What's with this big q-tip backlash: a 5-year FLASHBACK blog!

(Originally posted March 13, 2008)

Q-tips used to be stone cold the number-one way to clean your ears but now they say not to do that anymore.  I guess people were sticking the q-tips in too far and it was causing tons of problems like the tip falling off in the ear or the ear drum getting straight-up poked.

I am gonna go on the record and say that I will still use q-tips for ear-cleaning.  I will just be tons careful.  If something bad happens it will be my own fault and I will not sue the company.

Fun fact: At least four people have been KILLED from sticking q-tips in the ear!  (Did they hit the brain?)

Even though they say you can’t clean your ears the q-tip company says you should still buy their product and use it for other things.  They claim q-tips have many uses including:

- Cleaning a record player

- Umbilical cord care

- Miscellaneous dabbing

I gotta say those are not things I do too much.  Unless other people are way different I figure q-tip sales must be way down in the toilet.  You get about a million in a box and it costs like 99 cents, how can they be making money?  There aren’t too many record players around these days.  Also the company kind of shot itself in the foot because they designed the q-tip so that it could be used twice.  That cuts their profits in half right there.

Maybe the answer is CRAFTS.  a q-tip skeleton for Halloween would take up like half a box if you made it all intricate.  a q-tip chandelier would be delightfully wasteful as well.


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