Thread Number: 40722
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
What did your parents/family think of your collecting vacuums? |
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Post# 432630   9/27/2020 at 15:38 (1,278 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA)   |   | |
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My parents were fairly supportive. They actually bought me a 5 gallon shop vac and a Bissell stick vac for Christmas one year. Still have the Shop Vac, the Bissell got sold.
My mom also got me a Eureka Mighty Mite at an estate sale one time. I think that might have been my first vac, still have it too. They would also let me pick up vacuums from the trash to take apart. But I wasn't allowed to take them in the house. I had a Kenmore canister and a Hoover Celebrity I got at one house that were missing everything. A Eureka F&G and a Hoover Convertible. One time I found a hard bag case Hoover Legacy which was like new other than the bag case tabs had broken off. They did let me keep that one and even let me get a new bulb for the headlight that was burned out and bags for it. Back when you could buy genuine green Hoover bags at the grocery store! Miss those days. One of our neighbors used to pick up things from the trash and he left a Kenmore upright and a canister on the porch. My parents hated that but let me keep them for a while. Then I had to throw them out. One year my aunt bought me a Black and Decker Car Vac (12V Dustbuster with attachments). So overall my parents were supportive of my collecting. It was when I got older they didn't like it. She was ok with me getting brand new vacuums or ones that were always kept clean. But since when I started driving I discovered old vacuums at Habitat and started buying them, she didn't like it, and said they were about the dirtiest thing to collect. But eventually I showed her that I clean them all out and get new bags, etc. And she realized I wouldn't likely stop the interest so she was passive about it. But honestly they do take up a lot of space, and I have gotten a lot more selective about what I get. Also both my grandparents let me play with their vacuums. My grandparents on one side had a Montgomery Ward metal wet/dry vac that I have a picture of me playing with, which my grandma gave me recently. My other grandmother let me get out her Singer Silver Glide canister and put it together though I never actually used it. |
Post# 432632 , Reply# 1   9/27/2020 at 15:55 (1,278 days old) by Thevacomaticiec (Bathurst New Brunswick Canada )   |   | |
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Some think im nuts probably am ahahhaah
But my mother is suportive and interested in seeing how i bring them back to new condition . Doesnt like the idea per say but once she use myElectrolux ZB89 eluxomatic green she was sold on it . Igot to vacuum whit there vac (of my fam member but thats it ) could not get my hands on it so in 2012 i got my own compact c9 no more you cant take it home i own the thing hahah . |
Post# 432635 , Reply# 2   9/27/2020 at 16:35 (1,278 days old) by anthony (leeds uk)   |   | |
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Post# 432638 , Reply# 3   9/27/2020 at 18:01 (1,278 days old) by KirbyCollector (Columbus Ohio USA)   |   | |
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Growing up I always had an interest in vacuums. My parents thought it was funny but cute and that nothing would come come out of it.
Then when I started getting vacuums and building a collection, they got concerned. They thought it was a mental illness and that there was something wrong with me. They wouldn’t stop me or anything, but they would get upset and strict whenever I got another vacuum. This went on from age 10-around 14 or 15. After several years, they finally started to accept it. Now at age 19, they’re mostly supportive of my vacuum collecting. Every once in a while they’ll tell me to slow down a bit and save my money. But that’s really it. |
Post# 432655 , Reply# 5   9/27/2020 at 20:52 (1,278 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA)   |   | |
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Post# 432660 , Reply# 6   9/27/2020 at 21:22 (1,278 days old) by Brando_husky (Las Vegas Nevada)   |   | |
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My parents especially my dad was veeeeeery very much against it. Boy I got in a whole heck of a lot of trouble growing up. It was one of the reasons I moved out when I could |
Post# 432675 , Reply# 7   9/28/2020 at 04:59 (1,277 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)   |   | |
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Post# 432685 , Reply# 9   9/28/2020 at 07:43 (1,277 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 432770 , Reply# 11   9/28/2020 at 22:59 (1,277 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA)   |   | |
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Well I was never much into vacuums at a young age. Antiques, mostly. And some other random crap. Neither of my parents much cared for the hoarding aspect of collecting, though my interest in antiques rubbed off on my mom. She's not a collector, but she definitely appreciates them now. The rule for my collecting was 'nothing bigger than a bread box.'
