I live in a 3 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath 2200 square foot residence with just my wife. So far so ordinary by middle American standards. Scattered around our place are 11 open boxes of kleenex for just us two people. Is that nuts?
I’m at my desk typing right now and there’s the kleenex next to my monitor. On each toilet tank? Yup. The shelf of our bed’s headboard? Yup. The coffee table in front of the couch facing the TV? Yup. The dining tables both indoors & out on the patio? Yup2. Etc., etc., etc.
Essentially wherever we’d sit or lay there’s a box of kleenex within reach.
So fellow Dopers, what say ye: are we nuts, just especially drippy, or does everybody have kleenex boxes on nearly every flat surface they own? Who among us has the most open boxes per person? The least?
And before some wise-acre says something: no, we do not wear the empties on our feet.
Two here, One in bedroom, one in office. If I’m not in one of those two places I’ll usually just grab some TP from the bathroom in the middle of the house.
They are cheap and don’t go bad. “Warehousing” a bunch more than you will use in a short time frame is not a huge issue. There is not a lot of opportunity cost for the space they take up. Most of it would be unused most of the time anyway unless you were living in very tight quarters. If you value convenient access over the tiny costs it seems pretty reasonable.
I also have year round allergies to dust and dust mites with some very mild seasonal allergies. I choose not to take anything for it. Convenient seems pretty awesome for me. A box of kleenex can live for weeks sitting on the couch where it is closer to reach than the end table. I may be a bit biased.
I feel like a slacker :). Two-bedroom, two-bath apartment, two adults and one cat in residence. Two open boxes, one on/near the sofa, the other at DH’s computer desk (I favor laptop on the sofa for my computering). The second bedroom is used for storage, and DH favors paper towels for nose-blowing. Paper towels are present in both bathrooms and the kitchen.
When I did a grocery order, I found that Walmart is limiting quantities on paper towels and Kleenex, so I bought my limit on each (1 twelve-pack of choose-your-size and three boxes, respectively, both in store brand).
Wow, even when my allergy ridden son was home I never had more than three or four. Now that it’s just me, I have one in my home office and one in the living room, and that’s plenty.
P.S. Does that mean you blow your noses at the dining table? Because…ew.
I rarely have a sit-down meal, tend to eat/snack/drink multi-tasking anywhere and everywhere - so I’m at 5 or 6 boxes, by the bed and near all the chairs & desk where I sit.
As for cheap reading glasses, they seem to defy the Second Law of Thermodynamics. I think I absent-mindedly transport them around pretty randomly, but however many pairs I buy they all seem to end up together in one place.
Zero boxes of kleenex. The rare times I need one, I use TP. I have a box at work that I don’t think I’ve used, but if I ever sneeze at my desk, I’m ready.
Well… I’m Miss Allergic but although I keep a lot of kleenex strategically located in both my home and my vehicles I’ve never had eleven open boxes at once! Usually, one a room because I figure I can always move the one around a bit if I need to. So in your house I’d have … seven or eight? (1 for each bedroom, 1 for each bath, even the half, 1 for living room… might or might not have one in the kitchen (have paper towels there) and dining room, but even that would be “only” nine).
Yeah, a little over the top, maybe.
Doesn’t the outside one get rained on? Not sure how that works…
During the worst of the allergy season that would have me up and down like a pogo stick. It’s not that I want to sneeze and drip that badly, it just happens when I’m having allergy issues. Certainly, when I’m dining alone I don’t bother to get up. A formal dinner would be a different matter, of course.
Maybe four boxes around the house. One in the bathroom is quickly replaced when empty, the rest are hit or miss. My wife does all the replacing really, I’ll just find something else to blow my nose in if the box is empty.
This is my house, too. Kleenex isn’t just for drippy noses. It’s for cleaning glasses (but not the lotion-infused tissues), wiping teary eyes (either from allergies or weeping-- both causes prevalent these days), picking up cat vomit if there’s not too much liquid involved, wiping off sweaty faces, cleaning off the screen of my phone, and lots of other stuff, too.
In my house, in addition to sticking out your hand anywhere and finding kleenex, you’ll find a pair of scissors, a metal nail file, a chapstick (or the like), and a pen or pencil. I’m ready for anything.
Unless I’m sick I barely ever touch a tissue, I have one box in my bedroom that I have to replace every couple years, but my roommate is allergic to everything under the sun.
There is always a tissue box within reach of any place where one may sit or recline.
I’m not sure the exact count, but I’d say that there are at least 8 or 9 boxes (assuming that he only has one in his room and in the bathroom) open at any given time.
Yeah, some allergies. I am prone to violent unexpected sneezy fits. My nose also runs if I eat something spicy/hot or just hot/hot, and I do that frequently.
Since I’m on my own, I don’t worry overmuch about offending the dachshund by blowing my nose while eating. (Were I sharing a meal with others, I would excuse myself frequently to go blow.)
3 bedroom 3 bath home, 7 Kleenex boxes. One in each bedroom, one in each bathroom and one adjacent to my assigned duty station for work, which is at home in the family room.
I’d keep one in the kitchen, except I fear it would provoke unsettled, unspoken questions in my guests. Maybe I’ll stick one in the mudroom or the pantry.
I’m a slave to Kleenex. Large house. Lotsa people. 4 kids.
I think there are upwards of 10 boxes. Also baby wipes and paper towel.
I’m singlehandedly responsible for the destruction of a large rainforest if you add my art papers, my numerous journals and a physical print newspaper everyday.
I’m sorry ‘climate’ it’s all my fault.
ETA: I forgot TP. Lotsa folks using 3 bathrooms with no compunction.
If I’m not in one of those two places I’ll usually just grab some TP from the bathroom in the middle of the house.
I thought I might be the only person in the world who did that – but here it turns out that I might be the only person in Australia who does that. There might be a bit of a cultural difference between Aus and the USA.
