Glad she didn’t toss the Electrolux
Likely because it was easy to push. As people get older they lose their muscle tone and find using the Electrolux or a canister quite easy compared to uprights. Especially without the power nozzle. It happened to my friend friend who passed at 94...in her later years she didn’t clean the house herself but in her 60s and 70s if she had to vacuum (I mostly did it) she didn’t like using the power nozzle because it was easier just to use the rug and floor tool. My Mom is now 83 and has arthritis in her right hand and wrist and she is starting to not use the power nozzle every time she vacuums. I got her a eureka quick up stick vac with power brush and it’s very light and she uses that a lot so she only has to go around with the Electrolux every two weeks. I told her it won’t deep clean like the Electrolux and she agreed and says she still does use the Electrolux because since we got her the new rubber hoses it’s much easier to handle too she said but she likes to use the Quick up frequently.
Sorry your Mom ended up with Dementia, my Grandmother ended up with that too. They called it senility back then but it was very unfortunate. I was young at the time, just 11 and she died just before I hit 14. There was one time when she did recognize my Mother when we arrived for a visit and it was very surprising as it had been quite a while since she knew who anyone was except my Aunt who lived with her. My only hope was that she was not lonely during those years and I think because the mind was going she was living in this world of when she was much, much younger as she would talk about her husband coming home soon who actually had died when my Mother was just 3. Fortunately, she lived in the house she and my Grandfather built at a young age until nearly the end of her life so going through the senility in her house that she lived in at that young age made living there not an issue. Her daughter, my Aunt, never married and always lived with her so that I’m sure made it easy for her but undoubtedly was difficult for my Aunt.
At the early onset of it I do remember my Grandmother using the Electrolux and she would flip the rug and floor tool over but incorrectly, not removing it but instead spinning it over and the suction was at the top when she was doing the hardwood but it was ok, she also would go over the hardwood with a dust mop. She didn’t have a lot to do so she cleaned a lot and had worked In her early years cleaning for people. In the later years of the dementia you could give her an entire basket of laundry and she would be delighted to sit and fold it, or give her a dust rag and she would go around and dust everything sometimes more than once if you didn’t take it away from her once the laundry was folded or everything was dusted. Cleaning her house was something that she could do at her own pace and kept her busy during the dementia years and my Aunt just kept the toxic cleaning stuff out of the house. Unfortunately she would cut the wires for the stereo speakers with scissors to “clean that up” and that was funny. She liked everything orderly and neat and didn’t keep a lot of things around.
Yup, I notice many F’s some with and some without the bumpers. I wish my current one had them but it does not.
Yeah this would have satisfied most all of your needs except for the bumpers and the rug and floor tool.
I have a turbotool rug washer in the gray and tan coloring, it has a teal tank cap and a teal string hook for the dispenser plunger. I’ll take a pic and post it later. I forget that it’s in the match F colors. I found it sitting on someone’s trash one day she I was walking home from school when I was in the 4th grade. It was a half day as I think it was just before a holiday and for some reason I decided to walk home the other more difficult route and trash had not been collected yet as it was midday. I thought it was quite interesting and had never seen one ever so of course, it came home with me. I’m not quite sure when I brought it from NJ to TX. I must have put it in a suitcase and checked it on the plane but I have no recollection of that whatsoever! The design is similar to the cordwinder on the top.
Jon