So I had quite a few old radios, as those were about as big as I could go under those conditions. Now I'm an adult, so I can do whatever I want. That includes eating ice cream before dinner! |
Post# 432773 , Reply# 12   9/28/2020 at 23:22 (1,277 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah)   |   | |
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I didn't start liking vacuum's until a little over 3 years. I showed my mother in law who me and my life live with to help take care of. She thought it was really cool. My wife hated it. It was maybe nine months in and I got a letter. My wife wrote a letter saying shiny big bumper older model took her place. She could never suck like a vacuum. I hope you merry your vacuum. It was a joke but I didn't realize I was so upset. It's funny now.
My parents think it's pretty cool. My dad had a crappy $30 dirt devil. He said he heard sharks were great. I got a nice shark with a 12 foot hose. I also gave him a royal prince. I told him to use it on the bed. He loves them and thinks they are the perfect vacuum's for him. I've sold a few things a rainbow I made $600 and a bag $300. My wife and mother in law realized I was very good with vacuum's. I don't like to hoard. I want to down size my collection to 5-7 vacuum's. I want people to enjoy a good vacuum. I can't enjoy them all. |
Post# 432780 , Reply# 14   9/29/2020 at 08:23 (1,276 days old) by Kloveland (Tulsa)   |   | |
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My dad hated it too! I got the vacuum is a tool not a toy speech from my dad on several occasions. Although, he did let me have a Regina electric broom that one of his friends left in my dad’s AG barn for me one time. My dad is very conservative he didn’t like me doing “woman’s work”. He has lightened up a little bit since he’s gotten older.
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Post# 432783 , Reply# 15   9/29/2020 at 09:06 (1,276 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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My father never said anything at all about the vacuums during my childhood. I didn't have too many, maybe three that I can think of. Given by relatives who got a new one. My mother was always encouraging, in the respect that when we went to the mall, she would stand me in the Sears vacuum department and leave me there while she shopped. No one ever stole me and I was always there when she came back. When I was 17 and decided to sell new Rainbows so I could buy a car to drive my senior year in High School, she took me to the Rainbow office and consigned a machine for me to demonstrate since I wasn't 18 yet. I bought a brand new car three months later with the money I earned selling Rainbows. It was on the drive home, with my dad driving my new car (I didn't have a license yet) that he turned to me and said "I guess there's something to all this vacuum crap after all".
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Post# 432784 , Reply# 16   9/29/2020 at 09:13 (1,276 days old) by pr-21 (Middletown, OH)   |   | |
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My Dad kind of started my interest too. When I was little, I was
afraid of the vacuum and dad didn't want me to be afraid. So he helped me run the vacuum cleaner so that I would not be afraid..... After that I asked Santa Claus for a childs vacuum cleaner each Xmas. Back then they made some really neat ones, not these cheap plastic toy vacuums the make now. Sincerely, PR-21 Bud |
Post# 432786 , Reply# 17   9/29/2020 at 10:19 (1,276 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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This is actually a fairly recent obsession for me. I found this site about seven or eight years ago, a few hours after I'd rescued a Kirby Gsix from beside a dumpster. I knew I'd found something cool and wanted to know more about it. I didn't really start collecting until a couple of years later when I acquired a Kirby G5, Electrolux Super J and Royal Prince 501 handheld in short succession. At that point I was in what one might call 'active addiction'.
I live in a different city a couple of hours away from the rest of my family and they never come to visit, so they're not really aware of the extent of my collection, which is just fine with me. People who come to my house and see all the vacuums stashed in various nooks and crannies think I'm sort of weird but that's their problem. 'What the hell do you need so many vacuums for?' is a pretty common question and understandable since my house is so cluttered, vacuuming is nearly impossible. A friend of mine was over at my house one evening, saw that I was on this site and she said it could be worse, I could be looking at porn or trying to find a date on Tinder. |
Post# 432790 , Reply# 18   9/29/2020 at 12:30 (1,276 days old) by Collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk)   |   | |
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Growing up in the 70s my parents initially looked at it as just a strange obsession that would eventually pass. (They did even buy me a toy vacuum for Christmas). What really changed their attitude toward it though was when Stan Kann started his show on the Television here. Suddenly the attitude went from it being weird and it will pass to "Well....Hes famous and collects these things so it cant be all bad" They never worried about it after that.
