Comments on: Cleaning Kleenex

By: Katy

Katy — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:55:00 +0000

Just read this entire string of posts, hoping someone would identify the brand of tissue that stays intact – which I believe is the Kleenex brand. I have noticed this phenomenon (intact tissue after having gone through a wash cycle), but only periodically… which is about how often I may have purchased name brand tissues (Kleenex or Puffs). But I’ve never been quite sure which was the amazing wonder brand. However, after the last tissue obliteration disaster, I have sworn that if I can make that determination (which brand stays intact), it will become the ONLY brand EVER in my house – regardless of cost difference! Note: I also check pockets meticulously, but I live with/care for my elderly mom with dementia (standard protocol to stockpile tissues in pockets) and they get missed from time to time. Heavy sigh.

By: nolanimrod

nolanimrod — Wed, 29 May 2013 03:14:32 +0000

For the truly obsessed there is a discussion of the Silk vs. Kleenex question in the James Bond book You Only Live Twice.

By: G Joubert

G Joubert — Mon, 27 May 2013 01:59:37 +0000

Okay, I take it back.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sun, 26 May 2013 17:06:03 +0000

G Jourbet: what makes you assume the Kleenex in my pockets is “spent and soiled”? I have allergies quite often, and sometimes colds, and when suffering from either I often carry around a spare tissue or two in a pocket. A clean one. The tissues may be somewhat balled up from their sojourn, but they’re not necessarily used at all.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 26 May 2013 16:48:17 +0000

I see the result of the Left rationing care so that the medical supplies for the Ruling Class can become sustainable, has had an early effect on one person so far.

Those medicines are expensive, rare, and only for the Ruling Class in the end.

By: G Joubert

G Joubert — Sun, 26 May 2013 15:52:24 +0000

Better approach: adopt the personal rule of never putting spent and soiled tissue in your pocket. Instead dispose of them immediately after use. Teach your loved ones the same habit, and be a nazi about the subject. Zero tolerance. Life will improve in at least 2 ways: No more laundry mishaps. No more being a roving pathogen output machine either.

By: Jim Sullivan

Jim Sullivan — Sun, 26 May 2013 13:48:56 +0000

Ed, your comments show up fine.

Unfortunately, so did Sharpie’s.

By: Michael Adams

Michael Adams — Sun, 26 May 2013 13:38:00 +0000

I have had something for years that was sort of like a washable Kleenex. It’s caller a handkerchief. Never disintegrates in the washer, never falls apart under the latest onslaught from my nares.

By: southpaw

southpaw — Sun, 26 May 2013 13:30:57 +0000

Neo – maybe your snot has mutated into some kind of binding polymer that keeps the fibers from breaking down.. You should try experimenting with it and see if it can plug up gutters and such, then you market it as Neoseal. It would be a good product for the shopping channel.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 26 May 2013 13:11:42 +0000

Does this mean kleenex are now reusable?