Vacuums are a sore spot with me. Mine are always breaking down. Our household replaces our vacuum cleaner about every 3-5 years. I have owned a Bissel, 2 Dirt Devils, several Eurekas and our latest one a Hoover. None of them thus far has been the ideal vacuum cleaner for me and I refuse to pay $400 for a Dyson.
One of my biggest grips about vacuum cleaners in general is the fact that you have to find an outlet to plug them into wherever you go. Some of my outlets are located behind heavy furniture and I am generally not in the mood to move furniture around just to plug the vacuum cleaner in. If it was that much easier to use then maybe the rest of the family would not be so reluctant to use a vacuum cleaner.
Dirt Devil finally saw that us household cleaners (I refuse to say "housewives" because a "househusbands" can also do some cleaning too) could use a cordless vacuum cleaner. I wonder when that bright light went off in their heads? Probably when they realized that drills and other "manly" tools are also cordless. - duh! Now I wonder if the cordless version has as much suction power as a plug in vacuum cleaner. Now the new Dirt Devil cordless vacuum also claims to have the first Energy Star rating of any cordless vacuum cleaner. Sure, that will make it energy efficient but does it suck? With that last line I could certainly get into a long line of vacuum cleaner jokes, but I won't.
I haven't seen the new Dirt Devil cordless vacuum cleaner in person so I have no way to evaluate it. Let's hope that other vacuum cleaner manufacturers get on the band wagon for cordless vacuums and maybe the technology will improve faster than it has in the past. Competition is the fastest way for us consumers to benefit from technology.
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