My mother-in-law taught me this trick to clean grey dust and grime off window blinds before opening the house for spring with 0 effort. Here’s how it works

It grabs dust instead of pushing it around, and it doesn’t leave lint behind on dark blinds.

If you only have one cloth, rinse it often. On a really dirty set of blinds, I usually rinse after every 6 to 8 slats. It sounds fussy, but it actually speeds things up because you aren’t just smearing gray dust from one slat to the next.

10. The one step that keeps dust from coming back so fast

This is the part my mother-in-law swears by: the tiny bit of fabric softener helps