Although a lot of people rave about Swiffers, we've never been big fans. Mostly because with a very furry dog, we'd have to spend a fortune on the cloths (or deal with washing and reusing them, as slinked here on AT:LA).
However, recently we borrowed a friend's Swiffer Duster with Extendable Handle to clean our ceiling fan, and we were really impressed. Ever since we moved in a couple of months ago, we'd been eyeing the dust on the fan, and had visions of it flying all over the place when we used the Duster. . .but it didn't. We were impressed with the way the dust stayed trapped in the fluffy fibers. And we felt much better about using our fan during that recent heat wave.
I have one and I really like it. It makes it tres easy to dust and get into narrow spots. Also, I use it to entice spiders off the ceiling or from up high on the walls so I don't have to get up on a chair and squash the spider on my fresh paint job.
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I use it as a spider-catcher, too, only I wrap some masking tape (sticky side out) around the fork. Works very well for high ceilings I can't quite reach just standing on a chair when it's too late at night to vacuum.
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Swiffer dusters are evil, synthetic landfill!!
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Not only are these great for ceiling fans, they work nicely on blinds. If you run the fluffy part through the wash, it's good for more than one use.
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