A Dust Mite in Every Corner
Greetings, Humans.
We've been watching you. Yes, you in your serious housecleaning outfit, dragging your cute little cleaner caddy from room to room. Clean to your heart's content, but know this:
You are outnumbered.
Think you've wiped us out, hmmm? Try this experiment: Go on vacation for several days and we'll shift into high gear, creating dustballs big enough to hitch a ride on your socks. Our dustballs are the finest, like tiny tumbleweeds made of ingredients that would mortify you.
We're mighty clever mites, and we don't give a rip that you've bought the more expensive orange-oil furniture polish. We don't care about your sweet feather dusters or your fancy vacuum attachments.
We will save the mortification factor for later. For now, we'd like to suggest that you lock your doors and windows, tuck your children in bed early, and prepare for a rough ride. Dust ain't a pretty topic, Sweetheart.
We're Rockstars!
Did you catch where they compare us to "miniature dinosaurs"?
Dust Mites in Technology
We now have our own font!
Don't say we didn't warn you, Humans. We've invaded every nook & cranny, every corner. And we now own our own font. Forget New Times Roman and Comic Sans. Dust Mite font is free and downloadable.
Imagine how Uncle Herman will react to a thought-provoking birthday gift like that?
Like it or not, you are surrounded by mites. Unless you're living in a protective bubble, you are sharing your space with dust mites.
Go ahead--prove how clean you are. Spend your day in denial, scrubbing and polishing and dusting and admiring your sparkling house. But listen...do you hear that? They're baaaaack.
Creeping, crawling out of hiding, snickering at your silly efforts to undermine theirs. Scientist and researcher William J Bray was asked what ordinary household dust is composed of, and gave this explanation:
Household dust is composed primarily of things like human skin and hair, waxes, pollen, mold, fungi, lichen, tiny particles of wood, paint, fibers from fabrics such as wool, nylon, rayon, acrylic (and in the disco '70s lots and lots of polyester), foam rubber, sheetrock, plant and vegetable matter, insect parts, and of course every form of pollution such as auto and industrial emissions, heavy hydrocarbon waste from your oil or gas heater, even tiny bits of metal debris from door hinges or any place where metal and friction meet, lots of food waste, and loads of paper
fiber...
There. You see?
I figured you'd be mortified.
Uncle Abe's Annual Portrait
World Pillow Fight Day
Perfect timing for our Dust Mite family reunion!
What is wrong with you Humans, anyway? Who ever heard of such a thing?
Members of our younger generation were getting anxious to leave the nest, so they hitched a ride home on pillows. Judging from their comments @Twitter, they're having a grand ol' time setting up housekeeping in places like New York City, Jacksonville, and Warsaw. What a creative way to see the world, don't you think?
Behind Your Furniture
...we're having a party
Whenever there's a birthday in our family, we mites celebrate in style. The space between your furniture and the wall is our Disney World. Relatives travel from far and near to kick up their tiny heels with us. Oh, the foodstuff they bring for the big shindig, thanks to you humans.
So we were having a round table discussion the other day, and Bubba Mite wondered why y'all don't just CLEAN once in a while? You are enablers, people! Don't y'all see that you could lessen our population just by dusting?
Now before you run out and buy a case of Mite-Be-Gone, let me just say that your home is simply lovely just the way it is. You have a flair for decorating and such an amazing grasp of what works colorwise. I can't imagine a more lovely place to call Home.
I do feel right at home here. Thank you.
Morsels from the Mite #1
My favorite Date Night is to take my sweetie out for a bite to eat. Our favorite cuisine? Dead skin cells shed from you humans, with animal flakes for dessert.
Fess Up!
We've watched the futile (sometimes funny) attempts of you two-legged beings as you try to dust us out of existence.
If your life were a wide-open book, though, what would your mother-in-law say? How often do you dust, really? Hmmm-mm? It's time to come clean, Baby.
"Excuse my Dust" by Norman Rockwell
Dust Mites in the News
Without dust, we would have gone the way of the dinosaurs. Dust is a part of life. But please...as President of the Dust Mites Union #478, I beg of you...Can't we just get along?
