Tissues v handkerchiefs

All my used kitchen towels go in to the compost container and then onto the compost heap.
Kitchen rolls can be hard on the nose particularly if you have a rotten cold - I prefer tissues with balsam if I have to use a lot. They were binned.

However, I do like a nice hanky to dab my eyes, another to dab my nose if I don't need to properly blow it.

I buy cheap small tissues for home use that I use once and bin. Also carru better ones in bag. Often use my husbands hankie (which he always carries- I think he just likes to have one -neatly ironed by moi) to dab my nose as I have forgotten tissues. He uses it to clean specs or wrap small change when emptying pockets in hotels. such a funny little habit.

When MIL died we found several gift packs of pretty hankies in her bedside drawer. S'sIL didn't want so I inherited. Only kept for 'going out' but never a blow - only a discreet wipe! But always there for weddings and funerals! Happy memories of her whenever I use one.

Many loos say toilet paper only. Tissues are more difficult to flush and can cause blockages. Yes they will flush away often but can build up over time.
And sirely you are not always near a loo when out and about and therefore have used tissues in your pocket/up your sleeve etc. I often see them on the floor or blowing around outside. What is the difference to having a cloth hankie in your pocket? Except that gets properly cleaned in the wash and doesn't hang around.

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Hankies all the time. During the hot spell, a large white hanky was always at hand to mop the sweat from my brow, A tissue would have left little white tufts --not a pretty sight. And how about that emergency sun-hat, a large white hanky with a knot at each corner? Try doing that with a tissue!

I'm with you polly! Not everyone disposes thoughtfully. Yuck!

Because a tissue is disposable, pollyperkins. I put them down the loo, and they have never caused a blockage.

I haven’t used or owned cloth hankies for as long as I remember.

We all had one of my mum's pretty cotton embroidered handkerchieves and all used it or had it in our pocket or bag at her funeral too. I have never used it since but I feel a tummy rumble when I see it among my knickers .
Tissues , if they are a good quality one are better but the cheaper ones disintegrate to dust upon use. I once used cheap ones at a funeral and my black jacket looked as if I had bad dandruff.

A mixture used here. I always take a proper hankie out with me. Mr C takes two. At home it’s a mix of tissues and hankies, oddly there are many tissues, fortunately not all, I seem to be allergic to, immediate rash. Wonder what’s in them.

Could someone expain to me just why a cloth hankie is considered to be unhygienic compared to a tissue? I just dont get it!

I NEVER iron hankies. They just get screwed up when in use. Mind you I have to say that I never iron anything else much!

I carry a proper hankie in every pocket and bag, but rarely use them as I hate washing and ironing them (boil them up in an old pan). When at home I use toilet paper.

Unless a tissue is immediately disposed of, the second you've wiped your nose, then its just as grotty, germ wise, as I hanky.

My husband uses hankies and they go in a 60 deg wash.
I use tissues but had a man's cotton hankie to hand in that hot weather, like you Auntieflo.
For years I had a tartan hankie that belonged to my dear dad. I kept it in my handbag for wiping hands, tears etc but it went awol - where to I don't have a clue but I miss it!

All my used kitchen towels go in to the compost container and then onto the compost heap.

Tissues, always. Not one person in my family owns a hanky. They are so very unhygienic

When my grandpa died in 1948, we inherited a quantity of silk handkerchiefs which were lovely and soft on red, chapped noses. I know my mum put them in a hot wash with the other hankies and they came to no harm. It was sometime later that tissues came on the scene. I inherited some navy gym knickers from my cousins that had a little pocket for a hanky; otherwise you just tucked it under the elastic.

Kitchen towels are very hard on the nose!

I completely disagree with the statement that tissues are more hygienic. Bins full of germy tissues are disgusting. They block toilets. So how to dispose?
A hot wash and iron is all that is necessary with a proper hankie. DH always has a clean one every day.
Though I admit to using tissues but get into trouble for dropping them everywhere (by mistake.) I use proper hankies for soecial occasions though.

Not hankies, not tissues either. Kitchen towel for me every time, it doesn't leak all over your hands and doesn't disintegrate when in use either.

But who empties the bins full of snotty, germy tissues?

We use a mixture.

DH always uses a proper hanky, always has, always will. I suppose I have just got used to it. I have been using a hanky in this heatwave. It was so hot and every tissue I used disintegrated, at the first mop of my brow.
Oddly enough, I have just sorted out DH bedside cabinet, and discovered many white hankies, recycled from old sheets. All neatly hemmed and pressed. (Oh I was a busy little housewife, back in the day) They have been there for many a year/years. My, but they must have been rough on his poor little snitch ? . They have now all gone in the bin, so I wonder if he will ever notice they are missing?

I don’t think I ve used a hanky since I left school, tears go on tissues just the same as blowing When the kids were small before boxes and packets of tissues were around I d always carry a small amount of soft loo roll in the bottom of my bag
I don’t think I know anyone who uses a hanky my Dad always did and mum used to have a pretty lacy one in her bag

If I am ever tearful I definitely want a hankie!