I could have been a contender! I could have been a contender!
I carry a handkerchief. It’s much gentler on your nose than any kind of paper.
If you keep Kleenex in your house, where do you keep it? In the bathroom, right? Same place the toilet paper is?
Nope, I grab a stack of them every so often and I keep them at my desk. This stuff is a step up from the rough brown stuff but not as soft as Bounty.When I’ve worked at places with the rough brown paper, I’ve used that. I’ll use the generic bounty equivalent at home. I find that Kleenex is too soft to blow my nose with.
The funny part is that I suffer from hay fever and use paper towels for that as well.
I only get eye boogers in the morning and I don’t get to take a nap, but I would use paper towels to wipe my mouth as well.
T’ain’t easy, if you’re a guy (women have purses) and your schnozz produces fluid like some of ours do. There’s only so much tissue you can stuff in your pockets.
I know, you’re thinking, how much could you need? But for some of us, in cold weather or allergy season, we need a lot.
Seriously, buy a box and put it out, even if all you do is watch movies with your buddies. The furniture you save from nasal discharge may be your own.
Generally no. There is one box we keep in the bathroom, but the most frequently used are in the living room/dining room areas, as well as one we keep by our bed.
This sounds like a personal problem, though. I mean, if you need a lot, then it only seems fair that you would bring your own stuff, not expect someone to do that for you. They make those little packets of Kleenex that can fit in your coat pocket. If I were an allergy sufferer, I’d always keep one of those handy.
That’s about where I stand on the issue of tissue at the moment, after some thought. As I mentioned upthread, I carry my own little pocket packs of tissue, and while I may be a woman, I don’t always lug a purse around (I tend to stick my wallet in my back pocket, like most men do - it’s often all I need for short trips) and the tissue goes in either the other back pocket (you don’t notice it - it’s tissue!) or bunged into a coat pocket. Heck, I can even carry tampons in my front pockets if it’s that time of the month - the most noticable thing on my person (and the thing I feel the most) is my wallet. The rest of the stuff I usually forget is there.
Anyway, the point is, I don’t think it’s too hard to be prepared for your needs by bringing along what you need, instead of relying on others to supply those things for you. If they invite me for lunch, give me lunch. If they invite me to stay over, give me a comfortable place to sleep. If they invite me over to a nose-blowing party, for heaven’s sake, provide the damn tissue! 
Otherwise, I’d bring what I need for myself.
When I sneeze I let the majority come out of my mouth, and very little expels out the nose. I rarely even need to sniffle after a sneeze, and I certainly don’t need to blow my nose.
A long time ago, I dated a girl with severe-to-extremely-severe allergies. She often criticized my lack of Kleenex (or Puffs*, as the case may be). So I started buying them, and she started using up my supply so I had to replenish often. These days, I don’t have guests often, but my Guests-Are-Coming routine now consists of taking the top tissue and dusting off the box–a necessary step because it never gets used.
Some day, however, I’ll be married. And I will have to set up a routine in case a guest asks for Kleenex. I will slam down my fist and storm out of the room, at which point my wife will lean in and whisper to them, “We’re pickers.”
*I prefer being able to say, “Could you please hand me a Puff?” over “Could you please hand me a Kleenex?”
Same deal here, except I’ll declare myself sick enough to put a roll of toilet paper on my desk. Like right now. I’m not a Kleenex man.
As far as paper napkins, no. That’s what paper towels are for.
I would have been on the side of the people who say you should bring your own up until about 2 days ago. I got sick…really sick. I was at work and there was not a single tissue to be found. They have the cheap, giant rolls of toilet paper (to prevent theft I assume, or why else wouldnt they just use regular rolls?) that are not soft on the facial features. I rubbed my face raw and had huge piles of toilet paper on my desk since I couldnt take a roll with me and it didn’t tear off into neat little sheets. I bought my own kleenex to work the next day and my life improved immensely. If they had kleenex or puffs plus or something at work my face wouldn’t have been red and blotchy all day! I feel really bad about the people who work around me having to listen to me blow my nose every 15 seconds for the past couple of days, but maybe this will inspire them to give us offices or at least cubes with high walls so people don’t have to look directly at you for that kind of thing. Maybe when it is your friends you should bring your own, or at least say something like, “You don’t have kleenex? I am making a run to the store for some tissues…do you need anything? Kleenex perhaps?” and then go get your own. At work though, they should be a requirement.
