Not all conversations with your mom about condoms have to end in mortification. For example: One mother and son turned a quip about rubbers into an industrious new way to save wine.
The Wine Condom, which is literally a condom stretched over the top of a wine bottle, was conceived by Laura Bartlett and her clearly well-adjusted son, Mitch Strahan.
The Dallas duo came up with the idea in 2014 after Bartlett sealed off a bottle of wine with plastic wrap secured with a rubber band. They realized it looked like a condom and their dream was born.
Their original contraption first launched that late spring/early summer. Recently, the two announced a new design for their invention, which works for different sizes of wine bottles. (Expect to see a few floating around at White Elephant Gift Exchange this holiday season.)
The device, made from food-grade silicone and sold online for $10 per six-pack, works much as you’d expect: After opening a bottle of wine, the Wine Condom can be rolled over the opening, creating a seal that prevents air from escaping.
On their site, Bartlett and Strahan say that the condoms are great because they’re disposable, they fit better in the fridge and they’re “hilarious.”
Bartlett — who’s not a regular mom, but a cool mom — had this joke about the new design: “When it comes to wine, size matters. Now you can easily whip a Wine Condom over a Magnum bottle, too,” she says in a statement.
Her son adds this joke: “[T]he new design is virtually guaranteed to eliminate performance anxiety.”
That’s some family business!