I use them all the time and have given a lot as gifts. There was a suggestion here sometime ago to make them reversible (like Christmas on the front, Halloween on the back). I haven't done that yet (I'm not that clever) but it sounds like a good idea--you wouldn't have to put it away and get another one out.
Candace-I swish my table runner around on the coffee table and that is my "dusting" for the day LOL!