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Home Hints/How Do I...? - thebroadroom.net: May 2006
Disclaimer: these hints and tips are either the result of personal experience, or have been culled from various sources.
TheBroadroom.Net reminds you to use your own judgment and caution in applying any of this advice.
Cheap Toaster Theory #3
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Friday, May 26, 2006
at 10:59 PM (Pacific)
Time for my yearly cheap toaster update.
My el cheapo toaster ($10 price range) is still toasting nicely. It's two years old now (don't laugh; I've had more expensive toasters blow out on me sooner than that). It's about the same as it ever was. Still does light or dark.Labels: toaster
 
The Swiffer Duster
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 10:40 PM (Pacific)
I actually bought one of these...it's a kit; you get two handles plus a box of the dusters.
At first I had bought into the notion that dusting could somehow be...well, not dusting, but fun. (Blame Madison Avenue.) It wasn't of course. Dusting is dusting. And someday, hopefully before I set foot in my grave, there will either be a machine that does the dusting (the same way there is a machine for everything else), or else an affordable machine that takes the dust out of the air...rather than this endless, tiresome quest for cheap labor to perform the dusting. (I hope you realize that I'm the cheap labor in this example.)
Anyhow, I digress. I put aside the Swiffer duster for a while and returned to using the plain old Swiffer (or Swiffer knockoff) cloths.
Today I realized that no one else would ever dust anything in this house except me and I took out the Swiffer duster again. By this time, Swiffer's advertising featured a man (albeit a dorky looking man similar to the dorky looking woman in your typical cleaning-product ad)--a man doing the dusting using this same Swiffer duster.
That should have alerted me to something. The Swiffer duster is...drum roll...almost a dusting tool. It really does work...it enables you to dust a lot of stuff very quickly. Unlike those crap feather dusters it doesn't splatter the dust around, and unlike the regular Swiffer clothes you can use it in obscure hard-to-reach places.
So there I was, swinging this duster all over the rooms. I felt pretty pleased with myself when I was done. No, it wasn't the best dusting job you ever saw in your life, but it was okay. It was done.Labels: dust
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