That's a cute idea!

I only recently turned into the kind of person who feels the need to buy a nice cover for tissue boxes. My husband has allergies and we need them practically everywhere. I wanted to keep it super simple, something that didn't really call any attention at all, so I got this one:

I love this one too:

I wonder how well it really works? especially when it gets down to the last few? But it certainly would be nice!

Very clever. I never understood why the tissue companies didn't make boxes in solid neutral colors...black, white, off-white.

I love this! I wonder if it really does work. I hate having kleenex boxes sitting out. In bathrooms I like to put them in the vanity drawer but then no one can find them (especially my husband). I wonder if this would work instead. Then I'd have a pretty little vase instead of a stupid cardboard box.

I will be making one tomorrow!

"I never understood why the tissue companies didn't make boxes in solid neutral colors...black, white, off-white."

I know, right? I literally shop by lack of pattern. I think they're in cahoots with tissue box cover companies.

Tissue boxes used to have nicer colors and prints.

I also don’t think this will actually work. Elizabeth check back and let us know.

I'm with eld... I have never seen the tissues removed so easily as they did in that little clip. and the way they just plopped into the vase ready to come out one by one? I am very suspicious.

You would only be able to put a few tissues in that kind of bowl. The last few you would need to either fish real hard, have long fingers, or something to reach them. Then there is the ugh factor of who touched the tissues to put them in there. Much simpler to buy the square boxes and find a container the same size. You can cut down the box however far it takes so it will not show.

I can see it working with the square boxes - you're really just switching containers.I only have the rectangular boxes at the moment but will buy square box and report back.

How interesting. I've got a little bit of an allergy now that I'm older. Radiant heat so I can't blame that and its all year round anyway. I have the darned tissue boxes in kitchen, three bathrooms, our bedroom, the laundry, my office and I only rarely have one that matches or coordinates with any colors at all. I've given up and just buy the little square boxes in bulk at Costco.

Hopefully people just appreciate that they are convenient and don't scoff at my decorating.

Please let us know how that works out - there really has to be a better way than what I've been doing.

I've even begun poking a kleenex at my wrist into my everyday watch that has a stretch band. Now I've got the band a smidge loose when its sans kleenex. Can you resolve that for me too? And before I turn into my grandmother please :)

Tissues are a functional item. I see no reason to disguise them as something else. But I'm that way with most stuff. Everything should have its place but that doesn't mean it has to be tucked away or camouflaged. I aim for the real people live here, but tidy look.

I have kleenex in almost every room. Some are in decorative boxes, some not. I just pick the box patterns I like. I gave up trying to match the room, because they never ended up in the room they where bought for.

I used several boxes this week alone. I've had multiple nose bleeds since Monday. I got an appointment at the ENT today and had some vessels cauterized.

I just have them in the bathrooms. One is in a decorative enamel sage green matching the room and the other I pick a grey-blue pattern box of the generic one I use(or used to use). Those tissues were 99 cents and then last year jumped to $1.99 which is more than Kleenex.

Tissue boxes are a must have in about everyroom of my home. Kids need easy access if you expect them to USE a tissue!! It was a 70s decor MUST to have boxes that coordinated with one's colors etc. As I recall Marie Barone chastised Ray's wife once for not having the proper boxes..... Those little boxes are the most expensive way to purchase tissue--will that vase trick work with a regular box? The idea of throwing away a container to swap in a different one seems like filling landfills again.

^^^ If one of those containers is permanent, then it's just a matter of whether the box gets thrown out before the tissues are used up, or afterfree.

I started thinking outside of the box a couple years ago and I don't think I'll ever go back. I have bought holders for all the places I hang out that match the room.

I remember these from my childhood.

Amazon.com : kleenex box covers

I can't watch the video but from the comments it sounds like putting tissue inside of vase and that intrigues me too!

I used to have an insurance license. All I saw was a tall Kleenex next to a lighted candle!

I have a box of kleenex in every room, including my car. When I need one, I don't care what the container looks like.

I ended up buying a few wicker kleenex boxes a few years ago. They coordinate with any room they’re in.

Bumble, is that a TP roll, or tissues removed from a box? I can’t tell but I love pottery so I may steal your idea.

Kleenex live in our mbath closet and vanities in the other baths. I do keep one of the little plastic packs in a couple of drawers in other rooms (kitchen, our bedroom). @morz8 - Washington Coast your story reminded me of my grandmother, who always had a couple folded kleenex tucked just inside her bra lol!!

Tp and the canisters were bought to fit. Use your fingers to remove the tube and pull up from the center.

@nekotish, back during the pandemic when all paper products were in short supply, I learned (maybe here) that the cube boxes are just the rectangular boxes folded in half. I saved a cube box, cut the top off, took about half of the Kleenex out of the rectangular box, folded it in half and put it in the cube with the fold up. Then put a cover over the box.

I like this one but I’m too cheap to buy it!

Oh those English tradition ones are beautiful! I love them!

great idea but I would mess it up : ^(

I have one of these that was supposed to fit a tissue box inside but the ones I buy are just a little too big. So, I remove the tissues from the box and it works just fine. Slightly form over function. Love that version bbstx shared.

Ooooooooooooooooh....the vase looking boxes are really pretty! I also have Kleenex in every room AND my car. I purchase pretty ceramic holders.

nekotish -- It sounds like your house is dry. Flow-through humidifiers on our forced air furnaces are set at 30% or more in winter. The flow-through design prevents mold because the medium dries up when the furnace pauses.

I hope everyone is seeing the Do Not Dispose Of Kleenex In Toilet illustration on the bottom of tissue boxes. (Tissues do not dissolve like toilet paper. They clog sewers and treatment plants.)

Chisue, you may be right but pardon the explicitness, my nose is "runny" not stuffed up as I assume it would be if the air w too dry. I just told my husband that we should probably get our ducts cleaned as we have never had it done. Dry air, even with the furnace on is not something that I thought of because it is so rainy this time of year. I still have a vaporizer from when my kids were small. I should run it in our bedroom one of these nights and see if I notice a difference.

I have a large square vase that I use for holding paper cleaning rags that I bought in a huge box at Home Depot. The opening is larger than the base, and so I will never have trouble getting the paper rags out.

@nekotish, I was going to send you an IM, but that does not seem possible, and I wanted to send you a photo of me taken at a party in Vancouver in 1981:

I used to go to Vancouver every summer from 1975 to 1983 when I lived in San Francisco, to visit friends there, and I also went for the Expo. I still have friends there, and one is supposed to come to Palm Springs to visit me, but he hasn't made it yet. We reconnected on FB after not communicating for a while. Contact me if you want me to send you more photos of my trips to Vancouver.

I'm in the desert now, and my house here definitely has dry air, but not from the heater.

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