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[gfish]

Lotioned kleenex has to be one of the greater inventions of my lifetime.

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[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

I can't stand the stuff! ewwwwww.

-B.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

The residue it leaves on your fingers is a bit icky, but anything is better than spending a week with an red and abraded nose. The difference (for me) is nothing less than remarkable.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

See, I can never quite figure that out. My nose doesn't *get* red and abraded, no matter how long I'm sick. (And I get sick more than you do, don't I?) Maybe it's 'cause I get the extra-soft tissues.

The lotiony stuff doesn't *absorb* anything because it's already wet! It just pushes the snot around on your face.

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

I had precisely the same reaction, except in reverse order. :)

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

Ew. Can't stand the stuff.

[loree.livejournal.com]

Heaven if you've got an irritated nose...

...Hell if you forget it's lotioned and try to clean your glasses with it.

[triskadekaphile.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes - that moment where you look down at your glasses and find yourself wondering if it might just be easier to replace them.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I blame all you haters on the deeply tragic lack of lotioned pocket packs.

[triskadekaphile.livejournal.com]

They see me blowin' - they hatin'.

Seriously, though, that would be so messy. You'd have to keep them in a Ziploc.

[spinnerin-ftw.livejournal.com]

We found pocket packs of lotioned kleenex (name brand and generic options) in England. I don't know why it's not available here.

[k-crow.livejournal.com]

Agreed. My housemates aren't so thrilled with it, so I buy my kleenex separately. Absolutely the best stuff ever when I have a cold or allergies are attacking.

[np-radical.livejournal.com]

I agree. That stuff is essential when cold season comes around. Assuming I ever get really sick again...

You can really tell who hasn't discovered the beauty by their red, scratchy, nasty noses.

[triskadekaphile.livejournal.com]

See, you folks are wimps. Us year-round allergy sufferers just build callouses. I could (and in fact occasionally have to) wipe my nose with institution-brown paper towels without feeling pain.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

I get neither a red, scratchy nose, nor nasal calluses.

...somehow I think all you people are doing it wrong.

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[vixyish.livejournal.com]

crouton says, "anyway, it kinda makes me wish I had an lj account so I could respond 'IT PUTS THE LOTION IN THE KLEENEX'"

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

After finally refusing to live anywhere with carpets and overstuffed furniture, I no longer have the never-ending faucet nose.... (damn dust mite allergies).

Even when I didn't don't recall tissue being that much of a problem. However, for treating the nose right, hard to beat a good old-fashioned hankercheif. Yep. I know folks have their own *eewww* factor over that, but it's easier on the nose, and better for the environment. It's my standard issue for workout and hiking, etc. They get washed with the socks.

-B.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I have nothing against a handkerchief, but it's just not practical for me when I have a cold. I went through well over an entire pocket pack today, about 18 sheets total, and I was only out for half the day! Maybe I'm just unusually mucousful when I have a cold.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Well, you can use a decent-sized handkerchief 3 or 4 times (it's not that unhygienic if you're blowing your nose that often!), so that's what, 4 or 5 hankies in a day? I must own at least 20 of the things.

Mind, I'm not organised enough to have 20 clean hankies all the time, but it does help even to alternate them with tissues. If I run out when I have a cold I sometimes just run up a few more (sewing machine plus charity shop cotton shirts or sheets).

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Even when I didn't don't recall tissue being that much of a problem. However, for treating the nose right, hard to beat a good old-fashioned hankercheif. Yep. I know folks have their own *eewww* factor over that, but it's easier on the nose, and better for the environment. It's my standard issue for workout and hiking, etc. They get washed with the socks.

Me, too.