Feb
22
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How I See It by Mike
After exhaustive searching through countless articles, online opinions and tons of advice from you and many of my peers, we made a choice. I’d like to say it was through all this that we came up with our ideal vacuum. But, to be honest after all the choices we had the decision was made by a simple process.
Eenie, miney, moe. Yep, that’s right. We used the old tried and true method of fate to come to our final decision. That and what our bank account said we could afford.
What was this wonderful machine that will now be a part of our family you may ask? What vacuum cut the mustard and finally found its way into the heart of this domestic god?
The winner of our very unscientific selection was the Hoover U5140-900 Tempo WidePath Bagged Upright Vacuum. A beautiful bright blue upright machine with enough sucking power to pull the paint off the walls. Can you read the excitement I have for this machine?
We purchased it at our local Best Buy and got it home. I was so giddy I could hardly contain myself as I unboxed our new addition to the family. My wife (not the domestic goddess) just rolled her eyes as I carefully unpacked it, searching for the manual I proceeded to assemble the machine and looked for all its parts. I was in domestic heaven.
When it was finally assembled and all its parts were accounted for and installed correctly the testing began. My hand shook as I plugged it in to the nearest outlet. I twitched a bit when my finger reached for the power switch. This was it. The moment of truth.
I flipped the switch and nothing…
What happened? This is the part where the machine is supposed to go “vroom.” I flipped the switch back and forth several times. Each time my heart sank a bit. What was wrong?
I ran over to the plug and pulled it out. With the mind of a steel trap, I deduced that there must be something wrong with the outlet. I mean we just bought this thing today. I ran the cord over to another outlet and plugged it in. I then stood behind the vacuum and nervously flipped the power switch again.
Vroom. A sweeter sound was never heard before or since. I ran the vacuum up and around the living room giving it a thorough testing. Our carpet was standing at attention after each back and forth stroke. It was seemingly propelling itself around the room. Almost as if it had a mind of its own and it’s mission was to clean.
For those interested I’ll be giving a more in-depth opinion on this wonderful machine at a later date.
But for now, I am very much in love with our new vacuum.
Or at the very least in domestic lust…
After exhaustive searching through countless articles, online opinions and tons of advice from you and many of my peers, we made a choice. I’d like to say it was through all this that we came up with our ideal vacuum. But, to be honest after all the choices we had the decision was made by a simple process.
How can you be filled with such bliss when THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT ELECTRICAL OUTLET??? Seriously. Is that not bothering you as much as it’s bothering me? What’s wrong with the outlet? Wait… is it one of those outlets that only works when a particular light switch is flipped on? Don’t you hate when that happens?
Oh yeah… you’re new vacuum. She is very pretty. And do you offer domestic god classes for the domestically challenged husbands of the world? I would pay money to send mine.
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You sound almost as in love with your vacuum as I am with my snow blower. I like our vacuum, it does an admirable job and cleaning things in the house, but real love comes from watching a machine throw snow 30 ft.
Enjoy your new staubsauger. (I love German. It literally means staub=dirt, sauger=sucker…they rock!)
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Glad that worked out for you. Now you have an outlet to fix!
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That looks like a really good choice. Glad to see you didn’t get bagless – those gross me out.
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You’ll love your Hoover!
I can remember getting mine and being giddy about using all of the attachments on the baseboards.
Did you check your GFI on the outlet?
Enjoy the suction.
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Congrats on your little blue sucker!!
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So, is there any reason why I should be worried about an appliance that sucks really well?
I’m shocked you didn’t get the pink.
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She’s a beaut! Mike! Get a lot of bags!
Isn’t it funny how we get excited about appliances… I do most of the housework, I still enjoy when a device works properly. I still like when the glasses come out of the dishwasher spotless… That through the door ice maker.. I like the new refridgerators so much i may just sell the one I have now. I need that electronic control panel and those AWESOME INTERIOR LED LIGHTS!!!!!!!
I can see how you get worked up…….LOL
Guess it’s like when we get new powertools. Gotta try it now!
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Congratulations! Have fun vacuuming!
Um….your weird!!! Now if it were a new coffee pot…now that would be something!!!
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It doesn’t take much to make you happy, lol!
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I love a man that gets as excited about vacuuming as I do.
I need me one. Mine sucks. I mean, it doesn’t suck, thus, it sucks.
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Aahh… brought a tear to my eye. A man and his vacuum clearer, a thing of beauty.
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Boy, this post sucked. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
But let me congratulate you on your amazing powers of deduction …
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I’ve been dreaming about a new vacuum cleaner for a year now. Our is a $25.00 one I got at Wal-M@rt like five years ago. It has a high-pitched whining sound which makes it REAL FUN to use. I guess it does still work pretty well though.
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