The Care and Feeding of Face Masks

Of course the title is a joke. But, if you are using cloth reusable ones like I prefer you have to wash them to reuse them.

If you are wealthy (or lucky) enough to find face masks online then by all means buy them. However, I generally prefer cloth face masks because that is what I started with made by my daughter's room mate  who has a degree in Costume design so is good sewing things. Since we have known my daughter's room mate since she was about 7 or 8 years old this is another level of family and friends.

So, if you are a man like me then heart pockets on your shirts are pretty common and if you have buttons on your heart pockets then all the better for storing your clean masks Paper or cloth (your choice). Then if you have a paper mask you throw that one away at the end of the day and get a new one. Or if you prefer cloth masks like me and have the time to wash them in your bathroom sink with soap that's what I do. I started out with about 2 cloth masks from my daughter's room mate and since then my wife went on Etsy online and bought many more. So, now I have about 5 or 10 cloth masks so if I have one soaking in soap in my bathroom sink I have others.

So now, I try to put at least one clean mask in my heart pocket of my shirt I'm wearing that day if I'm out and about.

One day visiting my daughter in Santa Barbara my son in law had to use my pendleton wool shirt as a mask going into Home Depot to buy masks for us. But, they had donated all their masks to the local hospital so he only could find blue cleaning rags like you use on cars. So, he bought about 100 of these and we each tied two together for each one mask for us to wear into Home Depot.

So, there are always ways to be very resourceful around all this.

You might live in a state where they won't let you wear masks in your stores. However, if you tried this in California you could be beat up or put in jail for not wearing a mask inside a store here in California.

So, it's different different places even here in the U.S. so be careful because people are experiencing sheltering in place PTSD. So, be careful driving and even walking around because some people  are really nuts from all this.