Kitchen clean up is the job that gets done all the time. Everytime you prepare something to eat, you clean just a bit. It is just easier to work on it a little at a time, while something else is going on in the kitchen.
In our apartment that means five times a day: breakfast for everyone, school lunch making, my lunch, an after school snack, and then the biggie, dinner. A good dish cloth or tea towel is always at hand to help the cause, and we love them new and even more when they show their battle scars.
We thought these lowly helpers deserved a top ten treatment. Heres what we found today:
Number One (above) is 
I always loved the tea towels with a calendar on it. My mom and grandma had a ton of them.
I wish those "days of the week" towels came in Italian!!!
I bought a couple Jonathan Adler tea towels from Bed, Bath and Beyond recently that I like a lot.
My favorites are the Xochi towels, which you can get online and at Sur La Table, among other places.