Anyone else have a weird psychological relationship with their vacuum?

[applegrove]

These days I leave mine out all the time as if I'm just about to vacuum. But don't. I step over the bloody thing for months. Then finally one fine day I use it. Like today. And I feel great. What psychological condition do I have? Denial? Am I sublimating my cleanliness because of anger? You?

[MorningGlow]

1. Egad, I do that ALL the time

Mr. MG is constantly giving me shit about it. Is it because we "intend" to vacuum and then never do it? I wonder if, after I'm done, I'm just too lazy to wrestle the thing back into the closet.

Nice to know I'm not alone, though! :hi:

[applegrove]

2. Yes. There is strength in numbers.

[nolabear]

3. As long as it's out there you are JUST ABOUT to vacuum.

Really. Any minute now. Particularly if someone comes through the door. "Oh yeah, it gets hairy fast around here; I was just saying to myself 'It is certainly time to vacuum."

Or maybe that's me.

Personally, I have a hate/hate relationship with the things. For such an essential piece of home equipment I have never found one that works as well as I want it to. Either too heavy, the critter hair gets tangled up in the beater bar too much, too hard to do stairs, the attachments don't do well on upholstry, not enough suckage, yaddayadda. And I've had everything from a heavy duty stand-up to a whole house to the latest, a Dyson Animal. The jury's still out on that one.

[applegrove]

4. Glad to know it is not just me!!

[HopeHoops]

8. We have an Electrolux canister style that was bought in 1987. It is still going strong.

The only REAL problem with it is the latch for the carpet attachment. You just have to hold it a little differently now. The minor problem with it is the dog smell it produces when it is on, but that happens to all vacuums in households with dogs.

Did you know that all but like two models of Electrolux canister vacuums made since 1957 use the same bag? They aren't always easy to find, but pretty much every Sears and K-Mart will have them in stock. The air filter is the REAL pain in the ass to find. You're supposed to change that after every 4-6 bags, but they do pretty well for longer.

[Taverner]

5. No, but my dog thinks its the AntiChrist....

[madinmaryland]

6. Whew!! I thought this was a lead-in to another dildo thread.

:hide:

[applegrove]

7. LOL!

[HopeHoops]

9. Vacuum + dildo? Oh my.

[Z_I_Peevey]

10. Absolutely. Mine is sitting there in the middle of the dining room

right now, mocking me.

Also, I have an unrequited relationship with two old Kirbys in perfect working condition that I saw at a garage sale some years ago. They were $8 apiece. Like a fool, I passed.

Oh! What might have been! To this day I still think of them, and sigh.

[qwertyMike]

11. Mine's purely physical. I can't commit.

[burrfoot]

12. This guy sure did.....

THE VACUUM

BY HOWARD NEMEROV

The house is so quiet now
The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet,
Its bag limp as a stopped lung, its mouth
Grinning into the floor, maybe at my
Slovenly life, my dog-dead youth.

I’ve lived this way long enough,
But when my old woman died her soul
Went into that vacuum cleaner, and I can’t bear
To see the bag swell like a belly, eating the dust
And the woolen mice, and begin to howl

Because there is old filth everywhere
She used to crawl, in the corner and under the stair.
I know now how life is cheap as dirt,
And still the hungry, angry heart
Hangs on and howls, biting at air.




Really like this one. YMMV. :toast: