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Is it wrong to fall in love with a vacuum?

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When we put our new flooring down in February of 2024, I bought a little Dyson stick vacuum to help keep it clean.

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It beat the broom and dust pan…was small, cute, easy to use and sucked up crumbs on the bare floors admirably.

But when we laid our new carpet in the bedrooms last year it made me realize how useless my other vacuum… an old Hoover … had become. The carpet is luxurious and quite thick and my old machine simply wasn’t up to the task.

But I’m a New Englander so if it ain’t broke? We don’t fix it…. or replace it for that matter.

Until last week when my (15 year old? 20 year old?) Hoover breathed its last. She blew up in dramatic fashion with dust and sparks flying everywhere … so even I had to admit it was time for a new model.

Enter the new love of my life.

A full size cordless Dyson V 15 Detect.

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Easy to assemble, easy to use, easy to charge, easy to clean.

She’s easy.

But in a good way.

And may I just say, her suction power is beyond impressive. ( There are a plethora of off color jokes I could insert here, but our relationship is brand new and I don’t want to insult her.)

I’ve honestly never seen a vacuum remove so much dirt, cat hair, dust, crumbs, kitty litter stuff from a carpet before.

Are we really that dirty?

I had to empty the container three times by the time I’d done three rooms, so apparently the answer is yes.

For a relatively simple machine, Vera (yes, I named the vacuum) has a few interesting features.

The Dyson V15 Detect features an LCD screen that provides real-time, scientific proof of a deep clean by displaying the size and quantity of dust particles as you clean. A piezo sensor counts particles up to 15,000 times a second, with color-coded bars indicating sizes: Yellow (allergens/pollen), Orange (microscopic dust), Pink (dust mites/fine sand), and Purple (sugar-sized particles). 

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Holy Macaroni Batman! That’s a lot of allergens and pollen… considering it’s winter in Maine and we’re not opening the windows. ( Makes me think I’d better add ‘clean furnace ducts’ to the to do list. )

No, Vera wasn’t cheap.

But I think we’ll be very happy together,

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And I’m looking forward to the day when our allergen particles fall to under a billion.

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13 thoughts on “Is it wrong to fall in love with a vacuum?”

  2. There is nothing wrong with loving your vacuum cleaner when you find one that impresses you.

    Had I seen this vacuum cleaner before seeing your post and then popping on over to Amazon just to check it out and see there are very happy customers over there, I would have avoided it because I associate cordless vacuums of any brand not living up to it’s job. But this one certainly has.

    I love my current vacuum cleaner, which I have had many years and is still going strong. It’s a Henry hoover that I have and I already had used another Henry vacuum cleaner elsewhere years before I owned one. So, when a new cleaner was due and because where I lived at the time there were few and far sockets upstairs, my Henry came in handy because I vacummed from one socket to do the whole of upstairs and so I fell in love then with mine. He reached an area where my previous couldn’t.

    I don’t see when my Henry cleaner will break down on me as I have met older Henry cleaners. But if anywhere I move to has less carpet and he doesn’t survive, I would be tempted to have this one. 😊

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    1. When I bought the little one last year, it was my first time with a cordless. They didn’t use to have much power but this full size one has plenty and the ease of use with no cord rewinding is something you get used to quickly. The difference from my old machine is night and day.
      I’m a happy camper.
      👍

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  4. Part of me wouldn’t even want to know what’s on my floors. Ignorance is bliss, after all! BUT, I’m very happy to know about his vacuum. Like you, I’m not giving up our not-terribly-old cordless Shark until it well and truly bites the dust (no pun intended), but once it does, this Dyson may be our next cordless. Thanks for the review.

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  5. I am surprised you didn’t buy a $300 self-dumping robotic one 🙂 I have all wide pine floors 30-50 years old so I shake the scatter rugs outside and use a broom and dustpan and lots of clean filters in the furnace lol So happy to hear it is a good one if I had carpets I would buy what you did.

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    1. No robotic vacuums for me. And these cordless are game changers, I don’t think I could ever go back to a broom. Of course I don’t have gorgeous hardwood floors either…

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  6. You had me laughing at all the STUFF yours picks up and the display – that’s insane! I totally understand you. We picked up an old vacuum at an estate sale this summer (there is a lot we’ve had to buy at once), and it turns out to be an earlier version of one I owned when I bought my first house 30 years ago. Man does it suck, though!
    At the new house we found a robot vacuum in a closet, hidden behind a shelf that had fallen. We don’t know if someone packed the charging station and forgot the vacuum, or if they just forgot to throw it away when it broke. I can’t wait to buy a charging station on eBay and find out.

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    1. That’s a sweet find! I doubt anyone left it behind on purpose.
      After using this new vacuum, I realize how utterly horrible my old one was. Damn thing had been phoning it in for years!!
      🤣

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  7. It isn’t wrong to fall in love with a vacuum cleaner, but I did discover it’s illegal to love one in public.

    Plus, I’m banned from that Chuck E Cheese in Bloomington for life…

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