Napkins for everyday use. Paper or linen?

[Jerry]

Only cloth napkins...even when we eat poolside on our patio.
Indoors it includes proper placemats, matching silver and fully lit candelabra.

Hey....you only live once!

[PNG]

Both depending upon who sets the table and who is dining with us and what we are dining on!

[Bill in Tally]

If it's just family, paper. If we have dinner guests, cloth.

[Double M]

My Mother always used a cloth napkin for my Father and paper napkins for the 7 children, which was sensible in those days. I have always used cloth napkins for us and our 4 children. Now that I have grandchildren, I still use cloth for everyone...just throw them in the washing machine. Over the years, I have accumulated a lot of napkins. Whenever I travel, I usually buy cloth napkins. Something I can use and they recall good memories.

[mgbeads]

I grew up using cloth napkins everyday and my wife and I have continued using cloth napkins for the last 40 years whenever we have a sit down meal. Now with the kids gone we mostly don't use the table to eat, but when we do, weather it is for only the two of us or others, we use cloth napkins. When our kids were home and they brought over friends to eat, I think we were thought of as sort of strange to be using cloth napkins.

[Feng Shui]

I won’t even mention what I think about cretins who use paper napkins.

[Suzy Wong]

Only cloth napkins...even when we eat poolside on our patio.
Indoors it includes proper placemats, matching silver and fully lit candelabra.

Hey....you only live once!

Strolling costumed Spanish trio on Mexican night, or some patio chamber music?;)

Sounds nice!

[Shannon]

Since I had kids, I've been using mostly paper. But now that I think about it, I should switch back to linen. I'll need to find them or buy more, but with everything else rising in cost at the stores, having to buy one less thing is a good thing - and they don't take much space in the washing machine - throwing them in with a load of towels won't cost me any more.

[Maxine]

Linen. Almost always. If I'm serving something really messy like bbq, I sometimes relent and have some paper napkins on the side.

But my drycleaner is great. He's gotten red sauce, bbq, salad dressing, etc out of my cream colored napkins/tablecloths more times than I can count.

P.S. Lenox makes some really nice ones (in my opinion). I know that Dillards sells them. Or you could probably order them on line.