Personally, I think putting butt-soft paper on a roll is genious. It's also much more economical than tissues and the option of being able to choose precisely how many squares you may need for the job, is irreplaceable by the 'box' of kleenex. I keep a roll of TP at my desk.
Still, I just ran to the store over my lunch hour to pick up some last minute thingies I need to have around the house for the impending arrival of teh in-laws. One of the things being tissues. My mother-in-law refuses to blow her nose with toilet paper. She'll use a napkin before toilet paper.
I think I spent 5 minutes trying to pick out the box design I liked. I went with style over value.
Do you use tissue?
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Alma wrote:
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I do use tissues, but only because I think having a roll of TP sitting out in the living room looks tacky.
I reserve the use of actual tissues for when I have a serious cold...the kind that leaves the nose raw from blowing it 50 times a day. On such an occasion, I go all out and spend the money on the puffs plus with lotion. The rest of the time, toilet paper it is. I do keep a box of tissues around for guests though, see Mindel for explanation.
Nexa
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
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Do you use tissue?
Does my sleeve count? What?
While we're on the subject of prices and paper products...I threaten to cut people if they use paper towels to dry their hands in my kitchen. I have 2 or 3 kitchen towels strategically placed about for just such a purpose at all times.
Nexa
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
Baron von tarv wrote:
Quote:
Do you use tissue?
Does my sleeve count? Cold season is coming "Sneeze into your sleeve"
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
Nexa wrote:
While we're on the subject of prices and paper products...I threaten to cut people if they use paper towels to dry their hands in my kitchen. I have 2 or 3 kitchen towels strategically placed about for just such a purpose at all times.
Nexa
Nexa
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
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While we're on the subject of prices and paper products...I threaten to cut people if they use paper towels to dry their hands in my kitchen. I have 2 or 3 kitchen towels strategically placed about for just such a purpose at all times.
My kitchen, my rules. Lucky for you I only have one rule, no one in the kitchen but me!
Elinda wrote:
Nexa wrote:
While we're on the subject of prices and paper products...I threaten to cut people if they use paper towels to dry their hands in my kitchen. I have 2 or 3 kitchen towels strategically placed about for just such a purpose at all times.
Nexa
Nexa
That would use electricity. It would be fun to tell Smash I got a hand blower though, since he'd surely hear me incorrectly the first three times I said it and then feel short changed.
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
I've got very sensitive skin and if I use anything other than the expensive tissues with lotion in them when I have to blow my nose repeatedly, then my nose ends up as hamburger within 12 hours. So yeah, tissues it is, specifically Puffs Plus, unless nothing else is available.
First thing we do when I start to feel a cold coming on is stock up on the lotion tissues. For the rest of the year and the occasional "I've been cutting an onion" sniffles, it's TP.
Edited, Oct 6th 2008 12:27pm by Ambrya
First thing we do when I start to feel a cold coming on is stock up on the lotion tissues. For the rest of the year and the occasional "I've been cutting an onion" sniffles, it's TP.
Edited, Oct 6th 2008 12:27pm by Ambrya
Nexa wrote:
While we're on the subject of prices and paper products...I threaten to cut people if they use paper towels to dry their hands in my kitchen. I have 2 or 3 kitchen towels strategically placed about for just such a purpose at all times.
Nexa
Nexa
We're in the process of trying to cut back on our disposable paper products usage in our house, primarily because it would save us about $30-40 a month if we used towels instead of paper towels, and if my husband would use a handkerchief instead of huge handfuls of toilet paper when he blows his nose (no idea why he uses so much, but seriously, he uses about three times as much as you would need to wipe, just to blow his nose.) Since we're already using cloth diapers and cloth diaper wipes, handkerchief and handtowels can just go into the diaper bin and be washed at the same time.
Ambrya wrote:
Nexa wrote:
While we're on the subject of prices and paper products...I threaten to cut people if they use paper towels to dry their hands in my kitchen. I have 2 or 3 kitchen towels strategically placed about for just such a purpose at all times.
