Do Without: Cottonball Edition

I'm generally a quite lazy person, so when I ran out of cotton balls before our trip I was in no rush to run to the store to find replacements.  Cotton balls are a part of my daily "beauty" (I use that term VERY loosely) routine.    In the spirit of trying to come up with reusable items, I began to ponder what might replace these little puffy wonders.  I tried a wash cloth, but it absorbed too much astringent.  Then, like Archimedes, EUREKA!  I had found it.  Flannel.  Like, Little E's cloth wipes, flannel was the perfect material for my morning astringent.  The only problem was I didn't have any flannel lying around the house, and I didn't want to pay for any either.

Enter, a set of my childhood sheets.  My mother kindly bestowed them upon me while we were home.  I had initially planned on cutting up the pillow case for my cause, but seeing as how I couldn't bare the thought of such waste, I came up with an alternative. 

 I simply ripped out the seam...

 Cut the interior hem...

and pinned a new, much less generous hem 

and sewed it up.

Then I sewed the excess flannel in to nine double sided "cotton" squares.

The finished product!

I've used these squares for over a week now, and I have to say, I am not missing the cotton balls at all.  When I've used a square I simply put it in a lingerie bag so that it doesn't get lost in the washer.  Piece of cake; I'm never going back!