Is it normal to clean your ears with q-tips?

I do it every single time I shower.
I do circles around the hole, going in a little further in at a time to avoid packing earwax.
I use at least one q-tip per ear.
It feels great.
I would never stop unless the stores stopped selling them.

Don't do it! I used use a Q-tip to clean my ears and I got really dry ears. I would scratch my ears and flakes of dry skin would come off. Even if I put lotion on my ears the dry skin would still be there. It was so bad.

I learned that if you use a Q-tip it will clean up all the natural oils that coats a thin layer all over your ear. A little bit of the oil goes a long way. So I stopped using a Q-tip and each week the dry skin out better. Now I don't have a problem.

I do live in Alaska where it's cold and the air is dry. So perhaps this contributed to my dry ears.

I use q-tips everyday after a shower in my ear and around it

Isn't that what they were invented for?

That's pretty much what q-tips are for. But you shouldn't do it too often or go too deep. They're really just for the outer part, it says so on the box. I used to use them after every shower (twice a day) but got the worst ear infection ever!!! It was sooo horrible. I don't do that so much anymore. I never want to go through that again.

I do the same. But i do it because if i don't my headphones get wet and break lol

I always thought that was the purpose of Q-tips, maybe not. But yes its normal, I clean my ears with them once and a while. Be sure not to go to deep though, some cotton could get stuck in your ear canal...that wouldn't be good.

I use Q-Tips to clean under my foreskin. Sometimes, If I haven't bathed in a while, smegma will collect under there and start smelling really bad. Works like a dream every time and keeps me from having to take damn showers.

I do it every day... sometimes twice a day. Didn't think it wasn't normal.

I don't. What is even the point? I never stick my fingers in my ears and people don't notice the ear wax so whats the point? Its bad for your ears too. All my family does it though..It seems I am the abnormal one

It's normal, but you're not really supposed to. You can damage your ear drum that way. Q-tips also tend to push some of the earwax further in, and it clumps together and goes hard so eventually you have to go to the doctor and get it washed out. You're not supposed to put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear.

But everybody does it anyway. It feels so good.

Cleaning your ears is good. But if you do it constantly, and look forward to it, maybe. O_O
Unless you follow a strict schedule, then. I suppose it's fine.

Not everyday but so do I.