For Christmas, My True Love Gave To Me... Hand Sanitizer, Because It's 2020

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... hand sanitizer, a spray can of Lysol, a big box of TP and a cleaning gizmo for keys and phones.

All year, cleaning products have been flying off the shelves — now, they're flying straight into Christmas stockings and wrapping paper. Holiday-season sales of sanitizing wipes and sprays have doubled this year, according to Nielsen. Sales of hand sanitizer more than quadrupled.

"You can say, 'Oh, yeah, remember back in 2020 when we all had a bottle of scented hand sanitizer in our stockings?" says Charles Kopec, a neuroscience researcher from New Jersey, who's also gifting his wife's parents a UV-light box to help keep their cellphones a bit more clean.