They can be pretty handy in the field or on the road, especially if you have to make like a bear in the woods... They seem to always dry out in the hunting gear between seasons but all is not lost. The dry ones sure are handy in the garage, tool bag or bench for wiping things down. We Hambers are too sharp to throw them away but since this is hunt'n season, maybe it's worth a mention?
I keep them in my truck with the package upside down. With the opening facing downwards...they don't dry out that way.
In day’s of old and Knight’s were bold and the toilet weren’t invented, they’d drop their load along the road and walk away contented.
I have a twist on that. I use paper towels in the bathroom out in my shop. I have a small garbage can in there that I throw the used towels in when I’m done washing my hands. When I’m doing messy jobs like oil changes and greasing suspension parts, instead of using new paper towels to clean up my spills and mess, I go a grab the garbage can of “used” paper towels from the bathroom. Use em twice! My kids think I’m a cheap ass, no , I was raised by parents who grew up in the depression.
If you buy the wipes in the plastic cans, when they dry out you can add a few oz of water and shake them up, they will be good as new. I keep a can in the trunk of the car, handy when you get dirty hands from checking the oil or changing a tire. Also good for that woods trip after Taco Bell! They’re also good for that last minute dash and seat wipe down.
I use the OG package, but store them top side down, they stay wetter longer, at least the ones on top do.
My grandmother would save paper towels she used to dry her hands with in the kitchen, so I started doing it. If I get a spill on the floor, I'll toss a used one at it. Yeah, call me thrifty...
I stash any spare napkins leftover from take out meals in the glove box. A lot easier to store than a bag of baby wipes, or a roll of TP!
Just add water when they dry out. My brother was stationed in Germany and he demonstrated one year at Thanksgiving how they wiped with one sheet of tp while out in the field. He began by folding the single sheet in half, then half a gain, then proceeded to tear the corner off, saying whatever you do don't loose that ! His next demonstration was unfolding the tp to show there now was a hole perfectly in the center, he continued by sticking his middle finger up through the hole. He says now give yourself a good deep wipe with the finger, now wipe your finger off while pulling off the tp, he then says remember that piece you don't ever throw away, that's for cleaning your fingernail ! LOL
And you change your skivvies by turning them inside out, right? You can get even more mileage out of them by changing with someone else.
Split the 2 plys... take it to the next level... Where I grew up, we all had cesspools up until sewers came around maybe in 1974. My house in the same town, we hooked up in 1989. The area was plagued with underground streams and cesspool/septic tank issues were hit or miss depending the proximity of said streams. One day, I'm about 10 and my mom sees that the neighbor across the street, their garbage pails by the curb, one had blown over. She says, be a good boy and pick that up for them. So out I go... take one look and say, no way Jose... the trash was laden with poopy paper. Evidently they flushed very little other than crap... gnarly...
Hello, When our granddaughter was a toddler, her dad was a stickler for cleanliness. So, we always had a package in my wife’s purse for emergency usage. Our granddaughter was relatively a clean consumer of goods we gave her to eat. So, the clean up was not during the process, but afterwards when it was time to move to the next place. One wipe and we knew the fingers were clean. When we went to the beaches along the coastal drive, some of them did not have faucets handy, so the handy wipe packages were doubly handy. Now, as she grew older, it was more of a thing that those little hands went everywhere prior to eating something. So, I started to carry my own small package of Handy-Wipes or Wet Ones. But with a slight jar or movement, the self sealing package leaks and the liquid soaked into each wipe drips out into the pocket or purse. I did use Zip Lock baggies as a secondary enclosure over the original packaging and those lasted a lot longer. Never a leak in the next years until the pre-teen times. Her mom was a stickler for cleanliness, too and when we stopped for a snack somewhere, out came my zip lock package to save the day. After Soccer practice or games, a walk along a nice coastal city boardwalk, and even shopping centers that had nice restaurants, etc. were all a part of being "handy with wipes..." Jnaki For a time, we had Zip Lock packages with the clean wipes inside, a sealed ammonia free Windex Window wipe package in the trunk area of our daily driver and a larger plastic container for larger applications if necessary. The larger Kleenex box sizes had nice clasps that sealed the wipes with the liquid. But any small packages required a Zip Lock clear bag around the whole stock packaging to keep the moisture on the wipes. They are handy and do not smell like gasoline or petroleum packaging. They do a better job of cleaning hands from tire work or car cleaning without any additional petroleum odor or liquid. YRMV
I smell what you're cooking man! My parents grew up in the 20's and 30's too! My son always tells me how cheap I am for keeping every bolt, nut, clamp, brass fitting etc. but every time he needs some kind of odd ball piece in his garage here he comes going through my "junk nut and bolt stash " , go figure.
If somebody could develop a combination dryer sheet & baby wipe they could make a fortune just from the members on the HAMB!
I thought the 2nd-using of used & dried paper towels in the shop was my dirty little hidden cheapskate secret -I found some of my people.
Oh, I don't know about that one! I use dryer sheets in the vents in my daily driver. My wife and daughter use so many in the dryer that I find myself re-using some of them. There could be serious problems if I were to grab a used baby wipe by mistake.
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