Last night we went out to dinner and then hauled the kids to Sears to purchase a new vacuum. I am blogging about buying a vacuum? Yes, yes, I am (which may indicate a new low in blogging for me). Anyway, Al was practically giddy as he pointed out we have reached a new point in marriage - we are actually REPLACING an appliance, a first for us in the 7 years we've been married. (Never mind that in that same 7 years we have purchased 2 homes, 3 cars and remodeled an entire house.) In true Al and Monique fashion we literally waited until the old vacuum practically blew up before we took the plunge (it was smoking when I used it yesterday) AND we did loads of research before buying this one. We were ready to shell out the big bucks to buy a Dyson but after consulting Consumer Reports, decided to spend half the money and buy the #1 rated vacuum which is made by Kenmore, a Sears brand. 
Just because this is the most random post ever (and really, it is mostly because it was written at 4:30 a.m. and seems like a great idea in my perpetual pregnancy induced insomnia), I have to document a couple things about our previous vacuum. First of all, we still laugh about the whole vacuum buying experience. We were newlyweds and decided we needed to stop borrowing our neighbor's vacuum every time we vacuumed, like we had for the first month or so of marriage. It was getting tacky, you know. So we surveyed which store we had the most remaining credit at and off we went to ZCMI to see if there were any vacuums for sale. We were blessed to get a young, pimply faced teenager as our salesman in the tiny vacuum dept. at ZCMI who did not know a dang thing about selling appliances or vacuums. Al, being the mechanical engineer, was determined to get the best bang for the buck and peppered the kid with a ton of questions about various models. Poor kid knew nothing. When we had narrowed it down to 2 models, we asked what the difference was accounting for the $30 price difference. Finally, the kid looked proud and pointed out that one model had a front light and the other didn't. Ok, sold. Frankly, we were happy to just have enough credit to buy the vacuum and he probably could have told us anything and we would have purchased it. You probably had to be there, but we still laugh about this today and use the expression "but it has a front light" when trying to sell one another on things.
One other thing (not that anyone has made it this far) about this old vacuum is that we are astounded that it has lasted this long. When we were remodeling our CT house, we never bothered to buy a ShopVac so this thing sucked up tons of plaster as we tore down walls, tile remnants as we tore out old tile and replaced it, sawdust galore, etc. etc. Good times. So here's to out with the old, in with the new! Cheers!!
Just because this is the most random post ever (and really, it is mostly because it was written at 4:30 a.m. and seems like a great idea in my perpetual pregnancy induced insomnia), I have to document a couple things about our previous vacuum. First of all, we still laugh about the whole vacuum buying experience. We were newlyweds and decided we needed to stop borrowing our neighbor's vacuum every time we vacuumed, like we had for the first month or so of marriage. It was getting tacky, you know. So we surveyed which store we had the most remaining credit at and off we went to ZCMI to see if there were any vacuums for sale. We were blessed to get a young, pimply faced teenager as our salesman in the tiny vacuum dept. at ZCMI who did not know a dang thing about selling appliances or vacuums. Al, being the mechanical engineer, was determined to get the best bang for the buck and peppered the kid with a ton of questions about various models. Poor kid knew nothing. When we had narrowed it down to 2 models, we asked what the difference was accounting for the $30 price difference. Finally, the kid looked proud and pointed out that one model had a front light and the other didn't. Ok, sold. Frankly, we were happy to just have enough credit to buy the vacuum and he probably could have told us anything and we would have purchased it. You probably had to be there, but we still laugh about this today and use the expression "but it has a front light" when trying to sell one another on things.
One other thing (not that anyone has made it this far) about this old vacuum is that we are astounded that it has lasted this long. When we were remodeling our CT house, we never bothered to buy a ShopVac so this thing sucked up tons of plaster as we tore down walls, tile remnants as we tore out old tile and replaced it, sawdust galore, etc. etc. Good times. So here's to out with the old, in with the new! Cheers!!
5 comments:
What's shocking about this is that I am actually awake and reading it about 3 minutes after you posted...
maybe some day when my walmart $30 vacuum kicks the bucket I can hit you up for some vacuum advice!
Thanks to you and your thorough research on vacuum values, etc., we were able to walk into Sears, find a sales lady, take a pretty thorough look at the said model, and purchase one right there on the spot. We think the sales lady was shockec that we spent so little time weighing all of the options, etc. She doesn't know how much we rely on the good wisdom of our children.
Mom
Hi-larious. I loved this post because of its randomness, not in spite of it. Just so you know.
"but it has a front light." Hilarious!
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