Do you keep tissue boxes around the house?

[Anonymous]

Pretty much everywhere that someone might sit.

[Anonymous]

We are about 1 box per floor. My DD is the big user. If she is not around they collect dust.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. If someone in the house is sick I'll get some, but it's an extra expense when a square of toilet paper will do.

You would save more money if you bought a big multi pack of boxes from Costco and then you'd have boxes on hand if someone gets sick or you have a guest with allergies or who might need a tissue once in a while. You will also go through toilet paper more slowly because with kids especially if you make them use toilet paper they are often inclined to use a lot more than they need. Also people tend to throw toilet paper in the toilet and flush even if they are just using it to wipe their nose which is a waste of water.

So actually just having tissues is the economical approach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are about 1 box per floor. My DD is the big user. If she is not around they collect dust.

My son is the big user.

Teenage boys. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Not every room, but on our main level, we have a box in the bathroom and a box in the family room. We have young children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. If someone in the house is sick I'll get some, but it's an extra expense when a square of toilet paper will do.

Do you have a separate roll of toilet paper for your nose? Because I am thinking about how people touch the toilet paper roll with unwashed hands and I don't really want that on my face.

[Anonymous]

Tissues are kept in the bathroom only so that you blow your nose somewhere private (no one wants to see/hear that), you have a trashcan to throw away the snotty tissue, and you can wash your hands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never. So gauche. Bathroom only.

gauche? yikes you must be a joy to be around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, just in the bathroom and bedrooms. Not in main living areas unless someone is sick

+1

[Anonymous]

Not decorative, but we have boxes of tissues in every room in our house. We are a family with allergies.

[Anonymous]

No one in my family had seasonal allergies when I was a kid, but I married into a bunch of them. So yes, now we keep tissues in the kitchen, living room, all bathrooms, all nightstands, and the mudroom. And they get used! I have sons, so I know what they would have wiped their noses on otherwise. We use Yamasaki tissue box covers.

[Anonymous]

I don't have decorative boxes for them, but we keep regular boxes of tissues in the living room, family room, kitchen, and bedrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always thought it was an “old lady” thing to keep tissue boxes around - unless you’re sick

What are old ladies doing with those tissues?

Shoving them up their sweater sleeve, like my grandma used to. I grew up in a household where there was a tissue box in each bathroom, each bedroom, plus a box in the kitchen and a box in the den. There were a lot of sneezes and crying in our house. I live in a one-bedroom apartment and have one box in the bathroom and one in my bedroom. (And a travel pack in my work bag.)

[Anonymous]

Yes 1 in each kids bedrooms and 1 in the living room.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t I’d use tp and I don’t have much need for tissues but DH loves tissues so I buy them for him.