Do you carry and use a handkerchief daily?

My dad carried one religiously, but I use it only for cleaning my glasses, and even that is a habit I picked up fairly recently (on the advice of my optician). For all other hanky purposes, I’m a tissue addict.

Relic of a bygone age, along with a jauntily tilted hat. Every movie/documentary from the “olden days” shows men wearing a hat & a hankie in their breast pocket, fashions change.

Only when backpacking, where bandana type handkerchiefs are extremely useful for a number of things: headband, cheesecloth or emergency water filter, tiny towel, emergency gear tie, marker (tied around a tree branch), tourniquet or splint tie, etc. Even a canteen, apparently. For the day-to-day I carry tissue in my bag.

Carry, yes.

Use, well, only when there is a nose worth blowing.

I practically never use it for other purposes (in place of a towel, or as a napkin) because then it get dirty and wet and detracts from its primary use.

Location: left rear pocket, neatly folded.

I carry two handkerchiefs, one in my left pant’s pocket for blowing my nose and one in my right pocket for cleaning my glasses. I change handkerchiefs daily, depositing the handkerchief from my left pocket to the laundry and transferring the handkerchief from my right pocket to the left pocket.

No. I don’t even own a handkerchief.

I am always prepared and carry a hanky as well as tissues. . I use tissues to blow my nose and the hanky to dry my hands or face when paper towels are not available.

When I leave the house I take car keys, wallet, hanky and cell phone, In that order.
@livelaughlove21 I have so many I’d be glad to give you some.

@LuckyGuy I honestly can’t think of a time when one would come in handy for me. I suppose I don’t blow my nose nearly as often as some people do.

They are so handy! ‘Hanky’, ‘Handy’ – similar spelling and look. Coincidence? I think not!
I use it to: .. wipe the screen on my phone, take off dust from my laptop display, clean my glasses, pick up hot items, grab the handle of bathroom door, prop up my camera, contain small parts, change light bulbs, etc.
I reach down into my pants to grab it many times per day. (The hanky, silly. Get your mind out of the gutter.)

I’ve never owned one because I can think of few things more gross than blowing your nose on a piece of rag and then putting it back into your pocket to breed bacteria. I do think that perhaps I should get one for other purposes though. Cleaning my glasses with a paper tissue is definitely sub-optimal.