win a dustbuster — confess your mess!
The DustBuster is celebrating its 30-year anniversary, and we get the present! Our friends at Black & decker are giving us a 4.4V Cordless DustBuster Cyclonic Hand Vac to award to a lucky Shelterrific reader! But not so fast — first you have to prove how much you need it. None of us is perfect, and we confess that even though we love our homes, it doesn’t mean they’re perfectly free of dust bunnies or dog hair. So tell us — what’s your housekeeping shame? Do you have a forbidden closet of clothes you haven’t worn since the Clinton administration? Have you thrown out a rug rather than clean it? Confess your mess in comments now through the end of Wednesday, June 24. The story that amuses (or appalls?) us most will win the Dustbuster. Bonus points if you provide a link to photos. Get commenting now!
Comment now to win a Black & Decker DustBuster:
- 14.4 volts of power for extreme suction
- Cyclonic action — powerful spinning action keeps dust and debris away from the filter so suction power stays strong
- Accu-reach nozzle extends for reach in tight spaces
- Filter refresh dial clears debris from filter to improve suction
- 3 stage filtration prevents dust from escaping into the air
Thanks, Black & Decker!
I hate to clean period. i leave the vacuuming to my fiance and then i have to bug him for at least 2-3 days to do it. not that that happens often either. gross, i know, we have wall to wall carpeting in our apartment. i have thrown out bath rugs rather than cleaning them. my car on the other hand is worse. hubby is an avid fisherman and has all his crap in the car (poles, hooks, lures) which also brings in SAND, DIRT, probably saltwater. Its his duty to clean the car and he doest do it. There is also spilled soda in the cup holders thats now a solidified syrup. Not to mention other dirt and gravel that gets inside.
So we would love to get this lovely vacuum to clean our (really his) mess. Love that is hand held and portable.
I have not vacuumed under our CA King bed in the 3 years we have lived in the apartment. There’s no room to move it to the side (small bedroom) so that I could get a regular vacuum under there, and I don’t have one of these handy portable vacuums. We have two cats, so underneath the bed are not dust bunnies, but dust buffaloes! This vacuum would help me conquer the dust buffaloes.
My confession is that we don’t have a place to keep our lawnmower outside, so we have to bring it through our basement room to get to our storage room. Although we do carry it (which is incredibly heavy!), needless to say we always have a track of grass blades all over our basement carpet AND let’s not even talk about the state of our storage room!!!!!
That vacuum would be KEY!
Our downstairs neighbor has had a pug for years. Luke the pug is quiet, sleeps 18 hours a day, small, and has equivalently small poops. So when we were trying to find an apartment-friendly pet, we thought, hey, a pug would be great. What we found on craigslist, though, was the anti-Luke. We found darth pugger. The tasmanian devil pug. He gets excited and runs around the apartment at full speed (I think he thinks he’s Seabiscuit)… while shedding and destroying. The deceased remains of multiple skeins and balls of yarn have embedded pug fur. And let’s not talk about his penchant for ripping apart stuffed animals from the crotch outward. Just know that pug-drool smelling polyester fill can be found under every piece of furniture.
And now, he’s found that he likes to be under the bed. I haven’t the courage to see what he’s destroyed or shed. He might have shed a whole new pug down there but he’s probably destroyed it, too.
The pile of dog and cat fur I swept up last night was so big that our cat thought it was another animal! Once he spied it, he first darted down the hall and then peeked around the doorway to keep an eye on it. This is after not sweeping the living area for just three days.
Dustbuster, I’d like to welcome you to my world.
dust is my enemy, but i can never seem to vanquish it. see, i live in a studio – and there are lots of little corners in the way i’ve divided up the space. i try to vacuum and dust regularly, but it never seems to be under control. the vacuum is just big enough to be really annoying to get out of the back of my closet every time i need to use it, so i don’t vacuum as much as i should. then there’s this little … superstition problem. see, i’m a red sox fan, and i chatter all the time with a group of other red sox fans, and somehow, we’ve worked it out that vacuuming during a game is very bad for the team. so of course, when do i think about vacuuming? during games, when i can’t do it! so i sit there during a three-hour game and think, man, i need to vacuum, but as soon as the game is over, the impulse is gone. if i had a dustbuster, i could just whip it out during the commercial breaks and destroy that dust!