We're hardly fly-by-nights, people! We are the headline-makers--the mattress-movers and shed-skin shakers of your household. Whether you like it or not, we share the same space.
Which reminds me, could you please turn the thermostat up just a notch? It's awfully cold inside your mattress.
Read on...
- Hypoallergenic Hotel Rooms?
- Very slowly, but surely hotels are learning to recognize travelers who suffer from allergies brought on mold, dust mites, and smoke. This recognition by hotel operators is good, but hypoallergenic hotel rooms will come at an increased price to travelers.
- East Steps to Keep Dust Mites at Bay
- Dr. Patrick Dean from the Mayo Foundation for Medi cal Education and Research offers from simple steps to keep dust mites away. Those steps include controlling the environment, focusing on the bedroom, and cleaning with a difference.
- Dust Mites Can't Be Conquered?
- Study in Denmark Found Anti-Dust Mite Products Don't Work, Yet Doctors Disagree
- Dust Mites in your Bed!
- Mario Lamorticella is a Portland area electrical engineer who is at war with dust mites. In his bedroom, he lifts the corner of his blanket and sheets to reveal his latest weapon, a white colored fabric that encases his mattress.
- 13 Facts About Dust Mites
- Don't say we didn't warn you!
Dust Storm - 1935
Talkin' About Allergies @Twitter
:::sneeze::: :::cough:::
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- bandofmould
- Damn dust mite allergy!
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- htroxell
- Serious damage @ laundrymat since dryer broke & I've got the dust mite allergy. Random lady asked if I worked there!http://twitpic.com/8zqva
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- steelesaut
- Dust mite allergy. It's going to be a lot of work.
We've Invaded the Book Market, Too!
Dusty books at Amazon.com
Morsels from the Mite #2
Why dust often, you ask? Because layers of dust invites us to join colonies. We multiply quickly, and do our "business" in your dust, too. Isn't that special?
Dustbusters for Kids
Housekeeping fun for kids @Amazon
Cute house cleaning toys for young children. Don't wait until they're older and freak them out about us mites. Give them teaching toys and let them trail you around with their cleaning tools.
Facts To Turn Your Stomach
Get your runnin' shoes ready...
We're going to up the freak out factor. Clear your kids out of computer viewing distance or they'll never sleep a full night again.
If that disgusts you, don't blame us. We didn't exactly ask to be born, you know!
Dust Attack!
Morsel from the Mite #3
One gram of dust can contain more than 100,000 of my cousins. When you blame us for causing your allergies, you are dead wrong. It's not us; we're cute. IOFS! (It's our feces, Stupid!)
Leave a Hurried Sockprint
...because I know you're not padding around barefoot in your dust mite-infested home.
mbrownauthor wrote...
Ewwww....for the mites, that is. Kudos to you for a great lens!
Posted January 14, 2009
devilsworkshopcrafts wrote...
This is terrifying but hysterical and inspiring!
Posted January 02, 2009
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- @DeniseWakeman What a fun way to surprise you. Happy birthday!
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- @ChefPatrick One...and speaking of goodnight, it's almost 10 here. Early day tomorrow.
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- This video gives me chills. http://www.thedashmovie.com/
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- Planning a five-day camping trip to the coast with 9-yr-old granddaughter. Going to be so much fun!
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- "Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheets." ~Leah Stussy G'night, tweeple...
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A quick index for re-visiting selected modules
- We're Rockstars!
- Dust Mites in Technology
- Uncle Abe's Annual Portrait
- World Pillow Fight Day
- Behind Your Furniture
- Morsels from the Mite #1
- Fess Up!
- "Excuse my Dust" by Norman Rockwell
- Dust Mites in the News
- Dust Storm - 1935
- Talkin' About Allergies @Twitter
- We've Invaded the Book Market, Too!
- Morsels from the Mite #2
- Dustbusters for Kids
- Facts To Turn Your Stomach
- Dust Attack!
- Morsel from the Mite #3
- Leave a Hurried Sockprint
- No Dust Mites Have Been Harmed in the Creation of This RSS Feed
- Twitter Me!
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