EH - Essex > Hebrides...the next step of the adventure?

Cheery_Daff

Can't help with vacuums I'm afraid - we've got a Henry and he's ace, but not upright obviously, and very heavy, and pretty big to store, so probably not what you're looking for at all! Only had a succession of cheap (non upright) ones before this, that were all ruined by DIY stuff. Henry has so far been pretty invincible!

lucielle

I have a Shark and wouldn't go back to Dyson.  Its corded and easy to use and more importantly easy to clean the brushes and filters.
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foxgloves

We recently bought a new rechargeable vacuum @EH....one of the black triangular-finned variety. Very happy with it so far. We had the other brand you mention for years (corded) but they were getting a bit heavy for me as I have arthritis in my hands. Got it from JL. It was reduced in price & I used my JL credit card which is currently in a 90-day triple loyalty points period. If I wasn't currently languishing on the sofa with plague, I'd go & find out exactly which model we bought. 
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girlatplay

Shark for us here.  We had the other one mentioned before and I wouldn't go back either.  Also had a Hettie (pink Henry) at one point, plus various non/shop branded ones (goodness, how many vacuum cleaners have we owned?!) and the shark beats them all.  We have upright corded lift away pet one.  Also got a handheld shark but I'm not so impressed with that.

beanielou

Cordless sick Shark from me.

Sun_Addict

I have a corded Shark and very happy with it. The only brand I haven’t managed to kill, I’m not very gentle with my vacuum cleaners 😆

savingholmes

I have the Dy one - it's probably my third. I find it heavy - but my cleaner is the main user of it TBF. I haven't tried a shark so can't compare.

RosaBernicia

Watching with interest re the vacuum... and debating whether to hit the order button on a Eufy version.  I have their robot and handheld ones and have found them really good, and there's a stick version with good reviews on 4maz0n for £99, so am wondering whether the price difference is worth it for the big brands. 

EssexHebridean

Well just look at all those visitors and almost universal approval of the "Gonna need a bigger boat" related brand it seems!  Rosa - I've head decent stuff about the Eufy brand too but not really researched them much myself.  Thanks all for popping in and very definitely for all your brilliant Vacuum cleaner input too - I think we have settled on going for the triangular-finned option using the code from the MSE email this week as mentioned - realistically I'm well aware that the prices they start out at are not the prices people actually pay, but the code brings that one down to the sort of price level I was reluctantly thinking we'd have to settle at anyway. I like the "lightness" of the cordless ones, the charging dock can be situated in the area between the two front doors where freezer 2 lives, and the machine itself will still fit neatly into the usual cupboard so all good there. I should probably check with MrEH that we are definitely going for that actually as I think the numbers were limited. As far as I can think in the time MrEH and I have lived together (since 1998) we've had 3 vacuums - can't recall anything about the first but pretty sure it was pre-loved by someone in the family. That died I believe and the parts to fix it were no longer available. The second was my Gt Aunt's old actual "Hoover" - which had got too heavy for her and also struggled with getting blocked with the fluff her new carpets gave off - sadly it never did really recover from the habit of getting blocked so a few years later we replaced it with the current Bissell but I reckon that one must be at least 15 years old now so it's not done too bad. It's not great on suction though and the filters basically need cleaning every time it's used (and that's a right messy job) so hoping the replacement will be better.  I love the idea of a Henry but a bit like some of the bigger Dysons it would just be too big and bulky to store I think - without question though they're good, the one in the office is great but a faff to use as it bounces off things as you move it about! (And realistically it would take about 3 heartbeats before I'd bounce it off a freshly plastered wall so...) 

C0v3ntry BS have just emailed to say their interest rate for the account we use for some of our long term savings pot is increasing which takes it to roughly in line with M@rcu5 again - albeit I have a feeling we should hear from THEM at some stage regarding another increase too - last week's increase was too soon after the BoE announcement to reflect the change made there we reckon. 

In other news we finally got the email from GEUK late night confirming the new electricity rates - and with the night rate still being 24p per kWh I am now waiting to hear back from EDF about switching to them. Such a faff to go through again, and also annoying that we've paid the extra for the time we have, but there you go - hopefully it'll prove easy enough to get sorted and will go through reasonably fast, because with the promise of a far cheaper rate to come there's no way I'm switching any form of heating on until it goes through!  

Spendiness:
Nipped to M@t@l@n last night and managed to get a dressing gown I liked, a long sleeved top which will do nicely for work (I'm wearing it now, in fact!) and also a pair of the jeans I quite like from there - I had a discount voucher so total cost £35. Left the slippers behind as the ones that claim arch support in the blurb online certainly do not have ANY form of support when seen in real life! Bit miffed that in spite of the big signs when I walked in claiming "20% off all jeans" the ones I picked up did NOT have 20% off them, as they were from the Petite range. Also a bit miffed that the petite range leg-length seems to have got shorter again - these are a fraction shorter than I'd really like, but as Matalan's "standard" 29" leg now never measures any less than 30" I can't get away with normal ones either. Honestly - and people wonder why I loathe having to buy clothes! 
MrEH put £50 on his Oyster this morning, and I will need to fill up my car when I head out tomorrow. Both planned and expected. 
Grocery spend so far for the month sits at £78 - that includes the veg box that will arrive at the weekend. Two more week's shopping to get, but certainly this week it will be pretty much basics only plus odds and ends for the storecupboard. I already have a meal plan - and will use that to inform the shopping list last thing before we go to the supermarket on Sunday. (That will probably be T's as it will be easier to be confident of getting everything needed in there than in Al's I think) 

Surveys:
Prolific: £7.26 paid/£1.14 pending (it's gone quiet again) 
OnePoll: 577 points
Ipsos: 514 points
Could be worse. I have made a solid decision that I will see YouGov through this time round and then once cashed out I'll be deactivating. It adds insult to injury that every time I do a survey there it asks me what would lead to me doing more and I tick the options for cashing out at a lower level, but nothing ever changes!  If anyone has a PineCone referral they'd be happy to share by the way I'd be very grateful - I'd like to get back on with them again.

beanielou

With you on You Gov.