You are home alone. You have a cold. You feel the need to blow your nose. What do you reach for ?
The standard tissue ? Kleenex or the equivalent ? Don’t you find that the tissue disintegrates with a healthy blow? Or the tissue is so light that it blows away at the periphery ? Either way, does the snot far too often land on your bare hands?
Perhaps you keep a hankerchief handy. Just how many blows is your hankerchief good for ?
I keep a roll of paper towel handy. A good blow, clean hands and immediately disposable.
How about you ? How do you handle your private nasal discharges ? Are you satisfied with the standard tissue.
I find that toilet paper is handy for both butt-wiping and nose-blowing. I keep a roll in the living room and the bedroom. As a bonus, there’s always the nose-roll to fall back on when you run out of TP unexpectedly in the bathroom.
Lately? Unscented baby wipes. With folding, one is good for about three blows, and they are very soothing on my poor raw nose. They don’t fall apart, either. Normally, bath tissue suffices at home, but we are suffering from the plague right now and the house is awash in a sea of snot.
Tissues are in the bedroom (and I suppose in the livingroom, if I could be arsed to look for them - my wife uses tissues for everything.) If I need to clear my sinuses, I head for the bathroom and grab some toilet paper. This is partly habit, and partly that it’s nice to be able to immediately drop them in the oubliette.
When skiing without a cold, no tissue and no wiping – just sudden forceful blow over my right shoulder.
When I have a cold, I keep a box of tissues in each room and in my vehicle, and gently blow as frequently necessary to keep things moving, for if I let it get clogged up or blow with too much pressure, the crap in my sinuses gets blocked up there, leading to sinus infections that are painful, require antibiotics, and eventually result in some really gross stuff emerging, as if my sinuses were something out of a bad sci-fi movie.
If I’ve thought to buy Kleenex, that’s what I’ll use, but otherwise just toilet paper. The Kleenex is easier on my nose but either one holds together just fine for me. I think the OP must have the lung strength of an air compressor is his tissues are falling apart.
Kleenex brand Kleenex. I find that other brands are not strong enough, but I am fine with Kleenex brand. I keep three boxes in my one-bedroom apartment, one in the bedroom, one in the bathroom, and one in the main room, so I am always within reach of a Kleenex. I also keep a box in my office, a travel pack in my purse, and a second travel pack in my tote bag.
On the rare occasions when Kleenex is not available, I will use t.p., paper towels, or napkins. I prefer to use Kleenex because given the frequency with which I need to wipe/blow my nose, if I use anything else my skin very quickly becomes raw and develops all sorts of additional problems.
We have a huge number of wash cloths. They are used for many things, including nose blowing. They then go down the laundry chute to be washed in very hot water and bleach. Save a tree.
Well we don’t have any cats now, but I suppose one would do. I wouldn’t recommend this to someone allergic to cats. An endless loop will be created. Well not endless, the cat will probably get tired of the game pretty quickly.
I honestly cannot blow my nose. It simply won’t budge on an exhale (may be because of my seriously screwed up sinuses)…I need to be icky and do the snort-and-spit thing…in which case, I’ll grab whatever is at hand, or even gob straight into the toilet or garbage. Unless I’m in the bathroom, it’s generally facial tissue that’s at hand.
Standard tissue. A paper towel is overkill, especially from a waste-disposal standpoint (gotta figure that fewer trees died even for 3-4 tissues than for a paper towel).
If I’m at work or someone else’s house, I’ll use toilet paper. If I’m home, I’ll use wash cloths and then wash them in hot water. It saves paper and I find them much softer on my nose.
