What fascinates us about vacuum cleaners.

[drsnuggle]

I love vacuums because....

I have been healty all my life. I turned 39 years some years ago and as I never had kids so I decided to buy two cats. So what, you might say. Well, my vacuum started to leak air, a Philips performer, the air went around the Hepa-filter. I slowly got sicker and sicker. It started with sneazings, lika a hundred a day when I was at home of work. Then I a got problems breathing when at home. The doctor said it was dustmite allergy and the cats did not help :-( speading the dustmite feeces (where the allergien is) everywhere.

I looked for a new vacuum and watched a lot of YT videos by ibaisiac and madabouthoovers and decided on a Miele C3. Cleaning became a hobby from not caring at all. Thats how it started for me. Filtration is the most important thing for me in a vacuum. I started to realize that different vacuums did different things and that is what I like to explore.

Mike: wow being blind and loving vacuums. Sorry to ask, but how do you vacuum? (I haven't checked all comments so I hope you have not answered this one).

Here is my last buy. A Miele U1!:
Here is a link to a video I did on it. Love (only watch if you think it is ok to post link to your own videos. Otherwise do not watch, I do't know if links are appropriate).

 

[sebo4me]

I am exactly the same. My interest came about because of a dust mite allergy.

I learnt about Miele from watching Rogers videos and purchased a Miele S5 and my interest in the design and workings of the vacuum.cleaner grew from there.

 

[myles_v]

I have no idea why but I've always been interested in vacuum cleaners. My mom vacuumed daily while carrying me as a baby, and the first thing I walked to ended up being the vacuum cleaner. I have literally no memory of ever not being interested in vacuum cleaners, my parents have told me that when I was really little I had lots of toys but kept going back to the vacuum instead. The only toy I remember playing with was my Easy Bake Oven, besides that I was just into vacuum cleaners. All of my elementary school teachers were very aware of my interest, and I even brought a Roomba to show and tell in the second grade.

I normally had 20-30 vacuum cleaners at a time until I started high school. I got rid of all of the vacuum cleaners, moved in with my mom, changed schools, and decided I would be "normal" and I was. It stayed like that until my senior year when a relationship I had been in since freshman year ended and I started to date other guys. My current boyfriend found out about my past interest in vacuum cleaners and he has encouraged that I get back into it if it makes me happy.

The issue that I've been having now is that I'm very torn on what I should do. Part of me wants to continue the interest but another part of me has just lost interest. Some days I'll want to collect vacuums again, and other days I'll feel really stressed out feeling like I have too many vacuum cleaners over the relatively small number of vacuums that I have. Most of my machines are at my dad's house, so my boyfriend and I only have 4 vacuums at our house (not including our Neato robot vac or our central vac that we don't use). The thought that I should get rid of at least 2-3 of them crosses my mind every day, but I still scour Craigslist for good deals on machines I don't/haven't owned yet.

Being so open about my interest as a child caused people to be very hurtful because of how strange it was, and that has caused me to question whether I'm really interested still or not. At times I've wondered how else it has affected my life, if it was perhaps caused by my feminine tendencies combined with a lack of "girly" toys when I was growing up or somehow related to my sexual orientation in some way.

To put it simply, I've always been interested in vacuums, I don't know why I've always been interested in vacuums, and for most of my life, I've really wished that I were never interested in vacuums. It's as if I just can't help myself to not be interested in them.

 

[drsnuggle]

Comfort myles_v

Hi.
I hope your not a troll. Honestly I have a few tears in my eyes right now.
When I see my cats doing certain things, like making muffins (treading), they do that because it makes them feel comfort as they used to feeding with their mom. This is deep, I know (that is why I hope you are not trolling) but you probably trying to experiance the same warm cosy feeling you had being carried as a child.

This is not collecting vacuums for interest, but trying to satisfy an early need you had in your life, I think. Sorry for the deepness, but this is what I believe.

 

[myles_v]

DrSnuggles

I don't think it's really about that, I don't remember being carried by my mom while she vacuumed or anything so my knowledge of that is just from her telling me about it. Interesting interpretation of that though, and I am definitely not a troll.
I believe that my interest may be partly from being around the vacuum so much, which was why I mentioned my mom vacuuming while carrying me.

 

[drsnuggle]

Virtue of waiting...

Sorry. I was just so moved by your post at first. I should just have let that passed and then made a comment (or not) which would have been different.

 

[myles_v]

No need to apologize!

 

[electromatik]

You are incorrect about other collecting appliances. People do collect just about anything... Kitchen appliances too... Particularly electric can openers since they are fading out now.

Vacuum cleaners are the ultimate gadget. They are on wheels and they roll. They have a motor inside. They have a hose. They have lights (usually). They have tools that you can attach. They make what's in front of them vanish. What's not to like??