My vacuum sightings

[fan-of-fans]

Not much sightings today.

Habitat had a mint condition gray Hoover Futura straight suction
A gold Dirt Devil Swivel Glide bagged upright
and a Stanley 1 gallon shop vac
and a Genie yellow shop vac

I thought the Stanley 1 gallon was interesting because it looks just like my HyperTough one I got at Walmart to clean my car, just different colors

I did find get some genuine Kenmore HEPA O bags for upright for $2. It seems I can often find genuine Kenmore bags at the thrift stores. Last time I found some genuine F&G bags for my Eureka.

Goodwil mostly had some cheapie Bissell uprights and some floor steamers.

Another thrift shop I went to had a Hoover Concept One Powerdrive in the mint green color scheme and an older Hoover Portapower.

 

[fan-of-fans]

Today I went to the flea market. The only vacuum I saw was a salmon colored GE Swivel Top. It was a rust bucket, no hose or attachments with it.

 

[fan-of-fans]

Yesterday I went to a thrift store out of town as I had the day off. There was a Kenmore Self Propelled Twin Fan upright with a bojack way of using a string to hold the bag up, a dark gray Hoover Futura canister, a yellow bagless Kenmore canister, and an early 90s white Craftsman portable wet/dry vac/blower.

This thrift store is also good for finding bags, but they didn't have anything I needed this visit.

 

[panasonicvac]

This was my sighting today, I actually just bought one of them. Guess which one

 

[fan-of-fans]

I'm guessing the Sebo. Someone was looking for one of those Hoover wet/dry vacs on here just recently.

 

[panasonicvac]

Yup, I bought the SEBO.

 

[hoover300]

Wow, that Eureka still has the tag on the zipper!

 

[jo]

I’ll take a stab…

That you bought the purple and gold SEBO is it? In picture 2 far right?

Jon

 

[panasonicvac]

Yes I did and it's actually blue instead of purple by the way

 

[jo]

Bingo!

I would have bought the same one….if I had plenty of space for extra vacs!

Good score…rarely see these in a thrift store.

I saw a cordless Bissell air ram earlier this week. Almost bought it but decided to fiddle with it and try it there in the store as it did work. L with space limitations and no need for it I decided to leave it for someone else to enjoy but I thought it was unique and something I’ve never seen before,

Jon

 

[panasonicvac]

Today's sightings and I just bought this red Oreck XL2 Ultra. I did thought about getting the white and blue Dustbuster but it wasn't the one that had the replaceable batteries you could easily swap out of. I'm still looking for one of those.

 

[huskyvacs]

The Hoover Power Drive and whatever that blue bagless is with the computerized handle buttons buried in the middle of the pile is the ones I would grab. I have never seen the XL2 in red before.

I have that Bissell ProHeat Pet shampooer, it is an excellent shampooer but it puts out a lot of water if you have area rugs and I had to retire mine for that reason and get a Hoover PowerDash Pet. The Bissell does surprisingly well on low pile carpet believe it or not. Hard to find an upright shampooer that can do carpeting like that. It gets a good seal to the floor.

 

[human]

I haven't seen much lately other than the usual plasticrap vacs that hold exactly zero interest for me. Of course, I've been under a self-imposed moratorium on vacuums since last November so I haven't really been looking. I went seriously overboard for most of 2021 and realized I'd hit a saturation point. I've actually walked away from three Kirbys since the first of the year but I did have a moment of weakness a few weeks ago picked up a little Oreck BB compact canister for about the cost of a hamburger. I covered that more thoroughly in another thread.

 

[panasonicvac]

huskyvacs

When the Oreck XL2 Ultra was sold, they were available in three different colors. I personally like the looks of the black version the best but I think the yellow and red versions are also very cool looking as well, probably even more rare than the black one so that's one of the reasons why I bought the red one.

 

[huskyvacs]

I've seen the yellow one surface a lot but I had no idea it was rare. I'll have to keep an eye out for another one.

 

[panasonicvac]

Interesting

In my area I don't see either the yellow or the red one pop up from time to time. At least the red one might be more rare than the other two.

 

[panasonicvac]

Today's sightings, I bought the Kirby Ultimate G Diamond Edition.

 

[KirbyCollector01]

I saw these at three different thrift stores today.

May go back for the two Kirbys once I have the money.

 

[panasonicvac]

I'd take the Kenmore in a heart beat along with the two Kirbys!

 

[huskyvacs]

Agreed. Kenmore and the two Kirbys.

That Eureka on the far right of photo #3 is historically famous due to that "cleans better than dyson" claim they stuck on there. It got them in trouble with James Dyson and that vacuum got pulled from the market expeditiously. They sold enough of them, but it never had a full life cycle, and most people tore those stickers off. Just an interesting little tidbit of history.