kc_kirby
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A month ago my father sent me a link to an estate auction in my area that had a bunch of vacuums. From the listing it appeared the person that lived there ran a vacuum repair business. The listing mentioned there were about 25 vacuums plus parts used to repair vacuums. It had one picture with a bunch of vacuums that looked like they were in an attic. I could only see a few pretty well but I saw enough to peak my interest. I went to a house inspection time prior to the auction hoping to see more of the vacuums to get an idea if there was really much there worth going to the auction for. I saw some interesting items that I really didn't want to miss out on. So I went to the auction this past Saturday morning. When I got there I was overwhelmed. There were many more vacuums there than I had seen in the preview or online. There must have been at least 100 vacuums. So I went up and down the rows of vacuums to pick out what I wanted to get. I figured they would probably offer choice of vacuums for the bid price. There were lots of Hoover Convertibles, a few Kirby's, Rainbows, a Compact, Kenmores, Eureka's and many more. It looked like most were fairly old so I am guessing the husband of the couple must have died off a long time ago. I didn't see any bagless vacuums there. There were also a lot of parts as well, and they were not all together with the vacuums. Some of the parts were downstairs and some were in the backyard. The auction ran two rings so I had keep going back and forth to make sure I didn't miss anything I wanted. I ended up taking home 10 vacuums. I would have loved to taken many more but I don't have the space to store them and my car would only hold so many. One guy bought all the vacuums that were left after I got mine and a few other people got theirs. He must have netted around 80 vacuuums for 1.00, yes, that's right, only a buck. And I left a lot of vintage Eureka's and some older Hoovers so there were some good vacuums left over.
