I simply have to throw it away after use. So it’s tissue or paper towel for me.
@ddavelarsen: What you said about tissues is right~ Using them in public really isn’t an ideal option, most of them are too white and too small to begin with. On the other hand, toilet paper and paper towels do work, but don’t you think they are too rough for the skin?
My stomache being the way it is, I just can’t seem to keep a handkerchief in my pocket and know what’s in it, so I tend to use paper products unless I’m in the outdoors. I’ve got bad memories of my eldest family members using handkerchiefs and the thought of carrying that around with you during the day makes my guts turn.
I use paper tissues and get most of them from pubs; at my local I’m served with a pint and napkin when I walk in. There are quality issues in some local pubs, but those which serve food, tend to have very good paper tissues. Maybe I publish snuffer’s guide to Ranelagh-Rathmines-Donnybrook pubs and their napkins.
I do the same thing too allan when I’am in a pub. Also I do use paper towels if I used it before for drying my hands or clean dishes. Otherwise hankie all the way.
Shirt sleeve works good, as well as shirt tail. Inside of collar is not bad also.
sorry but thought this could be continued… I like a hankie and a tissue. I only use the hankie to “dust off” my nose and upperlip. I don’t blow my nose with it! That’s what a tissue is for.
I use a hankie to get rid of the snuffstache and a tissue to blow and drill out old snuff
I usually keep two or three hankies on hand at all times. I blow in a cotton one, and keep a silk one for dusting. At the end of the day when they are full they just get tossed into the laundry hamper. I must have 12 or 15 hankies by now; you can’t have too many. If I’m running low and don’t have time to do laundry, I take a handful into the shower with me, wash them with my bar soap and leave them hanging in there to dry. I also sometimes just fill a sink and wash them by hand with a washboard.
Aldi King Size 3-ply [Sky Blue box] under my desk here; pocket packs [green] of Kleenex Menthol or Aloe Vera in jacket pocket; BIG, dark coloured, spotted or paisley print gentleman’s handkerchief in my trouser pocket. Best place I know for these is a splendid gentlemen’s outfitters among the few permanent shops in the foyer on Brecon Market, Powys. Wonderful fellow has splendid, big gent’s handkerchieves, black, navy, bright red [I think, sometimes, Racing Green] with either polka-dots or paisley patterns in white. Huge, last for ages, and they even wash-out quite well - and [here’s the best bit] they’re about GBP 1.50 each! Like Brandasaur, always tissue when the “drill-out” routine is required … [especially after a heavy session on rappees!]
I nearly always have a hanky - silk mostly but also cotton - with me, but use tissues sometimes. And Roderick is absolutely right - washed out silk hankies are excellent.
Hankies. Tissues are wasteful when you can buy 10 hankies for the same price.
I never use tissues, over the course of a day they make your nose sore. Stefan
handkerchief ftw
Hanky here.
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The linen snuff hankies can be a bit harsh upon my delicate snoot. Pinched a dark coloured silk hanky off the Mrs - very nice. The Professor mentions women’s soft and colourful head scarves. I have one of these too. It’s fine. Tissue is fine for the evenings when consumption rates escalate and no one can see the mess you make of them.
I use a tissue when I’m standing somewhere without my hanky, such as in my bathroom in the morning, or some other situation in which I deem it more appropriate. Otherwise, hankies. They last years, thus are cheaper and contribute less waste. Plus you don’t have to explain the white tissues stained brown and black piled-up in your wastebasket to visitors when you use a hanky. Buy many, switch/wash often!
i used to be a tissue guy, but have been pulled over to the hankie side.
My grandfather died a while ago and nobody wanted his hankies. They werent even out of the package! Now everytime I go to wipe my nose i get pleasant childhood memories =)