A basic cleaning of a remote control requires only 10 minutes and common household supplies. If one or more of your remote’s buttons has stopped working properly, a deep cleaning may help ...

There's also one other thing that a physical TV remote has that TV back buttons or remote apps don't: tiny dots on/near some of the buttons. Most of the time, you can see this bump on the number 5 ...

But there are lots of other items you might be forgetting to clean — including your television remote control. Fortunately for us, Marla Mock, president of Molly Maid, is here to help.

The remote control was created to work with one device -- your TV or, if you were on the cutting edge of home entertainment in the late '70s and early '80s, a top-loading VCR.