Mar 2, 2009

The Daily Poverty Post.

This marvel of particularly bad photography depicts a box of 3-ply Kleenex. This past week Bossy’s daughter was racked wracked with the flu, and the tissues were flying.

Bossy would love to say she buys the cheap scratchy tissues, but frankly, if you’re that kind of sick and working that tissue box, the point is to use something easy on the nose.

But here’s what Bossy does enforce: separating each tissue’s ply, if not to create three distinct tissues, than at least two.

And even as Bossy types, she knows her son will read this while resting his MacBook on his dorm blankets and stop doing that, and he’ll be saying out loud, “We do not separate the Kleenex’s ply,” to which Bossy will respond, “Now we do, thank you very much Columbia University tuition.”

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20 comments

1. 1
   on March 2nd, 2009 at 11:09 am
   Grandma J said:

   Hankies, Bossy needs to use hankies, previously referred to as hankerchiefs.


2. 2
   on March 2nd, 2009 at 11:09 am
   Kathy from NJ said:

   The very best thing for a sore, red, chapped undernose is Chapstick.


3. 3
   on March 2nd, 2009 at 11:17 am
   Gigi said:

   I hear you on the college tuition. We had one finish up college this past December, and one who is a high school junior. That leaves us a window of 18 months to use deluxe tissues.


4. 4
   on March 2nd, 2009 at 11:32 am
   MemeGRL said:

   Seconding Grandma J on the hankies. While the idea used to gross me out, they feel better on little (and big) noses and do wash beautifully.
   Just don’t be like my mother and IRON THEM. Oy.


5. 5
   on March 2nd, 2009 at 11:44 am
   Little Miss Sunshine State said:

   We have 3 more semesters before we can leave the Poverty Party.

   Bossy should beg her son NOT to change his major halfway through and have to do one extra semester.

   Hope Bossy’s Girl is better.


6. 6
   on March 2nd, 2009 at 11:51 am
   Mimi said:

   Here, here on Chapstick under the nose. I have just been released from 2 1/2 weeks of cold and flu and it was a Godsend!


7. 7
   on March 2nd, 2009 at 11:53 am
   emily said:

   target makes really great tissues with lotion (no more chapped noses) and they’re about a dollar a box…hello generic


8. 8
   on March 2nd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
   Kristine said:

   I always find that my runny nose goes away as soon as my box of tissues is gone. Separating the plys would just make it last longer (the illness). And I’m not up for that.


9. 9
   on March 2nd, 2009 at 1:15 pm
   Julia said:

   Hey, tried that, now have shredded Kleenex!! Oh well. Hope Bossy’s daughter gets well soon. Julie


10. 10
    on March 2nd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
    Kim said:

    I heard a news story about how Americans are the biggest consumers of ultra soft T.P. It is bad for the environment cause no recycled paper pulp is used in the cushy stuff. Dear World, Please forgive me. I am sorry for this indulgence, but I cannot use T.P. like the stuff put in gas station bathrooms. I will reuse my tea bag twice instead. XOXO


11. 11
    on March 2nd, 2009 at 3:20 pm
    Acher said:

    Did you know they make Puffs that are infused with Vicks?? Heaven for a stuffy head. Last winter I was horribly sick, and I kept going to bed with one of them (unused) held to my nose. It was just so soothing! My husband refused to believe that they were unused and still give me crap about blowing my nose and throwing the used tissue in the bed…


12. 12
    on March 2nd, 2009 at 4:27 pm
    Angie [A Whole Lot of Nothing] said:

    Quality tissues are SO important when copious amounts of tissue are required. Especially tissues WITH LOTION. Apparently my husband didn’t get that memo because he came home with non-lotion tissues for my runny nose. My runny nose is now a raw, red nose.


13. 13
    on March 2nd, 2009 at 4:40 pm
    MariaV said:

    I hope Bossy’s daughter is feeling better.

    I would put another spin on it. You can justify the expense by reminding yourself that if you bought chafing tissues instead then you would also have to buy lotion to soothe the chafe.

    I am buying when items are on sale instead of when I need them. It helps some.


14. 14
    on March 3rd, 2009 at 1:23 am
    amy said:

    Or you could be really cheap and provide her with hankies.. or toilet paper! Kleenex is a luxury in these parts..


15. 15
    on March 3rd, 2009 at 1:24 am
    amy said:

    Oh and vaseline under and around the nostrils! Tub of that stuff is cheap and lasts forever


16. 16
    on March 3rd, 2009 at 9:20 am
    dgm said:

    Handkerchief is to 3ply tissue as cloth napkin is to paper napkins.


17. 17
    on March 3rd, 2009 at 9:22 am
    jen said:

    Really?? I’m afwaid to ask about toilet paper.

    (I’m an RN and had a patient who folded a single square of t.p. before using it. She lived through the Great Depression. Bossie, I am quite certain you will not only survive this “Economic Downturn,” but will help all of us get through it, as well.)


18. 18
    on March 4th, 2009 at 2:41 am
    Bellacantare said:

    New post – semi-related to Poverty Party. Or how I’m NOT participating in the Poverty Party. Or maybe I am. Oh well…new post

    http://bellacantare.livejournal.com/161290.html


19. 19
    on March 6th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
    can't do this one. said:

    I just cannot imagine doing this. Not for one second.


20. 20
    on March 13th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
    Lori said:

    Yes lotion tissues are the way to go; I have to try and find those cheap target ones mentioned above!