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"Mom, we need a new vacuum... this one's too dusty"
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Post# 221697   3/3/2013 at 21:23 (4,071 days old) by gmerkt (Edmonds WA)        

"OK Shaneesha, but check the bag first." Shaneesha thinks, "Bag???"

"Oh mom, I think I found the sock that dad lost."

So this is how a G6 found itself when it came to me. Actually, the machine is in pretty nice shape except for the bag and allied components being filthy dusty. Everything works as it should, cord is intact, even the shine is pretty good on it. They probably junked it because of the dust issue.

To someone's minor credit, the did use masking tape in an attempt to secure the sock.


Post# 221700 , Reply# 1   3/3/2013 at 21:30 (4,071 days old) by nubz3760 ()        
WOW

hahahaha are you kidding me? its amazing how people that can afford a kirby cant afford the bags

Post# 221713 , Reply# 2   3/3/2013 at 22:45 (4,071 days old) by electromatik (Taylorsville, North Carolina, U.S.A.)        

Oh that is hilarious. I can't believe what people do. Little bit of redneck ingenuity there. LOL

Post# 221717 , Reply# 3   3/4/2013 at 00:00 (4,071 days old) by kirbykid (Horseheads,New York 14845)        

I did that once........ Iran out of bags and I couldn't go to the store. And back then my g4 was the only vac I had

Post# 221721 , Reply# 4   3/4/2013 at 00:51 (4,071 days old) by KirbyUltimateG (Troy Ohio 45373 USA)        

Oh my! That is different! LOL

Post# 221722 , Reply# 5   3/4/2013 at 01:09 (4,071 days old) by nubz3760 ()        

they should have at least used a tube sock for more capacity lol

Post# 221724 , Reply# 6   3/4/2013 at 02:05 (4,071 days old) by Ultimatevacman ( Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK)        

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That's hilarious! Haha

Post# 221780 , Reply# 7   3/4/2013 at 14:33 (4,070 days old) by gmerkt (Edmonds WA)        

Oh, do I get some real winners. I should've taken a picture of it, but I got a Kenmore Progressive not long ago that had a Hoover A series bag in it. The bag was secured into place by two drywall screws. The A bag has a much larger opening than the Kenmore U bag, even with the rubber seal taken into account. Consequently, the blow-by was significant. The drywall screws kept the bag from blowing off but that's about it.


Post# 221782 , Reply# 8   3/4/2013 at 14:50 (4,070 days old) by KirbyUltimateG (Troy Ohio 45373 USA)        

I wish these people would have used Kirby G4/G5 Micron Magic disposable paper bags in the Kirby Gsix instead of a sock.


Post# 221868 , Reply# 9   3/4/2013 at 23:40 (4,070 days old) by mark40511 (Lexington, KY)        
You know what I think?

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I think vacuum bags are just one of those things people just typically don't "THINK" to buy, and then they run out and have to do something astonishing like this. Something like this would have been more believable before we all had access to the internet. I remember vacuum bags being a pain to find - but now things are so easy to find & order

Post# 221888 , Reply# 10   3/5/2013 at 02:32 (4,070 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)        

Just hope that sock wasn't worn on a foot before being used in that Kirby!I have heard of making vacuum bags from the legs of old jeans-but that sock is crazy!

Post# 221894 , Reply# 11   3/5/2013 at 06:34 (4,070 days old) by cue003 (S. FL, USA. )        

Interesting. Lol

Post# 221941 , Reply# 12   3/5/2013 at 12:49 (4,069 days old) by classicfan1 (Ohio, USA)        
Hmmm....

A guy once told me that he was so poor growing up, they used cut-up garden hose for bicycle inner tubes.

Post# 222060 , Reply# 13   3/5/2013 at 23:27 (4,069 days old) by gmerkt (Edmonds WA)        

I don't know if garden hose would work well for inner tube (inflation issues) but it could be wrapped around the rim as a kind of ersatz tire.

When I was a kid some Saturdays I would go down to work with my dad. In those years (1950's), it was still customary for many auto dealer service departments to be open on Saturday mornings. We lived in the suburbs but his work was in the downtown area. On these mornings, I would get to see many strange sights that were unseen in the 'burbs. One such as a grizzled old man who walked a bicycle around, carrying a load of what looked like refuse. We refer to people like this now as homeless, but in the '50's they were commonly called bums. This old man didn't have money for bicycle tires, so he'd wound and tied hemp rope onto the wheel rims for tires.

My dad was born in 1919, so he became a teenager in the Depression. His father farmed, would (usually) have a cash crop to sell in the Fall to pay the debts, but also grew and raised much of their own subsistence food. But money was very short. They did have enough money to keep a second-hand car, but maintenance on it was iffy. My dad told me once the car needed brakes but they had no money for brake linings. So they went to the barn and found some old leather strap from a discarded threshing machine belt, cut shapes to fit the metal brake shoes and riveted the leather on for linings.

The car was a 1926 Gardner straight eight, look that one up on Wiki.

The old timers had a saying that went, "Poor folks has poor ways."


Post# 222071 , Reply# 14   3/6/2013 at 00:09 (4,069 days old) by Kirbysthebest (Midwest)        
Bags?

I don't need no stinking bag, I use my sock.

Post# 222192 , Reply# 15   3/6/2013 at 18:18 (4,068 days old) by Vodhin ()        

Give the previous owner of that Kirby some credit. At least they knew there should be a bag in there...

Post# 222384 , Reply# 16   3/7/2013 at 16:22 (4,067 days old) by SUPER-SWEEPER (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)        
That's just too ironic....

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I did the same thing with a sock in my Panasonic last night (To effictively clean-up a floor covered in pennies),And just dumped the sock into the pennie jar :)

-Alex.


Post# 224740 , Reply# 17   3/22/2013 at 22:34 (4,052 days old) by vacuumman206 ()        

even if people don't think to buy bags, how hard is it to wait a couple hours or a day or two when you make it to the store and wait to vacuum then? Will their houses fall apart if they have to wait a day or so to properly use their vacuum?

Post# 224857 , Reply# 18   3/23/2013 at 16:57 (4,051 days old) by djtaylor (Salt Lake City, Utah)        

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I've seen people use F&G bags on Hoovers that take a tpye A bag and also on some Kirbys... but never a sock. Sometimes I wonder if people do things like that because of expence of bags or trouble finding them or is it because they just don't care if they use the wrong things.

Post# 225510 , Reply# 19   3/28/2013 at 23:59 (4,046 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere)        

I found an Electrolux that had a bag which had been reused & taped.

How can someone just tear a bag open & then reuse it again? What if the tape doesn't hold up well?



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