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Subject: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: GUEST,Runny Nose Date: 22 Sep 06 - 08:51 AM OK, OK, I know I should use hygienic paper tissues but I prefer to use traditional cloth hankies. I use one for about three days and then throw it away. Now my problem is that cloth hankies are getting more and more expensive and I'm getting poorer. So how can I launder them? Sorry to use this forum for such a stupid request but I know many of your subscribers are, like me, over 60 and I have failed in google searches for a solution in other forums. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 22 Sep 06 - 09:14 AM So how can I launder them? You put them in a washing machine with detergent or soap, and you press the "wash" button. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Clinton Hammond Date: 22 Sep 06 - 09:16 AM What the fuck.... don't you people have anything better to do with your so-called lives??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: GUEST Date: 22 Sep 06 - 09:32 AM My mother always used to boil them in a big pan. I prefer to prewash them by hand in a sinkful of hot water and detergent, so the major lumps of snot get cleaned off first and don't end up in the drum with the clean hankies. Then wash on hot setting. >> What the fuck.... don't you people have anything better to do with your so-called lives??? Leaving aside your quite unneccesary attack of potty-mouth, I'd say personal hygiene is of more immediate importance than 90% of the topics discussed here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Geoff the Duck Date: 22 Sep 06 - 09:33 AM I'm with Clinton on this one. Quack! GtD. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: jbailes Date: 22 Sep 06 - 09:40 AM i'm with the guest who answered guest runnynose and the latter being over 60 and asking a question, doesn't need to be abused. when i wash my handkerchiefs they don't come too clean, so it is a problem. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Geoff the Duck Date: 22 Sep 06 - 10:10 AM Trolls do not tell the truth. Do not feed them. Quack! GtD. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Grab Date: 22 Sep 06 - 10:23 AM If you're between 60 and 70, washing machines have existed for the whole of your adult life. Being over 60 is no excuse for not knowing that you wash clothes in a washing machine. I'm with Clinton. What the fuck...? Graham. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: wysiwyg Date: 22 Sep 06 - 10:33 AM I think it's a sendup, not a troll. Derivative from the "Wearing knotted hankies" thread? So I believe the correct answer would be, snot 'em, then ear 'em, THEN wash 'em. The wearing will wear off some of the crusties. Then the proper question will be, "Washing Nasty Crusties Out of Hair," and the proper attack on that thread will be that it is sexist, if anyone has seen "Something About Mary." Thus Mudcat, once again, provides proper entertainment while one is waiting for one's morning thunder. :~) There's nice for you! ;~) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Liz the Squeak Date: 22 Sep 06 - 11:03 AM I prefer the wear 'em, snot 'em, get someone else to wash 'em method. If you really are having trouble, the crusties can be softened first by a nice long soak in a bucket of hot water. A hint of bleaching or stain removal agent can be added at the beginning of this stage, but a good hot wash will get rid of most nasties. Failing that... take up Morris dancing (average age of some teams is well over 55...) and substitute your snotties for a nice clean waver. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Stilly River Sage Date: 22 Sep 06 - 11:11 AM I have one of those zippered net bags that is for delicate washables that I use for washing handkerchiefs. Be sure they're not folded or wadded too tightly in the bag and put them in with some other light colored laundry, and wash them in a gentle cycle that uses a long pre-soak. Use a bleach (chlorine or non, either one) to help whiten them. I leave them in the bag to dry as well or they cling to everything and are sometimes hard to round up. Then iron them when you finish. They're more labor intensive than using paper and throwing it away, but they're a lot more durable. I seem to use them most for eye-dabbing during allergy season, and use a paper tissue for nose blowing, so they usually don't have too much of a "crusty" problem. