to not understand boxes of tissues

[moogstera1]

Always make me feel a little queasy when I see them taking pride of place on coffee tables.
If you need to blow your nose, do you not just get a bit of loo roll? What's the advantage in spending what seems to be a disproportionately large amount of money on tissues?

[IloveJudgeJudy]

As a very experienced tissue user, I can tell you that loo roll is just not the same. It's made to disintegrate after use. A tissue does not do that. I very often have a runny nose (various allergies) and have tissues all over the house (other family members also suffer from the same). I hope that explanation is sufficient .

[fluffyanimal]

I like to have a box of tissues in several rooms of the house. That way I don't have to run to the bathroom when my DS has just sneezed a great big green bogie all over his face.
Also, toilet paper just isn't thick enough for some nose blows.

[ParsleyTheLioness]

Loo roll ok for an odd blow. If you have a cold, tissues are much softer, and don't give you a sore nose.

[lynniep]

as someone whose DH drops used toilet roll down the side of the bed and leaves it there for weeks, I can tell you the diference. DUST. There is an inordinate amount of dust generated by loo roll.
I agree though, Its blinking expensive. and pointless since DH wont use it anyway.

[greenbananas]

Keeping a box of tissues on a shelf next to the sofa means that you do not have to get up and traipse to the bathroom when your dripping-nosed toddler interrupts your morning coffee with "wipe my nose mummy, I've got snot".

[SuperB0F]

Toilet paper rips your skin to shreds. I have allergies too, and frequent colds due to an immunity problem, and if I use loo roll after running out of tissues, the skin round my nose flakes and bleeds.

[OvOntToSuckYourBlood]

We never ever had tissues growing up. We weren't poor, it was just seen as something needlessly frivolous I think. So I now have a box in ever room and feel all fancy.

[OvOntToSuckYourBlood]

Oh oh, I even bought covers for the boxes made from Laura Ashley material for maximum knobberishness!

[ShatnersBassoon]

The advantage with tissues is having a paper fit for the purpose. Toilet roll is meant to disintegrate when it gets wet, tissue holds its form so you don't end up with a hand full of snot. Plus a box of tissues is convenient, looks better than loo roll on the coffee table, and you don't have to put something coated with toilet germs on your face.

[MardyBra]

Poor misunderstood tissues. If only people listened to them...

[halcyondays]

No, I don't use toilet roll to blow my nose unless I'm on the toilet or we've run out of tissues. Why would I when I could use tissues instead?

[perfumedlife]

As others say, it's convenient to have them close to hand and they are stronger. I hate loo roll for my nose. I buy nice tissue holder boxes to stick the tissues in though.

[Sparklingbrook]

Tissues aren't just for snot though, they come in handy when eating a dribbly peach on the settee.

[FireOverBabylon]

Also, you really don't want to let small children near rolls of toilet paper more often than you can help.... Having tissue boxes on a high shelf means they're easily accessible to mum and dad but can't be unravelled by smaller hands.

[sittinginthesun]

Toilet roll makes me sneeze, so it's a bit pointless using it to blow my nose. I'm worse off than before I started.

[NadiaWadia]

Why would it make you feel queasy?

[cantspel]

a box of tissues cost 50p for wilkos so i dont see how it is cheaper to use loo roll.

[cheekybarsteward]

Oh good gracious, what is wrong with monogrammed handkerchief?

[Fakebook]

We haven't bought any tissue boxes since DD started walking, and reaching on to the table. Its been a good 4 years now, and we've survived. Loo roll for colds and bum, and kitchen rolls for everything else!

[Sparklingbrook]

My mum used to boil hankies in a pan on the stove.

There is no place in 2012 for hankies IMO.

[OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos]

I don't always have tissues around, but first thing I do when one of us gets a cold is buy some Kleenex Balsam. They are awesome.

[cantspel]

my husband uses hankie and give on take the odd new one most of them he has been using for the last 22 years or longer.

[Sparklingbrook]

Do you just put them in the washing machine with the bogies on cant?