WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Ceiling fans are some of the more difficult areas of your home to clean. The makers of a product called the “Blade Maid” promise to make that chore easier and faster.

I haven't met anyone who actively prioritizes cleaning their fans (i.e. they get pretty dusty before it becomes a must-do chore), but with the right approach, it's not hard, so we'll try to do better.

I had an unpleasant realization when I recently replaced a bulb in the ceiling fan light fixture in my office: I hadn't dusted the darn thing in quite some time. When the blades are whirring full ...

But once I repositioned the stepstool correctly, I could safely and rather comfortably clean each blade as I ... way to do it if you’ve got a ceiling fan right over your bed — no worries ...

and my ceiling fan has suffered as a result. Rather than resort to my old ways and buy new dusters, I remembered I had seen on Apartment Therapy an ingenious hack for cleaning dusty ceiling blades ...