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whilst sitting here blowing my nose and looking down at my hanky (nice) I realised that it is pretty eco freindly to have a hanky, no one seems to have them anymore.

Andy Hamilton wrote:whilst sitting here blowing my nose and looking down at my hanky (nice) I realised that it is pretty eco freindly to have a hanky, no one seems to have them anymore.

I just use a sleeve...

'snot very nice I suppose it is a green thing to do tho

Hankies are very 'green', and that is the problem; they become too green...
Tissue/toilet roll paper might not be eco-friendly, but surely tissue is more hygenic? Plus you don't need to put tissues in the washing machine, thus saving water and electricity.

i made my own out of an old sheet - they work well and were easy to make with pinkin shears - no sewing needed lol

I have about a millon and really I have to use the washing machiene for everything else so a couple hankies isnt really a problem ....

Anna x

I will guiltily confess to being a "kitchen roll for hankies" sort of a person!

I switched back to hankies a few months back (when hill-walking the wind makes my nose stream & I couldn't keep pace with tissues). My Mum still has a drawerful of hankies so I had a bundle of those.

I use a clean one each day - really doesn't impact on washing loads - but need to get more from Mum as I don't have regular wash loads & occasionally have to resort to loo-roll.

I'm a handkerchief user and always have been.

I'm not aware that this habit increases the spread of disease any, even if I don't use a clean one every day.

hankies are more hygenic than people using tissue and putting it in the bin. Eugh.

WIth a major hayfever sufferer, who rather stupidly does agri work, in the house I dread to think of our tissue bills if he didn't use cloth hankies. I admit I use kitchen roll on a day to day basis because I probably only need one about once a week, but if I have a cold I use hankies because sticking them in the wash is less damaging than continually flushing tissues.

I don't think tissues should be flushed... I bin mine if I use them.... or burn them on the fire if it's winter. I use organic cotton tissues rather than the paper ones.

I agree about washing them, they don't exactly take up much space and you can just throw them in with the washing. I mean you would not do a hanky load unless you ran an orphanage with loads of snot nosed kids or something.

Think of the amount of water and energy used in making tissues, transporting them and packging them. I think this far outweighs the energy used in just throwing a bit of cloth in with a machine load.

thats one of my most 'moaning about' subjects it's so easy to use a hankey why would you buy a packet of pissy bits of tissue wrapped in plastic that are so cheap that you dont care how many you go through.

perhaps there should be selfsufficientish hankeys

I don't flush the tissue either; I bin it or in winter, burn it. But I have never, and would never buy packets of tissues - I use toilet roll instead.

Admittedly, hankies don't take up a lot of room in the washing machine but I guess this depends on how many you get through. I remember that my mother used to have at least one large bucketful of hankies a week to wash/boil/bleach (not sure what she did to them...) and that was for one child and two adults. Most of those were from my father, however I think that MOH would get through more than that each week...

If I used hankies when I get a cold I would get through about a hundred a day!

I hate the things - I remember the miserable times at school when I was a kid with three soggy hankies up my sleeve or in my pocket and trying to keep blowing my runny nose on sopping wet and snot covered hankies. Yuck.

I buy soft tissues with balsam when I have a cold (which is not often) and cheap ones for the rest of the time.

I was pondering on the thought of ssish hankies, I did wonder about having a green logo on a hanky though

I suppose I could get a big sheet like MAdanna has and make some, putting the logo on could be a bit of bother.

I can see that bad memories are enough to convince you M3, not to use hankies again.