Life in the time before Kleenex.
Having spent the larger portion of two weeks sick, I have not surprisingly stepped up my facial-tissue consumption considerably.
I wish I hadn’t. Every time I blow my nose or cough into a disposable tissue, I spend the next several minutes feeling as though I’ve inhaled a blizzard of particulate paper matter.
Ben uses handkerchiefs on a daily basis, though even he, when sick, uses tissues or paper towels to avoid the probable daily laundry onslaught that handkerchief use would require in times of ailment. I wish that it were a viable alternative, because frankly I’m tired of the chalky choking feeling.
But seriously. How DID people cope with the wonders of snot and mucus before disposable solutions came about? The last thing I want is to run a fraction of a load of laundry once or twice every day so that I have something clean to blow my nose in, especially when I’m feeling feverish and weak. All hail the nuclear family, because when times got tough, I bet my great grandmother was washing my grandma’s handkerchiefs for her in a boiling laundry pot over the pot belly stove. I can’t imagine I’d be able to convince even the dearest people in my lives to do that much laundry for me today.
Anyway, I’m babbling. You can see what all this sickness has done to my brains. Must get better soon.
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this is why i fall back to cloth wipes so often, they are cheap and I can make tons of them.. and i wont have to wash them quite so often having so many… and really they can be made out of just about anything. Before I got over my latest cold, I went through about 2 dozen. Of course, Jeffs theory is to just run to the bathroom and use the sink.. eww.
What do you make them out of? (directed at Nicole)
Aww, CBK, I sorry… I just hate it when my nose is all red and red and icky. and it hurts.
Now you have a Chinese love link on there!! HAHAHAHA.
noelle’s last blog post..Pictures are up!!
I’m a sink and water blower myself. I find I don’t get as dry and chapped that way as when I have to use tissues.
And the secret with fabric tissues is in having a lot and folding what you have so that you can reuse it. Bit like the gross old jokes, but there you go (blow) with much less lint.
Wendy’s last blog post..Woo-hoo!