Hankies or Tissues.

Hankies are one of the most disgusting things known to mankind, and if mankind want to use them, then womankind should refuse to wash them!

About nappies- very interesting to see more mums switching to washable shaped (modern- not the horrible squares we had) nappies with a liner for 'solids'- as refuse has to be paid by weight here, as Pampers and the like weigh a ton when the crystals turn to gel (environmental impact????) - certainly concentrates the mind, as well as the weight. Plus of course the return to more effort made to potty train a bit earlier again.

Hankies for outdoors and tissues indoors here.
Kessie you could always get OH to wash his own hankies.
I do.

The hankies I used to use on hill hikes did get pretty damp, anya. I cured that problem by pinning my hankies to a rucksack strap and letting them blow dry. Rhinitis and hay fever nose fluid (I do not call it snot because it isn't snot) is mainly water, no worse than tears from one's eyes. It's not infected stuff.

I was wondering about soaking (germ ridden) hankies. When I have a streaming cold such as I have had for a few weeks I go through boxes of tissues. I really don't want to pass my germs on to anyone else so I use a tissue and then bin it. Surely one would have to have hundreds of hankies to hand in order to use one and then wash it.

DBH always uses hankies and always has. He says it is because he does so much sport, and the wind is less likely to blow them away. He uses them all the time because mostly it is to wipe his glasses when it's raining. He does so much sport that I just do him a separate wash anyway, and the hankies go in with that. I just try not to touch them. (shudder)

I'm with granjura, kitchen towel. Stronger and less likely to poke a finger through a soggy patch accidentally. I burn them all at the end of the day, they make wonderful fire lighters.

I too used to want to cry when I received embroidered hankies as birthday presents. So did my mother, she always hated them and our beds each had a loo roll placed by the side when we had a cold! Going to school with a cold was a nightmare, if you had a cold and ran out of hanky, the only time she let us use them. I remember rows of hankies laid end to end on the school radiators when half the class had colds. How horrible! But the teachers said nothing.

I have four large empty tissue boxes to recycle and two bins full of used tissues to go in the non-recyclable wheelie bin. Gross! This is clearly a million-tissue virus.

Neither, I use loo roll for noses (mine and snotty grandchildren) I judge the severity of a cold by the number of loo rolls it uses up.
My mother used to boil hankies in a huge cauldron. We called it "hankie stew". I have the cauldron still and store dry dog food in it.