Is it possible to wash the floor with a towel: folk wisdom and experience
Washing the floor with old towels is categorically not welcomed in folk superstitions: this action attracts illness and takes away good luck. Moreover, this is not always practical.
Why you can’t wash the floor with a towel: signs
Old, tattered towels are no longer suitable for their intended purpose. Particularly thrifty housewives give them a second life, namely, they wash the floor like with a special rag.
What do the signs say about this:
- A towel for the face and hands is a ritual item, in particular a towel - an embroidered wedding cloth. In the old days, unmarried people used towels to tell their fortunes.
- Charmed towels were given as gifts for good luck.
- In the pagan tradition, the item was used to tame evil spirits.
- The towel was considered a symbol of comfort and harmony in the home.
Washing floors is a dirty job for which ritual objects were not used. If you believe folk legends, then this is disrespect for traditions and the attraction of evil forces into the family.
With such actions, the housewife washes her own health and well-being, including financial, out of the house. A person who carelessly treats towels thereby creates tension between relatives and attracts quarrels and scandals.
In ancient times, old towels were not thoughtlessly disposed of, as they could fall into the wrong hands. They were repaired and used for small needs.
The magazine purity-en.htgetrid.com recommends washing the floor with special rags: they wring out well and rinse quickly.
The practical side of the issue
What to do with the old one a towel if you believe in folk omens? Try using it in handicrafts. First, wash the product thoroughly and remove stains. Pieces of terry cloth can be used to make a fun patchwork-style item, for example, a rug for the front door. The dense material makes comfortable oven mitts.
And for those who are not afraid of signs, there is nothing wrong with using an old towel to wash the floor. True, there are some disadvantages to this method: such matter absorbs moisture abundantly, but it is difficult to squeeze it out. As a result, puddles remain on the floors, and this is harmful for linoleum, and especially for parquet or laminate.
It is completely forbidden to wash a cork floor with a towel - this is a direct way to destroy it. In addition, an old towel is often littered with threads and fiber fragments, which interferes with the cleaning process. But even the oldest cotton terry towel is irreplaceable when you need to wipe the surface quickly and dry.
Each housewife independently decides what to use to wash the floor and for what reasons should she refuse to use old towels for this purpose. Folk wisdom and traditions are enough for some, while others are more concerned about the convenience of cleaning.
To the article: Is it possible to wash the floor with a towel? Lord, people, how did our ancestors wash the floor... . Now the world does not stand still. There is everything. But, everyone has or does not have the means to buy things every now and then... . Buying, changing, so everyone washes as best they can. The main thing is clean.
I agree with you, another stupid article... People are getting rid of themselves in any way they can, this is not possible, this is not possible... But rugs made from towels are possible! Trample with your feet, AHA!!!
You cannot use towels for washing floors that were used for rituals - taking out bread and salt at a wedding or for guests of honor, covering icons on the wall. I think that any family that followed traditions would keep such towels. In other cases, you can use old towels for any need.
I'm not even sure they washed it. It was either earthen, which was pointless to wash, or made of unpainted boards, which were scraped and not washed. And what is the connection between a ritual towel, woven and embroidered with your own hands, and a factory towel bought in a store?
Is it possible to wash pancakes made from rye flour?
Especially good with sour cream!
You can't wash the floor, but you can wash the rug at the threshold!!! Wipe your shoes on it! Funny!
Laughter and nothing more
Mom dear! The 21st century is upon us, and we are turning to paganism for signs, to a time when people worshiped thunder and lightning! At the same time, reading this information from the screens of tablets, phones, computers.
I don’t understand the logic, it means you can’t wash the floor with an old towel, because it’s a dirty job, but the rug by the front door, where the most dust, dirt, sand, etc. accumulates, can be made from towels.
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I agree with you
Everything is fine, it’s the 21st century, but during a wedding they put more of a towel under their feet, the newlyweds stand on it, at baptism children must take a towel, but no one tells them what to do with it.
Yes, do nothing. Keep. Easy to store. It won't take up much space.
And ask the priest. At the same time, he will explain to you about folk signs and ritual towels.
Listen - don’t confuse the “Rushnik” and the towel. Towels were kept and taken care of. Well, what does a towel have to do with it? That's for sure - the head should always be healthy. I’m amazed where so many signs have come from, each more beautiful than the other... Well, what else can you do with an old towel? No, I’ll run out and buy a special floor rag when all this beauty is gone.
Why remove stains from a towel in order to knit a rug that will lie at the doorstep?! A clean towel in the household will be useful for direct needs! But the best rags for washing floors are made from old cotton towels: they absorb water perfectly, rinse well, and wring out easily. And most importantly, in this way all evil spirits are washed away.
That's right, extra fanaticism for signs is already too much....it's just an old towel that can be used for cleaning, and not take up extra space on a shelf or in a chest.
Nonsense. There is no better floor cloth than an old terry towel. It wrings out perfectly, absorbs perfectly, no streaks. The article is clearly custom-made from the manufacturers.Floor scrubbers are expensive and sell poorly. So they write all sorts of crap)))
I think that we are persistently being pushed in the direction again....THE STORE...You can’t keep old things in the house - BAD FENSHUI, but grandmothers had things in their chests that came straight from their great-grandmothers and they lived like that, and they were also proud of it. In general, throw everything away... and... to the STORE....
Well done everyone, thank you everyone!
I liked the phrase about puddles remaining on the floor. Everyone, made me laugh))))
I declare with authority that there is no floor rag better than an old towel. And it absorbs well, and it also does push-ups normally, and there are no puddles left (this is a fact), unless, of course, your hands grow out of your butt.
But store-bought floor cloths - have you even seen them??? It feels like the handkerchief is bigger than that rag))))))))))))
I just thought, after reading the article, that I should prohibit my wife from using old towels as floor rags. But after the comments I realized that there were too many disagreements. Let him wash with whatever he wants, I won’t upset you.
As a matter of principle, I don’t buy floor rags. And I don't give a fuck about these signs of yours
Yes, after such an article, there remains a doubt not to wash with an old towel, we won’t wash it well, but where should we use them? Is it possible to use a rag to wipe off dust? What do you think about this?
Yes, after such an article, there remains a doubt not to wash with an old towel, we won’t wash it well, but where should we use them? Is it possible to use a rag to wipe off dust? What do you think about this?
Another prejudice, should we throw them away? The towel has served its purpose, so why bother with it? Only an idiot would keep it as a memory. A relic from a rag, make a banner out of it and place it in the corner.Do not refer to ancient customs; the floors in the dugouts were not washed, there were no extra rags.
Make a banner out of a towel, put it in the corner and bow to it. Nonsense, idiocy, prejudice, patriarchalism, what nonsense.
Well written, I laughed for a long time.....
I was already running to throw out the towels!))) Until I read the comments..ahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
In the 21st century, washing the floor with an old towel? What kind of country, what kind of morals?
To believe or not to believe signs is everyone’s business. I believe and will not wash the floors with a towel, especially with the towels with which I baptized my children. And in general, I don’t think it’s convenient to wash the floor with a towel. It gets wet, becomes heavy, impossible to wring out... And the kitchen towels are too small.