There are a few reasons why you should leave a healthy reservoir of booger inside your ear. Since it has anti bacterial properties, the next time you hit your finger with a hammer squeezed your thumb in between a ladder, pull some of that stuff from your ear and rub it over your wound.

Also, when you need to push a thread thro a needle, you could pull out some booger to wax up the thread end so that it is firm enough to be pushed thro the needle’s eye.

And if you ran out of soap but you needed to clean your face badly, mix it with some water. I mean, if it is clean enough for your ears, it should be clean enough for your face.

The only acceptable way of removing ear wax is chewing. Chewing causes muscular contractions around the ear that pushes the booger out.

Completely excavating your ear canal would expose your ear and make it vulnerable and therefore would effectively make your ears dirty.

So buy a healthy supply of chewing gum. Or betel leaves. Too bad, I read of one Asian country which bans chewing gum – Singapore. i guess they have no motivation to keep their ears clean.

So, again, accept my humble gratitude, and I shall now go spread the word, so to speak! As a side note – I am a lifelong Q-Tip user, at the age of 37… so if you are ever in Maine, bring the tools and I would be happy to have my ears receive a traditional asian cleaning!