Handkerchiefs vs tissues?

mioliere

I'm afraid I just can't stand cotton hankies purely on a cleanliness basis. I just can't understand the idea of blowing your nose in something and putting that something - with its contents - back in your pocket and then re-using it time and time again. As someone has already said, MRSA can live up noses; so can E.Coli and numerous other things that cause illness and infections in the vulnerable and, when someone has a cold, I dread to think what is being spread around!

LameWolf

One thing that used to get to me when I worked in an office with several others was how they'd use a tissue and then chuck it in the communal waste-paper bin in the office. With half a dozen people in the office, it was very quickly full of grubby tissues, especially in "colds" season.

PennyPinchingPrincess

I rediscovered cotton hankies earlier this year when I had a rotten cold and had used every tissue in the house. I had the choice of dragging myself to the supermarket or digging out hankies I'd had since I was a kid. The hankies won! They really weren't so bad. Sure, the pile of used hankies wasn't as nice to look at as the binfull of used tissues, but then I wasn't so great to look at either!

moanymoany

I remembered as I read through the thread, what gran used to do. She carried a paper bag with her every where she went. Every time she saw a hanky on the ground she picked it up and put it in the bag. These were taken home and boiled in the special pan she kept for boiling hankies.

Of course, those days everyone had cloth hankies - I'm not sure I knew what tissues were.

She kept the whole family in hankies!

Spendless

Belfastgirl- they sell them in BHS when they have the xmas stock in (about 3 weeks time.:p ). Other than that I can only think of perhaps Debenhams or House of Fraser, as stores, not sure about M & S. It's the sort of thing I'd probably find on the market as I live in a large market town, so worth a look there if you have one nearby.

moaneymoaney- ewwwwwwwww!:D

My dh has always used cotton hankies and I hated them. My MIL told me she hated the fact that FIL used them and blamed his mum. I asked her if dh using them was some sort of revenge.:D

savingpennies

I like to have a hankie with me and always put them in DDs' pockets when they went to school. But I had a really bad cold recently and I found tissues were best then. The problem as peeps have already said is if you forget to check the pockets. Someone on our local market sells them - he also sells socks, gloves, hats, that sort of thing and they are not expensive.

pigpen

I'm a classy bird.. I use the inside of the bottom of my tshirt.. or my vest!! .. Failing that a nice wad of bog roll.

Hankies are just gross.. why would anyone want a pocket full of snot??

I'm sorry it turns my stomach just thinking about it.

Lots of nice wholesome OS meals and you'll never get a cold!!.. Or eat mud.. works for the childrewn.. keeps their immune systems way up to date and on guard!

We invented sleeves for a reason.

ceridwen

Errrr....seriously....pigpen?

pigpen

ceridwen wrote: »

Errrr....seriously....pigpen?

well yeah.. lol..

JenniO

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