Ian has a cold and it’s been a very, er, productive illness. He’s been going through tissue like nobody’s business! I picked up a handy Pinterest solution for used-tissue disposal the last time I was home sick with a nasty sinus infection. Normally I keep a bag next to the couch and I try to get most of my sick refuse in there, but honestly when I’m sick, I’m not shooting with my “A game.” This little set-up is so simple and can easily move with the sicky-head from bed to couch to bed, and, unlike a plastic grocery bag, you don’t have to engineer a way to keep it propped open each time you settle down somewhere new.

It’s just an empty tissue box fastened to a full tissue box with an elastic headband but it works really well and looks pretty slick: