Top Ways to Utilize Hundreds of Q-Tips in Your Office

June 25, 2016

Have you ever considered storing hundreds of Q-tips inside your office along with the antiseptic wipes that work like a charm? These tiny cleaning wonders are not just for the ears; they can actually benefit your workplace and employees in ways you probably haven’t thought of.

Utilizing Q-Tips in the Office

Here are a number of ways Q-tips can benefit your office, here are just a few.

• Equipment Cleaner

It’s difficult to clean those teeny spaces in gadgets and other equipment because they are often hard to reach. You can use Q-tips to wipe off stains and remove little amounts of dust and dirt that are usually hidden and hard to reach.

• Handy Perfume

Office workers should smell good, especially if they have a late afternoon meeting after a long hard morning. It’s part of being hygienic and professional. You can actually spray or dip Q-tips with perfume and place them inside a sealed plastic for easy transport and use whenever you have meetings or if you don’t want to carry around your bottle of perfume.

• Glue Applicator

Sometimes you need to seal letters, stick papers together, or get inventive in the office. Using Q-tips as glue applicators lessens the mess while helping you accomplish your goal faster.

Other Uses:

The Perfect Tiny Duster

Remove dust from picture frames, scroll work and statues with a Q-tips ^® cotton swab.

Keep Your Computer Spotless

Keep your home office in good condition. Use a moist Q-tips ^® cotton swab or Q-tips ^® Precision Tips™ cotton swab to clean the edges of the computer screen and between the keys on your keyboard.

Hard to Reach Places

Dirt, dust, leaves and food particles can get stuck in the tracks and grooves of your sliding glass doors. Q-tips ^® cotton swabs are the perfect size to get into these hard to reach places and remove unwanted buildup.

Furniture and Floors Like New!

Use Q-tips ^® cotton swabs or Q-tips ^® Precision Tips™ cotton swabs to touch-up paint on cabinets or walls. Apply wood stain to cover scratches in furniture or floors.

Keep Your Bathroom Spotless

Dirt, dust and makeup can get stuck in the tracks and grooves of your bathroom medicine cabinet. Q-tips ^® cotton swabs are sized to get into these hard to reach places and remove unwanted buildup.

A Cleaner Kitchen

Dirt and dust can accumulate quickly on the moldings and trim of your kitchen cabinets. Q-tips ^® cotton swabs and Q-tips ^® Precision Tips™ cotton swabs are small enough to get into these cracks and crevices and remove unwanted buildup.

Keeping Window Sills Spotless

Dirt and dust can accumulate quickly in the corners of windows and window sills. Q-tips ^®cotton swabs and Q-tips ^® Precision Tips™ cotton swabs are small enough to get into these cracks and crevices and remove unwanted buildup.

Keep a Better Cell Phone Charge

Help your cordless phone keep its charge. Clean the battery contacts of your cordless phone with a Q-tips ^®cotton swab or a Q-tips ^® Precision Tips™ cotton swab. This helps maintain a good connection between the battery and the cordless device.

Battling Coffee Grinds

Use Q-tips ^® cotton swabs to get gunky black debris from your coffee pot strainer.

Computer Mouse Tracking Ball

Use a Q-tips ^® cotton swab dipped in rubbing alcohol to clean your computer mouse tracking ball. It removes the dirt and dust well.

Scrubbing Microwave Vents

Use Q-tips ^® cotton swabs to clean the grease out of the cracks of microwave vents.

Beat Sink Buildup!

Use Q-tips ^® cotton swabs to wipe out the buildup in your sink – gross stuff!

Clean Printer Cartridges

Q-tips ^® cotton swabs are great for cleaning dust from old printer cartridges when they begin to print fuzzy lines.

Clean Indoor Plants

Q-tips ^® cotton swabs are surprisingly useful for cleaning and removing bugs from the leaves of indoor houseplants.

Delicately Clean Eye Glass Lenses

Q-tips ^® cotton swabs are soft enough to clean makeup from the little ridges on eye glasses. Removes the makeup and doesn’t scratch the lens!

Q-Tips are Affordable and Essential

Indeed storing Q-tips is a good way to maintain a cleaner environment at a smaller scale. It’s also an affordable, everyday office hack that can benefit everyone in various unimaginable ways.