January 15, 2007
Suck it up!
The history of vacuum cleaners. Ugly site with some nifty photos. Gallery here. More suckers and some beaters. via blört
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What household dirt is composed of: First, it’s about 75-80 percent dead human skin cells. So much better than trying to vacuum the live ones!
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Hey! You forgot the Electrolux Death Ray.
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Hmmm, so how does this Electrolux thingy work? Is it just this button? YEEEEAGHHHHHHHH
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The thing is, you hoover round the place, then six months later you've got to do it ALL again. Swizz.
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They sure don't build' em like they used to, do they? *whittles on front porch* I hate living with wall-to-wall carpet. But for some reason all the apartments I can afford have it. Maybe it cuts down on the heating bills, but I pay the heat. No matter how much you vacuum and steam, you just can't get it as clean as a hard floor.
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TUM, I don't have carpets in my house, unless you count the continual carpet of dog/cat hairs that roll around. My floor cleaning progression is to dust mop the big stuff, vacuum, wet mop, then vacuum again, and if you dampen a kleenx and run it across the tile, it STILL comes up with dog hair. At least if I had carpet, it would all stay in the living room, and not roll under the bedroom doors (where the dogs are not allowed, but it gets drafted in there anyway) If 80% of this stuff is skin cells, and 99.5% is dirt that blows in off the desert or gets tracked in from the horse pens, and 120% is pet hair, then I guess my house is always 299.5% dirtier than everybody else's.