Saturday, March 3, 2006

The lunch time conversation was focused on snot. We are all suddenly very conscious of our trash and there is some awkwardness about what to do with it all. Snot was the issue of the day. We do not have our survival kit yet, which will include three hankies embroidered with HAND, NOSE, and OTHER, but everyone is nonetheless thinking ahead. After much debate, we all agreed snot fell into the category of bodily waste and fell outside the game rule. Ah, but living with teenagers, this became legalistic. If it fell outside the game rules, did they have to have a NOSE hankie? The general consensus was that hankies are unsanitary and they did not want to use one. We compromised with getting a full survival kit but there being no hard and fast enforcement. If blowing your nose into a hankie fell outside the rule of “every reasonable effort”, so be it.

Paper napkins and paper towels: It turns out you can wash paper goods. I learned that folks in the depression washed and re-used all their paper goods.