Twice a week I get our vacuum out of the hallway closet and do what millions of other do to keep the house clean. I vacuum the floors.
Our current vacuum is a Bissell. We got it as a wedding present when we got married almost 5 years ago, and it has been through a lot of abuse! We have never changed the filters, only cleaned them off a bit. We have taken it outside to use as a shop vac. And during some remodeling in our old house, we even used it to suck up blown-in insulation during some of the demolishing.
For the last two years, we know we have been having a problem with our vacuum getting enough sucking power, but I kept having to dump a bunch of dirt and dog hair into the garbage each time I vacuumed, so I figured it wasn’t that bad.
Until today…..
Our vacuum finally started to overheat the past two times when I tried to clean and my husband was tired of having to pull out clog after clog because of its crappy performance, so we broke down and finally decided to buy a new one.
We made a small family outing out of it and went to Wal-Mart, looking over all the different options. We bought another Bissell, since I heard Dirt Devil sucks… or I mean “doesn’t suck”… well, you know what I mean.
We took it home and my husband put it together for me, since he is our family’s official “assembler”. I plugged it in and started going over the living room, which I had just vacuumed with our old vacuum right before we left to buy the new one.
All I can say is “Oh my God!”
I emptied it 5 times! It just kept filling over and over with dirt filled clumps of dog hair. The more I vacuumed the more ashamed I felt at having been so niave to think my old pathetic excuse for a vacuum was cleaning anything!
The only thing I can say is that after I was done today, I was able to sit down on our couch and watch our 3 year old wrestle with our dog and know that this time the floor she was rolling around on was clean.