That show made a big difference and, happily, I was able to meet Stan about a year before he passed away and tell him that. |
Post# 432791 , Reply# 19   9/29/2020 at 12:58 (1,276 days old) by johnnyb59c (13240 n 3980 rd dewey oklahoma)   |   | |
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I think it was one of those things they thought it was a childhood thing. nope. I started out studying and playing with my moms Kirby Classic Omega attachments when she had them out before I could walk (according to this pic I was less than a year old). Then around 2-2 and a half(again according to the pics) I started using it apparently under supervision(mom was a photographer and has lots of pics of me and my bro growing up). then, when I was in preschool or kindergarten(whichever comes first) I was more mobile and started searching peoples' closets when we went to visit places(with parents or school field trips, I didn't care) my grandparents on dads side had a Sanitronic Kirby and grandparents on moms side had a Classic, Classic 3(which he sold in a yard sale I guess, because we didnt visit but for Christmas and summer and next time I came it was gone) Electrolux 1205, and a Regina Electrik Broom(the Regina was blue and thats all I know about the model) one of my aunt and uncles on moms side had a Classic they still used long after Uncle Ken became a salesman)
I didnt know at the time they were all different models, so I just called Classic 3 the "Big Red Kirby" the Classic and Classic Omega "Big Brown Kirby" and the Sanitronic was "Little Tan Kirby". I knew there was difference in Aunt Mary and Uncle Kenneths "Big Brown Kirby" and ours- ours had the "lines" on the light(trim) and the "thing around the place where it turns on" and theirs didnt. theirs had a "yellow bag"(I didnt know gold yet because it wasnt part of my crayons-but somehow I did know what tan was) and ours didnt, it had little brown "triangles" theirs had metal "balls" to hold the bag ours didnt. theres had a light- ours didnt(or at least I didnt think, because ours was always burnt out and mom and dad could care less until I wouldnt let it go that I wanted a light like Aunt Mary and Uncle Kenneths and had him "fix it" and I was happy for awhile) the drugstore had a "little tan Kirby"(which they let me run every time we were there- during business hours and it was one of those old buildings with real loose thin carpet that was also office supply so it was a little bigger.) later on when I started kindergarten I had to run the vacuum every morning before school and I remember our Kirby had duct tape on the lower part of the front of the bag-probably from rubbing under furniture. When our class to a trip to the petting zoo outside someones house but still in a fence) I found they had a "little tan Kirby" (another reason for "Little Tan Kirby" is I didnt know "Sanitronic" and "Dual 50" except one had a "circle on top of the light and the other didnt) I was so excited to see another "Little Tan Kirby at the petting zoo I had to have the lady hold it up so the rest of the class could see(she held it up because we werent allowed in the house and she didnt want to get it dirty outside) later on dad bought me my own "Little Tan Kirby" so I'd quit asking other people for theirs! The one he bought me had cobwebs on it. The people had quit using it and decided to sell probably because of the screaming motor (from bad bearings) and a hole in the bag. Uncle Kenneth fixed me up though- he made it sound good like Grand dad and Grandmom Davis' and put a new replacement striped bag on-Omega "Big Brown Kirby" style. One day while staying at Aunt Mary and Uncle Kenneths house after school I wrote a letter to Santa with a big purple crayon way before Christmas asking for a new "Big Red Kirby"(I didnt know when Christmas was- I just knew Christmas meant it was cold outside and we'd be at Grandma and Grampa Hendrix's house) later on still, Uncle Kenneth brought Aunt Mary a "Little Blue Kirby"(apparently "Dual 50" because of the plastic window on top of the headlight cap, now with a blue lense instead of the light up logo and the belt lifter had a plain blue cover instead of "Kirby on it" it seemed like it was no longer a Kirby because all the Kirby logos were gone and replaced with dark blue plastic where the lenses would go. I didnt believe it was a Kirby til they told me) I was afraid of it but don't know why- I guess because the bag was allowed to raise above the handle instead up down and I thought it was going to come of while vacuuming(I have never seen one like this since, but the bag was blue and had the little "triangle" things like our "Big Brown Kirby" |
Post# 432799 , Reply# 20   9/29/2020 at 15:43 (1,276 days old) by EurekaFanSquid (Sacramento, California)   |   | |
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Post# 432904 , Reply# 23   10/1/2020 at 14:21 (1,274 days old) by vacuumdevil (Vacuum Hell )   |   | |
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