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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.

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.

Knife, wallet/cash, and 1911. PH is a given.

Long march, no food, Winter. Snow. Below 0 temps overnight.

Study up.

Tiny re-creation:

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.

Odds are you're day will come before mine!

To think that you believe there is only one use for a handkerchief is equally amusing.

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.

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I do not carry a handkerchief. Maybe my overkill on the other stuff will get me through. LOL.

If I ever need a handkerchief, I'll just search out the first 75 year old dude with no phone and drinking a Gin Rickey and take his.

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.

To believe those other uses can't be handled by anything but a handkerchief is also amusing.

Can always rinse the handkerchief out. Did that all the time when I was younger, working construction.

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

Seeing as how you're too stupid to use "your" instead of "you're" in that sentence, I'd say the odds aren't in your favor.

Always have a knife in my pocket, it's usually used several times a day.
Apparently, a handkerchief isn't needed enough to carry one as I never have.

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

A minimum of 5 blows to a bandanna or handkerchief.

Each corner and the middle.