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Joanne DeLuca's avatar

Companies should clearly label ON each attachment- then in the manual explain its use. Or just fewer attachments and lower prices would be nice

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Rosie Meleady's avatar

YES! The designs of these things and labelling seem to be done by people who don't use them!

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Tanya Soens's avatar

I love reading how you view the world. You think like me!

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Jodi Sh. Doff's avatar

Ah the days of coat hangers to scoop small children out of a Hoover....

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Leslie Senevey's avatar

Such truth! Especially the part about a man not reading instructions!

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Life Lived Italian's avatar

One of the best titles of a Substack post ever.

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Rosie Meleady's avatar

Thank you!

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Denise Guidera's avatar

You are hilarious!!

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Casa Lucia di Lucy Hayward's avatar

My husband took over the vacuum cleaning several years ago - we have 4, for different purposes... I don't use any of them apart from a small, hand held battery version which is useful for all the corners he misses 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Rosie Meleady's avatar

😆

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Sheri Beam's avatar

Funny and How true! Especially the fierce coal miner type vacuums. I used to vacuum my golden retriever—German shepherd-collie mix. He LOVED it! He’d rollover on his back, close his eyes, and let the vacuum suck up balls of loose fur. Nowadays, you have to pick up a piece of fuzz and hold it up to the hose.

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Rosie Meleady's avatar

hahhaha what a great idea! I should have done that with our long haired german shepard we had years ago. And the capacity of the containers are full to a max after one room in my house!

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Jacqui Gatehouse's avatar

Brilliant and hilarious! I can still imagine that old French vacuum cleaner with its little arms folded, nose up in the air, while shaking it's head and repeatedly saying 'non' 'non' 'non' when you tried to use it. Our current one is the long stick cordless version by the same company that made your new one - going by the identical attachments. It's obviously had some kind of lessons from your old French hoover and regularly goes on strike. The battery then has to be removed and replaced before it will start. A direct result of it taking the addition of a new filter as a direct insult to it's hoovering capabilities!

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Rosie Meleady's avatar

Oh you see that is exactly why I didn't want a battery one. I knew I'd have lost my reason with it within a week!

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Erin Henderson's avatar

I come from a family of vacuum aficionados. We take them very seriously. My sister has a few models for upstairs and down, kitchen work vs living room.

My dad just gave my mum a new vacuum for her birthday. We all took it for a spin after she unwrapped it. Works like a dream. Handles corners brilliantly.

Naturally, I read this with interest and can sympathize when one just doesn’t measure up. Keep searching. Just like your soul mate, the vacuum that completes you is out there. 🫶

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Rosie Meleady's avatar

That's so funny! Taking it for a spin! hahahaha

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Erin Henderson's avatar

You gotta test drive these things! 🚗 💨

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Rosie Meleady's avatar

😆

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Jo Candiano's avatar

I'm the same with all the heads. I never use them. I suppose I could.. It just seems like a lot of effort when vacuuming itself is already a major effort.

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Rosie Meleady's avatar

Exactly. By the time you get the other head and reattach you'd have it done with the first one!

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JQ Rose's avatar

Ahh. I can identify with every emotion you felt as stated in your funny but so true. article. Love your style. Now I have to find where my robot vacuum cleaner is hiding. Sigh.

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Rosie Meleady's avatar

I'd be disastrous with a robot. I need industrial size vacuum cleaners that can't hide!

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Ashley@Briefly's avatar

Hilarious. I used the exact same canister-with-hose-Electrolux my mom used during all the years I grew up (the actual one, not just the same brand) and it lasted me another 5-7 years before we retired it (too heavy to lug up and down the stairs) to the basement and bought a shiny red Meile (same canister design but much lighter and sexier). I loved that one but my husband hated the canister design and wanted an upright. Now we have a Dyson that hangs on the wall in its charger, so it's constantly charged, which is brilliant. No chords. I gave the Electrolux to one of my sons and I am pretty sure it still works– even though it's about 50 years old. That thing was the best ever. But I do love my little Dyson now too.

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A French Table 1's avatar

Hi there Rosie! There are two types of people: those who wonder why their vacuum has a butt crack attachment… and those who already used it without asking questions. Can’t watch read more!

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Bridget Young's avatar

Brilliant. And to think, all I did this week was change a vacuum bag. My old faithful, still upright.

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