chuffle
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Doing the morning vacuuming while waiting for opening times so that I can head to town and run my errands caused me to ponder a bit (which I rarely do when vacuuming) about a machine that always seems to rank at the top of my favorites list.
I grew up in a Kirby household (parents owned a Classic, then a Heritage II), and over the years, I have owned and used various Kirbys, Royals, and a number of Convertibles, only to find that I continuously return to my self-propelled Eureka 5048 B. I'm not knocking the above mentioned machines, for they all clean admirably - but in my old house, with uneven flooring and differing area rug compositions, they always seemed finicky, with no amount of adjustment, either to height or fine-tuning the Kirby Micro Matic, allowing them to go from room to room, providing the results that I consistently get from my Eureka.
I purchased the Eureka at a long-defunct thrift store when I lived in the Pittsburgh area. I seem to recall that the store closed Christmas week of 2004. and the vac was purchased not long before the closure. At first, I balked at paying the $19.95 asking price, but after taking a few days to think it over, I returned and bought the vac. The machine has served me well, both in Pittsburgh, and here in the sticks, and I think that the $19.95 paid for it was money well spent.
I don't know what I will do when the day comes that the self-propelled drive gives out. I know that I could "go manual," but I have grown so accustomed to the way that the machine effortlessly and smoothly glides while vacuuming.
I guess that I have had some time on my hands, and pondered a bit too much. Thanks for allowing my to rattle on about my old faithful.
Joe
P.S. I have no clue as to the age of this machine, could be from the 80s, maybe the 90s - early 2000s perhaps? Hence, I am posting this under "vintage," just to be safe.
I grew up in a Kirby household (parents owned a Classic, then a Heritage II), and over the years, I have owned and used various Kirbys, Royals, and a number of Convertibles, only to find that I continuously return to my self-propelled Eureka 5048 B. I'm not knocking the above mentioned machines, for they all clean admirably - but in my old house, with uneven flooring and differing area rug compositions, they always seemed finicky, with no amount of adjustment, either to height or fine-tuning the Kirby Micro Matic, allowing them to go from room to room, providing the results that I consistently get from my Eureka.
I purchased the Eureka at a long-defunct thrift store when I lived in the Pittsburgh area. I seem to recall that the store closed Christmas week of 2004. and the vac was purchased not long before the closure. At first, I balked at paying the $19.95 asking price, but after taking a few days to think it over, I returned and bought the vac. The machine has served me well, both in Pittsburgh, and here in the sticks, and I think that the $19.95 paid for it was money well spent.
I don't know what I will do when the day comes that the self-propelled drive gives out. I know that I could "go manual," but I have grown so accustomed to the way that the machine effortlessly and smoothly glides while vacuuming.
I guess that I have had some time on my hands, and pondered a bit too much. Thanks for allowing my to rattle on about my old faithful.
Joe
P.S. I have no clue as to the age of this machine, could be from the 80s, maybe the 90s - early 2000s perhaps? Hence, I am posting this under "vintage," just to be safe.
