Environmentally friendly, no tree dies just for blowing a nose.

I really applaud you for that. I'm usually all about being environmentally conscious, but I just can't see myself using a hankie. What do you do when you have a really bad cold? That's a lot of hankies to wash!

I think my Grandmother invented tissues as soon as rolls of toilet paper came on the market, but unfortunately she never patended the idea, otherwise I'd be a millionairess heiress.

Grandma brought up six sons (my father the youngest, born 1907) There were oodles of hankies to wash. When toilet paper came out in rolls, Grandma always folded a few sheets and put them in her apron pocket to use as hankies. One day when I asked her about this, she told me with a big grin; "I never in my life want to wash or see another snotty hankie again.

  Erica

Grandma always folded a few sheets and put them in her apron pocket to use as hankies.

Ha ha ha! My Grandma did the same thing, but she would carry them in her sleeve. My sisters and I used to tease her about it when we were little ,but now I find myself grabbing a few before I leave the house. "Just in case". lol

I think as she got older she got tired of the hankies, but my grandfather was set in ways.

The Japanese consider it body waste (which it is)

and don't understand why you would carry it around

with you.

Would you walk around with any other body waste

wrapped up nicely and up your sleeve?

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@imastawka wrote:

Would you walk around with any other body waste

wrapped up nicely and up your sleeve?

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They are hoping it would transform into a Turner Seascape?

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@imastawka wrote:

The Japanese consider it body waste (which it is)

and don't understand why you would carry it around

with you.

 

Would you walk around with any other body waste

wrapped up nicely and up your sleeve?

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I remember as a child, a copper or pot on the boil full of hankies. Think it had salt in it? Blerk 

Well tissue or hankie, both beat holding a finger over one nostril and blowing it out on to the ground! 

I've seen people in public do that before and it's THE MOST disgusting thing I've ever seen.

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@lis351 wrote:
Yuk to tissues? They go straight in the bin, taking the germs with them, I'll agree, not very environmentally friendly, but definitely not yuk. Hankies on the other hand, unless they go in the wash after first use, blerk!

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what's even worse is when they pull the same hanky out of their pocket that you saw them wipe their nose with a few minutes earlier, to clean their glasses! or wipe the sweat from their brow

blerk