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netmouse ([personal profile] netmouse) wrote2007-06-29 12:45 pm

The gunk and the grime, it gathers with time...

Have you ever looked at something you touch on a regular basis and gone "Ew!! Just... Ew!"

I dare you to look at the underside of the handle to your dishwasher.


Maybe you're lucky and someone in your household has thought to clean it in the half decade or however long you've had your house, but I, alas, have no one who has lived with me who would clean such a detail aside from myself, and I only just noticed it. Ew. We are selling the house soon and when we do it will have a much cleaner dishwasher front and handle than it did half an hour ago. As an aside, they should really make dishwasher knobs easily removable for cleaning like they often do for stoves and ovens. The surface of the handle that glides over the body of the dishwasher as it locks and unlocks is likewise almost impossible to get to.

[identity profile] delosd.livejournal.com 2007-06-30 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep, I just did that too. Keyboard hadn't been cleaned in *seven years*. Yech. Lots of alcohol, q-tips, and scrubbing, but it's clean now!

I miss the old IBM keyboards where you could just pop off all the key caps and dump them in a bucket of white board cleaner overnight. Of course, remembering where there all went afterwards was usually a challenge...

[identity profile] dr-memory.livejournal.com 2007-06-30 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh, the keyboard in question for me actually is one of those old IBMs. Still a hassle to clean, but yeah -- being able to pop off the keytops and soak them overnight helped a lot.

They're still being made, btw: http://www.pckeyboard.com/