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I don't even wash my hands after I wipe my ass.

I don't believe anyone here has said a "farmer blow" is never appropriate. You'd get a helluva frown doing it at the dinner table though. Likewise wiping your nose with your sleeve. Times and places, BGG. And while I'm at it, who is more likely to carry a pack of tissues: a woman or a man?

You could prove your troglodytic manhood by just letting it drip unimpeded. You might even enjoy it as a condiment on your sandwich.

I have carried a knife of some kind since I was 10 years old. For the last 30 years its usually been two. A lock blade of some kind and a small multi tool. Always a belt and a lighter. Sometimes a snot rag, but its not for snot.

And there is the definitive slam. Kleenex users are litterbugs.
Solution is to carry a roll of butt wipe and jar of water everywhere for the simple fact that if you really snot it up, drop it on the ground it will start dissolving in 1 min. If really concerned that you didn’t snot it up enough dump some water on it from the jar. 😁

Last week the Wife and I drove up Debeque Canyon to look at wintering turkey and elk. Wife: “Stop! Someone lost a handkerchief” (one of those red and white jobs). It was about 15’ off the road in some brush. I told her She didn’t want that one…but She insisted, She even picked it up before discarding it.

Adults also need a pen or pencil while in the workplace.MF'ers always needing to bum one irritated me to no end. Same people never had a knife either.

I always carry a knife but have never carried a handkerchief. Nasty.

Personal EDC: Victorinox Climber. Purchased at Zermatt near Matterhorn.


Thumb block.

Shemag.

Folded kitchen paper towel.

We have limited options when our nose runs. We can ignore it until the snot runs into our mouth. We can blow it on the ground (hopefully). Or we can wipe/blow it on something.

Assuming the latter choice, the options are: our clothes, a paper product, or a fabric product.

Using your sleeves is disgusting (even though we're all guilty) and unsanitary. Using a flimsy paper product often results in leaks to our hands, and leaves us with the need to dispose of the soiled mess. Using a handkerchief eliminates litter, allows multiple uses, never suffers blowout, and can be folded to prevent leakage.

You may decide if you want to swallow your snot, have it decorate your shirt, get thrown to the ground alone or wrapped in tissue, or folded into a sturdy square of cloth.

But also know that if your nose DOESN'T run, a clean handkerchief has many other uses.

Just don't wipe your azz with it then catch your runny nose.

Didn't read the whole thread but nail clippers are always in my pocket with my knife.

I cannot stand my nails being any too long or having dirt under them. I have extremely dry skin so they are handy for keeping those little snags clipped off. Also used for cutting my fishing line.

Uncle, grandad, and great grand always had clippers on em as well as pliers and a pocket watch.

Flashlight on keyring. Flashlight on phones suck, no way to tighten the beam up.

I use mine but much rather have the Streamlight that's on my truck key or one of the others the size of a AAA flashlight, both are far brighter than a phone and I wouldn't be bothered nearly as much if a flashlight took a drink in a manhole, meter pit or other wet locations.

Hockinaloogie:

Over 10'...you've worked in a factory.

Sweet Jesus, if you are draining so much from the head to necessitate a handkerchief or sleeve every 10 seconds, you probably should either see a doctor or stay the fugg home.

This.
How often do some of you blow your nose????
Unless I'm sick, it is a rare occurrence. I have an office, a truck always around, or I'm in a house. All three have the necessary items to get the job done.
I don't hunt without some tp and kleenex in my pockets.
Either for bodily functions or for marking the point of the shot. This is a really strange hill to die on for some here.

No handkerchief but I do carry a skeleton and three different knifes and a box cutter. I also have a sak minicamp on my key lanyard and a zippo lighter and I don’t smoke.

No hill to die on, Rum. But is certainly interesting the strong feelings some people have about an innocent square of cloth.

I carry one because I have found them to be inordinately useful for so many things besides blowing my nose - which is one of the least often things I do with one. Exactly like a pocketknife and cash are. That was the reason for my original post.

30° temps tend to get the nose running.

No handkerchief. I don't see the point of carrying a pocket full of boogers around with me. I've used a sock to wipe my azz once or twice in a pinch. I have a flashlight on my phone. Yes to a pocketknife. My keychain has my housekey and my gun vault key. My FIL used to carry around a keyring that would be the envy of any university janitor. He couldn't understand why he wrecked the ignition in his car and truck.

The idea of carrying tissues around like grandma is hilarious. Some posters have never dealt with season allergies, or allergies to perfumes (only women wear perfume).

Some forget that a lot of this is "tradition".

Not many throw away tissues or TP around even 70 years ago. Grow up around a bunch of old timers and they always had a cotton hanky, some passed it on.