Yesterday, when I was being pursued by a Ninja Samurai and a Magic Princess Pony (my two oldest children) and I dramatically fell to the ground in faux surrender (I was the fire-breathing dragon, natch), I noticed something. As I lie there staring up at the ceiling mimicking (what I believe to be a rather good impersonation of) a slow and tragic fire-breathing-dragon death, I noticed my a.c. outtake vents are rather dusty. The outtake vents are the ones in the ceiling where the hot/cold air comes out and heats/cools your room, generally improving your comfort level. Chances are there is at least one in the room where you are sitting now. Take a good look at it. Is is clean or do you see some dust hiding there?
One of my vents:
:shudder:
I tried to remember when I last cleaned my vents and I couldn't....how often do those need to be cleaned anyway? According to Martha's
weekly homekeeping guide, you should clean vents every week. I sort of forgot about those vents up in the ceiling. Oops.
As part of my
War On Dust, I not only cleaned all my outtake vents, but I also
changed my air filters. I managed not to injure/kill myself by falling off the ladder in the process.
:hearing applause in my head:
Thank you. I'll be here all week.
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