Today I bought my first vaccum cleaner, and it was an adventure. Have any of you ever done this before? It's so confusing! First of all there's like 30 to choose from, each with their fancy brand names and logos. The dyson ball! Dirt devil! Oreck! Bissel! Just to name a few. And of course all with extreme and varying price ranges. I already knew i wasn't in the budget for a $400 purple dyson ball beast-of-a-cleaning-machine (even though it's totally awesome and i want one), so i started my shopping with the more modestly priced vaccums.
But... all those features!! Cyclonic!? Aren't all vaccums kinda like a cyclone? What in the bejesus makes this one so much more "cyclonic" than the others? Do i get bagged or un-bagged? Is there an advantage to having all your lovely carpet dirt in a compact fancy bag instead of just a cup you dump in the garbage? I have no idea!!!! I starred and all of these trying to read their descriptions and decipher their science for almost a half an hour, it was a whole thing...
But in the end, I settled for a Dirt Devil "feather light cyclonic" type of vaccum. Why you ask? Well I recognized the name dirt devil, it's been around for decades so there must be some kind of good behind the name right? And then it said it was "feather light" and that appealed to me because lugging a vaccum up and down the stairs will get super old if the thing weighs as much as my car does. And lastly, I definitely bought into the "cyclonic" description, why? Because SCIENCE. Actually it just sounded cool, and in my head I imagined a scene out of the movie twister where the tornado sucks up an entire farm, and all those poor flying cows. Except this version was of the microscopic dirt and bacterial world living within the depths of my carpet, who may or may not have flying cows. It's hard to know these things you know? :)
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