For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 24, 2020

Moving the dust from here to there.

if I were dusting that maniacally, I’d use a leaf blower.

You don’t dust like that

She should go to the store and get a can of Pledge.

I like the second panel.

It is not good to blow dust and inhaling it. Best to dust with damp cloth or with aerosol dust cleaner. The mist will keep the dust on the surface until wiped off. Me? I use plain damp cloth. As effective as any cleaner. Just not so damp it doesn’t dry quickly especially the authentic wood ones. I have several antiques and they have maintained the damp cloth cleaning well.

Oh for crud sakes. This one is totally unbelievable. Even if you didn’t have duster spray you could just use a damp towel.

Um Elly, a duster works much better. Just saying…

Ah dusting, one of those chores that six months later you wonder why you bothered ( said tongue in cheek).

I have three large dogs, four cats, two kids, and live on a farm on a gravel road. All I can say is microfiber cloth. Works for me.

Lynn’s Comments:

I do this. It’s not as effective as actually dusting, but it gives me another week to procrastinate.

After it settles on the floor, you can vacuum it up!

In our house you’re free to write your name in the dust -Just don’t date it!

That is what old T-shirts are for. If you don’t use it to wipe up the dust you can still use it to wrap around your face and breath through.

Admit it! You have all done this a time or two!

As I recall, dusting was a housekeeping chore that even the Army never made me do; the barrack walls were so porous that dust never settled.

That’s not dusting, it’s re-entrainment.

I realize this is a Canadian strip, so it would not have the same concerns as other places. In the US Southwest a fungus known as Coccidioides lives in the soil pretty much everywhere. When inhaled it produces a disease known as coccidioidomycosis, or “Valley Fever.” Like the virus du jour, it is often accompanied by relatively mild symptoms or even none at all, but it can be serious and even deadly. Nearly everybody who lives here gets it within a handful of years, but it is not good to invite it. Treatment, if needed, is no fun at all. Blowing dust around is widely frowned upon.

Elly that will make you dizzy blowing, you need a duster. That is so like our bedroom where my paperback books are.

Blowing the dust off just moves it to a different location where you’ll have to deal with it all over again.

Being very allergic to household dust, I removed all of the carpeting in my house. There were hardwood floors underneath most of the carpeted areas. There was one room where there was no hardwood under the carpet so I put down hardwood laminate flooring. I also started using HEPA filters on my furnace/AC. Now I rarely have to dust and my allergic reaction to household dust is much more subdued. I was surprised how much of a difference it made in my quality of life.

I wish that someone could come up with the type of window screening that would repel dust particles.

This strip blows!

Who cares what you think or do.

Every time I start to feel for Elly, she does something stupid. Blow dusting. Oh, my goodness

Much easier to rearrange the dust her way.

About the only thing I “dust” that way is my tablet screen. With two cats in the house, it gets covered in cat hair frequently. A quick blow and the hair is gone. (from the screen at least)

Time to change the filters.

My wife usually come around after I vacuum and dusts everything onto the floor.

I use my own concoction of beeswax and coconut oil.