Cleaning at Mom's

I was off today so I accompanied my wife to my mom's. She cleans the house once a week and Monday is her usual day so off we go.

Instead of doing much help with the cleaning I was assigned the task to bring up all the Christmas decorations. This means totting numerous boxes from the cramped basement to the den. Not too much of a problem really except some of the boxes are rather heavy. It was also raining at the time, but no biggy. I was able to get them all up and stayed relatively dry.

So, after that I asked Kathy if she needed any help cleaning and she suggested I vacuum for her. Now, we have been spoiled because we own an Oreck, which is the best engineered vacuum in the world (in my humble experience). Mom recently bought the worst engineered vacuum in the world (in my humble but accurate opinion). 1st, the chord is short, which is stupid; 2nd, the chord attaches at the base of the vacuum, which means you're always stepping on it and stopping all forward progress; 3rd, it doesn't vacuum stuff off the floor (hmmm, isn't that like, the point?); and 4th, you have to clean up a filter everytime you use it! Now, I may be prejudiced, but I'm not stupid. The engineer for the Hoover was stupid, however.

Anyway, I tied the chord to the top of the handle and vacuumed each section of floor twice so as to get most of the stuff up. Then Kathy and I went and bought another Oreck at Target because her's was getting old and needed replacing. But, we've had the thing for over 8 years and ran a cleaning business for like 4 of those years. Needless to say we've gotten our money's worth and did not hesitate buying another one.

My only question is, why would Hoover put anything like that vacuum on the market? All it can ever do is give them a bad name. I know I'll never buy one.

We also bought another DVD player for the kids to use upstairs. If you haven't bought one in a while they're really cheap now.

Okay, that's all my shopping updates for the day. Have a good one.