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Kirk-NJ

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I've been blowing my nose in a handkerchief since the 1950's. My wife has informed my that it's a discussing habit to save my snot in a rag in my back pocket. I told her maybe I should just use the snot rocket method. she said I should use tissue. Well I told her that since I blow my nose long,hard and loud tissue don't work cause I blow right thru them then the snot ends up in my hand. I guess I'm just an old man and she's going to have to live with it. Got to her her to stick a hanky in my back pocket when I take my dirt nap.
So do most guys here still use a snot rag or am I just an old timer?

Kirk
 
If I'm out around the barn or field and no ones looking I use the rocket method. If I'm in the house or public I stoop to the tissue option.
 
I never leave the house without a handkerchief. Yes, they're disgusting, but so is a wad of tissue if it's not disposed of.
 
Yes. I don't go anywhere without a big colorful handkerchief in my pocket. Fortunately my younger days with allergy issues, and lots of colds, are gone. It could get disgusting back then.
What's an outdoors person supposed to do as an alternative? Carry a box of kleenex ?
 
Boxes of Kleenex all over the house..... Snot rocket outside the house, if no ladies around, otherwise a shop towel or the like....
 
I guess I'm old fashioned cause I still carry a handkerchief in my back pocket. I had a terrible time finding decent sized ones and had to order them from online. The only ones I could find were those great big ones that the boilermakers use for do rags on their heads & they are just too darned big to carry in my pockets. I don't like to carry the white ones, I like the red and blue colored ones that we carried back when I was a kid. You just cant use tissue to wipe sweat when you're trying to unplug a baler in the summer LOL. Course I still wear bibs too.
 
Big, colorful hanky for me. I get them in Shipshewana, IN at the Yoders Department store. I also get my denims and bibbs there too.
 
Colorful bandanas. One in my back pocket all the time. Almost never gets used. It is there if I need it.
Probably used the most when I cut myself.
Richard
 
It's not just you I use a handkerchief for the same reasons. Besides, you can haul a box of tissue around everywhere they go even if they did work.
 
Snot rag for me, too. Have a lifetime supply already. Back when I suffered the ragweed allergy real bad, I'd often be found with one tied on like the old-time train robbers, to free up both hands. Take an extra with me to work during periods of high use, to switch midday to a nice dry one.
 
I use all of above. I work inside so paper works. I have a box by my tool box.
I started carrying a hankie when dad died in 2011. I got all his. but I don't carry all the time. Rocket method when outside. Must admit the hanky is best a weddings and funeral's thought. And yes I have cried at a couple weddings. Cried like a baby at both of my Daughters. Can't believe how happy and proud of both I can be.
 
Wife refused to wash them, so its a paper towel in my pocket. This happened many, many years ago.
 
I've been told on here I'm young,but I carry a snot rag. And if I'm in the barn tinkering with a tractor then I have a grease rag in the other back pocket. Paper just don't work. Kevin in Central AL. PS the grease rags in not good for snot!! Don't ask......
 
I can see your wife's point but a lot of the time if a Kleenex is available there's no place to dispose of it properly!!! I think it's much more sanitary to have it in a "snot wrag" in my hip pocket then left lieing around in an open waste basket!!!!
 
I carry and use one all the time but have used all the methods mentioned below. I have found the new snot rags to be stiff and still that way after many washings.
 
I prefer paper towel but only in public, snot rocket otherwise. I won't use tissue anymore I just blow right through it.
 
I use a hankie.
When I was first dating my wife, her daughter was four yrs old.
She liked hanging with her Great Grandpa during the day just
like my wife liked to hang with him when she was little.
We were picking her up after work one day and she comes running
across G Grampa's yard just proud as punch saying "Look what Grampa
taught me" and proceeds to do a farmer blow of her nose all over
her dress.
Great Grampa had a big grin as my wife yelled at him.
 
My folks were "Hanky Handlers".

Always been a "Kleenex Kid", myself.

Husband is a "Paper-towel Practitioner".
 
Ask her if she would rather you use the inside of your shirt by pulling it up over your nose to blow? Some do.
 
Kirk ..... until someone comes up with something better, your post holds the current title for "YT Post of the 21st Century" ......... mind you, we still have another 83 years to go but I suspect you'll hold the belt for a while.
 
I keep mine (snot) soaked into a cotton handkerchief in my hip pocket. A cotton handkerchief will not irritate your nose like Kleenex or other paper products will. The paper products are made of wood and their microscopic fibers act like tiny splinters on the sensitive, internal membrane near the end of your nostrils. The chemicals used to bleach the paper white, when brought into solution in your nostrils, are very irritating to that membrane. Using paper products on you nose occasionally is OK but if you are sick with a runny nose, paper products will contribute to the redness and irritation of your nostrils.
 
Our grocery store gives away free items with a purchase over twenty dollars. When ever tissues are the free item, I get at least one of them. I use them at home, BUT i am naked without my handkerchief. But I am a hoarder. I save everything.
 
