I"m with you. I hate having snot and blow my nose like an OCD lunatic. I also do Sudafed. Good stuff.
Serious tips that may help as we get into cold season:
1. Start popping Cold-eeze like pez the SECOND you have a scratchy throat or any other sense you may have a cold coming on. **** one every 6 hours or whatever -- 1 every TWO. Shit works.
2. This is gross and maybe it's just me, but when I wake up in the morning as a cold is coming on, sometimes I'll have some crap in the back of my throat. I hack like a bastard to get rid of it, and SOMETIMES I yaak up a disturbingly large pile of yellow crap, which basically kills the cold dead.
Maybe I should put a spoiler around this post, but hey, it's CP, and I've seen much worse...