Thread Number: 42298
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Update on my recently-acquired Electrolux model E |
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Post# 445263 , Reply# 2   8/28/2021 at 01:45 (965 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH)   |   | |
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Post# 445364 , Reply# 4   8/30/2021 at 10:37 (963 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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Jon wrote:
I had one of these but I gave it to a friend and I think after some time he threw it away. I’m looking back with regret I gave it to him. I reply: I know the feeling. I once loaned a Kirby Heritage I to a now former girlfriend, after which she promptly tossed her Oreck in the dumpster. I should have seen that as a warning sign. Several years later, she left my Kirby behind in her old apartment when she moved, despite my making it clear that I'd like to have it back whenever she was done with it. A couple of years later, I gave a Hoover QuikBroom Supreme to another friend of mine but this time I made it clear it was hers and distanced myself from any outcome. Sure enough, she called me up about a year later to tell me she'd smashed the nozzle end trying to dislodge a clog. What the hell did she expect to happen if she repeatedly banged the thing on a hard floor? It apparently never occurred to her to take the nozzle off and fish the clog out with her fingers or a coat hanger. But then she had the audacity to ask for another vacuum and I was fool enough to bring her an Electrolux Discovery Plus (Discovery II with awkward onboard tool storage) but made it quite clear it was the last vacuum she was ever getting from me. I recently donated three surplus machines to my church's rummage sale and I'm glad I'll never know their fate beyond depositing them in the church basement. |