I hate to do dishes, but I especially hate to wash them by hand. In our last apartment we didn’t have a dishwasher, so our typical routine was to wash exactly what we needed for that night’s meal and leave the rest until tomorrow. Sometimes “tomorrow” actually meant “three days from now” but eventually the dishes would get done and all was well.
Then we decided to buy a house, and you know how crazy and stressful moving is… during our last week in our apartment, our usual promise of “tomorrow” never came for those dishes, and suddenly it was moving day. So we packed up allllll the DIRTY DISHES and moved them from the apartment to our new house, where they stayed in a big duffel bag under the kitchen sink for at least another week (while we unpacked and ate off paper plates with plastic forks, of course).
Yeah. I feel gross just typing that.
Some have dust bunnies, we have real bunnies. Georgie and Vinny. We rescued Georgie first, but then she was lonely so we rescued another bun to be her friend; enter Vinny. The two of them have recently been fixed and are bonding, and life is happy and sweet at our house. Except that now that they are in a combined cage, they feel the need to eliminate all over the floor to mark their territory. And then they they empty their hay containers on top of it all. It is truly a mess! We bring in the Shop-Vac every other day, but it would be ever so lovely to have a Dustbuster close at hand to sweep up the bunnies’ messes every night!
ugh! the stairs going down to the basement are disgusting. guests don’t see them and the vacuum can’t reach them so…it’s easy to ignore them in my cleaning routine and forget how incredibly gross they are. then i’m walking up the stairs with laundry and i see the corners full of dust, dog hair and grass and oh, it’s awful.
help me, dust buster. help us all.
Ok, so I know this is unbelievably gross, but I just can’t help it!
I’m in college and thereby on VERY limited funds. I have five large area rugs on account of the hardwood floors in my rental are way gross, a cat and a dog.
My dirty secret isn’t so secret- I don’t own a vacuum. My mom bought me a handheld dirt devil from a garage sale and it was at least a million years old, but it couldn’t handle my mess and quit after the first use (admittedly I used it to clean all five at once, so it was probably too much for its weak heart!).
So what do I do? I move all my furniture (bed, sofas, dining table) off the rugs, haul them to the porch and hit them like I’m a maid from the 1800s. It takes absolutely hours and i SWEAR cars slow down to gawk, so I only do it like every few months. Needless to say, my rugs are GROSS. Not to mention the pet hair that accumulates on the sofa- I’ve been using a lint roller. In case your wondering, no. It’s not any fun!
I live in a small two bedroom apartment with two boys. One aged 26 and the other age 28. Both had mommas that cleaned up after them as youngins and now they have absolutely no clue how to keep themselves clean. My boyfriend, in particular, is very guilty of this. He leaves his dirty socks wherever he takes them off… which varies, sometimes the kitchen, sometimes the bathroom, sometimes he piles them up on my dresser, on top of my jewelry, or shoves them in between the couch cushions. Same with his other clothes and he isn’t prompted to do that laundry until he can no longer bring himself to do the “sniff-test”. The other man leaves his fast food containers on the coffee table and leaves it there while everyone is gone, so that our two dogs and two cats (all in the process of shedding more hair than I ever thought they had), could shred the leftover burger wrappers to shreds and throw them about our living room like confetti.
One dog in particular had an incident with a bottle of V8 she decided she could chew… that stain is never coming out. The kitchen is a wasteland. To keep the animals out of the trash, we have to keep the trashcan on the counter at night… that is, if there’s room. The counters tend to be covered in everything from used paper towels (I don’t know what they use these for, it isn’t wiping up spills… because they never do), power tools, various pieces of electrical equipment and gadgets, food containers, spilled oats, the dog’s rash medication…
Sometimes people ask how I keep my sanity. All I can say is, sadly, I don’t think I have. Why else would I continue living and cleaning after these masculine monsters?
My “room” at home is really a last minute revamped extra-large tool shed. I have since gussied it up as cozy as possible, but cleaning the nooks and crannies can be a chore that I can easily procrastinate on. The dark corners of my room often get dust and garden debris blown in through the doorway, which is not elevated like the rest of the house, but slanted towards the garden.
