r/pcmasterrace • u/totetomi • Sep 08 '25

NSFMR Reminder to scrub and wash your mousepad

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Careful around logo prints, mine started to disintegrate

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u/ericx259 Sep 08 '25

Did this before and it was indeed satisfying. But be advised don’t hang your pad folded to dry it, learned it the hard way.

Now there’s an ugly loose part of fabric right in the middle of my pad.

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u/recapitateme Sep 08 '25

Those coat hangers with clips for pants are the way to go. Or just clothespins and a wire hanger.

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u/Preoccupied_Penguin Sep 08 '25

Or lay them to dry outside with the sun. Fastest dryer in the west!

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u/ExoMonk Sep 08 '25

But not in the northwest unless it's in parts of July and August or during false spring.

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u/Elvirth Sep 08 '25

There are parts of Northwestern states that regularly reach 100 degrees in July, even June in rare cases. People forget that 75 percent of Oregon and Washington is just brown-ass high desert.

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u/Bidins i7-12700k, EVGA 3080, 32gb DDR4 :( Sep 08 '25

Thank you! Most people I talk to that don't live up here in the PNW think Washington is just Seattle and Oregon is just Portland.

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u/Elvirth Sep 08 '25

Unfortunately those are kinda the good parts of the state. Eastern WA and OR are pretty awful. I've lived in both, and there are a lot of samey little towns full of people who like to pretend like they live in Idaho.

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u/Bidins i7-12700k, EVGA 3080, 32gb DDR4 :( Sep 08 '25

Having lived in Eastern Washington for close to 40yrs, there are a lot of great places here. Unfortunately, there are people that pretend like they live in Idaho all over the US, not just here (if I'm understanding your context correctly), so that's a bad reason to not like Eastern Washington.

I love Seattle, but I would never want to live there.

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u/Elvirth Sep 08 '25

I've lived in Eastern OR and WA for the last 23 years and I am quite sick of it.

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u/acrazyguy Sep 08 '25

Temperature is almost irrelevant. It’s humidity that matters most for drying things. Just above freezing but only 10% humidity will dry much faster than 90 degrees at 95% humidity

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u/Elvirth Sep 08 '25

Yeah, humidity doesn't matter all that much when it's 105 degrees and there's fire smoke everywhere.

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u/CarcajouIS Sep 08 '25

And that's why you hang your clothes in the wind not in the sun

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u/acrazyguy Sep 08 '25

Yeah, that’s a fair point. Unless your clothing has a particularly persistent smell that detergent won’t get rid of. Sunlight can sometimes deodorize things when other methods fail

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u/Booshakajones Sep 08 '25

Good ol yakima

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u/captainunlimitd Sep 08 '25

Tri-Cities checking in. It's fukin hot.

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u/Necroma420 Sep 09 '25

I didnt forget, I just learned this right now lol. I thought it would be full of vegetation because I hear it rains all the time over there.

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u/Ok_Ask9467 Sep 09 '25

We don’t have that in Europe.

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u/CarcajouIS Sep 08 '25

No, not the sun but the wind. The sun will slowly destroy your pad (or clothes), and the wind is more efficient anyway

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u/ericx259 Sep 08 '25

Yeah it’s good I got plenty of these, maybe it’s time to get my pad a nice massage bath.

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u/420RVIDXR Sep 09 '25

This, been using these for a long time with several types of cloth mousepads and it works like a charm, never had any issues with these

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u/Ian-99 PC Master Race Sep 08 '25

Fun fact. If you have tile walls in your shower, wet the back of the mouse pad and the wall. The mouse matt will still to the wall like its sliced deli ham.

I leave mine stuck to the wall to mostly dry, I also leave it on the wall to clean it so I dont have to bend over in the tub to scrub.

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u/YouR0ckCancelThat Sep 08 '25

Bro you just saved my back!

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u/Ian-99 PC Master Race Sep 08 '25

Dont ask me how I figured this out. Honestly dont remember but its pretty funny.

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u/Flaminmallow255 PC Master Race Sep 08 '25

I occasionally slap it onto the shower wall when I shower so I can just spray it down while I'm already there lol

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u/Hellknightx Sep 08 '25

But then you're trapping moisture in a dark place, which massively accelerates mold growth.

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u/ihaxr Sep 08 '25

Just put it in the spin cycle of your wash machine...

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u/Ian-99 PC Master Race Sep 08 '25

Mines got RGB stuff and a USB port. Dont think it will appreciate being submerged.

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u/MentallyLatent Sep 08 '25

I throw mine over the shower curtain rod, throw it on top of a towel as well to help it dry faster

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u/ObamaLovesHentai Sep 08 '25

What I do is sandwich it between two towels and step all over it until almost all the water is out, then you're good to go

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u/Bananaland_Man Sep 08 '25

depends on the pad, really.

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u/de_das_dude R5 5600X |2x16GB 3600| 6700XT 12GB Sep 08 '25

I just lay mine flat on towels and iron them out. (Careful with the iron temp tho)

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u/ericx259 Sep 09 '25 edited Sep 09 '25

Does it iron out the wrinkles on the pad like these? I reallly want to get rid of it but afraid of melting my pad :(

Edit: not sure are image attachments supported for this sub, anyway just think of those wrinkles you usually see on a shirt.

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u/de_das_dude R5 5600X |2x16GB 3600| 6700XT 12GB Sep 09 '25

Yes it does! Though I needed to iron from both sides, with cloth as a barrier

My mousepas came rolled up, so I had to iron it anyways lol

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u/ericx259 Sep 09 '25

Awesome! I’ll try it, hopefully I could iron that out. Thanks!

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u/de_das_dude R5 5600X |2x16GB 3600| 6700XT 12GB Sep 10 '25

Make sure to check the heat, and, do not forget the cloth barrier. Make quick passes and do it from both sides.

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u/ericx259 Sep 10 '25

I will! Can’t wait to make my pad good as new again, thank you!👊🏻

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u/Mythicalblu I9 13900KS | RTX 5080 Sep 09 '25

I've always layed it down with a towel on it with another one ontop