a place with no dust?
By hereandthere
@hereandthere (45651)
Philippines
November 4, 2017 12:19pm CST
so the person that my mother texts to do odd jobs finally showed up after several days.
when he was finished with those tasks, i asked him to check a small fan that stopped working and clean the awning-type windows above the sliding doors.
"oh, i already cleaned that the last time."
"yes, but it's dirty again."
what i really wanted to say, but didn't was:
if it was still clean, why would anyone pay for someone to clean it again?
secondly, after a few weeks, did you really think there won't be a speck of dust given that we live on a busy road?
i mean, who wouldn't want to live in a place without dust?
i guess the only dust-free places on earth would be the north and south poles.
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14 responses
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
5 Nov 17
yes, even if you dusted today, tomorrow, expect the area to have dust again
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
5 Nov 17
they can get in even in enclosed places
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
8 Nov 17
@hereandthere Yes, in our room which I clean only on weekends, the plastic broom would gather lots of dust. Our windows are all closed. But still, the dust can come in. Oh, my!
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@much2say (53959)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Nov 17
Oh gosh . . .dust pops up everywhere and all the time no matter how much you clean an area . . . new dust is constantly in the making. Maintenance cleaning needs to be done often - and if not, it just becomes a bigger job for someone later on. That being said, I am doing major clean up this morning 
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
4 Nov 17
and dust likes to make itself obvious. anything light colored looks darker, anything dark colored looks lighter. 
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
5 Nov 17
i guess we'll have to live in an igloo to escape them! hahaha!
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
5 Nov 17
@LadyDuck the eskimos live in igloos and i'm imagining there's no dust in the north or south poles. but what do you mean by peanuts?
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@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
5 Nov 17
@hereandthere The only place you can escape dust, unless you eat peanuts.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
9 Nov 17
maybe it has a different landscape to your former location
@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
10 Nov 17
@Hannihar oh. then it's understandable why you moved. it's going to be noisier and dustier here because they is an upcoming roadwork on our street, too.
@Hannihar (129470)
• Israel
10 Nov 17
@hereandthere
I am also on a street that cars go past and they are working on the streets too. It was not quieter before because I had horrible neighbors.
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@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
5 Nov 17
Personally, why should it matter if you are paying them to be asked to check something and clean it again? Nothing stays clean forever. Just sounds like they are being picky
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
8 Nov 17
@hereandthere Wow, that's nice. At least he is an all around. 
@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
8 Nov 17
@SIMPLYD but you have to always watch him and check his work afterwards
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
8 Nov 17
he is an on-call carpenter, but also asked to help with odd jobs around the house.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
5 Nov 17
exactly. i agree very few people will notice it. that's why i get it done only when he's here. i'm not really a neat freak nor a germaphobe.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
4 Nov 17
i wish we had a higher fence. it would help with the noise, too.
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@almostoveryou (4189)
• Philippines
6 Nov 17
I wish i could live in a dust-free environment too. But ours has dust everywhere because we have front amd backyard gardens and windy open areas that blow in dust. I'm not a compulsive cleaner, unfortunately. I usually just wait for my weekend housekeeper to wipe the window panes.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
6 Nov 17
i doubt people really notice it since it's up there and our roof is extended, so i just take advantage when he's here.
we've always had plants (even trees, in the past) so i like places like yours, with front and back gardens.
@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
8 Nov 17
i hate it when i've just mopped the floor and it's dirty again.
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@YrNemo (20261)
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8 Nov 17
@hereandthere Made me think of my sister and her tile floor. I saw her cleaning it over and over, with a frown on her face. She said, 'I don't get it, I just cleaned this section just a few seconds ago...'
Made me think of my sister and her tile floor. I saw her cleaning it over and over, with a frown on her face. She said, 'I don't get it, I just cleaned this section just a few seconds ago...'1 person likes this
