# Fuck dust **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 16, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-dust/613075 "2012-02-16T23:18:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-dust/613075/41 "2012-02-19T16:03:14Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > … I’ll vacuum every couple of weeks, 'cause it’s kinda fun … > [@cards](#): > > ? This does not compute Ever since I moved to a place that’s all hardwood, the sweeping keeps the floors pretty clean. Since I didn’t need the big upright vacuum for carpet, I bought the cutest [Dirt Devil canister vac](http://www.amazon.com/Dirt-Devil-SD30040CS-Crimson-Canister/dp/B003RRXMQM) with a long extension wand. It’s fun to just walk around with it, sucking up whatever looks like it needs it (cat hair accumulates in weird places) from the ceilings to the blinds to the baseboards. If the canister vac was any bigger, or noisier (it’s really quiet) it wouldn’t be fun at all. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-dust/613075/42 "2012-02-19T16:08:47Z")
> [@sandra\_nz](#): > > I was going to be fully on board with this pitting, then I realised I have a greater enemy: hair. My life would be a living hell without [Zip-It](http://zipitclean.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-dust/613075/43 "2012-02-20T04:19:10Z")
> [@sandra\_nz](#): > > I was going to be fully on board with this pitting, then I realised I have a greater enemy: hair. > > I was having a shower this morning that turned out to be a foot bath because a hair monster was lurking in the drain. > > I went to clean the rest of the bathroom later on, and ended up vacuuming everything because it was all covered in hair - the basin, the toilet, the floor. > > Except, of course, I couldn’t just turn the vacuum cleaner on and start vacuuming. Oh no. First, I had to clean the vacuum head because it was clogged up with…you guessed it, hair. > > I’ve now vacuumed the top story of my house and all I can see in the chamber is hair. > > I just freaked out my husband by suggesting I should get a pixie haircut, simply so that I don’t have to vacuum up so much goddamned hair. omg This reminded me that I used to vacuum the tub out first before I cleaned it. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-dust/613075/44 "2012-02-20T04:32:52Z")
Henry David Thoreau asks how much of your life do you want to spend dusting your acquisitions? I go with the school of thought of “What? Me dust?” I like stuff. It’s all sitting exactly where I want it and no, it hasn’t been moved in twently years. I would have to agree that after the first few years the accumulation of dust noticably declines…after awhile the new dust rolls off of the old dust—must have something to do with physics. And of course, only some of this is true. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-dust/613075/45 "2012-02-20T09:42:53Z")
If it wasn’t for dust, I’d have a lot less work. I have a client who has a home bar, and he told me at the start **not** to dust the wine bottles. He wants the dust to accumulate on them, so they look aged. It is a nice effect, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Mann\_Slaughter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@Mann\_Slaughter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mann_Slaughter)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-dust/613075/46 "2012-02-21T07:15:57Z")
> [@sandra\_nz](#): > > I was going to be fully on board with this pitting, then I realised I have a greater enemy: hair. > > I was having a shower this morning that turned out to be a foot bath because a hair monster was lurking in the drain. > > I went to clean the rest of the bathroom later on, and ended up vacuuming everything because it was all covered in hair - the basin, the toilet, the floor. > > Except, of course, I couldn’t just turn the vacuum cleaner on and start vacuuming. Oh no. First, I had to clean the vacuum head because it was clogged up with…you guessed it, hair. > > I’ve now vacuumed the top story of my house and all I can see in the chamber is hair. > > I just freaked out my husband by suggesting I should get a pixie haircut, simply so that I don’t have to vacuum up so much goddamned hair. This reminds me of the time my 2nd wife falsely accused me of cheating on her: The bathroom shower had been draining very slowly, so I went to Home Depot and bought a small manual drain snake. She watched as I snaked the shower drain, and retrieved a plug of long, slimy, smelly black hair. Instantly, her LONG, BLONDE, CURLY HAIR stood on end as she shrieked, “WHOSE HAIR IS THAT!?!?” Well, we knew it wasn’t mine. I’ve always kept my black hair cut less than an inch long. I calmly responded, “It’s your hair.” She’s screaming now, “NO IT’S NOT! MY HAIR IS BLONDE! YOU’VE HAD SOME DARK-HAIRED WOMAN IN OUR SHOWER??” I told her that her hair may be blonde when on her head, but after a more than a year in the shower drain catching all the dirt and slime we’ve washed off our bodies, THIS is the result. “Oh…” she said as she walked out of the bathroom. And oh yeah, FUCK DUST! I’m sick of this shit building up and blocking the cool air intake grills on my computers and forcing me to buy cans of compressed air to get it off! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-dust/613075/47 "2012-02-24T08:06:42Z")
There is always hair wound up in my vacuum so much so, that i wonder where it all comes from. If I comb my hair before getting into the shower I end up picking less hair out of the drain later. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-dust/613075/48 "2012-02-24T09:10:27Z")
Fuck dust is what happens when really old people do it. When it’s everywhere, they just tell us it’s talc. ---
**Author:** ![unsub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9f8e36/32.png) [@unsub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unsub)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-dust/613075/49 "2012-02-24T16:17:30Z")
There is nothing wrong with dust. I lived in my first apartment for 4 years and never vacuumed once. There was a thick layer of dust on everything and it never bothered me. I think people who care about housecleaning have some psychological disorder. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-dust/613075/50 "2012-02-24T20:24:25Z")
> [@anya\_marie](#): > > There is always hair wound up in my vacuum so much so, that i wonder where it all comes from. > > If I comb my hair before getting into the shower I end up picking less hair out of the drain later. Oh, I comb and comb and comb before showering, but I still had hair monsters all the time. Nothing works like cutting the hair off. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-dust/613075/51 "2012-02-24T20:35:28Z")
> [@unsub](#): > > There is nothing wrong with dust. I lived in my first apartment for 4 years and never vacuumed once. There was a thick layer of dust on everything and it never bothered me. > > I think people who care about housecleaning have some psychological disorder. Quentin? Is that you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-dust/613075.md?page=2)