This is when I express gratitude about having grown up in Britain. Folks, it’s facial tissue. Not Kleenex. That’s a trademark. Plus it looks bizarre written down.
Of course Brits refer to a vacuum cleaner, of any brand as a Hoover. I didn’t pick that up, thankfully.
The reason I don’t keep Kleenex, is because they can’t be flushed. I don’t want a bunch of snot rags laying around, even if they’re in the wastebasket.
They’re also a little too pricey for everyday use. If I’m having a dinner party, I might set a box in the bathroom
I have a box of tissues beside my bed, a box in the bathroom and I usually keep a box on the fridge and one on my computer desk (I’ve just moved and haven’t got around to stocking those last two yet). I find it odd that some people apparently never have tissues in the house, or only occasionally have them.
Does it really cost more to have four open boxes of tissues throughout the house than it would to have one open box that you have to replace four times as often? I don’t think they get used faster just because they’re accessible and they don’t exactly go off so I think it takes me as long to use four boxes that are open simultaneously as it would to use them one at a time.
That was the funniest thing I have read all day. Thanks. I needed that. 
You can’t flush them? I didn’t know that.
Since I’m in this thread I decided to check the bathroom and make sure I actually do have Kleenex in there. Yup. Couldn’t even guess how long it’s been there though. I can see a layer of dust on the tissue sticking out of the top of the cutsey little dispenser it’s in. Wouldn’t want to use that one to blow your nose.
I guess we’re mostly TP nose blowers in this house. I agree Kleenex is a bit pricey if you actually have to use the stuff. It’s for decoration in the bathroom! Like those gay-assed* finger towels nobody ever uses.
*I’m gay - I can say that.
I too find it weird that there are so many anti-tissue-users here. I’ve never blown my nose with toilet paper unless it was an emergency. Toilet paper is to be used for <ahem> toilets. We have tissues in essentially every room in the house.
My parents used tissues, I use tissues. Well, let me clarify, my dad used a handkerchief but we always had tissues in the house. A handkerchief makes me squicky just putting them in the laundry. Something about washing a load of clothes that includes a snotty towel is groooossss
I probably never used a tissue until well into adulthoold, though I have allergies and lived in New England. I don’t even recall seeing them in people’s houses. You blow your nose on toilet paper. My partner does not agree so now we have tissues. If something happened to her and I were alone, I assume I’d revert to toiet paper (though I do keep tissues in my offices because people cry).
roll of toilet paper cost: $.33
box of kleenex cost: $1.50
need I say more? And the toilet paper can be used for other things too!
You guys should meet my crazy roommate who demands we use napkins instead of paper towel. Why the heck would I pay extra for someone to fold up my paper towel? I’m just going to unfold it as soon as I get it anyway. Sheeesh!!!
Word. I feel like Elaine did in that Seinfeld episode when everybody starts using a knife and fork to eat chocolate bars!
My mom is a nurse so sneezing into anything but a hankie or a tissue was verboten in my house. (Don’t y’all know that’s how germs are spread? Didn’t you see the educational film in school when they show a dude sneezing in slow motion and all of the droplets fly out at 50 mph?) I think hankies are disgusting as well so it’s tissue for me. (Just saw an old PIF from the 1950s where the character is taught to wash his hanky in Dettol. Still gross!)
I don’t think you have to buy the top shelf snotrags. They all do the same. I’m happy to buy CVS or Shaw’s brand… it’s always on sale. Same with napkins. For me, tissue is too soft and paper towels are too rough for my mouth parts.
One more thing about TP… well, if you understand how flushing spreads particulate matter, you might think twice about putting it in your face. Ewww.
May I ask what kind of TP y’all are using? Because when I blow my ordinary 2-ply TP leaves little bits on my shirt. I don’t think TP can handle the force of my sneezes.
I feel like Joseph Lister now. It is my goal to convert you all to using tissue when you sneeze! (And I don’t even own stock in Kimberly-Clark - just 'cos I care about y’all.)
Okay…I know I’m probably the Lone Ranger on this, but that’s where tissues should be. I’ll give you a pass at work (for a bit of nasal dabbing, in an emergency). I am totally grossed out by people blowing a couple pounds of snot out of their sinus cavity in front of other people. I’ve seen people blow at the table, during conversation, or even sitting next to me on the train. It’s disgusting. Excuse yourself and take care of that shit in the bathroom. Leaving tissue boxes all over the house encourages “blowing at will” and that’s just wrong.