I would love a able to get to those nooks and crannies and behind small furniture with better ease, so a Dust Buster would be my next best friend! =)
I am the worst when it comes to cleaning out the refrigerator and so is my husband. There are always no less than 5-10 bowls and pots with mystery foods in varying states of decay. Chicken becomes completed covered in a black substance when left on the fridge for months, loaves of bread not only become green, but start to resemble a cotton ball with layers of green and white mold start piling on top! I’ve thrown out so many bowls and even nice pots because that is better than attempting to clean the mess. I’ve actually vomited uncovering some of these old foods! We usually wait until something starts to leak because cleaning out the mess. Once, my husband and I were arguing over who would spend a few hours on a gorgeous Saturday cleaning the fridge. I told him I would do it if he ate a gross chicken nugget that had been in the refrigerator for about 3 weeks. HE ATE IT, I got stuck cleaning and he was in the bed all day with a tummy ache!
My entire basement is my dirty little secret! Well, at least more so than the rest of the house. Half of it is occupied by boxes of stuff. The litter boxes are down there and I think the cats have taken to doing their business in the crawl space bc there’s dirt in it! Not to mention it’s damp and smelly in the basement in general. It is just getting scarier and scarier down there!
my home is tidy and everything is in its place,except for my bedroom closet and one kitchen drawer. the bedroom closet is hidden when the bedroom door is open, so most people don’t know it even exists. it holds all my shoes, purses, clothing and god knows what all else. i am afraid of that closet. if i had a dust buster, i could vacuum up all the ectoplasm and maybe the poltergeist inside would let me clean it up.
the kitchen drawer functions as an annex to my purse. wheni change purses- which i do frequently- i dump everything in the drawer and pick out what i will need for the day. so it holds everything from notepaper, gum,pens, books, extra change to all manner of cosmetics. if i can’t find something i need, it is usually in that drawer. a dustbuster would be good for getting the gook out of the corners.
My house LOOKS clean, but that is not the truth. I have thrown out multiple rugs due to not cleaning up the mess right away. I actually have my kitchen rug on the driveway, in front of my house, because I begged my boyfriend to hose it off last week after my dog with diarheaa decided to drop me a gift, and I still haven’t brought it in. Our truck is now parked on top of said rug. My 2 cats have 2 litterboxes that are usually clean. They like to go under my computer desk. I wait until “they are hard” to pick ‘em up! My bathtub has also fallen victim to the cats. I now know that they only way to get out that stain is to resurface the entire tub! My ceiling fans have enough dirt on them to fill both litter boxes, and one is hanging on by a thread, so that fan is out of service… I have a pool table that needs constant vacuuming because it is the choice lounging area/hangout for the cats. Felt picks up cat hair and stores it for rainy days. This is where the dust buster would come in. I could also use it for the spiderwebs that have collected on the ceilings in the corners behind every door. Oh, and did I mention that my lovely boyfriend made an especially spicy chili that exploded a tupperware and found itself stuck to my ceiling? Guests really like to ask about that one, and I think I need a chisel to remove it… it’s been 4 years since that happened. I spilled a glass of vegetable juice off of my nightstand and onto the corner of my bed one night around 2 a.m., went back to sleep, and by then the stains were set. I have an orange bed corner. My blinds are a lovely shade of grey, though when we installed them, they were a bright white. I found a pomeranian in the street a month ago, spent a week trying to find her owners, $800 on surgery to save her life, and now I serve the princess home cooked meals because she is picky, have to give her medications for the rest of her life, and I also stock lint rollers in every room in the house to clean up her ever shedding coat. I spilled water in my cup holder today,and a fish could live in the aftermath. It will probably still be there tomorrow and I will drive as carefully as possible so as not to spill said water, since cleaning it is too much effort. I put lovely solar lights in my backyard, and my large dog chewed them faster than they could charge. It is a plastic cemetary in my yard. My shower ceiling is covered in mold. I can’t reach it. Dishes go into the dishwasher unrinsed and don’t come out unless they are clean… sometimes this takes 4+ cycles! My windows look like they have decals on them, only this is dirt… I shop at Costco and Sam’s Club to save money, but the food goes bad before I can eat it. I had milk in my fridge today that expired May 1. My vacuum broke months ago, and I really don’t want to buy anything else. I know I have issues, but I work all day with animals, so I guess when I get home I don’t mind living like one!
i do not own a vacuum cleaner. i own a long-haired dog. i am the proud mama of a 23 month old darling girl. because of these circumstances, the three-second rule does not (CANNOT) apply in this house. its so sad. each tasty morsel that touches the ground (and there are MANY with 23 month old darling girl) is ruined by the fur that immediately attaches. a dust buster would make me and baby VERY happy… the dog, maybe not so much, as her role as family dustbuster would be eliminated.
