Hello everyone! Emily here, I'm so glad you're on my channel today. If you're new
to my channel my name is Emily and I have a bilateral, congenital hearing loss
if you want to learn about how bad or severe my hearing loss is, check out my
audiogram video. Please take a moment to like and subscribe to my channel. I
create content to increase awareness for the D/deaf and hard of hearing so I talk
about all things ears and hearing related. In today's video, we're going to go
over six household things that you can use to save your ears. I hope you stick
around to the end of this video because I'm going to save my very favorite idea
for last. With Coronavirus, typical masks that go around the ears cause a lot of
strain on hearing people ears, and also hard of hearing people's ears because not
only do we have hearing aids, but some of us wear glasses too, and when we wear
glasses and we have hearing aids it's already a lot of strain on the ears as
you can see, in addition to a mask. Here we go,
I'm going share six things that I found around my house that can act as ear
savers to pull the mask loop away from the ears.
The reason ear savers are so great, is because it pulls the mask loops away
from the ears so whether you have hearing aids glasses both or nothing at
all when you pull these ear loops away from the ears it relieves the pain on
the ears that anyone would get for wearing a mask like this for so long.
Household thing number one: paper clips! You can use one, two, three, four! However
many you need. This is a great method because you can link them together and
it can be long enough for an adult or a child to use. Simply add or remove paper
clips to make it as long as you need. Number two: zip ties! Zip ties are they're
really neat because they are adjustable in length so once you put it together
and pull it through it's locked in place. This zip tie is good for anyone that
needs an adjustable length or doesn't really know what length they need. I would
recommend that you make it long enough in the first place because once you put
on the mask and over if it's big enough for you to get it over your
head, like this when you pull it like this don't pull it all the way tight
first but it's nice if you can get over your head like this and then you have
extra room and if you need to tighten it, you can. This can be a good or bad method
depending on how tight you put the zip tie. Be careful, if you make it too
tight you may have to cut your zip tie or your mask ends. I wouldn't recommend
that so keep your zip tie at first and adjust it as needed. Item number
three: a puzzle piece! With a simple puzzle piece, you can put the loops of
the mask right through the notches in the puzzle piece. Now, as you can see this
isn't very long. This is a great option for kids or adults that want to put their
mask on first and then loop it. A puzzle piece is great for children
because if a child is wearing an adult mask, the elastic already goes around the
back of their head, but if they use this puzzle piece it will connect it in the
back like a typical ear saver but it's not too long that it gets in the way.
Adults could use this, but I do think that the mask is a little too tight on me.
There you go, a child could use this in a lot of
situations, it could be school, daycare, at the playground... whatever it may be. If you
want, you could paint your puzzle piece so that it blends in with your hair. I
don't mind so I just leave it plain. The next one is hair ties! So as you can see
I take these hair ties and I loop them around the mask. You have to do a simple
knot. I call this a slip knot. So in order to make this work, you have to bring the
top through the bottom. For example, I take the top and I put it in the hole
that's in the bottom right here like this. BAM! My fingers (are) like the mask loop.
Put it through there. There you go. So you do that on both sides of the mask and
then you take the two on the ends and tie them with one in the middle. You can
use a hair elastic that you've cut in tied like normal, or you can do what I
showed in this video where again, you use the same method where you take the top
of a loop and you put it in here. Now, this can
easily slip out if you don't pull it tight enough. Make sure you pull the hair
ties tight enough. Item number five is a cord tie. These cord ties come with
almost all Apple products so if you have an Android maybe it comes with that -
I've had a PC laptop that came with a cord tie but it's just a little tie that
you only use once but here you can use it again. This is what mine looks like.
And if I just use it to loop it through the loop then I have a great ear saver.
This tie is okay, it is nice because it's adjustable, I can take it on and off but
sometimes the velcro can get caught in your hair so this would be a better
method for people with short hair versus people that have long thick curly hair
like myself. So that's another idea. Number six! My last and favorite one! I'm
so glad you stuck around to the end of the video because here's what I've been
waiting to show you. I came up with this it was like "Oh duh!" so there are a lot of
ear savers out there that are just plastic like this one and I thought "Wait!
I can make one of those myself." So I did! I just simply got an Amazon
gift card Amazon is not the sponsor of today's video but I have a lot of Amazon
gift cards because my work gives them to us just for employee thank you
whatever... so I was like "Wait this plastic is thick and can be used!"
so once you've used your Amazon gift card instead of throwing it away,
you can recycle it and use it as an ear saver! Check this out! So what I did is I
cut off the bottom right here and I just went ...I chose that side because it's
black, it's non-discreet you don't see it very well and then I cut little slits
into it that would act as the holders for the string. The great thing about
this idea, is you can cut more slits to make it size adjustable and comfortable
for you. So make sure that the mask isn't too tight on your head or causing burns
along your face. You can cut these lines so they're either tight or looser...
Whatever you prefer. There you have it! Six ear savers that are made out of
things or little things that you can find at home! Do you guys have any other
ideas? Basically, the end goal of a deer saver is just to get the mask
loops off the back of the ears. As long as you've found something that does that, you
are good to go! There you go! I hope you enjoyed this video please take a moment
to like this video leave a comment down below on what ear saver you're going to
use and please don't forget to subscribe my channel so that I can share more
great content with you and you'll be the first one to know when it comes out. I
hope people notice that you are using a smart eco-friendly, reusable ear saver
and if they comment on it just let them know you made it yourself and hey you
wanted to recycle and save the Earth! I hope you all have a great day and I'll talk to
you soon!