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Dave'sWife Date: 22 Sep 06 - 11:36 AM I still carry cotton and/or linen hankerchiefs with me wherever I go. For a woman going through early menopause, it's mostly to mop my brow with during a hot flash! Linen won't wipe away your cosmetics if you blot rather than wipe. As for men, I have always given my husband two clean hankerchiefs to carry when he's wearing a suit. One brand new one in case a woman sneezes or cries or needs it for whatever reason and then a clean regular one for himself. A Gentlemen should always have an extra, clean, brand new hankerchief on the ready to offer a wowman one he doesn't mind giving away. When we go to funerals, I give him 2 brand new ones to offer as giveaways. They come in handy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Bill D Date: 22 Sep 06 - 11:46 AM so, a Frenchman and an American were walking in Paris, when the Frenchman suddenly sneezed....then leaned over the curb and blew his nose...both sides....into the gutter. "Yuck!", said the American,"Do you always do that? That doesn't seem very sanitary!" "Eeet seems veery sensible to me", said the Frenchman,"Eeet ees bettaire zan you Americans, carrying eet around in ze pocket!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty honk- ker-choofs From: Severn Date: 22 Sep 06 - 12:53 PM We used to sing: Are your garments spotless, are you white as snow Are you washed in the Blood of The Lamb Are your prayer cloths snotless? Mine are not, you know. They're not washed in the Blood of The Lamb.... So there may be something in the ultimate red detergent, after all... And the old "Honk If You Love Jesus", as well! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Rapparee Date: 22 Sep 06 - 01:11 PM "If you think it's butter, but it's snot...." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Don Firth Date: 22 Sep 06 - 02:06 PM Rinse them thoroughly in a fast-running stream, beat them on a flat rock, then let them dry in the sun. I use tissues. Don Fi . . . Fi . . . Fi . . . *AHH--CHOOOO*!!! Don Firth (sniff) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Bernard Date: 22 Sep 06 - 02:22 PM Cue for a song... Greensleeves?! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: JohnInKansas Date: 22 Sep 06 - 02:35 PM It's probably just a regional thing, but most here have abandoned the "white hanky" for something with fairly bold colors and with "patterns," and the larger "bandana" style "farmer's hankies" are fairly commonly used. (party for the larger size?) The use of colored and patterned wipers effectively conceals any remnant stains if your washing is less than perfect. Removing all the remnant "stains" is not really necessary for "sanitary" cleaning, although it is of course desirable if public use is anticipated. Using a hot pre-soak often will "set" stains, especially "biological" ones; so I would recommend using a cold water pre-soak if one feels the need. A small amount of hydrogen peroxide added to the pre-soak is the old time dry cleaners' trick for removing suspected blood stains, and should be effective for other "body fluids;" but works better if used separately before soap or detergent is added. In older times, chlorine bleaches may have been more aggressive, but the H2O2 seemed less likely to affect colors and/or fabrics adversely. (Peroxide sometimes works for "spotting" after laundry, but usually by then the stain is pretty well "set.") Although the vast number of detergents on the market suggests that there are no distinguishable differences between them all**, it does appear that a few are tailored for the removal of grass stains from the kids' clothes and some others are more suited for removing body oils from daddy's shirt collars, so choice of detergents might make some slight difference. Either cotton or linen, the most common "hanky" materials, can stand HOT WATER washing, and for the most "sanitized" hankies, your final wash probably should be done with the hot wash cycle on your washing machine. A hot rinse cycle will not significantly affect how many bugs are removed, and a cold water rinse is much more effective at removing residual detergent and (IMO) should always be the norm. Cotton hankies, my preference, will tend to wrinkle when washed "aggressively," so this is the only remnant from olden times where ironing is recommended. Ironed with a hot steam iron (and additionally sanitized thereby), they don't "ball up" in one's pocket, and are much more comfortable to carry - at least until the first use. Having a sufficient supply to haul out the iron infrequently is of course recommended. Disposable nosewipes are arguably more sanitary, but when out and about it's difficult to carry enough of them for a long trek. In an office situation it's difficult to stock them more rapidly than office mates will walk off with your box. My solution to the office problem was to switch to a roll of toilet paper, which is just as sanitary, never scented to offend my own allergies, and never gets "borrowed" by the office leeches. (Ignoring that it's on the order of one-tenth the cost of "Kleenex" type products.) Hanging a roller on your belt, however, might have "social consequences." ** A business school maxim is that advertising is not needed if your product is actually "different" from competing products. Anything heavily advertised is invariably indistinguishable from competing, and usually cheaper, alternatives. