Lots of nice selection here. Our goodwills tend to be picked over so most of the time what they have is cruddy used vacs that were $50 or under to begin with. Rarely do I find an Electrolux, but in the last year I’ve found 2 Aerus’s and 1 Electrolux Olympia. The Olympia was in rough shape, with a taped up generic hose at both ends and the power nozzle was beat to hell and nothing else was included. The Aerus machines were both in great shape, one was barely used with all the attachments included and a flip over rug and floor tool and 47 bags so those had no choice but to come home with me! I figured I got about $850 in resellable vacuums and bags for a total of $54 including tax. But I’ve given the Aerus Lux Classic to my Brother for Christmas and decided to treat myself by keeping the barely used complete set Aerus Lux Legacy for some day when and if my beloved Electrolux Silverado ever bites the dust!
It’s funny when you see one of those canister steamers stuck in the crowd of vacuums...often I start to say...well what kind of vacuum is that? Then realize it’s a steamer with some disappointment!
I often get annoyed when things with parts are donated but either the donor nor the donation center take the time to package the parts in a sealed bag and tape it to the main machine.
My Mother had a Regina floor and carpet scrubber and polisher she wanted to me as she never used it in recent years and it had a lot of different pads and accessory brushes for different types of scrubbing, shampooing, polishing, or burnishing, so I carefully packaged up all of them and taped the heck out of the bag to the handle so the only way it was going to be opened and removed was with scissors by a buyer, and I put a big note inside the clear bag that said “parts in bag are part of the machine” to clear up any wondering by someone who may not know what it all processing the donations.
I did go to a mission thrift store we have here several times and the first trip time they had a nice selection of good used vacuums, so I continued going but much to my disappointment, they’ve never had quite the selection I saw on that first visit to the store.
I did see a nice Shark Navigator at Goodwill over this past winter. Rare to see those.
Hey, there’s a yellow hula hoop in the third picture! Ha!
Jon
