Tissues

We have colds. Do you know how many rolls of toilet paper we go through just blowing our noses? I realized today that I could be washing and ironing handkerchiefs for my household. Oy! What a thankless task: ironing handkerchiefs!

There’s a story told of the lady whose husband always kept a folded square hankie in his back pocket; she would take it out, see that it was in a neat square, and put it in the clean clothes. But one day she saw him take it out, blow his nose, fold it neatly, and put it in his pocket…

If we were using cloth handkerchiefs (we could, you know), they’d need rinsed before washing, because snot, especially thick sick snot, forms blobs that won’t come out easily. The blobs are sticky and if by chance you get a shirt through the wash that didn’t get the snot off, it will form a stiff spot in the cloth, that may or may not flake off.

I’d rather fill the trash can with used tissue; they biodegrade, and not inside my house.