Dusting the Unlikely Places

We all hate dusting, but someone’s got to do it. Do you suffer from allergies? Many adults do, even though we think we should have grown out of them. One thing that can help is to try and keep our homes as dust free as possible. A tool recently developed is the Swiffer Duster. It is simple to use and gets into the most difficult places. If you haven’t tried one I would highly recommend it. (I don’t make any commission selling Swiffer, by the way. It’s just a great invention.)

When you dust you probably catch all of the obvious places – the furniture, piano, cabinets, bookcases, etc… That’s good. Any flat surface will catch dust. But a place that many forget about is down along the sides and underneath your furniture. Those places don’t collect dust as fast, but eventually that dust will begin to pile up. And dust equals allergy problems.

Floorboards are forgotten territory when dusting. Many of them have a small lip or edge, which makes a flat surface. It may be small, but dust will slowly collect there and you won’t notice it until one day when you realize that they are filthy. Then you have to get down and really clean them. If you can catch them once a week with either a vacuum or a duster they will stay much cleaner.

Another area people forget about is their curtains. Since curtains and drapes hang vertically instead of laying flat, they don’t collect dust as quickly as the flat surfaces do. But one day you’ll suddenly realize that they are just covered! This is where that Swiffer comes in handy. If you dust your curtains at least weekly they will stay much cleaner and your allergy problems should be reduced.

Other forgotten locations are the lamps, chandeliers and ceiling fans. We forget to look up and so the dust collects up there. If you were able to dust them at least once per month your allergy issues would be considerably better.

The last places to check out are your heating and ventilation grates. Since air blows from them you know that dust is blowing, too.  They might be on the floor, or the walls or the ceiling. All should be checked. Put that duster to work and keep them, along with the area surrounding them, clean.