Definitely a conspiracy between the tissue manufacturers and the people who make health care products. I would lobby for a federal investigation into the whole scam. Do you find that generally you line up with conspiracy theories?
 
I'm an old timer and there's a handkerchief in my pocket 365 day's a year. Way I look at it is it's my pocket!
 
Without admitting their tissues are contributing to nasal irritation, tissue makers have introduce a line of "soothing tissues" with some type of lotion added to them. They feel slimy to me. I don't like them.
 
I have a tendency to use kitchen-type paper towels, fold them up nice and flat and use them as a hanky, they last quite a while and don't self destruct ...... and the ones they make over the last few years are pretty forgiving for softness.
 
My thoughts mirror hers. Why anyone treasures their old snot so much that they carry it around in their pocket like it was worth something has always baffled me. I'm leaning toward some unresolved developmental stage,,,,,,,,,, gm ;-)
 
Red and/or blue? You run with Bloods and/or Crips? Green paisley in couple places means Irish or IRA supporter. 'Colors' for gangs seem silly--but how many Greenies V Reds discussions have we had here between JD and IHC owners? Mild Teasing Alert!-- but be careful with bandanas in some parts of some towns. other wis it is simple inhale, put finger to side of nose and strong exhale, repeat with other side of nostril, then wipe with ratty sleeve or back of hand. RN
 
Still use a handkerchief, but have noticed the younger generation reacts to this as if I'd just picked something disgusting off the ground and put it in my mouth. Also kept one under my pillow from a young age, don't know where that habit came from, but everyone in my family is allergy-sufferer.
 
Kirk........I'm with you, snot rag in rite hip pocket; leather billfold with license and folding money in left hip pocket. Rite front pocket, house and gate key ...and... pocket knife; left front pocket BIG key ring (12-keys) and squeez'em plastic coin change purse. Only time I haven't hadda pocket knife was when the sargent in basic training confiscated it. Like I'm gonna gitt inna knife fight with other recruits? It was my grandfather's and was very eazy to sharpen. I used it to strip insulation off'n radio wires to solder. I first gotta pocket knife when I was 9-yo in Cub Scouts and hadda sharpen a knife for merit badge. Also handy fer cleaning dirt from under fingernails and playing mumblie-peg. Had one of them 4-bladed jack knifes with can-opener, leather punch, BIG blade that could never gitt sharp on whetstone. Hadda file it. I find iff'n I don't haffa knife in front pocket, I walk lop-sided......Dell
 
snot rag (hankie) for sure. tried to get my 31 year old son to try the method when he was in high school. not a chance.
 
Just be sure they are not left in your pants pocket when put in the washer. They do make a mess.
 
Nothing like a Bounty paper towel. Can serve several needs with one handy in the pocket item. There is nothing like blowing your nose the good old farmer way. Very satisfying when that big wad of stuff clears out your sinuses with one mighty expel of power! Just watch out you don't hit someone between the eyes with it. At work we have those super duper cloth like shop towels that come in the pull one out at a time boxes. They are VERY nice on your nose and cleaning glasses etc. Hey what is the differance between buggers and Brussel sprouts. Kids wouldn't eat brussel sprouts. Kids like them better when they are crunchy..
 
I always carry a white handkerchief in my left back pocket:
Intended primarily for cleaning glasses, any paper product scratches your glasses.
Backup for blowing nose when no other alternative is available.
Backup for any other emergency need.
I prefer tissues to blow nose, two tissues folded in half to contain the blow. Yes we have tissue boxes every where (house, shop, car, pickup), especially when we have a cold.
Shop towel when tissue is not available.
Rocket when alone outdoors, sometimes need white handkerchief to clean up any strays. ugh. Or, use a leaf, newspaper, etc.
Restaurant, discretely split paper napkin in half, discretely blow, put in my own shirt pocket so no one else has to touch it. Or, go to restroom.

My two cents. Ya, I should have stock in paper products.

Paul
 
so you forget paper towel is in pocket so it goes in wash machine
nose rag would have been better as it doesn't make paper towel mess in washing machine
 
farmer blow, snot rocket, cant waste time pulling out hankiecheif, or looking for cleanex unless in house
 
snot rocket is hilarious term. Never heard it before. When I was a kid it was always " hockin' a gob".
 
Thanks for all the replies. From your comments I appear to be in good company, at least on this board.

Kiek
 
Never use a tissue. Carry to hankerchiefs one in each front pocket, billfold goes in back right pocket. Also Even one laying on desk under computor monitor. one under pillow all the time.
 
My experience with tissues is that, unlike M & M's, they DO melt in your hand!!

I do carry a handkerchief, but I also don't like the idea of putting a wet one in my pocket and then sitting on it! I usually have a second one nearby in my jacket pocket, or in the car, or on my bedside stand which I use for the major blows. The one in my pocket gets used as a last resort.
 
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