to buy cotton hankies

[Deminism]

Having a red nose from blowing it all week with the mother of all colds, I am yearning for the good old days of cotton hankies. AIBU to start using them again? I have a talcum powder pouffe as well so this may be the beginning (or even the middle) of the end...

Knocks me sick. The same as the people who used snotty tissue back in their pocket a reusable one seems rank inbetween washing.

They are utterly disgusting not to mention unhygienic. You are spreading your bacteria or virus to everyone and everywhere you touch after you pick one of those back out of your pocket and use it.

I have such a violent hatred towards hankies.
I suspect seeing my mum begrudgingly boil-washing my father's snot rags, helped make me the feminist I am today.

I use vaseline when I have a cold (the little aloe Vera one) a little smear after wiping my nose and it stops it being all red and sore

I made my own by hemming squares of lawn left over from dress main. I much prefer using them for day to day sniffles although I haven't had a proper snotty cold yet (hardly ever get once since I stopped teaching) and may revert to tissues or soak them before washing in disinfectant. I echo what the poster said about no longer having to pick bits of tissue off my washing.

It isn't going to contaminate anyone else if it's in your pocket. Do tissue users wash their hands every time they use a tissue and dispose of it? Isn't a tissue equally, if not more, gross lying in a waste paper basket?

dress main dress making.

Blurgh.

I've got some, I just throw them in the normal wash but I wouldn't use them for a snotty cold, better to use a disposable tissue for that, well loo roll typically

Any recommendations for lovely soft ones?

Revolting. Why would you ? Ugh.

I think this thread really sums up why we're basically in a crisis due to the disposable lifestyle and refusal to re-use things.
Handkerchiefs are no less hygienic than tissues. You don't keep them in your pocket all day or rub them on things or shove them in other people's faces. You use them, pop them in a little pouch and then put them all in the wash. There really isn't nothing wrong with it. Tissues are horrible; floating around in bins and everything. It's just such a waste. But the idea of going back to old fashioned style hankies makes people gag.... why? They aren't disgusting. They clean. They don't generate constant waste and don't need constant production.

Love them. Felt very wasteful using tissues. Also use cloth pads for periods. Loads nicer.

These types of threads just make me glad I don't go through life getting disgusted by things / terrified of germs, I'd hate to live like that.

But I use reusable toilet cloth so the folk on this thread would probably run from my house screaming!!

I use hankies as do all my family and I wash and iron them with my towels in the hot wash.

Never met a tissue which didn't disintegrate and leave germs all over the user's hands at the first contact with snot. Nothing more disgusting than a house full of discarded tissues in every bin and, if there are children, usually all over the floor.

Most people I know with DC have pockets full of used tissues and wipes. They turn my stomach somewhat.

My lot use their hankie and then go and wash their hands ASAP. The hankie stays safely stuffed in their pocket for their personal use.

I've been intending to repurpose DS's baby muslins as hankies now that he's almost 8. They're so soft and comforting, I'd nearly look forward to having a cold, just to snuggle up on the couch with a pile of them.

I use my hanky for cleaning my phone screen, makeup tidy ups etc.
It's only used as a snot rag as an absolute last resort if I can't find a tissue at all and then goes in the wash.
I have lovely liberty ones.
A raging cold I tend to use tissues though.

It's not very 'catch it, bin it, kill it' to carry those cold/flu viruses around on your person is it!?

I think my ds started a thing at school with his.

Call me old fashioned, but my dad used them, my grandad and all male role models in my life.

So I bought a load for ds to use, it started out as he was having a lot of nosebleeds, and then I was telling him about my grandad, dad etc always carrying two.

So he started to do it. Eventually I started to look to buy them when they were going cheap as he lost a fair few. When a girl started to cry for whatever reason at school, there he would be with his clean hankie. I said after a while I think they are turning on the tears to score a bit of attention and a hankie, as very few did he get back again

Anyway after that it became quite the thing as a few of the boys started doing this. Its really something that died out here. We are not in the UK, in a hot country, so they also come in handy for wiping a good old sweaty brow. Also for wiping shoes just in time for inspection.

@honeyloops
I carry a packet of hankies, which I sewed so it's the right size to fit several hankies folded up. Just like carrying a packet of tissues. And I carry a little pouch with a waterproof inside which I pop them in once used. Then they all go in the wash. I don't think I'm spreading disease.

honey
never met a tissue capable of catching it
never met a DC capable of binning it
never met a bin capable of killing it

It's a bit like the fad for liquid soap before people worked out soap bars are self cleaning whereas lids on plastic soap dispensers are not.

I put tissues in the fire. Time for another thread about household heating?