Do you use a hanky or a tissue?

[carlton23]

Handkerchiefs appear to have gone out of fashion nowadays.

[Mick-Talbot]

I'm not a nose blower.

I think with lots of people it is just a habit
I see many people who randomly decide to blow their nose for no apparent reason.

[cazzz1975]

really mick? Im a nose blower and I only blow my nose when it feels bunged up, how do you deal with that feeling yourself?

[sandyRoe]

Hankies for the nose. I have a box of tissues on the bedside table for anything else that might arise.

[pink-kittens]

Tissues after years of being forced to use small squares of cotton that after 2 blows when loaded with a cold were soggy, wet and disgusting for the rest of the day and had to sit up my sleeve or in my school bag, Yuck!

Tissues are the hygienic way to go but not in the bin please, down the loo =)

[snags]

Handkerchiefs... disgusting. Would you wipe any other bodily orifice and then put the item you wiped it with back in your pocket... then use it repeatedly throughout the day?

[DTCwordfan]

the curtain

[cazzz1975]

"... then use it repeatedly throughout the day? "

yes, you always search for a piece of the hankerchief that hasnt got dried bogey on, when you run out of places you put it in the wash :)

[beattie819]

always tissue, I would refuse to wash snotty hankies ,yuk!

[beattie819]

When I was a kid we used to keep our hankies up our knicker legs :))

[AB Editor]

A friend of mine will only blow his nose with kitchen towels because "Nothing else is absorbent enough!"

[snags]

cazzz... you've pulled ;-p

[tamborine]

Have you ever washed out a used hanky - it's the most disgusting slimey wash.

Thank goodness for tissues; even better paper hand towels offered at garages - strong & perfik.

[Mick-Talbot]

Rarely do i need to blow my nose cazz, if i do i use a tissue.
I stand by my statement, I went out for a steak the other night and there was a nose blower in earshot, like smoking, it should be banned in restaurants.

[cazzz1975]

ah now so you are a noseblower then....

[rowanwitch]

tissues for snot....but a hanky for tears

[tamborine]

Some use their hands & wash away in exclusive, expensive gym pools - Urgh !

[Mick-Talbot]

I'm talking about serial nose blowers cazz, who , well....are just in the habit.
serial nose blowers carry handkerchiefs.

[cazzz1975]

urgh tambo!

oh those people with permanent red noses, I know the type.

[andy-hughes]

I'm with Mick-Talbot on this - I hate to hear people blowing their noses in public.

I never blow my nose, but if i have a cold I use tissues.

However, I always carry a clean hankie for the occasions when any ladies of my aquaintance may need one.

When I worked in an ofice with twenty-three women - as the only man - I was often the 'go to' individual to discuss personal issues, my discretion was legendary. That meant that i would usually ask for a box of hankies for Christmas, to replace the donated ones from the year gone by - although one frequent recipient always returned my hankie, washed and ironed.

On the subject - unless you know for a fact that you have pound coins up your nose, there is no need to peep into your hankie / tissue when you have blown!!!!

And don't give me that 'checking for infections' guff - if you must do it, go to the loo and do it there!!!

[andy-hughes]

How's that for coincidence!

Just given away another hankie!

On my way back from lunch, saw an old gentleman take a serious fall from a raised traffic island into the street, landing on his face and seriously gashing his forehead and face. Handed over hankie to another passer-by to attempt to stem the flow, while i dialled an ambulance.

Don't imagine that hankie will be coming back to me!