Trade-in
Wise Smartphones
Great investment! Better than my 3 other vacs combined.
I am not one to hock products online, and, even with a 30% off Prime Day deal, it wasn’t cheap for a light-weight stick vacuum ($399), but, holy smokes, do I love my new cordless Dyson V11. I hate vacuuming, but I also hate visible dirt , crumbs, and dust on our rugs and floors. My family would tell you I’m a bit obsessive about it - and very annoying to them, I’m sure. To ease my stress, I invested in a self-emptying Roomba earlier this year (I wrote about that, too), with the intention of running it every other day or so. This was a reasonable solution and has been generally helpful. But I don’t remember to do it often enough, it is very slow, it scares the cat, and it doesn’t give a deep clean on our wool rugs. And when there’s a small mess, it doesn’t work to say, “Google, tell the Roomba to vacuum only the rug in the living room.” But I’ve mainly been relying on “Roberto” once a week or so, followed by a deep clean by our house cleaner once a month. She came just 2 days ago and vacuumed, swept, and mopped the whole house (using her sturdy Oreck vacuum on the rugs). God bless that woman.But I noticed a bit of a mess on one of the rugs today, so I whipped out the brand new Dyson, which was not fully charged, to try it out. I started with the front door mat, ‘cause I was there, and it immediately got that black mat perfectly clean - something it hasn’t been since its first day, because it’s ultra-grippy and resists the suction of all other vacuums. Then I vacuumed our heavy wool black-and-cream hallway rug that tends to get bits embedded in the weave. Perfect. Then I did the 20+ year old black botanical patterned wool living room rug, which came out looking better than it has in years, and didn’t require using additional tools (e.g. a Birkenstock) to scrape up the cat fur. Without making any adjustments, I then ran it over all the hard floors on the first floor, including the thick foam kitchen anti-fatigue mat, none of which had no real visible dirt or dust apart from the odd stray crumb or litter bead. It was super quick, and easy. Definitely heavier than my old corded stick vacuum, but not uncomfortable. And I found that cordless was a much bigger convenience than I’d anticipated. I realized that I used the prior stick vac so seldom in part because I hated wrangling with the cord, unwrapping, wrapping, plugging in here and there, etc. Yes, I’m lazy when it comes to vacuuming. In any case, doing most of the first floor of our house (about 7-800SF - I admit I didn’t do the nooks and crannies or move all the furniture) took me only a few minutes and the best (or worst?) part was that this small area, which was basically “clean” to start with, filled half of the canister with dust, fur and debris I hadn’t seen. Like a LOT. Yikes.I’ve now given away our two other (non-robotic) vacuums. The first was a massive Dyson upright that I bought used several years ago that was powerful but so heavy and hard to maneuver that we seldom used it. The other was a corded Shark stick vac that was lightweight and did well reaching under furniture and for all kinds of other uses (furniture, drapes, ceiling cobwebs, etc.), but was not as powerful as we needed for regular jobs. And lately, it had started dumping a little pile of dirt at the end of each use that needed to be swept up. My new Dyson is the perfect alternative. I’m a convert.