washable hankies

[KDK12]

it's hayfever season and i want some washable hankies. i am fed up of using tissues, i inevitably try and use them more than once anyway, so they end up stuffed up my cuff (!) or in my pocket.

the thing is, if i saw someone else using one i think it might gross me out a bit. so perhaps i should just use them at home, where nobody will see? i mean, it's hayfever snot so it's not contagious or owt.

Indeed "quoteunquote", I remember wearing patterned skirts when the dc were small to hide the "snot" marks.

Phew (to Opps BTW). Her story is a really interesting one, and not too serial killer-ish either.

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I once bought the Liz Earle hot cloth cleanser thing and fond the little muslin cloths that you buy with it work perfectly as hankies too, so soft after many many washes!

All our family use them too as I was fed up with picking bits of tissue off clean washing after they'd been left in pockets. I like crisp White linen ones (btw where can I get some new ones?) which I bought from the lovely hanky counter in Peter Jones years ago, and the rest have man-sized ones with their initials on - some of which I've embroidered.

My 'reward' for doing all the rest of the ironing is the tea towels (linen), napkins and hankies!

My husband uses hankies. He has a fresh one ever morning so not disgusting. The only time they gross me out is when i change the bed and find he has forgotten one and it has gone crusty under his pillow.

Yes they are fine. I hate balled up nasty tissues that so many public nose blowers seem to think are fine to leave around the house! At least people then hide their hanky after use.

Hanky lovers here, too.

If there is a horrible cold in the house, one of the baby's muslins makes an excellent "extra large" hanky. All goes in the wash with the washable nappies at the end of the day, failing that, with a white load.

I really don't like finding manky tissues round the house.

throw,

must not talk on phone and type whilst still dyslexic.

I have one... do I now need to boil it along with my 'washable knickers' and my children's washable nappies? Am I now officially an old person?
(I wash them very regularly, I promise)
I think we all ought to stop breathing in case we spread germs.
Honestly people, in the scheme of things...

DH uses hankies. If they are particularly grubby generally after being used to clean DD up then they get boil washed with white towels and the like, otherwise they go in a white wash. They are strangely satisfying to iron - I don't iron anything else of DH's but I do iron hankies if they are to hand.

My mum has allergies and used to use them. She had a special pot to boil them in. They give me the dry BOAK.

DH has allergies. If he leaves one anywhere I can see I bin it.
Ewww. I don't leave bits of cloth with my bodily fluids lying around
Did I say eww?

Oh people keep buying him them for Xmas...

I made one of my very best friend due to spotty hankie,

walking the coastal path one day with dogs, (sixteen years ago), I came round the corner and found a woman with a screaming child, he had fallen over and smashed his leg,

I took a couple of (clean) spotty hankie out of pack, handed them over, one for knee, one for nose, it cheered him up no end, as I pointed out his blood would fill in the spots, we tied it around his knee.

she thanked me, I wandered on,

a couple of days later she spotted me on the beach, came over with a bottle of wine as a way of thanks, we shared it, chatted the sunset away,

The now adult son still has his spotty red hanky, and is a convert to the spotty hanky club, they make you happy and are very versatile.

Anyway you can't wear a tissue on your head to a pirate party.

My husband uses them as sweat rags. He's currently based in the middle of the desert in almost 50 degree heat, and he's a baldy. Every week I send him back to site with 12 nicely laundered and pressed hankies as his sweat rags, and every week they come back stinking worse than his pants not that I'm a pant sniffer

For snot though, no way.

Quote, that's a lovely story

quoteunquote, that's a great story! i want to save the day with a spotty hanky!

also have a strange compulsion to iron a hanky, even though i have no idea where my iron actually is.

Ahhh, the memories! My dad always has two cotton hankies in his pockets - in the morning, he shakes one out of its folds and puts it in his pocket, then puts a folded one in the other pocket. The shaken-out one was for him to use, the folded one was his 'emergency hanky' for children (he was a teacher, so either his own offspring or any child in his school - when he retired, children in his school bought him hankies as Mr B's hankies were well-known).

He still carries two hankies and his DGC use the spare one And they are clean every day, and hot-washed and ironed - I agree with whoever said there is a huge satisfaction in ironing hankies.

I love a freshly laundered hankie, me.

I don't find them gross unless they have been, ahem, overused and left to crust over. But then we are not an especially phlegm-y family .

Tissues for heavy colds, but for the everyday sneeze they are fine.

(Half the romantic encounters in fiction seem to revolve around Milady dropping her scrap of lacy nosewiper and Milord scooping it up and presenting it to her with a manly bow that perfectly displays his broad shoulders )