Eric...
Nice story! LOL! When I got my Fury Special Edition(there was nothing SPECIAL about it) I think it was $170? I remember opening it on Christmas day and using it alllll over the house and I was vacuuming the kitchen and the bin was ALMOST full and my brother said,"You better empty that! It's really full!!!" I was amazed seeing we have central vac. Then yet we had no pet hair so it was amazing. It just seemed to loos its "umph" over the years.
Clayton
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