The dust in my master bedroom was atrocious when I got to Cleaning Day in the Master Bedroom Saga.
Horrendous. Terrifying. Appalling.
Yes, this post is part of my 31 Days of (Lame) Excuses. But I’m going to share both a REASON why the dust was so bad, and then an excuse.
A lame excuse.
Reason:
When a room is as cluttered as my master bedroom was, cleaning (including dusting) is not possible.
You can pretend to clean and hit the few visible surfaces, but no one will believe you. Y’know, if you were to actually let them into the room.
Excuse:
I have terrible allergies, and I don’t want to disturb the dust. Because then it would go into the air. And into my nose. And being terribly-horribly sick is the perfect excuse to not clean anymore. At all.
Whatever. I know it’s lame.
So today I’m sharing how to dust when your home could pass for a haunted house.
That’s right. I can write this post because my bedroom could have passed for one.
Not that I could afford the liability insurance due to all the tripping hazards.
So what DO you do when the dust is so thick that dusting spray would only turn it to mud?
Well . . . first you use your handy-dandy hand-held vacuum cleaner
Once the top layer is gone, and it’s beginning to only look like a really bad day in a Normal Person’s house . . . THEN you can use the dusting spray to wipe it up and make things all shiny and pretty.
Now if someone could just invent a dusting solution that provides permanent results . . . .
Have you voted for me today in the Circle of Moms top home management blogs? I’m sorry. This contest is now over.
Oh, and that hand-held vacuum cleaner link? It’s my Amazon affiliate link. What? You don’t need a hand-held vacuum cleaner, but you’re just curious and want to see what I linked to? Oh, and once you’re over there at Amazon you realize that you need to do ALL your Christmas shopping which includes buying a couch AND a microwave? (Hee hee. My plan is working!)
I don’t know why but this is my favorite video so far. Just a few weeks ago, I (well hubby) took down the valances in the kitchen while in hot pursuit of an Asian hornet. By the way, those things are huge! After seeing a literal inch of dust on it, I realized I had never taken them down to wash. We bought this house in 2000. And they have not found their way back up either. It’s on my five year plan.
Hi Dana, I got a kick out of this post. I was beginning to wonder if I forgot what dusting is. Not to mention ….how cluttered many areas of my house have become. I was beginning to cringe a little when I opened a cabinet door that holds pots and pans, etc.. and discovered cobwebs in the corner. Yesh! I think I will do some dusting today somewhere and somehow! Lol! Rose
You should have left the dust for Halloween. Another Lame Excuse 😀
My mother-in-law came over the other day and turned on the light on the ceiling fan. Instantly huge cobwebs and mounds of dust could be seen hanging from the lights. I was mortified! Thankfully, my MOL did not seem to notice until one of my lovely daughters pointed and asked: What’s that, Mom? Oh…just decorating for Halloween, I replied… So glad to hear that I’m not the only one! 🙂
You used my FAVORITE exuse today!!! I, too, have bad allergies. To top it off, most dust sprays have some sort of smelly smell made to make dusting seem prettier & more enjoyable but they just increase my sneezing. Can we guess what chore was recently put on my 13 year olds chore list?
Dusting is one of the housework duties I hate the most! Too bad I can’t postpone it for too long 😀
I have misplaced the charging cord for my hand-held vacuum cleaner! Or, possibly my hubby has placed it somewhere unknown to me. However, with my major decluttering in progress I feel confident I’ll find it soon!
I just snorted loudly over the line: “… because it’s faster than spooning it up.” I love you Dana.
Since I have asthma, I use a simple face mask for dusty chores. You can buy them in any drug store, and they are reusuable.
I snorted over “Not that I could afford the liability insurance due to all the tripping hazards.”
I have a water filtered vacuum cleaner which does not broadcast dust into the air. This “can be” an excuse to dust even less frequently… I love you too Dana.
Willl someone please come up with an excuse for a person who lives alone and doesn’t have OP (except for a kitty). When there is no one around to see you “goofing off” it’s hard to get motivated when you have absolutely no desire to clean house. Because I, too, have allergies, it does get done when “I can’t stand it anymore”, and the kitchen never really gets that bad, but I really wish there was some way to get a little bit more motivation. And someday I hope to understand how a house gets so messy when there’s only one person living in it (!).