When did you get your first vac for Christmas?

[ian88]

I remember seeing on "you've been framed" (kinda like..a show about funny home movies for you american members lol) and it had this kid (was american footage i think) asleep, or at least lieing/clinging to this vacuum whilst it was being used...clearly soft bags are as comfortable as they look =p

 

[ohio_tuec]

Dirt Devil 2-speed

The first (and only vac) I ever got for Christmas was in 1990, when I got a Dirt Devil hand vac. At the time, Sears sold a two-speed model, with a slightly different outer bag. I got the attachments as well. I should have asked for the Royal Prince instead. I still have it, along with the first vintage vac I ever got, a Hoover model 28.

 

[vintagehoover]

When I was about...6 or so (?), I got a rechargeable Black & Decker hand-vac for Christmas - I think from my parents. Suction wasn't up to much, especially as I already had a Junior 1346A with tools by that point, which I used all the time! However, the fun thing about the hand-vac was that it could pick up water was well as dry dirt, and I remember my mum's dismay at finding me pouring a bucket-load of water over the bathroom floor so I could vacuum it up again!

I also got a maroon-coloured Hoover Turbopower toy one year, but it only lasted a few weeks, the handle snapped off and I was made to throw it away because of the 'sharp edges' the breakage had left!

The best gift I ever got was for my 13th birthday, my wonderful grandparents got me a Hoover Constellation! Still unbeaten for the category of 'best birthday present ever'!!

 

[dirt-devil]

dirt devil classic

I think my first vacuum was my dirt devil classic with attachments, box, cord thing, and manual

 

[bisonian]

Re: Plug-in Toy Vacuums

Charles-Richard, funny you should mention those Sears toy 110v machines. I actually got one of those for Christmas, when I was 4 or 5 years old. I can even remember asking Santa for it. This would have been 1964 or '65, so the memory's kinda vague, but if I recall correctly, it looked and operated just like a regular upright, only in child scale. I do recall it had a working headlight. A fun start to a lifelong obsession!

 

[myvacsrock]

I have that sears kenmore toy electric vacuum! I got it on ebay for a winning bid of 60.00!! I wanted it so badly that i would pay ANY price!! Pic:

 

[vacuumboy105]

My first

My first was a bissel three in one but it burnt up after a month a of use

 

[charles~richard]

hee hee Kyle, that's it!

So ... how well does it clean?! Does it actually have a revolving brush? Let's see a photo of it in action!!

 

[myvacsrock]

no.. it doesn't have a brushroll! But it does suck some crums off a little bathroom rug! I like it and it works great and is in almost *MINT* condition!! I love it!

Kyle

 

[myhooverco]

Wow very cute Kenmore, Kyle! Thanks for posting a picture of it. I never knew that they made these. I wish that Hoover had made one. Is it loud? Sounds like it does have some suction. I am guessing that it has a cloth shake out bag. Congrats on this find. It has a good home now.

--Tom

 

[myvacsrock]

Hey Tom!

Yes the Kenmore toy does have a shake out bag and it makes a weird noise! I think they were trying to copy the sound of vibration on the carpet! HAHA But look more pics:! SEE HOW MUCH IT LOOKS LIKE MY SINGER TWIN FAN!!!

 

[myvacsrock]

Another pic of the bottem

 

[myvacsrock]

THE SWITCH!

 

[vacuumboy95]

Hey Kyle,

I have that same singer tiwn fan.

 

[myvacsrock]

IN ACTION!!!-THE **GLAM** SHOT!

 

[dirt-devil]

I've got one too

Kyle I have one of those toy kenmores also this one day I took the bag off and cleaned it. Talking about old toy vacuums or sweepers I have a 1966 suzy homemaker, 1974 tuff stuff vacuum (by mattle), an old bissle little queen, and a small 1950s tin electrolux. And who has the old rare dirt devil broom vac besides me?

 

[dirt-devil]

Oh...

...and those toy kenmores were made in 1976 I believe.

 

[dial-a-matic]

Kyle K...

What vac did you get for christmas?

-a-

 

[myvacsrock]

I din't get any vacuums for Christmas....well yes i did but you will have to wait and see when it comes because it is COOL!!!

a note to Dirt-devil... the kenmore toy vacs the one in my pics are from 1964! I met the original owner of that machine and she showed me pics of Christmas 1964 when she got it..very interesting!!

 

[charles~richard]

Toy vacs

I have:

* Dirt Devil "Junior" upright vacuum brand new in the box - also the matching red hand vac brand new in box.

* Three ~1960 "Pretty Maid" uprights by Marx, one maroon, one light blue and one dark blue.

* Meile yellow canister

* a tiny little pink and white upright, about 8" tall, hard-body with clear plastic dirt chamber with little white pellets that jiggle up and down when you wind the machine up.

Others have come and gone over the years, including a couple of the Hoover World's Fair giveaways.

Tom Anderson, do you have the electric miniature 63?! [I *think* that's the right model -- the dark blue and gray one] I have seen a really cool print ad of mother and daughter in matching "cleaning outfits" using their respective Hoovers -- the byline says something like "Same mother, same daughter, same Hoover" or some-such. I have never seen one of these toy 63s and wonder if they really were fully functional - motor, "BAISAIC" agitator etc??