DUST!

BE PREPARED!

And be forewarned! If you ever decide to move to the Middle East you will forever live in a filthy house and you will eternally combat dust which will coat your entire house on a daily basis.

Dust is an incredible phenomenon here in the Middle East. First- you have khamaseen or 'fifty days of wind'- which means some days will look entirely hazy and yellowish because there is so much dust in the air. Even when you don't have that miserable phenomenon, you will still have dust blowing into your house non-stop. Every counter top-table, decorative item, Kleenex box will eternally have a layer of dust on it.

You will clean it, and the next day it will be there again.

You will clean it again, and two hours later you'll notice that it is still dirty.

My new technique is baby wipes. I'm going through them like they're going out of style. This is the result after cleaning my bedside table:

And your windows will eternally be dusty, so if you would like to see the view outside your window, you have to open your widows and let more dust in. Otherwise you can look through the murky glass as you can see below:

As you can tell..I'm not a fan of the dust. Beside the fact that it makes me sneeze 258720958 times a day.