But more like blowing my nose and coughing around the clock. My dilemma was first that I can’t find reusable tissue. Now it’s that I can’t afford reusable hankies :/ They’re expensive to buy if they’re 100% organic cotton. I’m on a budget so I can’t really afford to  go out and just buy a load of them (because I will go through them like a rhino through wet toilet paper) 

BUT LOOK WHAT I FOUND.

Fabric headers! (and other scraps of [really] soft fabric) I think this is just as good :) This fabric would have otherwise gone to waste. And also I get fabric headers (small samples of fabrics that are too small to sew with but big enough to make hankies out of). My school (FIDM) gives away 3 free fabric headers daily to students so that’s how I’ll be ‘buying’ my reusable hankies thanks. Otherwise they’re 3 for $1 and how much you get just depends on which header you pick. Some come with more fabric than others. 

And while cleaning the house the roommate and I also found other strange fabrics we can use in place of paper towels :) 

yaaaay recycling. I’m gonna feel like I’m violating the fabric the first time I blow into it though. 

I’ve tried like ten times now to get it right and I keep reblogging something on accident to my personal account. Gah it’s so frustrating. I’m just going to copy and paste what I intended to reblog here because I give up and I really just want people to see the content. 

khrisjuhlin:

Someone with the same dilemma as you: Green tissues for cold and flu season.

The thing is, once you get a flu, you have it. If you live alone, then using handkerchiefs is alright. If you live with others, leaving it lying around will spread the virus (sorry, not bacteria!). The only deal with the handkerchiefs, it’s just not nice to use it after you just used it, cause it’s all gooey. It is sanitary - you already have the flu virus, so just because you are being “clean”, does not mean you will automatically get better! (Yes, people tend to think like that). If you get, let’s say 10 handkerchiefs, you can use 2 a day, and after 5 days (usual time to be sick with a flu), you can wash it along with the rest of your clothing. Usually high temperature kills it all.

If you live with others, keep it in your pocket, I guess, and wash your hands all the time. Either way, your house-mates probably already have it too, even if they don’t show symptoms right now. So, doesn’t matter anymore!

If, on the other hand, you are like me, and tend to be obsessed in washing stuff at 30ºC, instead of 60ºC, then the solutions offered in the link could be of some interest. Either way, a virus dies after a few seconds to 48hr outside your body, depending on the virus and the conditions, so washing it by 30ºC/cold, is perfectly fine.

Also, just a random idea, you can always use the hot/warm water from your shower and fill up a bucket (while you shower, as to conserve water!), put some laundry soap in it, mix the used handkerchiefs and dry then in the wind and sun. This way you don’t need so many, or wash them in the washing machine. Or put the water from the bucket, place it in a pan and heat it up with the handkerchiefs in it. That will surely kill it all.

Get better!

(I REALLY need to learn to make sure it’s the right blog when I reblog things from people. shame on me. My bad) 

Oooh my god this link is the best thing that’s happened  to me today! Infact that’s probably going to be the highlight of my day since my life today is just one class after another. That’s so cool though! It’s literally everything I need to know so I don’t have an excuse anymore to put it off :) 

I really hope others will check out this Article. I’m pretty stoked about and I’ll probably bring it up again in the future~ Thanks so much! I love your ideas too and that pretty much satisfied my curiosity about whether or not they’re unsanitary. Feels good to get the green light!