So this is where I become a total mommy housewife blogger for a brief moment in time because I am pissed off enough to write a product review post about a freaking vacuum cleaner, and avoid the posts I am obligated to write, okay?
I made a Housewarming Gift Wish List before we moved. It had on it a Super-Dee-Duper suck your socks off vacuum cleaner on it. Here's my reasoning for the high-end vacuum on my wish list: I have gone through at LEAST 8 lower end vacuum cleaners since I moved out of my mom's house in 1998. Needless to say the man laughed at me and said, "How much for a vacuum? You're crazy!" and promptly came home with this $80 model Eureka True Clean | 2961BVZ:
Extra Wide Cleaning Path, Power Brush and Telescopic Self-Cleaning
Duster make vacuuming your entire home simple and convenient. The
powerful filter traps dirt and dust, and the Easy-Empty Dust Cup means
no messes when you empty your vacuum.
The extra wide cleaning path does not pick anything up from the bare floor, in fact it spits debris back out at your feet. You could use the tubing to suck stuff up by hand, but the tubing is not long enough, and you're stuck bent over trying to use it, dragging the vacuum behind you, and it hurts!
The stairs are impossible - you cannot carry it up - there is no handle. Trying to hold the damn vacuum up thirteen carpeted stairs at a time? Times, three? Yeah, right.
I would use the suggested "pet brush" but it's too strong for the new carpeting we have in this house, it tears up the rug.
The vacuum does not clean well on the carpet either, it spits fuzz back out repeatedly, after going over a path. The moment the dust cup is at all dirty - the machine loses suction. Did I mention we've owned this thing for all of what, a week?
This Eureka True Clean | 2961BVZ is junk, absolute JUNK. I wish I hadn't thrown the box away.
But, I guess I'm not alone in my review!
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