Roomba Anyone?

I have thought several times how nice it would be to have one of those Roomba vacuums. To just set something down, and let it clean as I go about my business. But I’ve talked myself out of it. My floors wouldn’t be compatible with some of its limitations. For instance, it wouldn’t do my stairs, which get bad pretty quick. Would it really get the corners, and how would it handle the toys that are everywhere?

Well, yesterday, I found something better than a Roomba. May I present:

David with a dust buster.

I was cleaning the bedrooms, and he wanted to try his hand at vacuuming. So I let him vacuum his own room, and he did a fantastic job! (A little more wear and tear on my vacuum than I would have wanted, but his room looked great!) So I pulled out my old dust buster that I got at a garage sale or something years ago. David walks around looking for dirt or dead bugs (it’s an old house, and bugs come in at springtime). My floors and windowsills have never been so clean. Since the weather was nice enough, I opened up our 3 season porch so he could vacuum all the dead bugs out there, because we actually ran out of things to vacuum in the house. He vacuums until the battery is dead, and then we charge it. He asks to vacuum every 15 minutes until it is charged again. I can tell him: “eat all your vegetables, or no vacuuming before naptime” and he shovels those vegis in.

THIS IS AWESOME! and I hope it lasts!

I tried it on Silje, but she’s old enough to recognize a chore when she sees one! Of course…she still really loves to dust…(ha ha ha *evil laugh*)