A poll about ears

[Serenity9]

For the app users:

Do you / How do you clean inside your ears?

a. Q-Tips/Cotton Swabs
b. I don't. Earwax is there for a reason.
c. Wet washcloth over my finger
d. Candling
e. baby oil/mineral oil
f. fingernail, pencil or some other sharp and dangerous object
g. SS

[Deleted]

Q-tips. I'm careful. And it works.

[Deleted]

A Q-tip right after a shower is like a cigarette after sex.

[lilafowler]

F.

I use a knitting needle.

[Serenity9]

I use Q-tips, too. All the doctors say not to, including my sister. I just don't get it. They say you might perforate your eardrum. Well, I'm careful and don't push too hard. They say you can end up pushing the wax further in. If you twist the Q-tip and swab the sides of the ear canal rather than just pushing in, that won't happen.

[cinderbella]

Mar 18, 2014 9:01:15 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

A Q-tip right after a shower is like a cigarette after sex.

I will streak through my house naked if I'm out of Q-tips in the bathroom and have to go to the upstairs medicine cabinet.

[christy082]

Q tip

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[luckyval]

Q-tip

The only thing better than a post-shower Q-tip is a post-shower clinere. God, those things feel so freaking good.

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Mar 18, 2014 9:01:23 GMT -5 lilafowler said:

F.

I use a knitting needle.

You should really use a crochet hook to help get the little chunks of wax out of there.

[psychmom]

I used to use a bobby pin because my ears we super itchy. But after getting an ear infection, I stopped. Now I'll use a qtip every once in a while.

[Deleted]

I use qtips. But every time my dr looks in my ears I usually have ear wax build up. The qtips don't really work.

[Waffles]

Qtips or a bobby pin looking ear cleaning device.

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Mar 18, 2014 9:36:31 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

Mar 18, 2014 9:09:14 GMT -5 thinkofthesoldiers said:

You should really use a crochet hook to help get the little chunks of wax out of there.

I find that if you use keys and a gentle sawing motion it really takes care of business.

Bonus is that you can find antique skeleton keys on the cheap AND decorate with them later.

[Deleted]

With Q-tips the trick is really to get it up tight along the wall of the ear canal, then swirl while still pressing against the wall. That way you don't stab anything in a painful way, and you get way more wax than you even realize is in there.

[pantsparty]

I don't, as I have tiny, twisty ear canals and need to get my ears vacuumed out every so often by an ENT.

[agnes]

Mar 18, 2014 9:40:24 GMT -5 RexManningDay said:

I use a washcloth for the outer-innards and then I use q-tips for the inner-innards. Not every day with the q-tips though, maybe 2-3 times a week.

This. 

But the Q-tipping has to happen right after the shower.  So it's wet.  Dry Q-tips give me the heebs.