Why Do I Love My Dyson?

Let me count the ways.

1. No bags. Minimal Mess. This is a good thing for 30-something women as well as favorite vacuums! In fact maybe if I use my new vacuum often enough I can get rid of the under arm flappy bags... now THAT would be an awesome vacuum!
   
   
2. Totally easy to take apart: Snap, Click, Open, DONE. From dumping the contents, to removing the brush head.
   
   
3. Which brings me to: Easy to clean the brush head. I pulled out a quarter, opened the latch, pulled out the brush... and removed all the icky hair... (yeah, it's a mom job).
   
   
4. LOVE the ease of switching to the hand held telescoping vacuum arm. Upholstery? Check. Ceiling vents...oh yeah. Crack, Crevices, Stairs? All over it baby.
   
   
5. IT AUTO TURNS OFF the brush head when (ahem...) I accidentaly suck up the corner of my kids's favorite blanket! (ask me how I know)... The vacuum is still on but the brush has stopped turning... you know? That awful smell a vacuum makes when you suck up a shoe string or a plastic bag?? NOT this masterpiece. Kids can work it with no fear! (Moms love that.)
   
   
6. Also there is a manual turn off for that same brush head, when switching to a hard floor from my hallway to my bathroom. Voilá, like magic! LOVE that! It also turns off the brush when you place it in it's upright position.
   
   
7. UNDER THE BED. Let me repeat. UNDER THE BED! I used the thing several times before I realized while using the extended arm with the really flat attachment, that DUH! If you turn the handle sideways the whole thing stays flat and will fit UNDER BEDS! Heck under my night stand! Dust Bunnies... be gone.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
8. Easily reach high places. Ceiling vents. And Cobwebs. And lighting fans. And dead flies. And anything else gross hanging out above eyesight!
   
   
9. Kids can use it. Even better? MY KIDS do use it! Worth it right there.
   
   
10. This thing is a BALL to use. Literally, there's a ball on it to swivel around corners. Easy on my shoulders, and so far little stress on my back... I definitely don't feel like it is knocking all my corners and cabinets either.
    

I have racked my very clean carpet and brain... but honestly I can't come up with anything I don't love about the DC25 Blueprint?

The color? Nope. I love that mine is white and clear and like you want to match a vacuum to decor anyway??

The size? Nope. It's lightweight and easy to carry up and down stairs.

I've got it! The extension coils on the telescoping arm are kind of tight... maybe like they need to stretch out a bit... but sheesh it's so dang long I'm able to reach from the top to the bottom of my stairs enough that I don't care about the tightness!

Next week... a few more things I've gone without in my 15 years of marriage. What have you gone without?

Dyson: Time To Get My Vacuum On!

Why do they call it the Blueprint? Here's what Dyson says:

DC25 Blueprint - Limited Edition

"Dyson DC25 BLUEPRINT is a limited edition Dyson Ball™ upright vacuum cleaner that celebrates engineers."

I Loved the tags on the vacuum, featuring several inventors including Buckminster Fuller, Charles Goodyear and Thomas Edison. With trivia facts about each. Did you know Edison tried over 2,000 different types of materials before coming up with carbonized cotton as a filament for his lightbulb??

I think the kids were just as excited as I was to get the box opened! But um.. HELLO this baby is all MINE! --{Okay I'll let them use it... but I get to NAME it!}


In the running so far:

• Ballsy
• Luke:IAmYourFather
• Little Sucky Ducky

The Dad and the 5yrold boy have decided on their Halloween costumes. They are going as matching Transformers. Yup... you can buy Optimus Prime Dad-sized costumes! I think I'll go as a Dyson vacuum and honestly I'll fit right in, what do you think??

Putting the bad boy together was simple and took maybe 10 minutes...

We were off and cleaning and sucking and um... grossing ourselves out in no time!

This was after only cleaning one room. ONE.

Possibly one of the coolest things about this vacuum {besides the all around cleans-my-carpets-like-a-BEAST cooness!} is how quickly and easily all the parts come apart. Cleanable? YES. Empty the cannister? Check. (No bags! Yay!) Clean out the head brush? (Well I did have to fish a quarter out of my pocket to OPEN the part holding the brush in... but sheesh! EASY!) Done.

Wanna see just how easy it is to transform this Optimus...er... vacuum into a hand held reach the hard places kid friendly kitchen floor machine??

Watch my 8yrold do it by herself!





NOTE: top ten reasons I love my Dyson is coming next week
Disclosure: Dyson provided the vacuum, I provided the dirt.

15 Years Is Long Enough...

This is from Snoqualmie Falls in Washington State... I had scan fail when I tried to scan a 15yrold photo from our wedding day... next week's installment for SURE!

• Long enough to not own a single piece of bedroom furniture.
• Long enough to pay off the equivalent of a mortgage in law-loans.
• Long enough to own 3 children ages: 11, 8 and 5.
• Long enough to live in 4 states, but never more than 4 years at once.
• Long enough to use the same dang vacuum all those years!

I have a vacuum story.
{Doesn't everyone?} We sorta kinda bought a vacuum for our own wedding present...

Huh? When you live in a teeny tiny town, the traditions are a little off kilter.

The local hardware store (I know—I told you it was weird) was the only wedding registry in town. And friends and family purchased items from our 'list'. The store wrapped it up pretty in silvery paper and delivered it to our reception.

And then they came and took it all back!

Crazy huh? They totaled the loot and gave us a store credit invoice instead...
Can you guess what we bought with our exchanged oven mitts, toasters, wrenches and spatulas?

A brand new vacuum.

And not to dis it or anything. I mean 15 years is a long time. But it's seen better days. It wasn't a fancy model, and it worked hard and tried it's best to do it's job. It also traveled across the country and back again... We tried very hard to follow the whole use it up, wear it out thing... and I think we did.

I'm afraid my old friend needs to be put out to pasture.

I've been looking for a new vacuum for 2 years. I researched online, I watched commercials, I even tried out a few of my neighbor's suckers!

Last year my mom and my sister both got a Dyson Upright. And color me jealous. I test drove it. I vacuumed my mom's new hardwood kitchen floor, and reached easily to clean her carpeted stairs! I fell in suction love.

I made my decision. I want a Dyson too. But dang... there are a lot to choose from?




Uprights with balls...






Handhelds that really suck...






Cannisters with rockin' names like Turbinehead...









I have 3 kids (AKA walking tornadoes)!
One cat...
One husband... (AKA my tidy-er half).
And currently live in what feels like the dustiest part of Southern Oregon?
I have plenty of carpeted spaces, and all the normal hard spaces too...

I'm really excited to announce... that a Dyson DC25 Limited Edition Blueprint is in my family's (much cleaner carpet) future!

Disclosure: Dyson is providing the vacuum. I'm providing the dirt.