Handkerchiefs vs tissues?

moanymoany

I think that a towel cut into small bits and zigzagged edges would make good wee wipes.

I've bought a shewee and it says on there that wee is sterile.

moanymoany

The daily telegraph shop has 12 ladies and 12 mens for £12.95.

http://shop.telegraph.co.uk/item-AA.S762/

Softstuff

JenniO wrote: »

Softstuf - the re-usable cotton toilet wipes were created mainly for, erm, wee. Urine is sterile when it leaves the body anyway. They just go in the wash (30 degrees) and then ironed - very clean. Again, it's a fantastic money saver if you figure maybe once a day you used toilet paper and the rest of the day you used the cloth wipes? It works for me and it does actually sell pretty well!;)

Jennifer

I'd been after a hand held bidet for a long while, having lived in Turkey I got used to that - and then you never need paper at all. But the plumbing regs here in Aus mean a backflow stop has to be fitted and blah blah blah.... in the uk you can fit one yourself if you're any bit handy.
So, the cotton wipes would be a compromise.... I'd be !!!!!!ed if I was ironing them though :rotfl:

JenniO

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purpleivy

LameWolf wrote: »

We use cotton hankies, because we both suffer from Rudolph syndrome if we use tissues. We have only one drawer for them, and they're all man-sized. I can't see the point in the little lacy things that are soggy if you just dab you eyes with them. I always carry two, as does Mr LW.

We have a very large supply, they get put in a separate bag in the wash-bin and put on their own hot wash (we have an intelligent WM that adjusts the amount of water to the amount of stuff in it), and I don't have a problem dealing with them, as there's only the two of us. If there were others in the household, I might be a bit more circumspect, but I figure if Mr LW and I were going to catch things off each other, we'll do so anyway.

Oh, and Mr LW does the ironing, so no issues of who irons the hankies!:p

I can't believe that anyone irons hankies! Or 'Wee' wipes!

THe first thing my dh does with a hankie is open it out and scrunch it before it goes into his pocket.

If laundry is shaken out well before hanging I find that the need for ironing is greatly reduced. The right attitude helps as well. Think how many things get crumpled as soon as they are in use...teatowels, bedsheets (fitted ones straighten as soon as they are on.) I'm sure this conversation has happened before, just before anyone directs me to the relevant post about laundry-slobbery.

The other thing is that kids take your beautifully ironed stuff and leave it in heaps under other things in their rooms. My dd made a big mistake when this happened with a white blouse a few weeks ago. I don't do any ironing for her now at all!

dandy-candy

I was just thinking this morning how all the menfolk when I was little carried cotton hankerchiefs. I always use disposible tissues and I think of it as more hygienic, but from a moneysaving and enviromentally friendly point of view I guess old fashioned washable hankies are better? Anyone still use them?

flowertotmum

Hi ..yes i have them and lots too...when littlies are really poorly i use tissues but just for a sniffle its a proper hanky..i got mine from CS..some lovely ones too with lots of embroidery and bits on them..seems a shame to wipe your nose on it..but i think its much nicer to pull out a hanky than a screwed up bit of tissue...lol
ftm

daska

Mum used to wash dad's hankies (14 a week). He needed a few new ones every year because they would wear out which would have paid for a few boxes of paper tissues. They often needed extra soaking/bleaching because he'd left a pen in his pocket or used it to mop up a spill - rotring ink was a b***** to get out. And then they 'needed' ironing... So there's possibly not a lot in it.

Hobsons_Choice

My husband still has a clean "proper" hankie every day.
I have to wash and IRON them, so use tissues!

peachyprice

I use proper hankies. I find tissues make my nose and upper lip very sore when I've got a cold, don't get the same problem with lovely fresh cotton hankies.

Mine have to be ironed too