Man, dont put your cottons in a airtight container. You dont want to leave them wet. keep them in a clean dry place and let them dry out and its less likely to get all nasty and infected before you use it to do a cotton shot.
And i can tell anybody talkin about placebo effect, man.....No way. i have got seriously suprised off some cottons before , after saving like 10-15 cottons, each one that i used to filter a shot that was like 6-8 bags...especially if you purposely leave a little tiny bit in there you will get a real nice rush off that shit when you do enough. it aint like you layin there like you do when you just got your paychck and copped a couple bricks and that first night of 'i can do all the fuckin dope i want' when you nod out and get high like that, but i mean, you will get a noticeable, serviceable high that is more than just getting you thru on the bare minimum and slightly keepin the sickness at bay, i mean you actually get a feeling of havin did a small shot of a couple bags. (i mean if to you a couple bags is big then the analogy dont work but the point is , you can get as high as you usually get when you do a small shot, watever that is to you.) In my younger days when i still had a very small habit and could still get high off like 3-4 bag shots, i remember actually gettin a really great rush off a cotton shot from when i had left a bunch of em really dirty and not sucked everything out, so you def. can get a high worth a shit from cotton shots.
i agree that washin em out after you have like, 3 cottons , and you only did a small-ass shot with each one, dont give you a whole damn lot, but every little bit helps right.
It aint a clean thing to do, it aint a really smart thing to do, it aint really good other than the fact you can avoid bein sick another few hours, but we all do that shit for the most part so all the arguin and bitchin about it aint really gonna change nobodys mind.
And yea, cotton fever is a fuckin bitch, but youll boot them mutha fuckas everytime, let me tell you. fuck cotton fever, im sick, and then you do it and get the cotton fever and you lay there cryin like a bitch wishin you would die, teeth chattering like a muh fucka, shivering so intense over your whole body so uncontrollable you cant stand up and can just lay on the floor or bed shakin like a jackhammer, sweat pouring off you, all the good old symptoms that I am so happy to not be dealin with no more.
the only upside is the shit usually dont last too long, after a hour or 2 u can usually feel aight again and just be back to standard sick mode...but for me, bootin some more dope always seemed to make me feel better once i copped it, usually it would cure the fever. the truth of that is more likely that i just let enough time pass for it to pass thru me and dope numbed out any of the leftover discomfort.