Kristen--go to the nearest hardware store and buy 3 or 4 tack cloths. They are a cheesecloth kinda thing which has some slightly sticky stuff on them, just enough to suck uo teeny dust particles. (people who refinish furniture use them to get up all dust particles from fine sanding, as the slightest bit will ruin the finish). Wad it up in your hand and wipe things down. It's freakinbg magic. I think they're about $1.00 apiece.
Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Scrappy - Aug 21, 2005 5:04:02 am PDT #3089 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Polter-Cow - Aug 21, 2005 5:05:17 am PDT #3090 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Today I love Strega for quoting Keats.
Kiba Rika - Aug 21, 2005 5:12:33 am PDT #3091 of 10001
I may have to seize the cat.
Today I love Strega for quoting Keats.
It's like she gives you a new reason every day, isn't it?
Nilly - Aug 21, 2005 5:12:52 am PDT #3092 of 10001
Swouncing
How much do I like the fact that actual solution has been offered, in thread, for a problem which was brought up for a completely different reason?
The hivemind rocks.
DCJensen - Aug 21, 2005 5:21:25 am PDT #3093 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Do you have a humidifier? Making it heavy enough to stay still for the swiffer is the trick.
Interesting. Sadly, I don't have one.
If one does not have a humidifier, raising humidity in the house can be done with pots of boiling water on the stove, and fans blowing it out of the kitchen.
ETA: Someties Physics works with me, and I have placed a fan on the floor in the next room and pointed it towards the kitchen, blowing cold air into the room, which pushes the hotter, moisture laden air out into the rest of the house.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 21, 2005 5:36:14 am PDT #3094 of 10001
What is even happening?
I think the tack cloth idea is great, Robin. I know it's what the floor sanders used, when they refinished the floors at our old house. Now I wish I'd thought of it when we demo'd our old kitchen at that house. The house was full of plaster dust. Nasty, icky stuff. I'd do the tack cloth before I tried the humidity. Tack cloth. Vacuum. Wash. In that order.
Polter-Cow - Aug 21, 2005 5:48:11 am PDT #3095 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's like she gives you a new reason every day, isn't it?
One day it was quoting Watership Down.
Betsy HP - Aug 21, 2005 6:21:02 am PDT #3096 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Nilly, I think "a jigsaw puzzle" is the best answer ever.
Kristen - Aug 21, 2005 7:57:14 am PDT #3097 of 10001
Did they not watch that C.S.I. with Lindsay Crouse?
I think it was this incident that may have inspired the Lindsay Crouse episode of CSI.
And tack cloths! Geez, why didn't I think of that? That's a brilliant idea, Robin. I need to go to Lowes anyway. I'ma add it to the list.
Nilly - Aug 21, 2005 8:33:13 am PDT #3098 of 10001
Swouncing
I think "a jigsaw puzzle" is the best answer ever.
Oh, thanks, but it was just the plain truth, as I indeed was putting one together (5000 pieces, for my parents' living room. Which they ended up not liking and is still lying in my closet, now that I think about it).