What'd you get, Stephanie? Our vacuum cleaner is literally held together with duct tape in two places.

The thing is, I loved it when I got it, and for years. It's just not working so well now. I've probably had it for 7+ years. I'm really tempted by refurb dysons, except for the price, if I knew they'd work well on wood floors too, and not just shoot shit out the back (a problem I've had with a lot of "all-floor" vacuums.) So, what long-lived, spiderwebby-fur-picking-up, good on hard floors, manueverable, non-attacking, bagless vacuums do people like?

I am upstairs puttng Frisco to sleep and I've been trying to remember. It was maybe $60 and we had to assemble it. Oh, I got away. The vacuum says Eureka lightspeed on it. It's no frills but I love it.

Why bagless? Just curious why people like them. I had a stick vac for a while, and I hated emptying that thing.

sara is me. I mop my kitchen floor by hand, half the time. Small floor.

And I hate bagless vacs. I hate a lot of tools they make to clean things, because, how do you clean the little pipecleaner brush you use to clean the dryer lint trap? What gets that lint out of those stubby little bristles? How do you clean the nylon scrubber you scrub the mac&cheese pot with? That cheese is stuck in that nylon weave for all time and is gonna smell tomorrow morning. I hate having to take the whole vacuum apart and wash the dirt cup and the filter fittings and wipe down the housing before I fit it all back together.

This is why I love swiffers and wipes--you clean stuff and then you throw the dirty away. I love vacuum bags, too. Throw the dirt out, don't transfer it. I know this makes me a bad consumerist non-green person, and I compensate in other ways. After all, the energy and the water and the detergent runoff is just as harmful as disposing of my swiffer wet pad. Footprint the same size, just a different shape.

I am Beverly. Though CJ is the one who Swifters and vacuums. But that is a reminder that I need to look for more vacuum bags. Not sure where I put them after the move. I found them once, but now I forget where.

I like bagless because I don't have to find the damn bags when the damned things fill up and then dump on the ground when I take them out, just have to dump out a canister in the trash and wash it in the sink. I don't have fancy tools, just a sponge and bottle brush. It's just less wasteful and easier for me. Plus, more satisfying to see the shit sucked up. I like being able to rinse out filters in the sink, which I'd be doing with a bag anyway.

sarameg, you can have my Roomba.

My vac is a non-expensive Eureka Optima, and I've been really happy with how well it works. It gets up cat hair and strewn kitty litter on the first or second pass. It is bagless, and cleaning it is a pain; next time I'll probably go back to bags. The one good thing about bagless is not having to buy a ton of bags.

I hate cleaning. The vacuum is a necessity because I have cats, but otherwise? Cleaning service once a week. I don't have to stock cleaning supplies or figure out how to clean the cleaning thing or try to mop or scrub with a bad back.

"Vacuum" should be spelled "vaccuum".

I have a roomba! And it does a nice job for what it is, just getting up the clutter. But nsm for really cleaning the fur from the carpet.

I've decided to throw caution to the wind and go to Vegas over Valentine's with my friend!

Also, I just did 55 minutes of yoga. Daaaang.

In conclusion, I think I want this mop: [link]