Thread Number: 31059
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
Steel Eureka canisters, etc. |
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Post# 343168 , Reply# 1   2/8/2016 at 14:25 (2,970 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 343179 , Reply# 2   2/8/2016 at 16:23 (2,970 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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Actually, it was my step-daughter. She spilled a bunch of dry cat food and in a rare moment of taking responsibility for a mess she'd made, decided to use the Eureka as a shop vac to clean it up, never mind the fact that there was a shop vac 20 feet away in the garage and heaven forbid she actually stoop to using a broom and dustpan. Bits of cat food got into the motor and it started making a hellacious racket. When I couldn't figure out how to get the motor apart to clear the cat food fragments out in 30 seconds or less, her mother, to whom I was married at the time (worst mistake of my life) said that it was too old to bother fixing and since we had a much newer (really crap-tastic plastic, IMO) Kenmore Progressive, it just needed to go to Goodwill and be done with it. I didn't agree but had learned to pick my battles by that point and just let it go. The vacuum had been my grandmother's and was otherwise in near perfect condition. This was the same woman who accused me of wasting time when I repaired a punctured tire on my car using a tubeless tire repair kit that had come with a 12-volt air compressor she had given me for Christmas. She thought I should have taken the tire to a repair shop, which would have taken at least as much time and cost additional money that I didn't have. The compressor, she said, was to be used to pump up things like balls and beach floats for the step-daughter. I haven't seen or spoken to the ex-wife or the step-daughter in more than a decade, but I still have the air compressor and use it on tires all the time. When we split, I left that POS Kenmore with her and acquired my Electrolux 1205 at another Goodwill store. Get rid of the ex-wife, pick up a 1205, sounds like a good trade-off to me.
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Post# 343182 , Reply# 3   2/8/2016 at 16:41 (2,970 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 343199 , Reply# 4   2/8/2016 at 18:54 (2,970 days old) by delaneymeegan (Mary Richards lived here)   |   | |
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Post# 343276 , Reply# 6   2/9/2016 at 15:40 (2,969 days old) by vacuumlad1650 (Wauponsee, IL)   |   | |
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Post# 343311 , Reply# 8   2/9/2016 at 19:56 (2,969 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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An Electrolux in the house for Donald to use, he grew up with one so that's what he likes, but he NEVER tears up anything.Praise the LORD for NO CHILDREN! |
Post# 343329 , Reply# 9   2/9/2016 at 21:45 (2,969 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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Yeah, that marriage experience pretty much sucked. I'm in absolutely no hurry to try again and at my age, I doubt I will. The fact that I'm generally happy in my life today is the greatest revenge I can have on my ex. And I don't hold anything against the step-daughter, who will turn 25 in a few days. She was just the product of her mom's twisted values.
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Post# 343346 , Reply# 10   2/10/2016 at 00:41 (2,969 days old) by delaneymeegan (Mary Richards lived here)   |   | |
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Post# 343369 , Reply# 11   2/10/2016 at 09:42 (2,968 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)   |   | |
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Shaylee has her Oreck but she has wanted to use so many of my vacuums and I finally broke down and let her use for the most part whatever one she wants. She is very good with the vacuum. Every now and then she will tell me "hey be carful with that vacuum its vintage ya know" lol makes me want to slap her.
No children yet but that's around the corner some day. Not sure how well that's going to work, I guess if I have to I will pick up a cheapie from the thrift store for the kids to play with. |