Tissues should be banned!

I work with vulnerable victims and we have boxes of tissues all over because we get a lot of upset people. Banning them and having people sit using their sleeves is barbaric. Just check pockets before washing. Is this not a thing?

This reminds me of the time my dd came rushing to the kitchen with a pair of dungarees she had been wearing, to get into the wash before I closed the door.

After a short while, I hear this clunk clunk sound, and then there was total panic when she realized that she had left her phone in the front bib pocket. Emergency stop of machine to retrieve the phone. Into rice for the rest of the day, and it carried on working like nothing had happened. Those were the days of a good old Nokia. If it were today's iPhone it would not have last one turn of the machine.

One of my favourite quotes from the late Humphrey Lytleton was describing something awful as “the stray tissue of fate in the laundry basket of life”. Sums it up, really!

On holiday a few years ago our apartment had a lovely laundry area. I decided I'd get ahead by washing my clothes before packing to go home. I'd packed a monochrome 'capsule' wardrobe. I was so pleased my case wasn't opened by customs on the way home. Every black item was covered in bits of white tissue.

We wash hankies in with towels at 60, all the hankies probably add as much weight to the machine as one hand towel. I don't even know where my iron is.

Hankies were always ironed. As a kid, I did all the hankies as they were good for learning how to iron.

So now they get ironed still.

I take your tissue and raise you - screws and nails, pens, loose change.... Argh. As soon as the washer starts up and I hear clinking I know what's happened. And yes, yes I should check pockets every time. Bad wife over here!

Ha yes, I think cloth nappies makes us a little less squeamish 🤣
Worse than crusty hankies, in my opinion, is a wet snotty tissue in a pocket that contains the snot then bursts when you touch it. Happened to me when my oldest used a tissue and there wasn't a bin or a bag handy so I put it in my coat pocket, then forgot and later rummaged in the same pocket for something. Cold wet preserved snot was definitely worse than a crusty hanky.

Both my dc were in cloth nappies too, might also be why I do not get these grossed out posts about cloth hankies.

My dd also uses reusable pads and period underwear. The washing machine is doing all the work and getting rid of what is needing to be washed out.

But a stray flaked up tissue, yes way more annoying to me.

That would surely be an awful lots of laundry.....and do you iron hankies? My mum always insisted, partly becuase it was scruffy not to and partly because of the sanitisation of the hot iron.

Exactly

Can we say the same for pantyliners.

That will teach you not to forget to check pockets 🤣🤣. When money was paper, I ended up washing a lot,a whole wallet once!

We have cloth hankies in pockets for occasional nose wiping and hay fever season, and packets of tissues for any coldy nose blowing which go in the bin or in a plastic bag if no bin. Works well for us, no gross crusty hankies and no tissues ever go in pockets. The worst thing that happens is we occasionally end up with a white hanky in a dark wash.

yeah, i despise cloth hankies, like on a level i cannot describe.

Its a mix of my mothers own revulsion from her dad being a brass polisher and his hankies being full of black snot soaking in the sink growing up, and my older brothers habit of leaving his crusty hankies stuffed down the couch cushions for others to find when we were little.

I would happily burn every single one in existence.

If your nose is sore, use aloe infused tissues.

Yes! And those square box ones that many people use in the car.

They are solid tissues and can withstand a round without falling to pieces.

When I had a terrible virus earlier this year, I was converted to hankies. I think there is a time and place for them, i.e when the tissue has rubbed your nose raw and you just need a clean piece of cotton to dab dab it.

I knew all those gifts from my Nana (with everyone else's and not my name initial on them, bless her) would come in handy.

I don't buy the boxes of tissues, only the little packs. I find they don't break up so badly. I guess if you're going to be completely single use with them, that would work out expensive, but I'm not...and they're about £4 for a pack of 30 packs in Lidl.

@SparklyGlitterballs same here 😅

Well i certainly never ever would want to go back to the pre tissue days of my childhood when the whole family used cotton handkerchiefs.
Just the thought of the bucket of snotty handkerchiefs being soaked prior to washing makes my stomach heave. Absolutely disgusting.

Occasional tissues in the washing machine are a blooming pain in the neck but infinitely preferable.

This!

I'd rather deal with tissue fluff, than days old, crusty, crackling, yellow, dried snot full germ ridden cloth hankies.

gross