squeeky clean ears
Every morning when I wake up I have to clean my ears with two q-tips. Every time my ears are wet I have to clean it with two q-tips. Before bed, two q-tips. I go through 10 q-tips a day just cleaning my ears. I am so terrified of dirty ears.
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Unfortunately, the more you clean your ears, the more wax they produce. You need the wax coating to hear properly and filter air and stuff. So over-cleaning dries your ears out and then they ramp up production of wax, and you feel the need to clean them again. (I was the same way, until someone pointed this out to me, and I made a concerted effort to overcome it. Now I clean them once a day–max.)
You never need to use q-tips, ever. Once a day is way too much and actually counterproductive.
I don’t do it that much but I definitely do it each morning and I think it is important. Dirty ears are nasty!
Doing this actually pushes wax back into your ears, which is exactly what you don’t want!