Whoopsie Wipes for travel

Everything a wet pack does badly in a bag, a dry pack does not do at all. There is no liquid, so the pack weighs what the cotton weighs, a few ounces for a hundred squares, and there is nothing that can leak into the bottom of the bag or dry into a stiff block if the seal is left open. Whoopsie Wipes squares go into the bag the day the box arrives and come out one at a time until the pack is empty; the last one is the same as the first. What you carry instead is a small spray bottle, or nothing, because a bottle of water, a café bathroom or the sink on a plane is a tap.

The habit that makes it work is to wet the square before you need it. In a car, one wetted square in a zip bag before you set off is a wet wipe for the next hour. On a plane, two squares wetted at the galley tap are the whole of a change. Dry squares do the rest: a runny nose in a cold park, the dribble of milk on a shoulder, a hand that needs drying after a public sink with no towel. The two-pack is built for this, one pack in the bag and one at home, and the six-pack keeps the bag topped up for two months.