Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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Take our keyboards: The team found the average office keyboard has 3,543,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per square inch—20,589 times more bacteria than you'll find on your average toilet seat., which only has 172 CFU per square inch.
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Read More »You can't exactly avoid your keyboard—but after you read the results of this study, you'll certainly want to. (And we highly recommend you wipe it down.) According to CBT Nuggets, an IT-training company, the devices we use every day at work are crawling with germs, with more bacteria per square inch than some of the dirtiest things in our homes—think: our toilets. The company asked a team to swab some typical items used in an office for bacteria, including keyboards, ID badges, phones, mice, and track pads. Then, the same team swabbed what we can all agree are traditionally dirty items—our toilets, dog toys, pens, and money. Surprisingly, not only are our office items just as dirty, they're all dirtier. Take our keyboards: The team found the average office keyboard has 3,543,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per square inch—20,589 times more bacteria than you'll find on your average toilet seat., which only has 172 CFU per square inch. And our computer's mouse isn't much cleaner: It has 1,370,068 CFU per square inch. By comparison, a toilet's handle only has 30 CFU per square inch. The ickiness of those items might not surprise you, but maybe this will: Our company ID badges—which you'd think have to be cleaner than our keyboards—are actually the dirtiest thing in our offices. They have an average of 4,620,000 CFU per square inch—yuck!—which is more than a pet's toy, which carries 19,000 CFU per square inch. That means your ID badge is 243 times, well, grosser than your dog's spit-soaked squeaky toy. What's worse, that little badge harbors a lot of gram-positive cocci—at 61 percent of the total bacteria on the badge. Gram-positive cocci is the kind of bacteria that can cause strep throat or a staph infection, so handle it with care. Other bacteria, such as bacilli, which often causes food poisoning, and gram-negative rods, which can be resistant to drug and antibiotic treatments, were also found on ID badges—and our keyboards, phones, and mice, too. You're probably already wiping down your devices with cleaner. Good. But moving forward, CBT Nuggets recommends washing your hands regularly (and properly) to combat the effects of the bacteria that will inevitably come back. And, "if you know you’re getting sick, just stay home until you’re well again. By coming to work, you are spreading all those germs throughout the workplace and putting everyone else at risk," the company reminds us.
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Read More »Just add a few layers of nail polish to the top section of your keys. Allow to dry and you are done! When I started painting my keys, my munchkinss came over to see what I was doing and wanted to do it too. We all had a blast painting keys with nail polish.
This post may contain affiliate links. See the disclosure policy for more information. Instead of buying those fancy shmancy keys to get your key ring organized, use today’s thrifty tip to make your own nail polish keys. I’ve seen this idea all over Pinterest and knew I had to try it out. Just add a few layers of nail polish to the top section of your keys. Allow to dry and you are done! When I started painting my keys, my munchkinss came over to see what I was doing and wanted to do it too. We all had a blast painting keys with nail polish. Makes me wonder what else I can paint with nail polish..hmmm. Next time I think I will buy this glow in the dark nail polish. That way when I get in late when it’s dark outside, my house key on my ring will glow. Consider color coding all your family house keys the same. Or color code your work key so you can find it quickly in your ring. I think it would be fun to just let the kids paint their own keys for fun too. No more fumbling through the kazillion keys on my key ring to find the one I need.
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