Hankies or Tissues.

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Enough to scar you for life Ariadne! Trying not to appear ungrateful was so, so hard
Thankfully haven't seen, let alone been given, any for years......no idea what became of all those little boxes..

Tissues weren't so easily available when we were young. When Grandpa died, we 'inherited' a vast number of pure silk hankies which were nice and soft for hearty nose-blowing! Mum soaked them in salty water and boiled them which didn't seem to harm the silk.

Those that use hankies should be the ones who wash them. It seems to be mostly men. I'd bet they would soon start using tissues.

I refuse to wash hankies too, and DH has stopped using them. He gets nose bleeds, which made them even more disgusting and difficult to get clean! If I get a paper napkin in a café or on a train, I stick it in my pocket, as it will just be thrown away, even if I haven't used it, and use it as a paper hankie. Much stronger and often softer than tissues, and using something which would otherwise go to waste. Then used ones go to light the fire, or in summer, I just burn them in the wood-burning stove now and again with other unrecyclable paper.

I wonder how many bucketloads of dirty nappies all the people on this thread have washed over the years?

Nappies. Oh aye, just get on with it. That's life.

Hankies. EEeuuuw! Listen to yourselves!

I see your point thatbags but babies have no choice. Big people do.

There are boxes of tissues scattered strategically around the house. (After all, one of the most revolting sights in the world is a two-year-old with a bad cold.) I also have a drawerful of impractical and so rarely used lace-edged and embroidered hankies. However, I always stuff half a dozen of them into my bag when I am going to a funeral as, somehow, weeping into a handkerchief seems more appropriate than snivelling into a tissue.

Tissues are much better at blotting runny mascara, though.

I never wear mascara, even so-called waterproof mascara, to funerals.

I agree about not using hankies when you have got a runny nose from a cold. However, not sure if everyone else is as bad as me at doing this but I seem to have tissues in every pocket; fleeces, coats, jeans etc which just get thrown away, most of the time without being used. And I often wonder how many rainforests worth of trees are wasted in this way. So I do try to keep hankies in some pockets and, if I stood for parliament it would be part of my manifesto. Hankies do have their use in this day and age.

I personally can think if at least 100 things more revolting than a 2-year old with a cold

Tegan Be comforted; they don't make tissues from hardwoods.

Anya I agree, but few of them regularly sit on my lap.

You mean I'm not saving the world after all ?

The difference between a runny nose caused by rhinitis or hay fever and a runny nose caused by a viral infection is large enough that I shall continue to use hankies without fear of infecting anyone or anything else.

I wouldn't use the same tissue again and again, it'd get binned PDQ. So if the same rules apply for hankies people must have a plentiful supply of these or even if it's just a runny nose from hay fever, they must get pretty soggy surely?

I can remember my dad and disgusting hankies.

For along while I had allergic rhinitis caused by using perfumed Shake and Vac.
I eventually discovered the cause, it said on the box "this product might cause allergies."
I stopped using it but the effects lasted for several years.

With other peoples perfumes, room fresheners and heavily perfumed washing powder, I would feel my nose suddenly blocking up, I would begin sneezing and my nose started streaming like a tap. Very soggy tissues in a plastic bag.
This was eventually cleared up by using a mildly steroidal nasal spray.

I now avoid these "perfume lasts for a week and bursts of perfume washing powders" but it's hard to find any that don't have this in these days.

That is when I became a complete hoarder of packets of tissues. I sort of panic if I dont have one handy.

I don't understand the washing products that claim the perfume 'lasts for a week and bursts of perfume'. Does this mean people wear clothes for longer without washing them? Bizarre concept to me!

Now for a digression à la Jura; - why is UK still using landfill sites- and not go on to modern, very efficient and low pollution incineration for waste? I don't get it.

Here in Switzerland, incineration is the only way, as land is either mountains, lakes or farmland and villages/towns- we just do not have space to constantly fill in 1000s of football pitches with rubbish. Any answers?

Incineration has been a bone of contention in the waste disposal industry for some time. In the 1990s there was considerable opposition to the proposed construction of an incinerator in our locality because of the presence of carcinogenic dioxins in the ash. I believe that many of these misgivings have now been overcome and that there is such a thing as safe incineration. However, the landfill tax encouraged local waste disposal authorities to look for alternative solutions and in Cheshire, our recyclable waste goes to a waste separation plant to be re-used. I have very little waste in my 'non-recyclable' bin apart from (at the moment) piles of used tissues which I don't think anyone would wish to recycle! The maxim 'reduce, re-use, recycle' is the watchword - although perhaps incineration, particularly in the form of waste to energy schemes, may be part of the pattern in future.

I always use handkerchiefs because I get a sore nose like many GNs have already said. DH doesn't use tissues either.
Some one told me when I was first married that a man taking a freshly laundered handkerchief out of his pocket was showing the world - and other women, that there was a loving/possessive woman behind him.

I don't mind ironing or washing. I enjoy it, it is not a chore for me.

Must be down to money! Our councillors would rather give themselves huge bonuses!

Thanks anno. New systems have eliminated pollution almost 100%- and of course councils are very strict, and people very watchful- of not putting dangerous material, especially batteries, neon tubes, bulbs, paints, chemicals, etc, in the rubbish to be incinerated. And as you say, modern system are built so the burning process can provide heat for private housing nearby, or industrial plants, council buildings or hospitals, etc- so win, win double wammy.

I have indeed washed many sh1ty nappies !

However, I would chose said nappies over dozens of handkies full of snot and bogies!

I wasn't too good at dealing with nappies, much heaving went on, to the endless amusement of others. I didn't have a choice though.

The habit of hawking (is that the word?) in the streets hasn't helped my total aversion to all things snot-related either.