Container Store Gift Card Giveaway from Q-tips

My friends from Q-tips are giving away  (3) $50 Gift Certificates to The Container Store here on Make it Do.

There are so many ways to clean with a Q-tip and so many ways keep things clean with organizers from the Container Store.

My pantry needs some serious help!  These containers would be perfect.

How fun are these popup baskets?  They would make a perfect laundry basket for my girls room.

Here’s how to enter:

Leave a comment on this post sharing:  How have you used a Q-tip for cleaning?  Or share a Q-tip tip you’d like to try.

The Rules:

  • Contest closes on Thursday, September 6, 2012 10:00 MDT
  • Only one comment per person please.
  • Random winners will be announced on Friday, September 7

Thank you to my friends at Q-tips for this awesome giveaway!   Be sure to drop by Q-tips Facebook page to enter to win a $100 weekly gift card or the Grand Prize of $1000 and a year’s supply of Q-tips.  To enter you simply need to share all the ways you use Q-tips!

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Disclosure: I’m a Tipster ambassador and this is a sponsored post by Q-tip.  All opinions and ideas are my own.

133 Comments

  2. My kids went back to school today and I’ll be a cleaning machine today. I use q-tips for getting into the nooks and crannies of things. I also use it to touch up after I polish my nails. I enjoy the ideas you share on your blog.

  4. My favorite Q-Tip tip is to clean the screen of your smart phone…. those little bezels ONLY get clean with a Q-tip moistened with alcohol and water. Then you flip over the Q-tip and dry it with the other side!

  5. How about cleaning unwanted mascara splotches off your eyelids? Or also around the bathroom sink handles.

  8. I’m planning to watch the video when I get back from the gym. After a summer of minimal house cleaning, I nned to get cracking with the q tips on my house.

  10. I use Q-Tips to clean my computer, my jewelry (works better than that weird brush that came with my jewelry cleaner) and my cat’s ears! Which he *loves*. I also use them for applying medicine- like to my cat’s ears when he digs them.
    I like the tip for cleaning my cell phone, I’ll be doing that!

  14. I use Q-tips dipped in rubbing alchol to clean the inside of battery compartments when batteries have corroded…it has saved the life of many electronic toys and gadgets!

  17. I use Q-Tips on anything with buttons, that needs cleaning — phones, remotes, keyboards, appliances, you name it. I use either a little bit of soapy water, or a little bit of rubbing alcohol. Works like a charm!

  19. What don’t I use Q-tips for? I use them for all kinds of things — personal cleaning, house cleaning, detailing many items, etc. I can’t tell you how excited I was to get a specially packed unit from my warehouse store with an extra 150 bonus Q-tips!! My husband just laughed because he knew where my brain went in figuring out what to do with them.

  20. I love using Q-Tips to clean up my newly nail polished fingertips. I always over polish onto my cuticles or finger tips. So I dip a Q-Tip into some nail polish remover and carefully wipe around my polished nails, and TA-DA! Beautifully painted nails.

  24. I use Q-tips for cleaning my ears, cleaning up make-up mishaps and for getting finger nail polish off my fingers after a messy paint job. For the house I use them for cleaning all the nooks and crannies.

  25. I love q-tips for cleaning a lot of little places in my electronic gear. Thanks for the chance to win!

  28. Q-tips are fantastic! One of the things I have learned to clean with them is my laptop keyboard. Getting the top of the keys is easy and canned air does a pretty good job at the rest but those stubborn in between spaces that start to look dingy over time? Q-tips dipped in a teeny bit of window cleaner make my keys all shiny again.
    Thanks!

  31. I like to use Qtips under the handles on the sink faucet and in between the keys on my computer keyboard. (I think I might do that one right after I write this!)

  32. I use Q-tips to clean up any mascara that I get on my eyelids. I also use them when painting my fingernails or toenails to remove any polish I get on my skin.

  34. Q-tips…what would we do without them? I use them for everything, but probably the least ordinary thing I use them for is deep cleaning the outside of my oven. I go around the edges of the oven door and handle with a toothpick, then I follow up with a q-tip dipped in degreaser. A quick buff with a cloth, and my oven looks like new!

