to think that hankies are possibly the most disgusting thing ever?

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A lot of older people I know seem to have a sticky, crusty rag stuffed up their sleeve and in their pocket which they whip out to cough into and/or empty the contents of their nose into.

Surely this isn't hygienic or even useful? What makes it better than tissues?

How do people wash them?

DH used them when we met. It would have seriously been a deal breaker if he hadn't stopped, as I really find them a turn off. Him can you find someone attractive carrying crusty snot filled pieces of filth?

My stomach is churning just writing this.

I agree, OP.

I have a colleague who keeps a red hanky in his pocket. It makes me nauseous just to think about it. So disgusting.

I can't bear people using tissues more than once, so a hanky is beyond noisome to me. Thankfully, it seems to be almost unheard of nowadays.

My DP came to me trsibv a thousand hankies behind him, I thought he was a freak. Now I am a hankie convert and use fresh ones daily, always have them in my bag and car. So much softer than tissues and fabulous to use with my son for noses or general use.

Funnily enough I used to find them disgusting and now I don't!!

*trailing.

I wash them on a hot wash with the towels.

the human race will be wiped out because of you germ freaks. it's only snot, you touch worse on a daily basis when you mix with the human race

it's all a bit odd imo

Why would you want snot in your pocket?

It's not the snot as a germ harbourer - it's the thought of crusty snot kept in a pocket or up a sleeve. Yuck.

Get rid of it, don't save it.

DH uses them. He gets them for Christmas etc from his folks. I don't use them and find them pretty horrid, especially up sleeves, under pillows etc full of snot. Ughh.

get rid of it where though? it goes somewhere when you put it in the bin, it doesn' just disappear

Lots of people also keep manky tissues shoved up their sleeves, in their bags etc.

An Iranian friend of my mother's was totally bemused as to why you would blow your nose on some material and 'wrap it up to save for later'.

She had a point...

maybe it's a generation thing, i always had a hankie when i was little, we just didn't dispose of much and reused stuff

why anyone would be bemused by the fact that someone would do that is bemusing in itself!

In a pocket or up a sleeve is just repulsive to me.

My ds y2 teacher used to keep a used tissue up her sleeve. I have clearly passed on my horror to him as he still mentions it and is in y7!

god, really people it's snot but radioactive material

you make your own snot yourself

I make my own shit and piss, but I don't put it in my pocket.

really you people need to get a grip

Surely the environmental impact of washing, drying and ironing a hankie is greater than the impact of snotting into a tissue and binning it

My DH uses hankies.

It's one of the things I love about him. It seems sort of old-fashioned, which is very endearing.

And I don't see why carrying snot around in your hanky is any worse than carrying it around in your nose

As long as the handkerchief is changed every single day, what is the problem? You'd never offer a used hanky to someone, would you? Would you? eewww

They are not always used for snot. They have a myriad of uses - wipe away running mascara, mop your brown when you are sweating on the tube, wipe your grubby hands, use it to hold over your nose when commuting with stinky people who don't know the meaning of deodorant or freshly laundered clothes.

They smell beautiful, they are classy. I love 'em and you can keep yer expensive, disposable, inefficient, wasteful tissues

well i guess it all goes into the sewers with the shit and crap us humans produce, or we could leave it to fester on landfill for years

They are gross. I once had to feign illness to leave a lecture when the lecturer got out a snot infested rag every few minutes and blew into it before looking at what he'd produced.
I'm heaving at the thought ugh.

I grew up with hankies and it was always something you bought your elderly relatives at Christmas. But I just find it really really icky.

Seriously though, I get that you can wash snot in a washing machine, but what about, erm...bogies?

Do they dissolve? Do they go and live in the filter with all the fluff? It's the bogies I can't cope with. Sorry...

It's the same snot that is up your nose before it goes on the hankie. If you hate hankies do you hate noses too?

noarmani - have you taken into account the environmental impact of manufacturing the disposable hankie and the amount of energy that takes. Once tissues are binned, they still have to be disposed of.

No-one puts on a machine-load specifically for one hanky, I hope!

also, what suburbanrhonda said.