A Guru Girl Good Thing: MYdrap napkins

 

Confession: At our house, the iron is only used to do craft projects. I come by this iron aversion naturally. As a kid, my family had a fearless puppy, who grew up to one day attack the ironing board. Because in her 8 years with us, she’d never seen one before. So when it finally made its creaky appearance, she thought the ironing board was a monster attacking my mother.

I believe ironing is overrated, which is why I greeted the invention of great looking, dispose-a-napkins with such joy. MYdrap cotton napkins are the answer to the prayers of all you iron-hating, dinner-party loving gals out there.

Because you can’t host a nice dinner with paper napkins. It’s against the rules. And such a party-foul will guarantee all female relatives will spend the dinner wondering which barn you were raised in. Your female friends won’t care because they probably hate ironing too. But spending hours laundering and then jamming cotton napkins into funky napkin rings (to disguise their wrinkled state) isn’t so much fun either.

Enter: MYdrap cotton napkin rolls. These are cloth napkins that are nice but disposable! You rip them off of a roll that looks just like your paper towel roll. Size varies, but generally each roll contains 20 napkins and sells for around $26. If you want to launder the napkins and save them for your next nice dinner, you can do this. You can wash them up to 6 times before they’ll dissolve into a pulpy mess. But the beauty of it is that their inexpensive price means you don’t have to. You get the look of classy, cotton napkins with none of the work.

This holiday season I’m gonna go through these faster than Katy Perry does boyfriends. And they come in all sorts of different colors and designs, kind of like Katy Perry’s hair! 

One other tip: Let’s say you don’t have the bucks to spend on these napkins. Here’s another option: Use paper napkins for your dinner party, but have your kids draw cool pictures on them with a ball point pen. Then you look cool and artsy, rather than barn-raised.  (Click on this link to view further details on amazon.com, which sells them for around $27.)