Spring cleaning at the Museum of Natural History, February 28, 1951. The elephant exhibit gets cleaned by vacuums and feather dusters. It's part of spring cleaning at the 25-acre museum, a process requiring 135 workers and a month of scrubbing elephants, dinosaurs, totem poles, teepees, and 94,000 square feet of glass.
Photo: Ernie Sisto for the NY Times
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I vacuumed the WHOLE house today. My room, the hallway, the entrance, the exit, my mom's room, the living room, the kitchen etc !!!!!
It's the only chore I take pleasure in doing because I just LOVE vacuum cleaners !
A few days ago when I was at my aunt's house she was cleaning her house and I actually had to bite my lip to stop myself from offering to vacuum the whole house for her ! IM SAYING THIS SERIOUSLY
That's just how much I love vacuuming ! VACUUMING SUPREMACY
whenever someone talks about vacuum cleaners I feel hungry, strangely enough.
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TC: YkNoW, i ReAlLy LiKe ThE mOtHerFuCkErS wHo LivE bY mY cArPeT. . . .
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day 51
i keep actually keep finding bugs in my room
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i love love looooove when im vacuuming and i can hear the particulates go up into the vacuums tummy. feeding her
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And for today's "What random question can we ask Sam": a year?ish ago, you had mentioned getting a new stick vac. I'm starting to look around for one, but everything I've seen says the batteries are garbage, and that they're not great on wood floors. How's your experience been?
I really love mine -- I have Tineco PureOne X Tango and for me it works very well. The research that I did said, essentially, "A Dyson is the gold standard, but if you can't afford a Dyson, get a Tineco." I wasn't sure if I'd like having a cordless vac, so I went with a Tineco-on-sale rather than blowing like, $700 on a Dyson.
It is true that the batteries on stick vacs aren't great. Mine suffices to vacuum a 1000-sqft one-bedroom condo that contains one clumsy human and two small cats. It has variable suction power, which normally is controlled by a little sensor in the vacuum itself, but if you set it to "full power suction no take backsies" it really chews up the battery. The one time I did that, I had to recharge it halfway through vacuuming. If you have a large house, toddlers, multiple pets, etc. you may still like having a stick vac but I'd look for the one with the longest battery life.
I think it works as well on my (vinyl, not wood) flooring as any vacuum would, which is to say it does an adequate job of getting the dirt up. There's no real substitute for regular mopping on hard surface floors, but I only mop every few months and still have reasonably clean floors. It's great on carpets, and pretty good on upholstery too.
For me, the real point is that I can vacuum any time, for any length of time. The vacuum hangs out on the wall, and I don't have to get it out, plug it in, wrangle the cord, re-wrap the cord, put it away -- I just pull it off the wall, zip it across the mess, dump the bin, and put it away again. I vacuum way more often, which was the whole point. And because the stick part (the long tube and floor-brush) is easily removable, it doubles as a "dustbuster" style vac -- I can vacuum the sofa with it or clean up a small mess without having to fuss with the full stick. Great for hoovering up catnip, for example, or the massive pile of spilled chopped bacon from last weekend.
Dumping the bin is rather messy -- you pop the bottom off the handheld part, but then after shaking the bin out you have to pull out the filter and give that a good tap as well. That said, it's still less of a pain in the ass than trying to empty the bin on a robot vac. I loved my robot vac, but a) it took way too long, b) it broke constantly, and c) dumping the bin was a giant pain.
So yeah, for me the convenience of cordless far, far outweighs any of the inconveniences.
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