Kirby Classic III 2-CB (thrift store find)

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ladydobermann

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Oh, no. Not again. That's right - Lady is back at it again with the white Vans. And by white Vans, I mean another vacuum find.

Dateline: 11 January 2022. 3:30 PM. I was feeling depressed because my housemate's car broke down, and I ordered a part and tried to fix it, but it was too cold to undo the bolts, so I was pretty bummed.

My 20-year-old heap was the only working car we had(!). I also get bummed when I need to drive it in the winter because of the road salt. That, and it's an import, so I feel like I have a sort of duty of care for it, much like I do with these vacuums. So, I decided to give myself a little retail therapy at St Vincent De Paul's.

Here's a photo of the vacuum selection they had. It's important to state that I also got the Shop-Vac, but it's too cold to do an outdoor photo session, and my housemate won't let it indoors until it gets washed out. I also went back for the Dirt Devil Broom Vac the following day - more on that in about a week.

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My precious! They sold the loose box of accessories with the Classic, but they sold the closed box separately. Remember this. It will be important later. It was $84.35 for the Classic, the Shop-Vac and the extra accessories. I don't have any pictures of the receipt because I'm a dum-dum that didn't pocket it when I left. It still might be in the parking lot. Who knows?

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Accessorise your mind. My housemate cleaned all the attachments and labelled them to the best of her abilities using just the manual. There are probably some errors in there, but I don't know what we're doing anymore. There are also some duplicate accessories - I think the "rough" texture accessories are original to the vac? No idea.

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Bonus picture: my Kirby family (the other vac is a 1980 3-CB) with my inspiration for collecting them. I hope you like this pic as I nearly fell on my bum going downstairs to get the tape to pose it. This house is low-key a deathtrap.

That's all for now. Stay tuned for next week where I still don't know what I'm doing!

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