Bees in bonnets

Guess who can't spell confused. I meant !!!

I am sorry to hear you are "confudes" - it sounds most uncomfortable!

There's something cute about little pots - he is clearly in touch with his feminine side.

Crossed posts!

Maybe he likes them to look small and discreet?

Maybe you could find a weeny jar and melt some down for him?

I wouldn't want a large jar of it in my bedroom or bathroom. It would bring Knowing Looks from the DCs.

No, its men. They get stuck in their ways from a very early age and don't understand logic when it is put to them by their better halves.

You can buy tiny pots of Vaseline now. Try Boots. I think they are trying to reposition the brand as lip salve. The tiny pots are difficult to open, though. Janerowena - I know those Knowing Looks. Infuriating, aren't they?

www.amazon.co.uk/Unilever-Vaseline-Petroleum-Jelly-50g/dp/B000NHFD8Y/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1427286307&sr=8-2&keywords=vaseline

Here you are, Soutra - you can order it online (or your DH could?)

Well NotToo I can only say that they are probably only giving as good as they got!

Tried Bath Olivers (Granny used to wax lyrical about them) once.....big disappointment! Like hard tack and even the addition of a chocolate coating made them a poor second to chocolate digestive.

Methinks it was more of a class thing with her.....she aspired to them as they were considered a 'superior' biscuit. She similarly thought certain brands of tea, coffee and even washing powder were common.

I once gave my DH a sandwich cut into four quarters instead of two halves. You would think a World War had been declared with the fuss he made

Soutra, my DH has to do the same before showering, and he has a little pot of Vaseline in his own bathroom drawer, so you can buy them, but can't remember where from. you can even buy very tiny round tins of it, to take away with you.Men are just strange, we all agree on that, of course they are from Mars!

Boots have the tiny round tins near the tills in our one I like them for my sore eyes and lips- urgh I sound like a lizard! DH is totally wedded to white linen handkerchiefs - wont use tissues at all horrible idea in my view much better to throw the tissue away after each use.

Yes, those bloomin' hankies - and I still iron the darn things. I don't know why as DH is not fussy, in fact he thinks I am mad to iron them. I don't iron underpants, though!

Teetime......thank goodness I'm not the only one to suffer from DH's hanky fixation. They have to be washed and ironed too!. I've tried to convince him about the benefits of tissues, especially when there is a cold involved....but Oh no...its got to be white handkerchiefs!!!!!

I can't complain about hankies cause when we go out for the day I often end up borrowing one of the S.O.'s hankies as I often get runny eyes and a sniff. Tissues are always used for proper full on nose blowing though. Because of that I have taken to keeping hankies in my coat pockets 'for emergencies only' as I was always finding tissues of varying stages of disintegration in coats or cardigans that I hadn't worn for a while and it worries me that I've probably thrown away half a rainforests worth of tissues over the years that haven't been used. However, on the rare occasion that mine and the S.O.'s washing ends up in the washing machine at the same time I adamant that his hankies[the ones that have been used]aren't included.

DH has a clean hankie in every pair of trousers. I know because when they get in the wash I find them, usually unused. Tissues he never uses.

Opt out of ironing hankies......... white to boot.

Stick them in with a boil wash of coloureds.

Or tell him to wash & iron them?
DH uses handfuls of paper hankies or kitchen roll -as I discover if I haven't checked his pockets before putting in the wash....why don't I find fivers and tenners?

I dont mind washing the hankies as I don' t have to iron them. Ironing is DH's job ....by choice. He likes doing it - I don't as I'd rather be in the garden. He finds it quite relaxing but he also enjoys making bread , scones, ice cream and jams,his favourite of which is bramble jelly. Hankies he insists are essential to have for weddings and funerals when he normally gives one or two away. So if you wonder what's in that sporran....as well as other bits there is always a pristine unused hankie!

Soutra, buy a small pot of Vaseline and a big one. When the small one is finished, refill from the big one.

If 'im indoors wanted proper hankies instead of tissues there is no flipping way I would ever wash and iron them'

MY OH has a large pot of vaseline which he uses to lubricate a trombone slide.

That is one use for vaseline i haven't heard before Nelliemoser !!

I use Vaseline on the pole of my bird feeder so that the squirrels can't shin up to get at the food!