  35. I recently used QTips to clean the keys on my piano. They were in serious need of some help and the QTips got right in all the crevices and they look great! I have also used them to clean the grout on my tile surfaces – works great!

  36. I use q-tips to make my manicures and pedicures spectacular! My favorite though is for my ears…oh how it feels great to clean my ears! Don’t know what I would do without them!

  38. I use Q-tips to clean my sewing machine. It is the only thing that will grab all of the lint that gets stuck around the bobbin!

  39. Hi, Love your blog. I used a Q-tip with sliver polish to clean the necklace holding by Grandmothers ashes. The necklace tarnishes quickly.

  40. I use Q-Tips for cleaning out the bobbin case on my sewing machine. Also works great on yoour vent slats!

  42. I love to use Q-tips for cleaning little crevices. Sometimes it just irritates me to no end when I can’t get something 100% clean so I use a Q-tip to follow up in the little areas.

  44. I use Q-tips to clean up when applying eyeliner and when doing my own mani/pedis. They’re awesome!

  45. I use Qtips to get in small spaces – great for cleaning computer keyboard! I also love to use them for small touch up paint spots.

  47. q-tips work for lots of things, cleaning in small places but i have been using them when I use my ink in scrapbooking for little places, love them for lots of things.

  48. I use q-tips to clean the dish on the front of my refrigerator where the ice cube maker and water dispenser leave water spots

  51. Many uses but always for fixing makeup and my Sonicare toothbrush comes apart and I use it to clean between the head and battery handle.

  52. I used Q-Tips just this past weekend to dig out little lint balls from inside my sewing machine. Nothing else works as well as the Q-Tips!

  53. I like to use Q tips to clean the inside of my windows. They are really great at getting into tiny little spots that I can’t get to using rags.

  54. I enjoy all of your Q-tip (and general) cleaning tips! I use them to clean “excess” glue on my kids’ crafts. – It helps keep my fingers glue-free. =)

  55. I use Q-tips to get into the individual slots in the cold air return vents at my house. I could certainly use some organizing help too. Thanks for a chance to win!

  59. I love q-tips! They are perfect for cleaning baseboards and laptop keys! Also, so excited about a giveaway to the container store! Love it!

  61. I have a parakeet. His cage has small corners & without a Q-Tip there is no way I could clean it. His bird tray that pulls out has many grooved areas that hold lots of his discarded stuff. Can’t tell you how much better I feel after cleaning it with Q-Tips!

  63. I buy the big economy boxes of Q-Tips! My son takes a box to college with him.
    Love all the tips here. I will be putting some to good use.
    pam roever at yahoo dot com

  67. I use qtips to clean the rail of my shower sliding door and the greasy vents of my microwave. Thx!!
    Jacquie

  69. I’ve used q-tips as disposable paintbrushes with water and food coloring for toddlers. They work great and the mess is throw away. Q-tips don’t dig holes in the paper like a plastic paintbrush does.

  70. Up until a couple of weeks ago I was using a Qtip dipped in alcohol to clean my newborn’s belly button/umbilical cord stump, but she is done with that, so we are just using it to clean ears.
    I love the ideas to use Qtips to clean the battery compartment and sippy cup valves. I’m going to try them!

  72. I’ve taken a lot of heckling over the years because I use Q-Tips when I clean windows! Truly, there is nothing better to get into those itty bitty nooks and crevices than a Q-Tip – so I say, “Let them heckle. I have the cleanest windows!”

  73. I like cleaning the screen to technology like my phone or the kids vtech toys with q-tips. I love removing the corners of nail polish with them as well.

  79. We are musical around here and I love q-tips for cleaning musical instruments–under strings, around keys, etc.

  80. I love Q-tips for cleaning around the bobbin area in my sewing machine. They are great for getting into those hard to reach spots. I also like to use them in scrapbooking, crafting and for eye makeup removal.

  81. They are great for those hard to get areas around the faucet handles.

    soluckyducky at gmail dot com

  82. I love using Q-tips for crafting all the time. I also use it to help clean my sewing machine and other small, hard to reach projects. Thanks for the chance to win!

