Vacuum 2-3 times a week? Aside from my laziness, it'd probably all happen on the weekend, since I seem to be spending vanishingly little time at home during hours when a vacuum cleaner isn't intrusive.

This is where the Roomba comes in handy. Not as powerful as a stand-up vacuum, but more than made up for by the fact that it doesn't hate vacuuming.

I have the allergy covers on the mattress and all the pillows, but I don't have Tempurpedic anything, so I don't know how naturally dust-resistant it is.

This is where the Roomba comes in handy. Not as powerful as a stand-up vacuum, but more than made up for by the fact that it doesn't hate vacuuming.

My parents are quite happy with the roomba, even as they have a cleaning lady that comes in once a week. (Honestly, it was purchased as more of a novelty than anything.) Given their very dusty location and two cats who like to roll in dirt and then flounce around inside, it does a decent job of just sort of keeping it all under control.

Plus, the amusement factor.

vacuum 2 or 3 times a week? I think I should vacuum once a week. I"m lucky if it happens every other week.

But it turns out sweeping, dust mopping and swifer wetjeting is another story. I don't like using thing that are noisy and heavy

I also think my dad just likes disconcerting people by announcing gleefully "Look! It's nursing!" when it is recharging (its little light pulses.)

My god, I must be the laziest lazy person in Slothville. This is a symptom of depression, isn't it? This not being able to move even to do things you want to do? I'm pretty sure it is.

It seems fairly simple to deduce that my purchase of a Roomba should therefore be tax-deductible.

Though I'd honestly prefer an apartment with hardwood floors.

Weirdly rare here, given how plentiful they were in, say, Montreal. I figured carpets made more sense in cold weather places, but there must be something else I'm missing.

there are sprays you can use on mattresses and other surfaces that kill the mites or some sucha nd then you vaccuum them out

I may have to use those on my many cushions. Not sure I have a vacuum cleaner powerful enough to suck mites out of my futon mattresses. I like them for their density.

Weirdly rare here, given how plentiful they were in, say, Montreal.

I periodically get distracted by the great variations (some seemingly illogical) in housing stock in various geographic locations. It's fascinating. Climate, demand, history, boom/bust cycles, keeping up with the Joneses and the intersection of that with tech...

I still want a 20s-ish vintage, adobe-styled-after-um-I-dunno cottage house like in the older parts of my hometown. Wood floors, lots of arched doorways, neat wall niches, tin roof.

Zen -- yeah, that's one of the bigger depression signs. There's a test online in a couple of places, the Burns Depression Checklist that gives you some simple questions to evaluate how you're really feeling. There's an online checklist here:

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That scale ranks me as moderately depressed.

Which reminds me, I should vacuum the living room too.

X-post made me blink...

Heh. Now I want to start using "Great lamp!" as an interjection all over the place. "Great lamp, what knockers!"

Not being able to do things you want to do sounds like something to investigate and hopefully make better, Zen, whatever it signifies.

Hope the banishment of the mites helps, ita.