Nexa
Nexa
We're in the process of trying to cut back on our disposable paper products usage in our house, primarily because it would save us about $30-40 a month if we used towels instead of paper towels, and if my husband would use a handkerchief instead of huge handfuls of toilet paper when he blows his nose (no idea why he uses so much, but seriously, he uses about three times as much as you would need to wipe, just to blow his nose.) Since we're already using cloth diapers and cloth diaper wipes, handkerchief and handtowels can just go into the diaper bin and be washed at the same time.
Washing hand towels and hankies along with poopy diapers seems gross.
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
Elinda wrote:
Ambrya wrote:
Nexa wrote:
While we're on the subject of prices and paper products...I threaten to cut people if they use paper towels to dry their hands in my kitchen. I have 2 or 3 kitchen towels strategically placed about for just such a purpose at all times.
Nexa
Nexa
We're in the process of trying to cut back on our disposable paper products usage in our house, primarily because it would save us about $30-40 a month if we used towels instead of paper towels, and if my husband would use a handkerchief instead of huge handfuls of toilet paper when he blows his nose (no idea why he uses so much, but seriously, he uses about three times as much as you would need to wipe, just to blow his nose.) Since we're already using cloth diapers and cloth diaper wipes, handkerchief and handtowels can just go into the diaper bin and be washed at the same time.
Washing hand towels and hankies along with poopy diapers seems gross.
Buy a fluffy cat, they self clean.
Ambrya wrote:
Nexa wrote:
While we're on the subject of prices and paper products...I threaten to cut people if they use paper towels to dry their hands in my kitchen. I have 2 or 3 kitchen towels strategically placed about for just such a purpose at all times.
Nexa
Nexa
We're in the process of trying to cut back on our disposable paper products usage in our house, primarily because it would save us about $30-40 a month if we used towels instead of paper towels, and if my husband would use a handkerchief instead of huge handfuls of toilet paper when he blows his nose (no idea why he uses so much, but seriously, he uses about three times as much as you would need to wipe, just to blow his nose.) Since we're already using cloth diapers and cloth diaper wipes, handkerchief and handtowels can just go into the diaper bin and be washed at the same time.
Divacup? Don't look it up boys.
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
Nexa wrote:
Divacup? Don't look it up boys.
Nexa
I tried it, because I was getting extremely tired of chafing. Just like anything else used internally, I could feel it and it wasn't comfortable. Until I can find something better, I've been using Glad Rags. They go in with the diapers as well.
Elinda wrote:
Washing hand towels and hankies along with poopy diapers seems gross.
Meh. All the solids get rinsed off and flushed before they go in the diaper bin anyway. It would be gross if the diapers came out of the wash still dirty, but they don't, they come out perfectly clean, as does anything else that gets washed with them. Hell, we almost never have any staining, and we don't even have to use bleach--just baking soda in the pre-rinse cycle and Bi-O-Kleen biodegradable detergent and Bac-Out in the actual wash.
Ambrya wrote:
Nexa wrote:
Divacup? Don't look it up boys.
Nexa
I tried it, because I was getting extremely tired of chafing. Just like anything else used internally, I could feel it and it wasn't comfortable. Until I can find something better, I've been using Glad Rags. They go in with the diapers as well.
One of my friends used the DivaCup and had to stop using it, had the same complaint about chafing. I understand that the Keeper and Moon Cup are more comfortable, but should be used during sex.
Thumbelyna Quick Hands wrote:
Ambrya wrote:
Nexa wrote:
Divacup? Don't look it up boys.
Nexa
I tried it, because I was getting extremely tired of chafing. Just like anything else used internally, I could feel it and it wasn't comfortable. Until I can find something better, I've been using Glad Rags. They go in with the diapers as well.
One of my friends used the DivaCup and had to stop using it, had the same complaint about chafing. I understand that the Keeper and Moon Cup are more comfortable, but should be used during sex.
Did you mean "shouldn't"? If so, neither should the DivaCup (that would hurt both of you).
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
Yeah, shouldn't be used. Oops.
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Mindel wrote:
I do use tissues, but only because I think having a roll of TP sitting out in the living room looks tacky.
That's why you cleverly disguise the roll thusly!
As far the cloth diapers being better than disposable:
Back in 2001 when I was in Advanced Chem, my professor asked that question, and everyone chose Reusable diapers as being better for the environment, but the she came out with the whole "But washing the reusables costs energy and uses detergents, etc."