  83. Being a little OCD I can’t stand the vents in my car dirty. So I’m constantly using Q-tip to clean them.

  84. I use Q-tips to clean nail polish off my skin and mascara under my eyes. I use them to dust hard to get areas that are to small for a duster. I also wet them and slide them in between my stove and counter to clean the guck and grime.

  86. When the pc mouse had a track ball …inside there. Now the keyboard and hard to reach tiny areas.

  91. I have used Q Tips to clean the ends of the slats in my Mini Blinds.
    Digicats {at} Sbcglobal {dot} Net

  93. I use them to clean out the vent on the back part of the hair dryer that gets covered in lint. If you don’t clean it out, that’s why your hair dryer will quit on you because it overheats.

  94. My daughter’s using Q-tips to apply a solution to her newly pierced ears and I use them for ear care, make up clean up and faucet cleaning.

  98. I use a qtip to clean my wedding ring. I also use a dry one to polish it up. I like having control with the fineness of the tip of the q-tip. Q-tips are absolutely necessary!!

  99. Q-Tips are perfect for cleaning the A/C vents in my car. Dip them or spray them with disinfectant, then you can use a dry Q-Tip to dry the vents. Looks and smells so fresh and clean. After the vents are clean, you can fold a Q-tip in half, then dip the cotton tip ends in scented oils and clip it into the vent. This is an inexpensive alternative to purchasing air fresheners.

  100. I just cleaned my windows this weekend, and I used my Q-tips to get into all those gritty, grimy corners.

  101. The oddest job I had was using Q-Tips to clean Barbie shoes (combine a bored boy, finger paint, and his sister’s Barbie stuff and you have a mess!)

  103. I use them in all those hard to reach spots – cellphone, computer, car dashboard, nail polish cleanup. Thanks for the tips.

  104. I love Q-Tips! We use them all around the house. Animal ears along with human, cleaning, manicures, make-up and vent cleaning.
    We bought a dresser at a garage sale. After painting it and filling hardware holes the new hardware was still to small for the hole. My husband broke off the ends of the Q-tip and stuck the stick in the hole, add some putty let it dry and it worked!

  105. I use q-tips for all sorts of corners and connections. medicine cabinet corners, window sills, toys. Favorite this season is cleaning all those little slats in the window fans before storing them for winter.

  106. I love to use q-tips to clean the grouting around the sink. Also use them when detailing the inside of the car!

  109. I actually use Q-tips to help clean my sewing machine. I use a bit of the machine’s oil, drop it on the Q-tip, then wipe the section around the bobbin–it cleans any lint down there and helps my sewing machine run SO MUCH more smoothly! Great giveaway!

  110. Crazily enough my husband and I use Q-Tips when cleaning our guns. We love target shooting, but we have to keep up the maintenance of our guns. Q-Tips work great for getting into small parts.

  111. I use Q-tips to clean around the knobs on the car radio, and a little alcohol on a q-tip gets the yucky build up off of the car door remote.

  114. When my DH and I married and bought our bedroom set, my DMIL warned me that it would be a BEAR to clean…too many little grooves making a chevron design on the front of each drawer and door! My mom, however, came to the rescue with Q-tips! They work wonderfully! I simply spray them with a little furniture polish and a quick zip along each groove and the dust is gone and all is nice and shiny. Thank you Q-tip for making a “bear” of a job more “bearable”.

  116. I use them to clean my watch which somehow manages to get super dirty in the little crevices. Also use them to clean up my eye-makeup everytime I do my makeup :)

  119. I use Q-tips to clean small areas in my car like the vents. Also, I use them to clean around the bathroom faucets.

  120. I love to use q-tips to clean the caulk around the back of the sink that I can’t reach without the it.

  122. I just enjoy reading all the tips from everyone. It has given me some ideas of things I need to clean!

  123. I like to use qtips to clean all the little tiny spots in my bathroom, ranging from my electric tooth brush charger to the silver ring where the plunger is in the sink.

  127. I just used Q-Tips dipped in a little diluted bleach to clean mold that developed in the accordian fold rubber around the refrigerator door!

  128. We’ve used them in craft projects to dab glue, paint, and with those cheap watercolor books with the “paint” on the paper.

  131. I keep Q-tips close when I clean and oil my sewing machine. Great for getting into small spaces and soaking up any oil drips!

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