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How to keep things dust free for two weeks

Baugni
19-12-2008, 22:06
Does anyone have any good ideas on how to keep my room dust free for the duration of my time back home? I am leaving for Christmas break and I was trying to come up with some ideas on how to keep everything nice and dust free so that when I get back I can come back to an immaculately clean dorm room.

Do you thing that covering everything with paper towels would do the trick? I would tape it over my TV and PS2 in order to keep it all nice and clean so that dust does not accumulate and I don't have to come right back to school and dust my room. And yes, I am a neat freak I know.
greed and death
19-12-2008, 22:08
Does anyone have any good ideas on how to keep my room dust free for the duration of my time back home? I am leaving for Christmas break and I was trying to come up with some ideas on how to keep everything nice and dust free so that when I get back I can come back to an immaculately clean dorm room.

Do you thing that covering everything with paper towels would do the trick? I would tape it over my TV and PS2 in order to keep it all nice and clean so that dust does not accumulate and I don't have to come right back to school and dust my room. And yes, I am a neat freak I know.

shrink wrap the entire room.
Lunatic Goofballs
19-12-2008, 22:08
Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. :)
Gun Manufacturers
19-12-2008, 22:16
Does anyone have any good ideas on how to keep my room dust free for the duration of my time back home? I am leaving for Christmas break and I was trying to come up with some ideas on how to keep everything nice and dust free so that when I get back I can come back to an immaculately clean dorm room.

Do you thing that covering everything with paper towels would do the trick? I would tape it over my TV and PS2 in order to keep it all nice and clean so that dust does not accumulate and I don't have to come right back to school and dust my room. And yes, I am a neat freak I know.

Buy this, and leave it on high while you're gone. It should really help (although it is a bit pricey): http://www.vornado.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ISC_Category=AQS+500#
Quintessence of Dust
19-12-2008, 22:17
I know you'll think this is a haha silly idea, but from experience: buying masses of cling film actually does work. Secure the edges with tape.

But, in 2 weeks with nothing happening in the room, little dust will accumulate anyway.
Ashmoria
19-12-2008, 22:31
it will take more work to keep dust from accumulating than it will to dust when you get back
JuNii
19-12-2008, 22:51
Does anyone have any good ideas on how to keep my room dust free for the duration of my time back home? I am leaving for Christmas break and I was trying to come up with some ideas on how to keep everything nice and dust free so that when I get back I can come back to an immaculately clean dorm room.

Do you thing that covering everything with paper towels would do the trick? I would tape it over my TV and PS2 in order to keep it all nice and clean so that dust does not accumulate and I don't have to come right back to school and dust my room. And yes, I am a neat freak I know.

... plastic trash bags. cut the seams and you can use them as dust covers. also your PS2 and tv (depending how bg) can be put inside a bag and taped up.
The blessed Chris
19-12-2008, 22:56
Boring!
Abdju
19-12-2008, 23:14
My solution... rent a serviced place.
Hryvatia
19-12-2008, 23:17
Does anyone have any good ideas on how to keep my room dust free for the duration of my time back home? I am leaving for Christmas break and I was trying to come up with some ideas on how to keep everything nice and dust free so that when I get back I can come back to an immaculately clean dorm room.

Do you thing that covering everything with paper towels would do the trick? I would tape it over my TV and PS2 in order to keep it all nice and clean so that dust does not accumulate and I don't have to come right back to school and dust my room. And yes, I am a neat freak I know.

Dude that's just weird...


Just suck it up and dust the damn room when you get back
Put old sheets over your desk/bookcase/cupboard etc.


Bam, solved. And you didn't need to cover everything in paper towels either :S
Christmahanikwanzikah
19-12-2008, 23:24
Hire a maid.
South Lorenya
19-12-2008, 23:27
Flood the room -- dust floats (I think)
[NS]Fergi America
19-12-2008, 23:30
For just the monitor and PS2?! Just dust it when you get back. Even I don't consider that to be too much work, and I hate work!

But all other dust should be handled with a cannon. Specifically, an I.G.N.O.R.E. Cannon.
Hryvatia
20-12-2008, 00:35
Hire a maid.

You win. Essentially the best way to avoid doing work is to pay someone else to do it. If you can't then bawww... we all have to dust! :tongue:
Muravyets
20-12-2008, 00:38
Don't dust. "After seven years, the dust doesn't get any worse." -- Quentin Crisp
Yootopia
20-12-2008, 04:01
Does anyone have any good ideas on how to keep my room dust free for the duration of my time back home?
Set it on fire.
TJHairball
20-12-2008, 04:07
Run a good air filter, starting with about... oh... two weeks before you leave, and you'll have very little dust left in the air to settle.