ABC News, May 26th 2005 wrote:
A new study released in England by a quasi-government environmental organization may dampen the debate even further. After a three-year, 200,000-pound (about $360,000) study, the London-based Environmental Agency concluded that disposable diapers have the same environmental impact as reusable diapers when the effect of laundering cloth diapers is taken into account.
Back in 2001 when I was in Advanced Chem, my professor asked that question, and everyone chose Reusable diapers as being better for the environment, but the she came out with the whole "But washing the reusables costs energy and uses detergents, etc."
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
TirithRR wrote:
As far the cloth diapers being better than disposable:
Back in 2001 when I was in Advanced Chem, my professor asked that question, and everyone chose Reusable diapers as being better for the environment, but the she came out with the whole "But washing the reusables costs energy and uses detergents, etc."
ABC News, May 26th 2005 wrote:
A new study released in England by a quasi-government environmental organization may dampen the debate even further. After a three-year, 200,000-pound (about $360,000) study, the London-based Environmental Agency concluded that disposable diapers have the same environmental impact as reusable diapers when the effect of laundering cloth diapers is taken into account.
Back in 2001 when I was in Advanced Chem, my professor asked that question, and everyone chose Reusable diapers as being better for the environment, but the she came out with the whole "But washing the reusables costs energy and uses detergents, etc."
Diaper service diapers use up a huge amount of energy and water, true, because they're washed something like 4 or 5 times in industrial laundry machinery, with bleach and non-biodegradable detergents. The diapers we use get a pre-rinse and a single wash cycle, with non-toxic biodegradable detergent and baking soda. So yeah I'm pretty confident that my environmental impact is significantly less than if we used disposables. Except that I don't actually care that much if the environmental impact is a win, lose or draw.
My reasons for cloth diapering are as follows:
First, they cost a lot less. We've spent about $400 on diapering products in the 16 months since my son was born (and subsequent kids get diapered for FREE!), compared to what would be thousands for disposables. We've added two loads of laundry a week to our monthly water and power bill, but ultimately, we've saved huge amounts of money.
Second, they are more comfortable. If my son had inherited my husband's skin, I could no doubt diaper him in sandpaper and steel wool and he'd never know the difference, but instead he got my skin. Before I ever got pregnant, I made the switch to the Glad Rags because each month disposable feminine hygiene products left me chafed and raw in places you simply don't want to be chafed and raw. So I asked myself how I would like to feel that way for two and a half to three years, non-stop. It was pretty much a no-brainer from there.
The environmental stuff is an added bonus. I would love to say I'm a big enough eco-freak that it's my primary concern, but it isn't.
Edited, Oct 6th 2008 5:03pm by Ambrya
TirithRR wrote:
As far the cloth diapers being better than disposable:
Back in 2001 when I was in Advanced Chem, my professor asked that question, and everyone chose Reusable diapers as being better for the environment, but the she came out with the whole "But washing the reusables costs energy and uses detergents, etc."
ABC News, May 26th 2005 wrote:
A new study released in England by a quasi-government environmental organization may dampen the debate even further. After a three-year, 200,000-pound (about $360,000) study, the London-based Environmental Agency concluded that disposable diapers have the same environmental impact as reusable diapers when the effect of laundering cloth diapers is taken into account.
Back in 2001 when I was in Advanced Chem, my professor asked that question, and everyone chose Reusable diapers as being better for the environment, but the she came out with the whole "But washing the reusables costs energy and uses detergents, etc."
Not having read the article, my guess would be that they're assuming that those using cloth are utilizing a diaper service, which wash them an obscene number of times due to regulations. When you're washing them at home, there's no such issue. I didn't use any more detergent on the cloth diapers than any other load of laundry.
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
TP all the way. Tissues and TP are practically the same thing. I see no reason to buy it twice.
TurinAlexander the Vile wrote:
I see no reason to buy it twice.
Same way I think. I buy one of those bulk sized bags, with like... 24 or 48 rolls in it. If I need to blow my nose I just grab a roll.
I would admit to keeping a roll at my desk, but then people might think I do things while on my computer...
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
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