I found a cat hairball under my bed. and my Cat has been dead for three years.
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Husband, the former professional cook, can chop and saute like no one’s business. But in his Iron Chef-like whirlwind he gets food everywhere and has forgotten that this is not a professional kitchen with a professional dishwasher/ lackey to clean up after him! At 6’2″ I used to think it was because he was so far above the floor that he couldn’t see what was on it. I think though, that I was deceived!
Dustbuster, take me away!
OK, coffee is coming out of my nose because I’m laughing so hard at these comments–and I’m laughing WITH all of you, not AT you! Because I, too, have a disconnect between the lovely clean home of my dreams and–my home. But I REALLY need that Dustbuster for my car. My beloved dog goes everywhere with me, and so does her hair, although it doesn’t jump out when I say “Out.” We invite people wearing black fuzzy clothing to ride in the backseat and act as a giant lintbrush. Sometimes we tell them that’s why we’ve invited them for a ride, sometimes we don’t! I need that Dustbuster so that all of my friends don’t catch on that they’re being used as human lint rollers!
I have two cats, I haven’t cleaned under the living room couches in about 6 mos or so. But none of this compares to the dust we have all over the house now. We are redoing our ’1950′s kitchen’ which had plaster walls, PLASTER. Do you have any idea how much dust that creates?! (Might I also mention we had plastic up over all the doorways, that dust infiltrated even the strongest plastic taping doorways job.) I am disgusted now by the 1/4 thick layer of dust and cat hair under our couches! Not to mention all over my beautiful hardwoods! Our cats used to crawl under the couches all the time to retrieve their toys, they won’t even think of going under them now. Its a wasteland of dust bunnies and cat toys. Its not easy dust either, its the kind that just wipes around and never goes away no matter how many times you try to get rid of it. So my house needs some Dust Bustin’ pronto. Now is the time to prove how awesome Black & Decker really is!!
Really.
I need help.
BAD.
I’ve got two cats, a one year-old daughter, a sort of absent-minded mad genius type husband, and zero talent or desire for housework. The litterboxes are sequestered in their own bathroom, which does have a gate across it. Sure, we have the usual tracking issues, but lately the chubby kitty has taken to hanging his butt outside of the litterbox when he poops. Apparently, it is “freeing” and I’m just trying to oppress him by asking that he keep his ass inside. the other cat, the neurotic one, would really rather we kept all surfaces clear of clutter and mess. Clutter like my full water glass, my keyboard and mouse, our dinner plates, etc. There are quite a few broken things that need sweeping/vacuuming up. Then there are the cockroaches. Now, I’m not *that* horrible, but we do live in south Texas. It doesn’t matter how clean you are, you will have the occasional roach, especially in a house as ill-sealed as ours. So I kill roaches, my husband kills roaches, the baby doens’t yet, but oh she will, and of course, the cats bring down their fair share. While I appreciate our valiant hunters, this does mean we get roach corpses in places that are a bit difficult to get at, ie under bookcases.
The kiddo eats graham crackers… everywhere. So there are graham cracker crumbs, you guessed it, everywhere. She’s also discovered the joy of Cheerios. She comes by this breadcrumb trail behavior honestly. I can tell where her father has been by the trail of popcorn bits that he’s dropped. The man eats crackers in bed, y’all. That dustbuster could keep me from sleeping on cracker crumbs! (Which are irritatingly pokey, and you never sweep off quite all of them.)
There’s more, but if I go on, someone might try to take my kid. Actually, if you promise to take the husband too, I’ll continue to dish on why everyone else is a better housekeeper.
sooo, we just bought a house. that had not ben lived in for a few months… that should be enought said, but really the grosses thing was the stairs… my super nice roommate pulled out the nasty carpet to find a hair-like-underlayment underneath. A little research found that people did actually use horse hair and jute as carpet padding back in the day. Not sure if it is actual hair, but it looks like it. And smells like its that old. While most was removed… some clumps remain, stuck or stapled in the woor treads. ewww. for now we closed the door until other projects are done, but this lil tool would be perfect for the job!
