Fess up, keyboard crumbs

**Darlene** · 11-03-2010, 02:07 PM

If you were to turn over your keyboard & gently shake would you get some crumb action? Would they be there because of you?
I confess, I eat breakfast (sometimes) & lunch (almost always) here at the keyboard & yes the crumbs are mine...

I try to be neat but I guess some of those crumbs have a mind of their own...

Time to clean the 'puter table too. Too much junk finds it's way here also. Mmm... 2 emery boards, bobby pin, tv remote, papers, snow globe, rubber duck key chain, pencils, pen, little plastic dinosaur... Yep, time to clean.

You?

**thesightofoneself** · 11-03-2010, 02:10 PM

yup. just cleaned mine

**Syn D** · 11-03-2010, 02:19 PM

Nope.. My laptop is about 12 inches, key 15in away from me (measured it

)..

**Sara Noel** · 11-03-2010, 02:31 PM

Nope. Brand new keyboard. Gabe just got it for me last weekend after I accidentally spilled a coffee. Again. LOL

**frugalwarrior2** · 11-03-2010, 02:32 PM

Guilt as charged. I usually shake it out about once a week.

**Judi Dial** · 11-03-2010, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by frugalwarrior2

Guilt as charged. I usually shake it out about once a week.

Me too! But I also clean up DH's 3 keyboards when I clean the one I use most.

Judi

**dcompton** · 11-03-2010, 05:45 PM

Geez, if I shook out my keyboard, then I'd have to get out the vacuum to clean up the floor. I prefer to think that the crumbs will be a small but valuable contribution to the social and culinary history of twenty-first century America when the keyboard is dug up by future archeologists. They can study them and then they can do the vacuuming.

**monkeywrangler71** · 11-03-2010, 05:56 PM

The crumbs are mostly from the kids. I have asked them not to eat at my laptop but then forget they aren't supposed to when I see them doing it.

The desktop keyboard didn't work anymore when we unpacked the computer, so we just got a new one that is hopefully crumb-free

**mndtrp** · 11-03-2010, 06:54 PM

I eat at my desk every day at work, but manage to keep the food out of the keyboard.

**Palooka** · 11-03-2010, 09:57 PM

On my netbook no, the kitchen one, yes.

**frugalfranny** · 11-04-2010, 12:48 AM

Nope, okay here. I just gave it a shake.......and nothing.

I don't eat at the keyboard...........and drinks are not put on the desk.........only on file cabinet that sits 'away' from 'puter.

**Darlene** · 11-04-2010, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by mndtrp

I eat at my desk every day at work, but manage to keep the food out of the keyboard.

Show off.

**frugal is fun** · 11-04-2010, 03:24 PM

I eat breakfast at my desk at work everyday and holy cow the crumbs.

a few months ago one of the VP's had a "can" of air and O My Gosh! I was so embarrassed by all the nasties that came out of my keyboard.

YUK!

**Dancing Lotus** · 11-04-2010, 03:35 PM

Yep, mines a mess

**DeliaDawn** · 11-04-2010, 04:46 PM

I just did the shake test and no crumbs! I do eat, especially lunch and sometimes a snack, at the computer. I just push the keyboard up close to the monitor so nothing falls on it. Now I am ashamed to admit how many times someone in my family has spilled tea, coffee, or water on a keyboard. Sometimes, they work later but usually they end up in the computer graveyard.