In Defense of the Hanky!
by baute1 on Oct.14, 2009, under Environmentalism
Instead of using a few thousand tissues every year for your snot, spending $2-$5 a box, a couple hundred dollars over every couple years, and contributing to the daily 270,000 trees cut for use as tissue-paper, why not use handkerchiefs!? If you still think they’re more gross than consumer-cultured forest-eating tissue-papers (I refrain from referring to them as ‘Kleenex’ , which is a brand name, not what you blow your nose into), here are eight good memes and thoughts to ponder:
1) A single hanky costs $0.20 – $0.60. You can get enough of them for the rest of your life, for the same cost as one box of tissues.
2) They are really, really, heavenly, soft on your nose. Quite comforting, instead of a rough, crumbling piece of paper-tissue.
3) James Bond uses them (note – the pocket)! Surely thats not just style!
Yes, Sean Connery was the best Bond. I just wanted to show that its still hip today!
4) They really are stylin’ though, aren’t they?
5) If you still think they’re too expensive, that’s okay – They’re easy to make!
6) It takes about 90 years to grow enough old-growth forestry, which is clean-cut in order to produce a box of tissue.
7) So its mid-day, your out of the house, and your already out of tissues? This wouldn’t be a problem if you had your handy, faithful hanky in your pocket!
8) Handkerchiefs = another step towards environmental sustainability.
October 19th, 2009 on 6:22 pm
Bond may be cool, but sorry, I still think that handkerchiefs are gross.
I will have to look for other ways to save the planet.