Handkerchiefs

No, I use handkerchiefs all the time. Normally I use one a day (if I don't use it I keep it for the next day).
I usually keep 2 - 1 in each pocket, so that I normally have a clean one to dry my hands when using a public loo, or anything else where it might be handy.
If barely used, it goes in the ordinary wash.
When either of us has a cold, I put a bucket with a splash of disinfectant near the washing machine, and in go the hankies.
I wouldn't say that I never use tissues - if I absolutely have to go out when I've got a cold, I might take some, but then have to take a bag to put the used ones in!

Toilet rolls for colds ( then in the toilet )--a handkerchief in coat/jacket pockets ( dabbing nose or drying hands )which go in a 60 degree wash with my drawers.

My husband insists on using them - I wash them at 60 degrees when I do the towels (not kitchen towels!)

Ugh! Revolting things! Tissues every time, followed by washing hands.

I’m allergic to tissues so handkerchiefs for me.

Yes I wash them at 60 too!

I think it’s a generation thing with men.

Kept for funerals!

I believe it is more environmentally friendly to use handkerchiefs. I use both depending on where I am at the time and whether there is anywhere to dispose of tissues

My husband uses both, I use tissues

Isn’t the environmental argument a bit like terry nappies v disposables? Yes nappies and tissues fill up land fill ( though tissues must degrade easily) but what about the electricity and water used to wash at 60 or 90 degrees.

Ra.ther ironic that the handkerchief post and the spitting one are adjacent on the forum !!!

I loath hankies- they are disgusting. Tissues for us.

I hate them but my husband insists on using them. I put them in a separate laundry bag in the linen basket and when I have 12 or so I give them two wash cycles at 60 degrees on their own. The wash after them is always something like dog towels, never tea towels.

Greenfinch I believe it is more environmentally friendly to use handkerchiefs.

Not when you take into account the water and a hot wash and detergent.

I try to be eco friendly , but it’s loo roll for me I’m afraid, I think that the amount of energy I would need to wash them thoroughly would out weigh any good I was doing for the environment.
My mum used to boil them up in a big galvanised bucket on our range, condensation all down the windows and walls, she soaked them first in a cold bucket of Daz then refilled with more Daz , cold water and then boiled them to death.

DH is the same - I hate them. At least he uses tissues when he has a cold.

Timely this thread. Just done a load of dark washing and thought I had checked all the pockets but think I must have missed one. A tissue was lurking somewhere and the whole load came out with white bits on them. Mr B said we never had this problem using hankies and that got me thinking, might go back to them.

Oh no, can't bear the thought of washing them, ugh! It's tissues for us.

Handkerchiefs are revolting and harbour bacteria. We only use tissue or toilet roll.

DH uses them all the time, always has, always will.
I use tissues mostly, but do use hankies at times.

I use tissues.

Yuck no! Tissues for me

Mil used to use them all the time and I did her washing! Yuk yuk !