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Jun 4, 2020

Abenomask. Do not tumble dry? Or do you?

Has everyone received their precious masks? Has anyone used a tumble dryer yet with the Abenomask? I'm curious about the results.

Kobakko

Kobakko

Always on the move.

16 Answers



  • SalarymanJim

    on Jun 5

    No sign of my mask yet.

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  • genkidesu

    on Jun 5

    Never got any either! Seems like a lot of people I know outside Tokyo and Kanagawa didn't receive them...

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  • TonetoEdo

    on Jun 5

    If I ever get mine, I’ll be donating them. My workplace issued boxes of paper masks, and I bought some cloth ones from a community group. I wash the cloth ones in a net bag and air dry them.

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  • helloalissa

    on Jun 8

    The Abenomasks actually came with instructions saying to hand wash them, but I've been machine washing the other cloth mask I have (also supposed to hand wash). Same as TonetoEdo, we wash fabric masks in a laundry net and hang to dry. I've been washing one of mine like that every week for a couple months and it's held up fine. Most people don't have dryers here... I think the tiny Abenomasks would really become child-size if you put them in a dryer.

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  • Bella

    on Jun 10

    Got mine last week but I haven’t tried it out, since we have sufficient amount of masks... and Abe no Mask is small...

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  • TonetoEdo

    on Jun 12

    @genkidesu How about now? Households in some cities in Ibaraki Pref. got theirs last week. Here in Noda City, I got my two minuscule masks on Wednesday.

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  • TonetoEdo

    on Jun 12

    My latest blog has a link to CDC mask washing instructions. The abenomask I got is barely holding up after machine washing and line drying.

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  • genkidesu

    on Jun 12

    @TonetoEdo good to know they have made their way to Ibaraki...hopefully that's a good sign that other places aren't far off! Thankfully a dear friend who is a great seamstress made us masks and sent them, so that's nice. We had a little stash of disposable ones too, so we've been okay!

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  • genkidesu

    on Jun 16

    A friend down the road in Shiozawa (a couple of towns over) got theirs yesterday, so it looks like they're finally hitting Niigata! On the lookout!!

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  • BigfamJapan

    on Jun 24

    Ours are still in the package. We ended up getting masks from the school and town as well so we've had no need for them yet. Might keep it - who knows maybe someday I can sell them on an online auction :-D

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  • genkidesu

    on Jun 24

    @Saitama yes! I saw a blog post by ReishiiTravels (https://www.city-cost.com/blogs/ReishiiTravels/MqR7W-living) that hers were possibly stolen because there is a free meal program if you hand over your masks! I'm thinking though that eBay in a few decades might be better, haha!

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  • TonetoEdo

    on Jun 26

    @genkidesu I’ve gotten three uses out of the disposable masks. They hold up pretty good.

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  • JapanRamen

    on Jun 29

    I’m also in the camp of reusing disposal masks for a good few times. Looking at the size and thickness of the abemask, I might as well go through my disposal masks first

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  • MommyRam

    on Jul 10

    Ours came in the mail a couple of weeks ago and it's still unwashed and unused as we are using our cloth masks that we made ourselves.

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  • Striffy

    on Aug 3

    I got my masks a while ago. Unfortunately I've washed them with water that was too hot so the rubber got stretched. I still use them but put a know in both rubber bands to make them tighter. Around the same time I received the mask I spotted similar masks in Daiso and so I went and bought these too. The rubber bands are too tight but good enough to go to the grocery store.

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  • Kobakko

    on Aug 4

    @Striffy I washed mine at 60 degrees and tumbled it dry. Surprisingly it still fits. I guess my face is as small as my Japanese friends like to point out after all. Funny that your rubber bands got stretched. But I guess if it the masks work with a knot that's okay.

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