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Wipe your keyboard and mouse day! Spring is peeking around the corner and the temperatures are (hopefully!) going to continue their upward trend. Get a head start and take a swipe over your computer peripherals!
Unplug your keyboard and wipe an anti-bacterial cloth or just a damp one over the top of each key. Don’t pour liquids onto the keyboard, just use a damp cloth. I don’t know about you guys and gals, but the right side of my keyboard gets way dirtier. Probably because I’m a righty and handle more things with my right hand.
Do the same with your mouse. A couple of swipes over the top should do it! 
Here are some articles on how to clean your keyboard safely when you need more than a swipe – I suggest the moderate cleaning tips, unless you have really grunged your keyboard!
Help with PCs
EHow article
How do you rate? Clean sheen? Or dirt alert?
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Feb 26th
2007
6:35 am
Shana Said:
Love this, Anne. My keyboard is only a few months old and pretty clean, but since I’m always touching it, I’d like to keep it cleaner. All I needed was a reminder…
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Feb 26th
2007
8:14 am
AndreaW Said:
Yes, thanks for the reminder, Anne.
Yay! Spring is near!
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Feb 26th
2007
8:38 am
Robyn DeHart Said:
I don’t need a quiz to tell me my keyboard is probably a mess. I have a laptop and am on it like the whole time I’m awake. I am considering putting my desktop back up in my office so that I will work more in there and just use the laptop to give this little guy a rest every now and then. Thanks for the reminder to clean here too.
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Feb 26th
2007
10:29 am
Isabel Said:
Thanks for the cleaning tips, Anne. I clean my keyboard and mouse almost everyday. There’s cat hair all over the place here – since Jaggers thinks she’s a writer too. I clean my keyboard and mouse at work about once a week, although, those should be clean at least once a day as well.
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Feb 26th
2007
11:19 am
rainy Said:
I’m feeling bad because I seem to have an aversion to dusting. Yes, I know I should and since I love my little laptop, I’ll give it a little once over.
(Although the dust from the rest of the house is going to make this difficult!)
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Feb 26th
2007
2:17 pm
Clarisse Said:
My keyboards all are usually full of dust, crumbs and miscellaneous debris and my computer screen only gets dusted when it reaches the point where I can’t read the words anymore. I am not a dirty person by nature but I just never think to take the time to clean them. Fortunately, I am the only one who uses them so at least I am not lacing other people with my germs. And if a famine ever hits, I have those crumbs to fall back on. lol
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Feb 26th
2007
2:22 pm
Lacey Kaye Said:
EEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW…and just in time, too. Last Friday I found spilled Coke on one of my keys. Except when I went to wipe it off it wouldn’t come off. Closer inspection revealed it was dried jelly…ewwwwwww again!
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Feb 26th
2007
4:20 pm
catslady Said:
Great idea. I always run my vaccum cleaner hose over it because I too have cats and the hair is everywhere.
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Feb 26th
2007
7:05 pm
Pat L. Said:
Dirt Alert. My computer could use a g ood cleaning.
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Feb 27th
2007
2:17 am
Anne Mallory Said:
Note to self: Stay near Clarisse if famine hits.
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Feb 27th
2007
2:18 am
Anne Mallory Said:
Lacey wins the prize for “what’s that on my keyboard?!”
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