In Scouts we learned to carry a handkerchief. Among all the other uses mentioned, you can tuck one edge under the back of your cap to protect your neck & ears from the sun if needed.
In your initial post in the meme thread you specified a clean handkerchief. Glad to see you have dropped clean as a requirement. Mine starts clean, but doesn't stay that way. Same as the pocketknife: It starts sharp, but periodic use renders it less so with time. But I don't carry a flashlight; if light is needed, the phone provides enough to get by.
Hit the index finger of my left hand while swinging a corn knife at cockleburrs in beans. Older cousin wrapped it up with his well-encrusted blue kerchief. By the end of the day the wound had closed up. The next morning it had a large blood blister. Poked it with a pin and tied it back up. Healed perfectly.
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Rather than continue derailing the memes thread, I have started a new discussion.
However, I would like now to point out that a handkerchief is valuable for more than blowing one's nose. With one, you can wipe sweat, clean glasses, use as a bandage, or (if you are French) surrender.
Discussion?
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Reusable handkerchiefs may be one of the grossest things ever. To parade the fact that you carry your snot rockets around in your pocket and think that makes you a gentleman, somehow strikes me as amusing.
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Rocky, I have to admit that I'm a flashlight nut. I've got 3 of these Surefires of different ilumens and output, a couple Streamlights, plus at least a couple others I I keep on top of the gun safes in case the interior light waffles.
RAT 1 every day carry knife + self defense handgun of one flavor or another.
To think that you believe there is only one use for a handkerchief is equally amusing.
Fair point. The problem is that it seems like it is a one use per wash kinda proposition. The most common being a big nose blow. I mean, if you blow your nose in the morning, you're not going to be straining water in the afternoon right or wiping your glasses. Seems like a flawed system.
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To think that you believe there is only one use for a handkerchief is equally amusing.
Fair point. The problem is that it seems like it is a one use per wash kinda proposition. The most common being a big nose blow. I mean, if you blow your nose in the morning, you're not going to be straining water in the afternoon right or wiping your glasses. Seems like a flawed system.
Can always rinse the handkerchief out. Did that all the time when I was younger, working construction.
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I don't have one
I don't have one either. To me, if your cordage has to be unraveled to be used, it might as well be at home in a drawer. Any cord or rope should be ready for immediate use. Years ago in the real BSA at one of those jamboree things, somebody was teaching that you could lash together this or that, and was showing how to unravel your scout web belt to get string. I asked as a curious kid " after we tear up our belt, what do we do for a belt ?" . I never subscribed to tearing up a functional piece of gear to make some bushcrafty thing with
Just me- I carry at least 1 folded bandana /handkerchief every day. Yes, after it's used as a snot rag I don't use it for other things. It goes in the dirty clothes basket and a fresh clean one goes back in the pocket. Yes, if it's ever used as TP it stays in the pile and is not R&R'ed.
One configuration or another of a pocketknife in each front pocket to allow either hand to grab one as needed. A pen. A couple of sheets of rite in the rain paper out of a memo pad. Match safe or DOANS bar or lighter or all depending. A length of nylon cord. That's enough for the weak pockets of today's shabby britches. Other goods in vehicle
Just me- I carry at least 1 folded bandana /handkerchief every day. Yes, after it's used as a snot rag I don't use it for other things. It goes in the dirty clothes basket and a fresh clean one goes back in the pocket. Yes, if it's ever used as TP it stays in the pile and is not R&R'ed.
One configuration or another of a pocketknife in each front pocket to allow either hand to grab one as needed. A pen. A couple of sheets of rite in the rain paper out of a memo pad. Match safe or DOANS bar or lighter or all depending. A length of nylon cord. That's enough for the weak pockets of today's shabby britches. Other goods in vehicle
"The Ballpark burgers were free, why not eat them?" - Wabi-
To think that you believe there is only one use for a handkerchief is equally amusing.
Fair point. The problem is that it seems like it is a one use per wash kinda proposition. The most common being a big nose blow. I mean, if you blow your nose in the morning, you're not going to be straining water in the afternoon right or wiping your glasses. Seems like a flawed system.
A minimum of 5 blows to a bandanna or handkerchief.
Each corner and the middle.
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