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This isn't really about the (very appealling) tissue box, but I wanted to recommend handkerchiefs to those who are sniffly--I have perpetual allergies and switched a few months ago to cloth from tissues. Apart from the presumed environmental benefits, my skin is much, much happier, and I am less sniffly. Those boxes of tissues let out little puffs of dust when you pull one out--the very dust that causes the sniffles, for me.... Maybe not ideal when you're sick, though.

This is interesting, I have been wondering where people put tissue boxes, I have some in the bathroom, a box in the living room and one in the bedroom but they dont really have a place to go. I almost never see them in the pictures of house tours, where do people keep tissues?

Is there a source for bulk-pack tissues that aren't already packaged in a box? I've thought about buying a reusable box like this one, but it seems silly to just keep throwing away the boxes tissues come in.

I'm with you rubyslippers. I've been using handkerchiefs since I was 7 (so for about 21 years) and I always prefer them over tissues.

Most people ask me how I can use a handkerchief; how can I carry that thing around with me and all the snot/stuff that's inside of it. I think these people don't know how to USE a handkerchief and if they did they'd be converted.

Most people that I've had this conversation with think you just take it out and blow your nose on it, not knowing that you open it up, blow, and then fold it back in on itself, thus hiding the aforementioned deposit. That, and you are the only one using your handkerchief, so it's all you.

Plus, after using the same handkerchiefs over and over for the last 20 years (most of them are my Grandfathers, so there is also a little bit of sentimental value to them, and added years of softness) they're softer than even the softest tissue with lotion.