Sniffing/snorting instead of blowing

I think today that blowing my nose was bad for me. I hooted so hard, it gave me a nose bleed :-(

Snort into your mouth, do you mean? Good grief.

Snort and spit he tells me ?

I'm definately not trying that despite having a horrible cold for the last week ?

It may very well be 'better' for you but I'd rather lock my snot in a hanky than gob it down the sink - I suppose I could gob into a hanky, but TBH I probably wouldn't be any good at it and end up with it all down my chin.

It's one of the most stomach turning sounds hearing someone snot backwards ready to spit

My husband and his family do this. Their great aunt was a physician and she was fearsome - they were not allowed to blow their noses and had to sniff/swallow. Something to do with preventing ear infections apparently. It drives me mad but it's a hard habit to break. And they are v posh too. I just can't get my head around it.

OMG Rache ? that can't make for a happy home life.

So posh people snort and swallow and commoners snort and spit?

For some reason this popped into my head...

Sometimes it can be incredibly painful to blow my nose when I have a cold so I tend to blow with caution.

There are other times when there is loads of gunk which makes me sniff but is so thick/high up that it doesn't move through blowing. Grim huh?

If I sniffed and swallowed/spat out I would be constantly vomiting, even accidentally doing it makes me boke. Urgh.

Although I am careful not to blow too hard when I have a cold, l tend to get nosebleeds otherwise.

It's not the nosebleeds for me - it makes my ears explode

Both have their place for snot in different places. The stuff you can snort would never come down your nose, it's all at the back. I sniff when there's a vague sensation of a runny nose, but blowing produces nothing.
I know snorting is a grim sound, I do it in private, or if I'm desperate in public, I wait for a noisy bike or something ?

Maybe it is, but would make me throw up

Keep this post away from my H. He always snorts and it makes me want to retch. Eurgh.