The Dyson DC25 Animal

My husband just came home with a new vacuum cleaner, see title. Amazing what you can pay for a vacuum. I have been bugging him about buying a new one because we have been using one of those industrial ones you keep in a workshop, since the hand-me-down Oreck broke. We thought it worked ok (see third paragraph) but it was too big and bulky. And no one ever wanted to lug it back to the garage. Why didn't I just buy one, read back, it is amazing the cost. And I just bought the laptop...priorities.

Getting it out of the box was the first chore, I think they used a small trees worth of cardboard to package it. Not to mention the plastic wrapping. After taking it out of the box finding the instructions in our language was the next task. Not that they helped anyway.

It looks pretty effective, something like you might find on a spaceship. My daughter tried it out on a small area of the carpet in the family room and I was shocked at what it picked up. You would think we were candidates for the British show "How Clean is Your House." (watch it on BBC America sometime and you will feel sterile next to most of those people) It also has an upholstery attachment so now maybe we can get rid of some cat hair. I would rather get rid of the cats but that is another story.

It is smaller than I would have imagined, must have been the big box and all the cardboard hiding it. I might even use it. A running joke in our house, started by my oldest daughter is that I don't even know how to turn on a vacuum. (I do just never told them)

And with the bad knee now, lugging that huge one around was prohibitive. This one I might be able to maneuver, but will only do it when alone. Don't want them to think I can use it.

Now let's move all the laundry baskets from the family room, put the back packs and sneakers away and see if this puppy is worth what it was paid for.

PS husband also came home with two kinds of mops and bottles of stuff, not going to ask what they are used for.

Edit: I have tried it in the upstairs living room and it worked a charm. Easy to push around and sucks up everything. Best part is there are no bags, you just detach the plastic barrel thingy in the front, press the red lever and a trap door opens on the bottom and out drops all the shit you sucked up. Cool.