I bought the house I currently live with the intention of tearing it down and building a new home and studio out of shipping containers. Basically, I just wanted the land and a temporary shelter. So even though a lot of dirt gets tracked in from the welding studio and we have three cats (two with long hair that doubles in volume every week) I pretty much vacuum once a year or so. I keep hoping that the new building will go up and that I can just send the dust with the rest of the house to the recycle yard and dump. Why in the world would I clean a house whose days are so numbered?
So if I never vacuum, why do I want a dustbuster? Because vacuum cleaners are the best way to catch annoying flies ever! I do use a vacuum all the time to get rid of flies or beetles and a small hand held version would work ever so much better in the cramped office!
I will confess – I am the WORST homekeeper ever. The past 5 months have not helped the situation at all. In this time, I have been finishing up my residency (I am a psychiatrist – I am not sure what my uncleanliness says about myself), gotten married, gotten my first “real” job, planning a move 600 miles away, taken my psychiatry board exams, and bought a house. So keeping the house clean has not been easy. My husband and I have a Boston terrier and 2 cats (both who shed an enormous amount). And I HATE to clean. I try, but it is so hard. Our cats have shed so much on our armchair, my husband calls it our “third cat.” We even have a really great Dyson vacuum, but still, there are dust bunnies, and hair ball tumbleweeds blowing across the hardwood floors. Please, Shelterrific, help us with our beautiful new house in Vermont. Help me keep it clean! I want to be a clean person, I swear!!! I try to get my patients to change…. now I want to make the change!
Where do I even start? Honestly, most of my house is clean. But the cat litter in the basement… let’s just say that what the cats drag out is left where it lays. Plus, the entry from the garage is downstairs and out of site, so it shouldn’t matter that I rarely vacuum the entry tile or the carpet up the stairs… except that is the most convenient entry for us or guests, so when anyone enters the first thing they see is the dust and dirt gathered there. Oh, and the entry to the basement as well as the cat litter boxes are also right by the entry from the garage. So basically the first impression of our house is that it is a sty. Why? Because I HATE vacuuming the stairs and dragging the vacuum down to the basement! I NEED THAT DUSTBUSTER!
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Well, we just got married in October, bought a condo with wood floors, and realized we didn’t have any furniture. So we started stealing it from our parents houses. Dining room set and couch from my mom, and a chair and dresser from my husband’s parents’ house. It was very nice of them and very convenient for us.
I should also mention that I allergic extremely allergic to dust, as well as allergic to pets and most things in life, so I am not allowed to vacuum and dust – but I tried to help clean everything when we first moved into the house… including all the furniture we got from our parents.
About 5 months after we moved in, I was sitting in the chair we got from my in-laws and lost a pen down the side of the chair. I reached in and pulled out what I thought was the pen I dropped – only to realize I grabbed a half eaten rawhide from the in-law’s dog.
Obviously we need help cleaning! The nooks and the crannies and the dust are out of control… and with the DustBuster maybe I can help more. Please help us!
My junior year of college, I had a neat-freak roommate. Being not so neat-freak myself, I absolutely appalled her one night (well, I’m sure I appalled her multiple times, but this was the only one I heard about). That night, I accidentally knocked an open pop can into the top drawer of my desk, spilling pop all over a bunch of papers and flash cards. I thought for a second and figured it’d be easier to clean up (throw everything away) when it dried, so I just took the can out and closed the drawer.
So that gives you an idea of what we’re dealing with.
Now, my husband and I struggle with the dog hair that collects in dog-hair tumbleweeds in every corner of the house. Sometimes I wish we had carpet instead of hardwood because I think the dog hair would be harder to see that way…
We also have piles of stuff that never gets put away (and a lot of it doesn’t even have a place to go if we wanted to put it away)…so it gets surrounded by dust and dog hair…and then, I don’t want to sweep because it’s not like the room is going to look clean when I’m done…so it just gets worse…and worse…and worse
With a dust buster, I figure we could at least suck up all the dust and dog hair around/on top of/behind our current clutter…one step at a time ;) and make it easy to suck up all the visible dog-hair tumbleweeds…so maybe we can fool people into thinking we’re not disgusting ;)
It would also rock for vaccuming our stairs (only part of the whole darn house that’s carpeted and totally not the same color as the dog)
i live in Houston where cockroaches (or tree roaches specifically) seem to proliferate despite the pest control people coming out… Our 1940′s bungalow has dust seeping from the walls, and with two cats- well… the situation gets out of control.