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 22 Sep 06 - 03:47 PM Hully Gee! For once I agree with Clinton. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: MBSLynne Date: 22 Sep 06 - 04:07 PM Well I actually boil mine in the very old fashioned way. I also boil dishcloths and tea towels and cleaning cloths. Then I put them in the washing machine on the hottest wash. As an environmentalist, I am not in favour of the 'disposable society' Love Lynne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: JohnInKansas Date: 22 Sep 06 - 09:35 PM MBS Lynne - At least, unlike many other similar products, tissues generally are quite quickly biodegradable, and virtually all such "pulp paper" products (including common newsprint) are made almost entirely from "new growth" farmed trees which can be considered a renewable resource. One might question whether the fuel cost of boiling your hanky consumes more non-renewable resources than making of the tissues that replace it for one use-and-wash cycle; but it would require some realistic and accurate data, and some hard thinking, to be sure. It's not always obvious that the obvious isn't as obviously right as might seem obvious. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 22 Sep 06 - 11:50 PM Boil 'em. Makes excellent soup stock. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: JennyO Date: 23 Sep 06 - 12:16 AM Eeeeeeeuuuwwwwww! I'd boil 'em too, before washing them, same as Lynne, but I'll pass on the soup stock. The main reason, I think, for using cotton hankies instead of tissues when you have a nasty cold is that after a while even the softest of tissues irritates a red raw nose, and hankies feel softer. Reading this now makes me realise how long it's been since I had a cold like that. I've managed to fend them off, or at least shorten them, with things like vitamin C, zinc, garlic and echinacea, and the best and most effective discovery yet - astragalus. I may never have another bad cold again! (she said with fingers crossed) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: John O'L Date: 23 Sep 06 - 01:41 AM I'll pass on the soup stock To your children? Lucky them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: suzi Date: 23 Sep 06 - 02:21 AM Im with Clinton too on this one... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: JennyO Date: 23 Sep 06 - 03:17 AM It always amazes me, the people who come onto threads where the subject can be very clearly seen without opening them, just to read them and criticise us poor little plebs for wasting our lives on them. Obviously they don't mind wasting THEIR lives to do that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: JennyO Date: 23 Sep 06 - 03:19 AM Oh, and John O'L - LOL! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: MBSLynne Date: 23 Sep 06 - 05:10 AM I loathe tissues anyway...you only use them once and they disintegrate and your fingers go through and end up covered in nast stuff, then they shred themselves and leave bits in pockets and everywhere else. How do you guys dispose of them? Left in bins I imagine the germs are quite able to spead themselves, whereras my boiling them should kill them. And John in Kansas, we buy our electricity from a 'green' company which uses windpower. Love Lynne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: GUEST Date: 23 Sep 06 - 04:00 PM What's the difference between Brussels sprouts and snot? Children won't eat Brussels sprouts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Bernard Date: 23 Sep 06 - 05:38 PM Blowing in the morning, blowing loads of mucus, Blowing in the noontide and the dewy eve; Waiting for the laundry, and the time of cleansing, Laundering, rejoicing, snotty handkerchieves... Snotty handkerchieves, snotty handkerchieves, Laundering, rejoicing, snotty handkerchieves... Snotty handkerchieves, snotty handkerchieves, Laundering, rejoicing, snotty handkerchieves... Blowing in the sunshine, blowing in the shadows, Fearing that our tissues break each time we sneeze; By and by clean hankies, now the washing's ended, Laundering, rejoicing, snotty handkerchieves... Snotty handkerchieves, snotty handkerchieves, Laundering, rejoicing, snotty handkerchieves... Snotty handkerchieves, snotty handkerchieves, Laundering, rejoicing, snotty handkerchieves... (tune 'Bringing In The Sheaves', if you hadn't guessed!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 23 Sep 06 - 07:50 PM Windpower? How many birds did you kill today? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Tootler Date: 23 Sep 06 - 08:04 PM The data suggests that the number of birds killed annually in the UK by windturbines is in single figures. Far more birds are run over by cars - especially pheasants which seem to have problems getting away, unlike most birds. I regularly see pheasant carcasses on the roads here. Back to the topic, I do not like tissues and have always stuck to cloth hankies. They just get put in the washing machine with other clothes. These days we wash most of our cottons at 40 degC, hankies being no exception and they come out clean no problems. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: LilyFestre Date: 23 Sep 06 - 09:15 PM I was looking through a sporting goods magazine last night and found these things called "Snot Spots." Apparently they are to go over your mittens and are to be used when skiing or doing other outside activities when it isn't handy to get out a hankie. They advertised them as being reversible...that just cracked me up...would that be before or after use? EWW! Get Your Snot Spot HERE! LOLOLOL! Michelle :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty hunkerchufes From: Severn Date: 23 Sep 06 - 10:10 PM So much for Hankie snot. How do you get rid of stains from Panky? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Sep 06 - 05:23 AM Same method as I listed above, but with a slightly bigger bucket. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Sep 06 - 05:24 AM And Lynne - when you mentioned windpower I had this fleeting vision of ElPunkoid's bottom tubed up to the washing machine.... I really MUST get back on that medication! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: MBSLynne Date: 24 Sep 06 - 06:30 AM Gosh Liz, what a brilliant thought! I hadn't thought of that. We could be on free electricity...and ShadyLady would be a big cotributor too!!! Love Lynne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Sep 06 - 04:21 PM Limpit could put a few watts your way too... judging by the calico ripper she let out last night. I blame the beans for lunch. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:39 AM Since I was young about six years old, my nose has run with perpetual cold, The doctor he tried but he just couldn't hold back the tide that kept making my Sleeves green! Chorus Greensleeves they just didn't look right, on me best Sunday suit or a shirt that was white, I kept me mam scrubbing from morning till night, to try to get rid of my greensleeves. It caused quite a stir when I started school, all the other kids thought me a slovenly fool, but they laughed when one of them slipped in a pool of the stuff that kept making my sleeves green! All my life I have suffered such puns, like "Your nose must be fast, cos it often runs!" and it put more than icing on Ma's current buns, and ruined my Peruvian nose-flute! While kissing my girlfriend one night she said "Chum, I think I've just swallowed your chewing gum!" but she gipped when I said, "No, it's just a hard lump, of the stuff that keeps making my sleeves green!" Final chorus Greensleeves are the bane of my life, greensleeves have kept me from a wife, I'm a social pariah for the rest of my life, because of my horrible greensleeves! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: open mike Date: 25 Sep 06 - 07:52 PM http://www.bandanaworld.com/ http://www.bandanaworld.com/banbest.htm http://www.readingrack.com/bandanamap/ kerchief, handkerchief, bandana have been worn and used for ages by farmers, fire fighters, train engi9neers, cowboys, and others. lately they are discourtaged, even banned for use at some schools due to being identified with gang orientation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandana |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: John O'L Date: 25 Sep 06 - 08:19 PM 40 posts on dirty hankies. God I love this place. Will this thread reach (n) posts? What was that song by Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys? Old man Lucas had a lotta mucus comin' right outa his nose He'd pick and pick 'til it made you sick an' up his finger goes... Something like that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: Dave'sWife Date: 05 Oct 06 - 11:57 AM To thosa gals and guys boiling their hankies before washing - really, as one poster suggested, not a good idea. Hot water 'cooks' proteins and muccous contains proteins. same with blood. If you want to disinfect them before washing, slosh them around in a bucket of cool water mixed with Hydrogen peroxide. Just wash them in hot water with a decent detergent that breaks down proteins such as Wisk, Tide, Era or Arm & Hammer. Use a cool rinse cycle though, becuase, as posted above, cold water gets out soap residue better. if your hankies are white, you can add chlorine bleach for added whitening power. Pre-washing in hot water will only set stains and bake in proteins. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: The Shambles Date: 05 Oct 06 - 12:12 PM Why wash them? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Washing snotty handkerchifs From: John O'L Date: 05 Oct 06 - 07:13 PM Funny you should mention. I've just been checking out the gig guide and it seems that Wisk, Tide and Era are playing at the Arm & Hammer this very night. Sorry, I'll get me hat... |
