A Tale of Two Vacs
Tue 31 Mar, 2009, 23:02 pm
There comes a point when you think "enough is enough is enough, already!" and I hit that point late last week!
It all came about because I put my glasses on and looked down ...... and the floor was revealed in it's full monochrome glory of grey. Wouldn't have been too bad, but my carpet is green with a cream floral pattern on. I've just been getting more and more down about it ... hated turning the vac on because it was a pointless exercise in futility - each 3 by 4 carpet would take an hour to clean, and when I say clean, I mean remove the matted dog hair off the surface and not even get to the dust below it. Didn't want to dust any of the furniture because that just meant that there would be more dust flying round in the air with the only possible location it could end up being the carpet. So I just gave up.
I sat here and I thought about rolling the carpets up and sending them all out to the Dry Cleaners so they could be rolled up and stored in their wrappers under the bed until next year .... because that option seemed so much more pleasant than another few months of hoovering the carpets before I take them up for the summer.
And it hit me, what a ridiculous situation all this was to have a vac that was so bloody useless and I came to the startling conclusion that I was going to use my birthday and Christmas present money that had lain untouched and buy the most expensive vac I could find!
That Red Bissell had had my eye for a couple of years .... the price just made me balk everytime I got near it though. We had to go out to Carrefour to get all the shopping for the buffet so I deemed this a suitable opportunity to have a sneaky peek at the vac. Secretly I had convinced myself I was going to have a sneaky peek and come home armed with the sucker! But I decided this bit of info was on a need to know basis and Mr G didn't need to know that I was just about to spend an obscene amount of money on a dust sucker upper.
So we prodded it and poked it, had the man get it down and plug the display model in while I flew up and down the aisles with it sucking all the carrefour dust up having a whale of a time, and I just knew that this was my Dream Vac (Suppose I do have to mention that there was a point in time when my Hyundai vac was also he vacuum of my dreams! but that moment came and went!)
"I'm taking this vac home" I announced to Mr G, he knows me too well though, think he saw the gleam in my eye as I hoovered all the aisles and he saw that I already had it all worked out, else there's no way he'd have let me hold it else I'd have moped and stuck my bottom lip out for the rest of the week. 
So the plan formed, he was going to stand guard over the only boxed vac left on the shelf and fend them off with the floor model if anyone showed too much interest and I was going to scuttle off to the cash machine and withdraw the obscene amount of money. Halfway there, I thought to look in my bag, in my excitemnet and my need to keep schtum about my super plan - I'd forgotten to pick up my bloody cashcards! (Bit like the time we went shopping, did an entire shop with each of us thinking the other had picked up the shopping money and had nowt which was a tad embarrassing!)
So I had to go home vacless, sticky out lower lip and all. Was gutted. Only because if I'm spending that amount of money I like to get it over and done with a bit sharpish so I don't have time to sit down and think about it else I talk myself out of it!
So I had a sleepless night trying to convince myself that I had to have that Vac.
Got up the next morning still having palpitations at the thought but determined I had to have that Vac. Shot back off to Carrefour (Armed with cashcards for a change) dumped it in the cart and shot home to give it the ultimate test - the matted dog hair carpet!
Turned it on and got towed round the bloody apartment by it! I swear that thing would be off and down the street if it wasn't confined by its need for electricity! WOWEEEE!! Dog hair?? GONE!!!! All of it!!! In minutes not bloody hours of backbreaking work! Who'd have thunk it!
Vacuumed all my carpets twice that day, sure they didn't really need a second going over but I just couldn't resist! 
But the bigger question is ... what do I do with my old vac?? Got two of them sitting in that room now and starting to look a bit crowded what with my broken chair that I'm still waiting to get rid of! Not even going to mention that my satellite dish is still sitting in the sitting room - how apt!