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Does everyone here have as much trouble with keeping a keyboard as I do?

A few weeks ago I spilled yet another "beverage"

Cindy

Saran Wrap?

G-Mom

My keyboard gets clogged with ash. and when l spill the wine it goes all gooey
Actually l blame you

Doreen

Well, I promise to be totally SERIOUS from now on...


...NOT! ! ! ! !




Cindy

lmpossible

a computer buddy of ours actually said if you spill stuff into the keyboard, you can wash keyboards off with a sprayhose, allow them to dry and plug them in...they are good to go..now, i have never actually tried this, the 13 bucks for a new one doesn't seem like much, but then again i don't have a big ol parrot pickin my keys off either! lol.

You can also pop the keys out and clean with a q-tip or something, should you be so inclined. Also, I know they make plastic keyboard covers for businesses. You might notice them sometimes at various retail stores. Bet you could buy them at Staples or something, tho I've never actually checked.
My problem is, I rub the letters off mine, then I can't type. I buy a new keyboard when I get sick of looking at all my magic-markered-in letters.

Wish I would have know that! I just throw 'em in the garbage. I can usually pop the keys back on IF I can get them away from Lola. She tends to go a little balistic when she has something and I try to take it away from her. I lost two fingers trying to get one of my paint brushes away from her yesterday! She finally got REAL mad and just snapped it in half and laughed at me!

We fight and argue all the time! She started pulling my hair the other day and laughing about it, so I said "Watch it!" Then she said "YOU watch it!"


Cindy

uh cindy? i am on the same keyboard i have been on for the last six years ?

NO WAY! ! !

...maybe I'm just tooooo into "multi-tasking"....

Hey Cindy,
I have an awesome idea
Memorize all the keys and where they'd be...

Then just pop off all the keys,
give all the buttons to Lola to play with
(she'll have some fun with some new toys for a while) and just type with the little thingies where the tabs would go....

Then when you spill anything into it,
it's so easy clean up, just grab the q~tip and swab away...or get the seeds out without the tweezers or the headache!
Heck, maybe even keep a straw by the keyboard,
and you can s*ck the wine right out of the bottom of the pad!!!

Now you might have to build up some callus's
Where those thingies would poke you, but
hey, beats the sh*t outta throwin' them darn things away!!!

JUST KIDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDING!!!

Weezie

My keyboard is almost 5 years old.......When I have drinks up here they are always in a bottle so I don't spill stuff--which is a huge surprise because I'm one of the clumsiest people in the world......being 5"10" doesn't make me the most graceful person.... :p Ever day I'm screaming OUCH, and Mark will laugh and yell what did you do to yourself now? So my keyboard is very lucky that it's in good shape.........okay, I'm knocking on wood now....lol

I just took my mouse apart not that long ago because it stopped working and you should've seen all the gunk in there.... It isn't one of those things I think about doing until it won't work.....it was really gross.... :rolleyes:

Now THAT'S a good idea! I've spilled everything you can think of on it and it still works. Just pick that bad boy up and rub it on my t-shirt and GOOD TO GO!!!

A few months ago my mouse stopped working and I took it back to the place I'm getting my computer from(it is still under warranty)...WELL...the sales guy proceeded to open it(in front of a bunch of customers)and SHOW ME all the gunk! I was sooooo embarrassed I never thought about having to clean it out

That's okay Karen........I've had my printer for over a year now and a while back it started printing funny......I was telling my friend and she said, did you clean it? I said, what do you mean clean it????? I had no idea at all that you had to clean your printer!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's the stuff that's written in the back of the printer manual in small print.......

I just figured you bought new cartridges when they ran out and that's it.....Needless to say that made me feel pretty stupid.....

Been there, DONE that!

Huh?

G-Mom

People get on here in the mornings and read this stuff
and just go...

I know I do!!!



G-Mom

Clean the nozzles on the printer.......lol There is a maintainence part in my printer software that does it......heck if I knew about it.....had to run it about 5 times to get my printer straightened out.

You know what's gross.....out of curiousity I just turned my keyboard over and tapped it on the desk.......tons of stuff fell out of it.....

Well, did it crawl away after it fell out?

Actually there is enough tobacco on my desk from the inner depths of my keyboard for me to roll up a cig out of it........

Next time I run out of cigs I'll just come up here and make myself one from the keyboard remnants.... :p

I've BEEN there!