human
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As 2021 winds down its final hours, I'm reflecting on the year and have come to the realization that for me, it has been a crazy year for 'vacquisitions':
•In January, I started off the year acquiring a Sanitaire S645 blue series upright for $12 and fixing it up with parts on hand, other than buying a replacement cord.
•In March, I got a Kirby G7 Diamond Edition with a full set of accessories, including a carpet shampooer, at a thrift shop. It needed a deep cleaning and a few minor replacement parts. Then I turned around a couple of weeks later and bought a similarly well equipped, but much nicer, Sentria at a different thrift shop.
•In June, I got an Oreck XL uprignt for $2 at a thrift shop but turned around and donated it to my church's rummage sale, along with a couple of other machines I had tired of. Earlier in the year, I had let the quasi girlfriend take my Electrolux Discovery Plus.
•In July, I came across a Kirby G3 that needed extensive renovation, as well as a Eureka ESP upright a couple of weeks later. It took me several months to fix up the G3 because I could only work on it for short periods in the late summer heat.
•In August, I got a deal on shopgoodwill.com for a Kirby Classic III with a small assortment of accessories. And at some point, I also picked up a Royal Prince 501 handheld in its original box with all the paperwork and most of its accessories.
•I late October, I bought a Kirby Heritage 84 off of shopgoodwill.com and three days before it arrived, I acquired a Kirby G6 from a local thrift shop. At this point, I realized how out of control I had become and imposed a moratorium on any further vacuum purchases for the foreseeable future, which is not to say I haven't been tempted since then.
And of course, there has also been an assortment of parts, toolkits, power nozzles, etc. along the way; thus, my new year's resolution is to content myself with fixing up and playing with the toys I have, instead of acquiring anything else. Also, I will require myself to donate at least two machines to next year's church rummage sale. The hard part will be deciding which ones...
•In January, I started off the year acquiring a Sanitaire S645 blue series upright for $12 and fixing it up with parts on hand, other than buying a replacement cord.
•In March, I got a Kirby G7 Diamond Edition with a full set of accessories, including a carpet shampooer, at a thrift shop. It needed a deep cleaning and a few minor replacement parts. Then I turned around a couple of weeks later and bought a similarly well equipped, but much nicer, Sentria at a different thrift shop.
•In June, I got an Oreck XL uprignt for $2 at a thrift shop but turned around and donated it to my church's rummage sale, along with a couple of other machines I had tired of. Earlier in the year, I had let the quasi girlfriend take my Electrolux Discovery Plus.
•In July, I came across a Kirby G3 that needed extensive renovation, as well as a Eureka ESP upright a couple of weeks later. It took me several months to fix up the G3 because I could only work on it for short periods in the late summer heat.
•In August, I got a deal on shopgoodwill.com for a Kirby Classic III with a small assortment of accessories. And at some point, I also picked up a Royal Prince 501 handheld in its original box with all the paperwork and most of its accessories.
•I late October, I bought a Kirby Heritage 84 off of shopgoodwill.com and three days before it arrived, I acquired a Kirby G6 from a local thrift shop. At this point, I realized how out of control I had become and imposed a moratorium on any further vacuum purchases for the foreseeable future, which is not to say I haven't been tempted since then.
And of course, there has also been an assortment of parts, toolkits, power nozzles, etc. along the way; thus, my new year's resolution is to content myself with fixing up and playing with the toys I have, instead of acquiring anything else. Also, I will require myself to donate at least two machines to next year's church rummage sale. The hard part will be deciding which ones...
