First Vacuum Memories?

[buster1849]

What are some of your first vacuum memories? I remember I had a euro pro stick vacuum from 2006-2008 that was a piece of junk(that's why my mom gave it to me when I was 2) and I got a toy dyson dc07 animal for my 3rd birthday. I got a eureka quick-up for christmas in 2009. In 2010 I got a Bissell healthy home model 5770,2 sanitares,and a riccar 8850 from my church. My mom also gave me her bissell cleanview since I used it every week in 2010. What are some of your first vacuum memories?

 

[mattinla]

The electrolux sled

You could drop that thing off the space shuttle, it would still work.

 

[fcs3]

The "bug" that bit me

I found a 1916 Eureka upright in the attic of a duplex
The owner gave it to me. I cleaned it, rewired it, and
polished it up.

Since then I've been hooked on "Old Tech".

 

[panasonicvac]

My earliest is when I was at one of our old cabins where I saw a vacuum for the very first time in my life. And that happened to be a Panasonic MC-V7387 which I have one in my collection.

 

[fantomtechguy]

Fantom at Ames

I remember getting my first vacuum, a Bissell Scooby Doo Stick Vac (BTW, I'm looking for one and will pay $30 for a complete set). Then I remember getting a blue Bissel, the one with the bag and 10 amps on it (Looking for that too). Then I remember the vacuum that changed my life, the Fantom Fury. I remember getting it and was instantly obsessed with it. Then I also remember getting belts for it at Ames. They also had all the models there too, I loved to look at the "Fantom Aisle" and being in aww.

 

[fantomfan57]

Westinghouse Canister....

Was my parents, loved the color and the sound. I remember how I thought it as kind of hard to fit the bag...like the collar membrane was too tight. Was replaced by a red Kirby Classic. I ended up with both.

I never took to the Kirby, but the Westie fascinated me.

 

[kirbyvertibles]

Lars,
I just gave one of those Bissell uprights to my wife's cousin for a fundraiser rummage sale yesterday that wont be held until next month. No headlight and had a setting on the front for floor tools? Or maybe it was Singer? Now I can't remember. I can get it back and give her something else if you are interested in that.


My first memory is watching my Mom use her gold 1970s Eureka power team with the woodgrain power nozzle and since I was so fascinated with that she bought me for my first Christmas in 1986 a toy baby blue Eureka ESP battery operated upright that made sounds and the bag inflated. I still have it today and it still works.

 

[hooverman2121]

Taking a trip to Lechmere and picking up a Hoover Dimension 1000 with my parents and helping my dad put it together when I was like 4 years old. Visiting my grandparent's house and playing with their Electrolux.

Going to our camp/house in the Adirondacks and having a fit when I learned my mom tossed out my favorite Hoover Convertible and replaced it with an Elite, then learning the Convertible was going to our place in N. Myrtle Beach.

I miss those days, especially when we would get mailers for JCPenney, Macy's, Lechmere, and a bunch of other department stores; now everything is online and so inpersonal.

 

[carolinaguy1996]

A burgundy Soft & Light, a Hoover Twin-Chamber (it was my first bagless machine due to Dyson not existing in America; I was four years old back then), a Eureka 4870 in green, a Dirt Devil Ultra (loudest machine ever), my two Bissells (Powerforce Turbo and Powergroom Rewind), a few Kenmore uprights (bagged and bagless), a Steam-Vac, a Shark Roadster canister, and a Windtunnel Self-Propelled Anniversary Edition (I still have a Eureka handvac).

The handvac is now a car vac. I once had a few shop vacs.

 

[compactc9guy]

My first machine

First vacuum memory for me would have to be my grand mother Compact C8 vacuum cleaner and my moms Hoover Celebrity canister vacuum cleaner .Since those machine i haven't been able to stop cleaning what ever is around me .Also was a huge moment for me when i bought my Compact Electra C9 canister vacuum my first vintage vacuum to call my own

 

[eureka1998]

Earliest memory

Earliesnt memory had to be watching my mother use the red hoover caddy vac like this one in our living room YEARS ago

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