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UTUSN

(70,494 posts)
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 01:46 PM Apr 2021

Dust bunnies!1 - am updating my category of the irritating Inexorable Laws of Nature!

Hitherto, my peeves of irritants seemed to be confined to objects that grabbed by attraction or repulsion at the importune times when you're doing something else and are hampered and distracted: Velcro sticking, static electricity, magnets, gravity!1 - saying again, at hinderingly inopportune times!1

****** So, recently, perhaps one result from long abandoned cleaning-up, *dust bunnies* have been multiplying in a sneaky way - at first testing the currents barely conspicuously, floating out first one, then a couple more, only to be shown in my retracing their tracks to be PILES of fluff under furniture and in corners.

And, running out of doing nothing, got around to moving a few things around, which led to inescapable SWEEPING, the dust and particles were compliant about being dealt with but NOT the dust bunnies!!1 Sweep, sweep into the scooper, *nope*!1 The bunnies are lighter than air, swirl and twirl in pirouettes, not mocking but almost PLAYING!1 Need I add, *irritatingly*?!

****Nautical note: On the smaller and older of my two Navy ships, the old custom of late afternoon sweeping down the quarters was announced on the "1MC" (public address) as, "Sweepers, sweepers, man your brooms! Give the ship a clean sweep down ... Sweepers!"

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Main_Circuit
.... ... "Sweepers, Sweepers, man your brooms. Give the ship a clean sweep down both fore and aft! Sweep down all decks, ladders and passageways! Dump all garbage clear of the fantail! Sweepers." ... ....

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Kali

(54,990 posts)
1. I have dust mammoths
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 04:14 PM
Apr 2021

they are how my spayed and neutered pets reproduce asexually. best handled with a vacuum cleaner.

UTUSN

(70,494 posts)
3. Elegantly simple solution, didn't occur to me because not my priority, which is what brings on
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 06:43 PM
Apr 2021

the problem in the first place!1 Thanks, makes up for the snail reproduction pics!1






Laffy Kat

(16,354 posts)
2. Have a small spray bottle?
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 05:19 PM
Apr 2021

Try using a fine mist of water on them first and they will sweep right up.

a kennedy

(29,458 posts)
6. One of my favorite friends response to dust of any kind??? Just blow on it, AND NEVER, NEVER touch
Sun Apr 18, 2021, 06:41 PM
Apr 2021

the surface. No one will know how deep it is unless ya touch it. Miss her and think of her when I HAVE to dust.

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