My wife and I are in our fifties. When we got our robotic vacuum we spent a week arguing about what to name it.
Meryl Sweep
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My wife and I are in our fifties. When we got our robotic vacuum we spent a week arguing about what to name it.
Meryl Sweep
I like how there's this unspoken rule that they qualify as just alive enough to be named.
If you have a 'normal' house and keep up with cleaning, a cordless should be fine. The portability and lightness are awesome.
If you have a dog or cat, results may vary.
If you have two labs, you're going to want to throw the thing out the window every time you use it because it clogs every 3 minutes.
Yes, even the "pet" version.
They clog? Glad I don't have one then. I use a Henry hoover, having a cable doesn't really seem like a problem tbh, and who couldn't love a hoover with that face?
And if that new cordless vacuum doesn't work well it will be a significant disappointment that you and your partner discuss multiple times.
The jokes on you. Vacuums have been exciting me since I was 14. /S
Doesn't everyone get excited though? Even as a kid I would get excited because it would make chores easier.
Yeah, I was delighted as a kid when we got a dishwasher! No more washing by hand every night? Hot damn!!
Turned thirty, and I'm just so done with cordless.
Battery issues. Recharging issues. Suction issues (especially when it randomly decides 'this is is too hard' and cuts out). Cleaning issues.
Gonna be a dumb boomer and hold out on proper corded vacuums. Which I guess means looking to the industrial/commercial grade at this point.
Wife wanted a cordless vacuum this year after our main driver died. Our house is multi levels and about 80% carpet and I've always been sceptical of the efficiency of the dinky cordless vacuums. I then found this guys testing videos on YouTube and immediately changed her mind.
We ended up finding the highest performing Shark from below for $250 refurbed and it performs as well as he shows.
Also need to give a shout out to Miele. German made and my dad swears by his, just a bit too rich for me to afford right now.
Corded Vacuum Tests - https://youtu.be/PugLAnsIQUA
Cordless Vacuum Tests - https://youtu.be/RTkUNwBo9Ao
I'm so done with vacuums, point blank. First you've got the mass-produced Walmart/Target/Amazon/Home Depot bullshit. Dirt Devil, etc. They're made like a child's toy, designed to break, and there are so many ever-changing, oh-so-similarly-named-but-slightly-different models that you literally often cannot find relevant information, even on the manufacturers' websites.
I repaired and ultimately replaced like 4 of those over the years before buying a vintage steel behemoth Kirby like my grandma would have had. It worked great, but hauling it up and down stairs was not great and I left it behind when I moved.
Then I moved to a fancy new stick vac, which is...fine. Feels like a miracle weight-wise, cordless-wise, and maintenance-wise, but I have two dogs and it only picks up like 60% of anything.
I hate them all.
Get a Henry, those are amazing vacuum.
And well nothing good comes form massive corporations like Walmart/Target/Amazon/Home Depot
Cord management is such a big part of vacuuming to me I don't think I would be very excited about a cordless vacuum. It would just be missing part of the experience for me.
That's a symptom of early onset Republican as well.
You mean a robot vacuum?
I shared this with a friend years ago on discord.
yeah that did sound sexual.
Thirty is cordless and light, because fuck 50 pound vacuums that you have to lug around because 'it gets better suction'
Forty is a robotic vacuum that doubles as an alarm clock when it wanders into your room at 7 am, eats a sock, and yells at you to unclog it.
I've started to leave my floor clutter free. I have reached zen.
I'm 25 and ngl I'd be excited to get one of these
Got one at 24 and it made me excited.
Uh oh... I've been excited about cordless vacuums since my early 20s 🫣
If you haven't learned by 40 that all cordless vaccuums are terrible, then you're beyond help.
An important thing us people at 40 have to keep in mind is tech advances and gets better all the time. The cordless vac I have now works great for being portable and usable in our townhouse, which has no carpet.
Would a good corded vacuum be better? Depends on the terms. It'll be better max performance, bit I don't have to lug a heavier vacuum upstairs to clean stuff in my room, and what I have works.
As a photography hobbyist, it's like saying why take a picture with a phone camera, m43, or apsc when you could use full frame or medium format? The cameras are objectively better quality pictures, but they are more expensive and larger, especially when it comes to lenses. Sometimes convenience is "better."
Kudos for a great argument. I completely agree that in some cases a cordless will suffice. But in general I feel they all are terrible and at some point become disappointing. Guess I just have a lot of need for something that eats carpet for breakfast.
I got one that uses the same battery system some other tools (lawnmower, strimmer, drill) uses and oh baby it's nice.
40's? I'm barely in my 30s and talked for weeks about my new cordless mop/vacuum hybrid thing LMAO
I just bought a new cordless vacuum on Sunday and am talking about to people at work. I feel attacked
the difference between me and 20's me is that i can now afford a new vacuum
I was excited by one, but it was shit and I went back to my Henry. I will never leave you again Henry.
Oh, I remember my first time. I was 14 and was going to the mall with my family to buy a new vacuum cleaner. For some inexplicable reason, all five kids were too excited and wouldn't stop yapping about it. So the adults decided we'd all give it a go, and anyone not using the vacuum cleaner would have to clean something else. We were juked into cleaning the entire house.
I used to work as a vacuum salesperson, and one day I noticed an older model unloved Bissell, brand new, on clearance.
Someone had fucked up and set staff discount price to $0.01.
That is the most thrilling vacuum purchase of my life and nothing will get close
buy your own vacuums, get commission, return vacuum, get refund.
infinite money glitch
Yes but it would have also excited me as a child.
Opening a new appliance box, looking at all the nice packaging (especially if it’s a high end one), setting it up and taking it for a test drive!
I mean yeah, I didn’t care about the actual vacuuming, but I was always excited about anything new and expensive.
It would excite me more if I could afford a place big enough to feel like owning one would be a necessity. My small dustbuster is enough (which is a cordless vacuum, technically).
And tools. Almost any new tool feels like Christmas. I got a new riding lawnmower and I was giddy. And I’m in my 50s.
Somehow I read "execute" and had fully accepted my fate before I realized it said "excite"
I need a vacuum that can handle dog hair really well. My current one uh... Doesn't suck?
Your current vacuum... not:
23 here and this has always excited be.