I’m such a dork. Look what I did yesterday –
This is truly only something I could do. I’m such a spaz!
Yeah … well … I was eating breakfast while working on my laptop. Consider this a lesson learned.
I leaned over to write something down on a piece of paper and PLOP went one half of a bagel covered in cream cheese onto my keyboard. Wrong side up of course!
Ugh!
What a mess!
I took the photo that you see above after I’d swiped at the cream cheese covered keys with a paper towel. It looked much worse before I wiped it.
I quickly realized that if I continued to try to wipe the cream cheese off the keyboard that I’d probably end up pushing it into the cracks between the keys and likely under the keys as well. So I went upstairs and I got several q-tips so I could try to clean the keys without pushing the cream cheese all over the place.
My husband was home since it was his day off. He was just shaking his head at me as if I do this every day! Then he remembered that we happened to have toothpicks in the kitchen, so he brought me the box and I started using them to pick the cream cheese from between the keys.
The toothpicks worked great!
As I cleaned the keys I also discovered that there was quite a bit of dust under the keys … well more than dust – more like dust balls and surprisingly quite a bit of my very fine auburn hair! Bleh! Who knew I was losing so much hair! I sure didn’t.
Considering the fact that I ended up cleaning dust balls from the whole keyboard I’d say that it took me well over an hour – perhaps even two hours to clean the keys. I even finished up by vacuuming the laptop and keyboard to get all the fine dust that I’d loosened with the toothpicks. Then I gave the keys a swipe with a rubbing alcohol soaked cotton ball to give it a final cleaning.
After all that, the laptop looks almost brand new again! I didn’t realize how dirty it really was. Thankfully I didn’t spill liquid on the keyboard … at least the cream cheese dried out a bit and started to flake off after a while.
Oh yeah, the puppy got in on the action too once I pulled out the vacuum. She loves that thing! So she got a vacuum too. Hey … she’s shedding – I’m pretty sure I vacuumed some of the loose hairs right off her.
What’s the worst thing you’ve spilled or dropped on your keyboard? And did you manage to clean it off?
Oh, Tricia!!! I had to laugh… that’s just the sort of dorky thing I’d do too. I’m a total klutz these days… menopause is making me crazy!
Sorry I haven’t been doing any Green Thumb Sundays but I rarely have internet access these days – BUT, I am taking lots of photos of flowers and plants with good intentions of catching up 🙂
Oh dear.. that is definitely not good and no fun at all…luckily you were able to get it all off eh.. perhaps an after shot is called for??
wow, you must really like a lot of cream cheese on your bagel! Cream cheese and dust balls… Mmmm.
Oh, ick….I think that’s worse than anything I’ve ever done…though I did come close in my NYC office with a very magenta colored raspberry flavored coffee drink from Starbucks…on my wireless keyboard (three important letter keys still stick), leather partners’ desk desktop, stacks of paper. I did not stop to take a picture, though.
Roxy
Oh… I feel for you. I have experienced something similar, a few times actually – but I never learn.
The worst thing I have spilled is Coca-Cola (several times…)
Ooh man that sucks. I spilled a Snapple all over my work computer the other day 😮 it was baaaad.
Very ingenious way of cleaning it I applaud you!
LOL…you’re lucky you got it out. I once spilled a hot Starbucks Chai Latte all over my keyboard. It was fried. There was nothing I could do except pull out the keyboard from my older desktop and plug it in.
Cheers!
That must have taken a really long time to clean up?
See, this is why I’ve implemented a no food near my computer rule. After spilling coffee and tea on my keyboards a couple of times I learned my lesson.
See that corner of my desk over there? That’s for anything that is liquid or creamy…far from the keyboard. Swivel 180 degrees over to the side table. That’s my laptop – the ultimate in expensive keyboards. Thanks for the reminder of why I am so careful. Hope you find another good keyboard.
Yum…cream cheese!
hhhmmm…was there perhaps more cream cheese then the bagle itself?
Ya know, I can actually picture this replay in my head as if it were happening to me. I can see you have all kinds of other food down in there too. Looks just like my keyboard!
Oh dear, I do hope you got it all! And hope the ants don’t start ravaging it. Mine was baking soda. I was about to bake when I heard my MSN messenger alert. Multi-tasking fool that I am, I went over to check what it was as I was struggling to open the baking soda packet. It was a real struggle…until I reached my laptop where the packet just ripped open and poof! All over my laptop! I vacuumed it as much as I can but I’m afraid I still have some deep down there. Tried shaking my laptop while holding it upside down too. =(
That’s not too bad to be honest. It’s when you drop liquid on your keyboard and it’s goes through to the motherboard and fries it! That’s when you should be really worried!
Be careful next time!