Mar 31 2009
Things You Don’t Want to Find in the Vacuum
With four toddlers and four cats the vacuum is used in my house on a daily basis. At the end of the day there’s either tufts of cat hair from Elwood (our long hair) or plenty of crumbs leftover from snack time. When our last vacuum needed a new belt after just a year, Hubby and I knew it was time to upgrade. Through a payment plan we were able to get a Dyson. Whoo hoo!!!
During the last year that Dyson (the DC 14 if you must know) has been wonderful! It truly lives up to its hype, although I’m not a big fan of the attachments that come with it. They’re kind of useless. But the vacuum itself does a great job.
So imagine my concern when, just last week, the Dyson didn’t seem to be, well, sucking as well as it used to. We use the furniture attachment from our previous vacuum so I asked Hubby to take the attachment apart and clean it out. That wasn’t the remedy. I cut away as much of the hair stuck on the brushes as I could… still, nothing. Then Hubby took apart various removable pieces of the Dyson and we both looked in wonder at the objects hindering our vacuum’s suction.
Among the clumps of hair and dust we found an Aquadoodle pen and a cat toy. An Aquadoodle pen? Are you kidding me? Now I know I didn’t vacuum up that pen and Hubby swears he didn’t do it either. Regardless, I have a hard time believing that whoever vacuumed up that pen didn’t hear a lot of noise in the process. Even if you sucked it up with the hose I would imagine that you would suddenly notice the Dyson just isn’t working as well as it was minutes ago. An Aquadoodle pen? Seriously!
Now the Dyson is back in tip-top shape, and I guess that’s all I should be concerned about, right? Besides, I’m sure there are worse things that have been found in vacuums… I just don’t want them showing up in mine!
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I love my Dyson, too, but, we’ve just about eradicated all the carpet in our house. Now, we are much more likely to use our two Roombas.
I loves me my Roomba, too. It’s such a good little worker bee on my tile and hardwoods, but doesn’t work so well on my carpet on the 2nd floor. I have to vacuum that the old fashioned way.
Just the amount of hair that gets sucked up alone makes me wonder how anyone in my house isn’t bald. Nothing can be losing that much hair and still have something to show for it.
Our goal is to someday be a carpet-free house, so when that happens we’ll have to look into the Roomba.
Oldwestmom: Hubby thinks that even with four cats there’s no way we could suck up the amount of hair we find in our Dyson on a daily basis. He’s convinced that we’re actually vacuuming up our cheap carpet. Hey, the carpet is cheap but I still say it IS cat hair!
I use my vacuum on the tile floors, it’s just so much more effective than sweeping to remove the dog hair, which piles up on a daily basis. I’ve never heard of Dyson, sounds like the Cadillac of vacuums. lol. I would’ve expected an Aquadoodle pen to make quite a racket going in, but then again I once sucked up a pencil and was none the wiser…
The Dyson is FANTASTIC! I don’t know how I lived without it. For the first week that we had it Hubby and I were just looking for excuses to vacuum… and we don’t even have one of the top of the line models.
I have heard so many raves for the Dyson. If I had more carpeting, I might consider investing in it. As for the marker, you could have a little one who wants to try out the vacuum. I found about six markers in our vacuum cleaner hose last week. The little one had removed the hose and shoved them inside for fun (our hose comes off so you can use it on its own).
A few months ago Grandma lost her watch at our house. We looked everywhere for it. We found it in the hose of my daughters’ play vacuum, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by what we find in the real vacuum!