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1 year ago
Monday, May 12, 2008
So, I use part of my "stimulus" payment to buy a new vacuum cleaner. I've been vacuum cleanerless for many months since my trusty old upright gave up the ghost. Me and the broom have been tight ever since. S'okay since I have hardwood floors.
I choose the Eureka 4D bagless idiot wonder. I confess to being swayed by the cherry red color and powerful looking design. It's the second time I've given bagless technology a go. And once again I am underwhelmed. Right out of the box, it refuses to work in the upright position. It works fine from the attachments but given that it is an upright vacuum cleaner, one would expect the uprighted primary feature to be the one that works best. Anyway, it manages to smear dirt around and picks nothing up. It also weighs a ton.
My experience with bagless vacuum technology has become rather like the classic comedy sketch One Leg Too Few in which Dudley Moore and Peter Cook act out a casting call in which a one-legged man shows up to audition for the role of Tarzan.
- Cook: Mr Spiggott - you are, I believe, auditioning for the part of Tarzan.
- Moore: Right.
- Cook: Now Mr Spiggott, I couldn't help noticing - almost at once - that you are a one-legged person.
- Moore: You noticed that?
- Cook: I noticed that, Mr Spiggott. When you have been in the business as long as I have, you come to notice these little things almost instinctively.
- Rosie: Mr. Eureka - I bought a Eureka upright and it won't work in the upright position.
- Mr. Eureka: Right.
- Rosie: Now Mr. Eureka, I couldn't help noticing - almost at once - that an upright vacuum cleaner should most likely work in the upright position, but this does not.
- Mr. Eureka: You noticed that?
- Rosie: I noticed that, Mr. Eureka. When you have been sucking as long as I have, you come to notice when something doesn't suck almost instinctively.
Fortunately, Walmart has agreed to take back the offending vacuum cleaner so I don't have to take the thing to Morristown for service.
Anyway, I'm completely against bagless vacuums at this point. I'm not sure what Dyson is smoking that they think they can charge 400 bucks for one of these things. I'm convinced even the high end of these would be inferior to a vacuum with it's bag properly where it should be.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
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Leeuna
The wierd Phillips screw was probably a torque. (More points than a philips. You need torque screw drives.
I am glad to see you are an Dudley Moore/ Peter Cook/ Alan Bennett/Jonathan Miller fan. Our family members were great Beyond the Fringe Fans. We got so we just had to say a line out of a skit and we all laughed recalling the whole skit. "And Dudley Moore continued to play with himself".
Not all Americans get the English accents or sense of houmour.
So, I did the classic thing of buying him a DYSON $400 vacuum for his birthday! Just like on a sitcom where the wife is all mad you got her a cleaning tool....BUT.....HE LOVES IT and I have to say that it outsucks even a SHOP VAC WET/DRY vacuum (which were invented for guys to suck up sawdust and water in their workshops and factories) I mean, that DYSON is SO WELL DESIGNED it is ridonkulous, it is almost as though someone with BRAINS designed it to be easy to use and work well!! It works better than well....it is THE DREAM VACUUM.
being an evironmentally ill type of person with real lung issues, i'm happy with it. a bit clunky as its a canister vac, and changing the water can get tedious when you live with as many animals as i do, but it works well.
reminds of my old, also vintage mercedes...its old, but its a MERCEDES.
the vac cost me 150.
theres my 2 pennies.
hope you are well rosie! i'm sorry about your friend moving away...where o where will you find another rural queer to chill with? we are a rare species.
xoxoxo
Bob
The filters, those waay over expensive little boxes of corrorgated paper is another hidden cost, I mean, wth is it that a replacement was damn near $35? Upright vs canister is damn near a moral dilemma since the choice forces lifestyle examination.
sope, I went with the Kenmore canister, strong little sucker it is alright and also got Four bags of bags. Ya, it was still spendy all in all even though on a good sane sale, but has done it's good real well, haven't lost any of the attachments cause they store under the 'hood'. The cord winder hasn't lost it's umphh and still pulls the whole cord back nicely.
Now if I can just get the dang thing back from my kid...
The Rainbow one is a very good 'hooka' setup and gives the satisfaction of knowing all the dander and dust is now a semi muddy slurry that can be poured down the drain thereby leaving the house free for a new generation of dust mites and whatnot.
The, dang what is it called now, you know that one that can suck and pick up a bowling ball? Ya, that one, is a good light weight model and has a warranty for eighty years! (Really, the guy told me that at the cleanest store I've been in in years) Thing is, as I looked at his sincere eyes and gentle manner, I was thinking 'Dude, neither you nor I will be around that long that's for dang sure!' Plus the price was more than the Dyson.
So, keep a good broom handy Rosie and since you have hardwood floors maybe those slippers I saw in a little catalog recently with the swiffer type material that can be attached to the soles might come in handy in a pinch..
Oh ya, the Kenmore came in a right sexy deep red too...
^5
Sky