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Cleaning Supplies

Image: Amazon
Image: Amazon

Laptops can get disgusting if you’re not careful. Cosmetics aside, a laptop left dirty for too long can start acting up—grime that gets into the keyboard can make it more difficult to type, and if dirt and dust build up underneath, your laptop can potentially overheat.

Having a can of compressed air, a microfiber cloth, cotton swabs, and some dish soap (diluted with water!) are always a good idea, but now there are devices purpose-built for cleaning a laptop. One of those is a mini vacuum for your laptop keyboard that sucks up crumbs and other filth that sneaks its way into the cracks between those small squares. You could also use a Rocket Air Blaster.

You might have heard of the brand OXO for its kitchen utensils, but it turns out the company makes something called the Sweep & Swipe, a cleaning tool with a brush on one end and a microfiber pad on the other, which essentially makes it an oversized lens cleaner pen. It’s a useful $11 tool that you can pull out of your drawer to prevent crumbs start accumulating on your keyboard.