Hey so I'm considering upgrading my snuff accessory set, and I'm wondering about buying a handkerchief. The only problem is, I'm worried it will get all soaked in brown on my first blow and then be utterly useless. How easy is it to wash handkerchiefs after you use them? Are they really useful, or more of just a decorative accessory?
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And yes, even the white ones mostly wash clean, but I like my brown ones better. :)
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To wash, I toss one or two in the bottom of the shower right before I get in to wash myself. At the end of my shower they are pretty much clean. I let them hang in there to dry. The next day when they are dry they are tossed in the regular laundry. This way you don't get snuffy snotty yuck in your clothes or your washing machine. They always come clean and ready to use again. Over time the white ones do start to get stained and turn yellow-brown, so I prefer to buy darker ones, but I still use all the white ones I acquired in my pre-snuffing days.
Firstly, I have about 12 colored hankies and 12 whites (because the store ran out of colored, but colored are best if you can get them all colored (they camouflage)).
The whites I use when I'm home alone and there is no one around to gross out. I use the heck out of them. They become spotted like a cows hide before I flip a side over (folded in three and then again in three) and use it till it all looks like a cows hide and then I throw them in the laundry. I stuff the one Im currently using in between the couch cushions so they are within reach but hidden incase someone comes for a visit.
The colored ones I use in public or around my fiance or what have you.
I wash the whites (with other white clothes) at 90 degrees (Celsius). It turns out it works. It might even work at 60 or 40, but I don't know, I just did it at 90 one day, all my whites survived and looked clean, so that's what I continue to do. They look super white and clean every time. I can barely believe it what with all the brown tobacco staining them. But yeah, it works.
The colored ones I wash at 60 with the rest of my clothes. They look super clean as well.
Optimally, when i move in with my wife, I would have a laundry bag of its own for my hankies, and wash them on their own. And probably have twice as many hankies as I have now. Its just for my peace of mind. I don't want my wife to have to rummage through (or even have to see) that brown snotty mess and I optimally don't want them to be washed with her clothes.
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At home I use toilet paper or tissues for my hardest nose cleaning blows, just to preserve the hankies a bit longer. I dont bring tissue paper with me outside. So hankies get used up quicker when Im out and about.
I found the hankies much better than white tissues, which tend to turn disgusting right away and gather all around the house, pockets, car, etc. because I am too lazy to bring them to rubbish bin right after the use.
Also, I am not frugal in using the bandannas, switching to new ones frequently.
A few years back I bought 25 lbs of white cotton rags online, and use them for everything except toilet paper and bath towels, washing a load of them a week. The rags were cheap enough to throw out occasionally, and now any old or ripped clothes get turned into more rags. Looking to switch to bandannas only for my nose now, as the snuff really stains those rags.
Next time I will probably try to order some smaller handkerchiefs. The 22" square ones are a bit big for pocket use when balled up.