When I am cleaning up the dustbunnies that seem to breed like, well, bunnies- I always find belly up dead cockroaches underneath. Which leads me to believe that the dust bunnies are attacking and smothering the cockroaches. Or dead cockroaches are like road bumps that stop the tumbling dustbunnies from moving along their merry way.
Either way- I am a VERY loyal Shelteriffic reader (came directly here after Budget Living bit the dust) and I desperately need to keep the little messes in life contained with a new Black and Decker Dustbuster.
Thanks!
Must I admit this? My cat’s litter box area is so heinous it defies words. He manages to fling litter around with the power of his mind, I swear, because no matter how many times I sweep it up, it just keeps coming back. (or it has begun growing organically out of the linoleum. totally possible.) Anyway, I had a hand vacuum (from a garage sale) that was put to good use, but died (or committed suicide) after just a few weeks. I’m not sure it’s fair to ask another innocent appliance to do this job, but I’d love for Franklin (my cat) to be able to do his business in a less nauseating environment.
My messes, hmm, let me count them…whatever they may be, nothing is so heinous as the dust bunny ranch I am running. They are not called bunnies because they are cute and fluffy. They are called bunnies because they breed like rabbits!
When we lived in LA, we thought it was because the air is so bad down there (plus our cats). We moved to Northern California and thought it was because our house had many large gaps in the windows and the floors (plus our cats). We have moved to a house with no gaps, banished the cats outside, and STILL, I have to get the DustBuster out SEVERAL time each day and do combat with the bunnies.
Needless to say, the fantastic DustBuster we got for our wedding 8 years ago is getting wheezy, Top the bunnies off with two cheerio-strewing kids, and we have a seriously dire situation. PLEASE HELP ME! IF MINE DIES BEFORE A NEW ONE IS LOCATED, I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE!!
Tomorrow’s lead story “Crazed mother found dead in really dusty house. It appeared half her face was gnawed off by a seemingly out-of-control pack of wild dust bunnies, two of which looked suspiciously large…”
I detest cleaning the shower. I also have been known to throw away cups/bowls/pans that have mold that looks like it might fight back. I never, ever, ever clean under things. I mean, I clean my underthings, but not underneath things.
I apologize for the gross, but I blame you for asking the question.
I have psoriasis. This means that I have giant dandruff coming off my arms and legs. If I don’t sweep every day, the skin flakes cover the floors like a light spatter of snow. I have to shake out the sheets daily, sweep off the couch every time I sit on it and just constantly keep brushing off everything.
Right now it isn’t so bad but during the winter, imagine dry skin and increase it by three or four orders of magnitude and then use those same orders of magnitude to imagine the size of the skin flakes.
The only way my life could be ashier is if I lived under an active volcano.
I’m fighting a losing battle.
All I have to say is here’s who lives in my house:
3 boys
3 dogs
5 birds
a Guinea pig
Getting a dustbuster will make my life easier & my house cleaner !!
My house is so bad I dont let people in!! It smells and I have fruitflies over things I can’t even see. I have major depression and my house represents what I feel like inside, which is a sin because I have 3 kids living in this dump with me my eldest son doesn’t even come to visit it’s gross. I’m embarrassed beyond belief and when I do get the uummph to pick up I get pissed that I have let it get so bad!! I need more than a hand held vac I need a bulldozer!! I just felt like venting I guess.
This isn’t a particularly appalling story, just sad. I live in a home with lovely red oak floors. Lovely, and perhaps even a good choice for cleaning up after an 80lb dog and a cranky, always-shedding 19 year old cat.
Both animals passed away last week; the dog on Thursday night from a particularly brutal cancer, and the cat on Friday morning from kidney disease. These two were our children. As you can imagine, we are devastated.
Where are we now? Mounds of animal hair, all over said red oak floor. In every corner. Along the baseboards. Under the furniture. Floating around wildly. The central vac isn’t cutting it. I need something powerful, portable, and flexible to clean up the mess, and pay better tribute to my kids.
Everything hiding behind me basement door. I keep that thing shut for a reason. It is one of those creepy old basements and so I have just completely let it get creepier because I never had the balls to clean it. I don’t even want to know the number of spiders down there!
I need this dustbuster! My mom is coming up to visit this weekend and I haven’t cleaned because my current dustbuster is getting on in years and doesn’t have adequate suction anymore.
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