Blowing your nose????  

i used cotton handkerchiefs or any cotton cloth available here at home. sometimes i just simple use water whenever i go to the bath room but i only do it at home.

Hi Anne,

I love using tissue when I will blow my nose...When I was younger, I use clothes like T shirts and I love blowing my nose there..
When I will go out, I don't like to use my handkerchief, I don't like to mess it up..LOL!
ANyway, I don't have that feeling also...only like once a year, So, I don't need a lot of tissue..LOL!

The perfect question for me to answer! With just getting over the flu, I have gone through atleast 3 or 4 rolls of toilet paper. Yes, toilet paper. I would use Kleenex but because this was a particularly nasty case of the flu, I would blowing my nose left and right. But I do know that when I was a child, I would wipe my nose on my sleeve. What child didn't?

I use toilet roll, I have never ever bought a box of tissues, it is lots cheaper to just use toilet roll. The only time I buy tissues is in the little packs and I only buy them if the kids have a cold and they can take them to school. After all I would not dream of sending them to school with wads of toilet roll in their pockets!

When I was a kid I used to blow my nose in a hankie or else on my sleeves when no one was looking around. :) When I met my girlfriend who later on became my wife the first thing to do was to make me get rid of all the handkerchiefs and start using disposable tissues.

I blow my nose on tissue, toilet paper, paper towels, I don't use cotton handkerchiefs, I have not had any of those since I lived with my grandmother ages ago. Back in the days, that is what most people used, we didn't think of all those germs then but now it seems gross.

Hi there Anne18

When I was younger I used to have a cotton hanky to and my mum used to make me keep mine up my sleeve as I wore clothes that didn't have pockets!! We have boxes of tissues in nearly every room but I will grab a bit of kitchen roll or toilet paper if it is nearer! When we went to my brothers wedding last year I tir dyed some cotton hankies to match my boys shirts that I also tie dyed!! They looked really cool!!

you must read this reply anne...

i actually used LONG DISTANCE CALL or A COLLECT CALL (using the fingers ... very LOL) but that was when i was a child but when I grow up, i used tissue paper because its not irritating.

I always prefer using a paper tissue because i never got into a habit of using a handkerchief. Besides i dont like keeping a handkerchief with my nose in it in my pocket. I always keep a pack of tissue which has enough tissues for blowing of my nose and keeping it clean.

I like the idea that you keep cotton ones for, 'special occasions'

I wasn't and am still not a snotty person. I can go for days without blowing my nose. When I was young, I remember being given a cotton ones, but I hardly ever used them, as I said. My father used cotton too, but had terrible sinusitis. My mother used to do ALL the washing and his used to get boiled to clean them. Yuck!!!
I don't know whether paper tissues were expensive then or what, but he could have done with using them once and throwing away.I think my mother used tongs to deal with them and I don't blame her.