If you read the post topic before jumping right into reading this post, you'd probably be thinking what the heck is moist towelette? And who collects them? Turns out not many, other than yours truly and a guy who runs a moist towelette museum at Michigan State University in America with over 1000 moist towelettes. In fact, when I googled it, collecting moist towelette didn't even come up on the 200+ list of cool things to collect. Amateur collectors! Anyway, you lucky peeps get to see a very unusual collection on Hive now!!
In case you're still wondering what the heck moist towelettes are, they are the little packets of wet tissues you get at KFC to wipe your fingers lickin good clean.
I started collecting moist towelettes about 20 years ago when I was working in Hong Kong. Many restaurants have these little packets on the table for customers to wipe clean their hands before the meal. I'm not sure why this practice started because unlike some countries like India or Malaysia, people in Hong Kong don't eat with their hands. I can't remember why I started collecting them, but then neither can I explain a lot of things I did when I was younger.
Surprisingly, most of the moist towelettes sizes are quite uniform. Probably because they're all produced by a handful of factories who just slap on the restaurant logo. Some can be very colourful as you can see by how I've grouped my collection by colour. And then there are some tiny ones, like the KFC or antiseptic wipes we often see. These are the ones in the middle of the box.
Like all collections, regardless of how silly some may consider them to be, the collector always have their favourite items. I have two. One is the Hello Kitty moist towelette I picked up from an Eva Air flight. Eva Air is a Taiwan based airline and they have a few Sanrio themed aeroplanes. But my favorite moist towelette is by far the one in a box on the top second left. This is produced by the luxury Italian brand Bvlgari. I saw these at their perfume counter in a department store (can't remember where) and I knew I had to have one. I'm not one to ask people for things, but I had to be thick skin just this one time and just asked them outright if I could have one. Luckily they were ok with it. It just shows, if you don't ask you don't get.
At the height of my collection, I had over 300 moist towelettes in my collection. Most I had collected when I go out to eat, and sometimes my friends would pick up some for me. Sadly when I moved to Taiwan, I had to let go of a lot of things, and this was one that I had to bin. I was sorry I couldn't find a new owner for them, but then not many people have such good unusual taste as me in this world😃
Do you have any unusual collection of things?
OCTOBER HPUD GUESSING CONTEST
A few days ago I posted about my upcoming trip to HiveBeeCon in Krakow, the meet up will be next Saturday. By the time this contest ends, I would have spent a great evening with many Hivers. If you're around the region and can make it to Krakow next Saturday please come and join us! After Krakow I will be going to a three more cities and spend a couple of days in each. This months HPUD Guessing Contest is
Which three cities will I be going to?
I know this sounds a bit like finding a needle in a haystack because Europe is so bit, so being the nice person I am, this month I'm giving you three big tips.
First tip - all these three cities are capital cities
Second tip - I am not going to south western Europe
Third tip - Pinmapple is your friend here https://www.pinmapple.com/@livinguktaiwan. Use it to help you with this contest.
I have been to the country for one of these capital cities.
For the other two capital cities, I have never been to these two countries.
You can take a look at my Pinmapple map https://www.pinmapple.com/@livinguktaiwan to see where I've been. Don't rely on the screen cap image below because it groups the locations together and you won't get an accurate view of where I've been. For example, you'll see on the image below there are two pins on Slovakia. If you go to my Pinmapple map link and zoom in, these two pins are actually Krakow in Poland and Budapest in Hungary.
My Pinmapple map will tell you which countries I have or haven't been before so it's best to look at that. And hopefully you will find the three correct capital cities.
The prize pool is 20 HBD and will go to the person who guessed the most correct cities. If there is more than one person who guessed the most correct cities or, you will share the prize pool. And if you HPUD at least 10 HP today, I will double your prize as a bonus. As usual, I will upvote your entry and the % will be based on your level of engagement as the whole reason I started this HPUD Guessing Contest was to drive up quality engagement on Hive. Good luck everyone!!