Hair "B" Gone

July 26, 2013

Hair mostly avoids the dust pan and rolls around the slick, well-worn hardwood floors as I sweep. I am choosing to purchase a vacuum versus adding to my daily frustration. Want a little used one (still committed not to buy anything new,) a canister, which is definitely more versatile than an upright, given my pet-hair-pick-up needs. From my house cleaning days, I have experience with every new-fangled machine. I know what I want, and am sticking to it.

A friend of mine turned me onto her family store in St Paul. All arrows pointed to A-1 and, after relating what I wanted, needed, and my miniscule budget plan, the loaner vac came out of the backroom. A week and a half after that conversation, I have the slick little unit in my house, scaring the bejesus out of my pets, and having more fun than I have had in awhile. Chasing ‘round the dust bunnies and going to town on the grungy sun porch and questionably clean grandfathered-in upholstered furniture is a giggle. The efficient serviceman cleaned it thoroughly (even removing the sharpie warning “A-1 LOANER” plastered every which way,) put in a new Heppa filter, ordered all of the accessories for my personal pleasure, and loaded it into the back of my vehicle, in the pattering rain. What a deal.

Then I went to Target for a seam ripper to start my curtain project, and made the mistake of checking the prices on new vacs…the latest version, of my very same contraption is the exact same price. Oh well, I can admit the integrity of supporting a local business, and not breaking my “nothing new” promise to myself. My lips smack in satisfaction, after a bit of whining.