Buzz
The pandemic has forced us to rethink everything, including how we handle laundry. Dirty clothes aren’t just confined to the bedroom or bathroom anymore; now, we also have to manage masks we remove after outings.
Initially, I’d hang my mask from the passenger-side sun visor and then bring it inside once I got home. I still think that’s a good approach. But then, I started discovering other people’s masks scattered throughout the car. Not long ago, I found a pile of my husband’s favorite masks on the passenger seat. I texted him, ‘Are these clean or dirty?’ ‘Ugh,’ he replied, ‘Most of them are dirty.’ (Let’s just skip over the shock of the word most.)
Eight months into life during a pandemic, it finally dawned on us that we needed a way to separate our clean and dirty masks in the place where we take them off most often: the car. We started keeping the clean ones in one of those dashboard compartments that had no real use before the pandemic but now works perfectly for holding a dozen different sizes of masks. All that was left was figuring out where to put the dirty ones. Here’s what I did.
I found a lingerie bag in my dresser—a mesh bag with a zipper at the top—and sewed a piece of elastic to the top corners so I could hang it around the passenger seat headrest. (Safety pins would have worked just as well.) If the headrest isn’t convenient for your car, you can pin or clip the lingerie bag anywhere that suits you.
Now I have a place to put a dirty mask when I get back into the car. When I return home, I can take the mask out of the bag and bring it inside—but if I forget, it stays hanging in the laundry bag instead of scattered with the others on the seat or floor.
