Vacuums, washers, and dryers, oh MY!

Brent and I spent most of yesterday wandering around town in the blizzard shopping for new appliances for the new house.  Shopping not buying.  The first stop was a vacuum shop.  Brent has been spending way more time than necessary researching vacuums.  He wanted to play with Simplicity vacuums.  And play he did.

The whole experience was straight out of the 1950s.  The only thing missing was our living room and him knocking on our front door.  He gave us the history of the vacuum, explained different types of vacuums, and demonstrated just how hoodwinked we are with the upright bag less vacuums that have become so prevalent in the big box stores.  Dyson suck ... in a bad way.


The Simplicity vacuums were pretty darn impressive.  See that nastiness in the middle of the rug??  All vacuumed to bare bones, super clean carpet in three swipes.  The Dyson the salesman is running in the picture was on its tenth swipe or so and no where near finished.  Like I said, all very 1950s.  He did his best salesman pitch and starting throwing various options on the table.  We didn't buy anything.  But I did learn a lot about vacuums.


After playing with vacuums we went downtown to the appliance shop to look at washer and dryers.  Brent's all about helping the local Mom and Pop shop.  So we looked at the few washer and dryers they had on the show floor.  Brent had a lively conversation about washer and dryers with the sales lady.  I opened doors, looked inside, and shut doors.  Maybe I looked like I knew what I was inspecting.  I didn't.  We didn't buy anything.  We hit up Sears today and I did the same thing.  Open.  Close.  Open.  Close.  We may have decided on a set but things may change by the time we actually get around to purchasing them.

We're set for closing 10 a.m. Monday morning.  Tick, tock.  Tick, tock.  It's going to be a long week at work.

As for Boston, I'm still trying to figure out how best to express my thoughts.  I've started posts and deleted them.  Maybe tomorrow.