Rae loves to eat fruit. She especially likes it from the fruit cups. The only problem is that it is very messy when she eats it. She just dives in with both hands, sucks the juice off her hands and then crams the fruit into her mouth.

She loves the computer keyboard. So, as you can see where I’m going with this, I now have a sticky keyboard. A good cleaning trick I learned while working in a computer lab was to clean keyboards with rubbing alcohol.

Rubbing alcohol gets rid of sticky, gooey, yucky stuff off of keyboards. Take a cotton ball and dip it into the rubbing alcohol. Apply a little elbow grease, and that keyboard will be good as the day it came out of the box. Use a Q-tip to get in between keys for a deep cleaning.

Rubbing alcohol dries really fast, so there’s no risk to your keyboard. Although I have read to clean your keyboard just pop it in the dishwasher. I’m very skeptical of that, not unless you have three weeks or so to kill while your keyboard dries out.

Another good reason to use rubbing alcohol is price- you can pick up a bottle for under $1. It will also kill any lurking germs. Sickness has run amock this Winter in our house. The last thing we want is a Spring cold.