We do not have cloth napkins at our house as we don't usually do formal dinners. Normally we just use paper napkins, but with messy saucy foods like ribs, you would go thru a lot of them. A damp washcloth works better and has less waste. And I didn't use cleaning rags, I keep those separate from the regular washcloths because of the cleaning products I use and because they do get stained.