Why do people still use hankies?

[hucifer]

Do they have issues with using sanitary tissues?

I literally turn my head away when a hankie owner pulls it out to use it...I refuse to look at their snot collection. To me, it's the equivalent to having reusable toilet paper in your pocket.

 

[sleepyone]

I have never ever seen anyone use a cloth hankie. I agree though, it would be gross to carry that around until you got to a washing machine. Yuck!

 

[cepmom]

good question...my MIL uses one all the time. She has the kids use hers when she takes care of them if they have a runny nose (can't open the smilie page, but imagine the one that looks grossed out here)

 

[Loubon]

I use my sleeve.

 

[Disfan1]

Sometimes when I have a sinus infection with a chronic runny nose, Kleenex irritates my nose since I have to use a tissue so often. I know they make tissues with lotion in them, but they make my nose feel slimy. A cloth hankie is not as irritating to the skin on & around my nose, but I make sure to get a clean one if (and that's a BIG if) I have to leave my house when I am sick.

 

[punkin]

Soft old hankies don't irritate my nose like tissues do. But I don't share them with others. Washing them in hot water will kill all the germs anyway.

 

[disykat]

My dh uses them. It drives me nuts. I've shown him articles that say you should use tissues over hankerchiefs. I've tried refusing to buy them or wash them. He just does it himself.

What can I say? I married an Engineer and if he gets something in his head there is no changing him!

 

[C.Ann]

Many, many, many years ago - when my aunt was little - there was no such thing as "tissues" - it was hankies or nothing.. I remember her telling me this story about her mother (my Grandma) sterilizing the hankies by boiling them in a big black iron pot on the wood stove.. As she was standing there stirring them with a big wooden spoon, she turned to my aunt and wistfully said, "Someday they're going to find a way to make hankies that we can just throw away and then I won't have to do this anymore.." My aunt looked at her like she had 3 heads, but eventually Kleenex came along and fortunately my Grandma lived to see it..

Doesn't answer the question - LOL - but just thought it was an interesting story from long, long ago to share..

 

[oogieboogie]

I used hankies way up until college, because tissues were expensive in a third world country and hankies are cheap, plentiful and reusable.

I had tons of them and would carry at least 2 or 3 in my backpack every day. When I use them I start in one corner and work my way to the other corner, that way I never end up touching snot.

Growing up in a third world country sure had its moments.

 

[Ronda93]

I always carry a handkerchief. I mostly use it to cover my sneeze. On very rare (two/three times a year) occasions it will be used to blow my nose. From that time until I get to the washer it doesn't come back out of my pocket.

It's very handy to have around. I clean my glasses with it. Sometimes mop my brow. I've used it as a potholder and used it to balance my camera atop a trash can for a picture at MNSSHP.

 

[froglady]

There are hankies, then there are handkerchiefs. I have NEVER used a hankie, but I do have a hankerchief that I carried on my wedding day to "dab" away any tears. I hope DD will carry it (I'll embroider the new date) on her wedding day. also.

 

[mommaU4]

Do they have issues with using sanitary tissues?

I literally turn my head away when a hankie owner pulls it out to use it...I refuse to look at their snot collection. To me, it's the equivalent to having reusable toilet paper in your pocket.

Oh barf. I just ate!!

 

[Keli]

A lot of ministers use them but it's not to blow their noses. If will often get hot up on the platform when they are preaching (they are wearing a suit coat, are usually higher than the congragation, and they're moving around a lot more than everyone else) and they'll wipe their face off with their hankerchief fairly often if they start to sweat.

 

[SwedishMeatball]

 

[Honu]

I was at a seminar recently with people from our London office. All of them, men & women, used handkerchiefs. It was the first time in my 42 years I had ever seen someone actually use one and it totally grossed me out to watch them blow and put it back in their pocket or purse. Ewwww! I also don't blow my nose in public though. I'll run to a restroom to do it. Phlegm is

 

[Kermit]

I've never used a hankie, but I can understand the appeal. Then again, I use cloth diapers and cloth napkins. I like things that I can reuse.

 

[aprilgail2]

I think it is SO gross to use a hankie and then to put it back in your pocket to take it out and use again...BARF!! My dad used to use one and I always told my mom that I didn't want my clothes in the washing machine the same time as his snot rags were in there..the thought made me ill even as a child....

 

[Pop Daddy]

its important to check out your snot

 

[Pea-n-Me]

My father carried hankies for his Pall Mall phlegmballs. These "stiff" (ie dry) hankies were lurking everywhere. The soft ones were in his pocket.

 

[Captain Brain]

I don't see the point in "hankies"

It just adds boogies to your collection.

All in your poket you will find is bogies.


Billy

P.S. not held responsible for the weirdness of this post.