Progress not Perfection

milann

It’s all or nothing. Sending positive vibes to you all. 

SuzeQStan

Cordless vacs will definitely be much easier SA - they weigh so much less so lifting is a breeze. if you do find your corded one is slightly more powerful you could always keep the corded on one floor and the cordless on another. As a kind of backup option I guess . That’s what I done anyway.

one thing I will say is that 🦈 cordless anti hair wrap does not prevent hair wrap.  At all! 😤

EssexHebridean

I think you’ll enjoy your “Jaws” SA! Mine is a cordless as well and it’s just a doddle to use.  Suze - I have no issues with hair at all now, but we have a fair bit of hard floor to be dealt with as well as the carpets and so I probably automatically use mine in the right way to mean if any hair does wrap round, it gets broken down and sucked through the next time I use it. I did have to consciously make sure I ran it on the hard floors from time to time at the flat. 

satchmo1

My mum bought a cordless vac because she couldn't manage the weight of a standard vac. It's still going strong, and she's been gone for 5 years. I find it very useful for (occasionally) vacuuming the car, and also for doing the hard floor. 

I'll admit to the extravagance of a robotic vacuum, although it annoyingly gets stuck under the sideboards sometimes.

Sun_Addict

Can you believe Mr SA has had a text from his mobile provider to say he’s due an upgrade. Obviously they’re trying to get more money a month out of him, he only pays £6 a month sim only. Of course he now wants a new phone despite there being nothing wrong with his current one that he doesn’t use properly anyway 😩 I told him if anyone needs a new phone it’s me as mine’s a lot older than his. His response was you’ve just had a new hoover 😐

I really don’t need him to start off another pester right now. 

If you hear of me being carted off in a straight jacket to a home for the bewildered don’t be surprised. 

SuzeQStan

EssexHebridean said:

I think you’ll enjoy your “Jaws” SA! Mine is a cordless as well and it’s just a doddle to use.  Suze - I have no issues with hair at all now, but we have a fair bit of hard floor to be dealt with as well as the carpets and so I probably automatically use mine in the right way to mean if any hair does wrap round, it gets broken down and sucked through the next time I use it. I did have to consciously make sure I ran it on the hard floors from time to time at the flat. 

We are all hard flooring downstairs - wood/tile and carpet upstairs and 🦈 gets used on both really.  So every time you hoover a carpet then you should use it on hard floor the next time?  Maybe I’ve been using it wrong all this time?

I think a lot of the issue is that my hair is very long.  The anti hair wrap hasn’t worked really at all the whole time we had the 🦈 (4+ years now).

PennysIntoPounds

I think you deserve a nice week away in a quiet padded cell!

He's going to have to learn there won't be as much spare money when you retire so he can start learning now

Chrystal

Tell him you bought the vacuum for him so he can help with all the mess he makes!  

Seriously though you have to decide when to put your foot down... it's OK us saying this or that, but you're the one that has to live with him and if he's going to carp on forever is it worth it or not?  ((((hugs)))) XXX

foxgloves

If there is something that winds me up re mobile phone companies, it's this concept of constant upgrades. "You are due an upgrade" is meaningless in any sense apart from them feeling they are "due" some more money from you than you are currently paying. On pretty much every other appliance, we upgrade when we know the time is right, usually when the item is kaput or no longer working effectively. If all the functions Mr SA uses on his phone are still working properly, then he doesn't need a new one, does he? The 🦈 is for both of you as you both benefit from a clean home. I guess that as he is very hot on the power of the pester, the phone company has played right into his hands by telling him he should be having a new device. Hope this pester goes off the boil pretty quickly, anyway.
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ladyholly

I think I would tell him that if he keeps on about it you will take his phone away entirely. I know this is not practical but the threat might help if he remebers it.