Pointer, you make a...well, point. I carry a flashlight because I do not carry a phone. To those of you addicted to those electronic leashes, you still qualify as having a light.
To the tee shirt comment, if ever I'm bleeding and you offer me your sweaty, stinky, bacteria-riddled tee shirt as a bandage...I will decline. Many of the uses I describe should be limited to a clean hankie. If you are blowing your nose every few minutes into one, you have eliminated all uses but that one. Which is still less disgusting than a sodden sleeve right there in full view.
If I'm blowing my nose a bunch, I've been known to have 2 handkerchiefs on me. That way I'll have a clean one if need be.
When in dire need, a dirty handkerchief is better than nothing...
And yes, I've "lost" more than a few by needing them for TP and/or offering them to someone or for something and didn't want them back.
