Dust always wins!!!
I pretty much gave up on dust as dusting items individually in a room just puts dust on all the other items in that room, especially those that you already just dusted. Now, I only dust items that I'm taking out to show or use and then do the dusting of the item outside.
Besides, with all the collections that I have, and they are truly many and varied, it would be well beyond a full-time job to even attempt to keep up!
I consider dust as simply the masking cloak of uniformity around here!?!?