here though. I'm not sure exactly how this will play out?
Used Oil Filters and Absorbents - WDNR
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Go buy a few cases of them now.
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Port Hope (near Toronto) On, Canada
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Salvation Army thrift store, stuffed full green garbage bag of white cotton t-shirts, $5.
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i love shop rags. the reddish or blue ones. it is a mental issue, but i feel like such a pro working on a car and having one of those things dangling from a pocket.
i just destoyed my last few on a job changing out a reservior hose for a power steering pump..infinity.
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12-13-2010, 08:38 AM
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....I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night (and stole some towels).
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Port Hope (near Toronto) On, Canada
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"A-ha-yep! I know how to keep those pesky oily rags and filters out of the landfill...lets make it real hard for people to git rid of dem...we'll show em". Meanwhile back in the real world, farmers and county folk will burn them and others will ditch them on the side of the road, in sewers, in the bush.... anywhere they can. 
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Here, they will pick up used oil with curbside recycling.
Used motor oil is a toxic waste, because of the heavy metals and combustion byproducts in it. I'm glad they are keeping it out of the landfills. |
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12-13-2010, 03:15 PM
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Blue paper towels are my choice. Scott, not Brawny.
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Join Date: May 2004
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I am guessing some of you folks would cry like baby Algores if you saw how folks who do not live in cities have gotten rid of burnable trash for generations.
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: *%@#ing GPS, where am I? Oh wait I see the Space Needle.
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what do you all do with your old t-shirts/socks/etc?
there is a shelf i have dedicated to old clothes that make fine free rags. i do have a case of the blue towels from scott for those situations that call for them.
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MR. Hand cock, you need to confine your political comments to PARF
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Location: I'm right here Tati
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Ain't that the truth.
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 PS My last name is spelled with out a "d".
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Only Porsche
Only bike
Carrera
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1973 Porsche 914 1.7 very modifed
1979 Porsche 930 3.4
