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If you have your kit set up at home, what do you do to keep clean and free from dust? Do you just drape an old sheet over it or is there something else you use?
The sweat tends to rinse most of it off, or cake it on. Blood comes off the snare with spit and scrub from whatever t-shirt you're wearing. I guess you could use the same t-shirt for the caked-on dust/sweat. Shards of drumstick can just be blown out every once in a while when you're waiting for the guitarists to tune up again.
Just use a sheet and give it a vac/cloth occasionally. That kept my kit fine for years in a rehearsal space. gigging of course helps when you're moving gear frequently, but a cheap sheet or two from Primark worked for me. Plus you can whip the sheet off like a magician every time you play which adds a nice camp flourish to proceedings I find.
Kit #1 is permanently set up in the rehearsal room, bar the cymbals which go home with me after every session
Kit #2 is bagged up in a lockup at the other rehearsal room, only comes out for practice and then goes back again.
Dust? Never notice it
Dust comes off when you whack it. I honestly never gave it a second thought when I had mine permanently set up.
I think my dad used to run a duster over them occasionally, until he mentioned cleaning the cymbals with brasso and I banned him from touching any part of it.
Not an instrument it's worth being too precious over, the drums, you hit them with sticks anyway.