For Christmas Gisele and I got a Roomba, robot vacuum cleaner.
We like it! Every night at 3:00am it wakes up and wanders around the lower floor vacuuming up dog hair and dust bunnies. In the morning I get up and empty the dust bin, and put it back down, ready for another day. Our floor has never been so regularly clean!
About 2/3 of the time it finds its way back to the dock at the end of it’s daily toils, but once in a while it either gets stuck behind the sofa, or tangled up in a wire or string I left lying around. It’s never a big job to untangle and send it back home.
It’s a little noisy and sometimes wakes me up when it starts its rounds. I usually just close the bedroom door and go back to sleep.
Brian and Carrie have a Scooba, but they don’t use it. I should borrow it from them and see if I like it as much as you like your Roomba.
Comment by Donna — February 10, 2011 @ 10:00 pm
Reviews on the Scooba were not as good as on the Roomba. Problems with leaving water around, and not doing a good job of mopping.
Comment by Daryl — February 11, 2011 @ 9:57 am
Just one more thing that I never heard of. Did you ever hear the fact that in about 1890, it was predicted that there would be no new inventions after 1895, because everything that could be discovered or invented had already been done?
Comment by Mom — February 11, 2011 @ 3:49 pm
We got one a few years ago and rarely used it. Of course that was before the cleanliness of the house had been “improved” so maybe it would be better now. It’s out in the garage collecting dust.
Comment by Don — February 11, 2011 @ 10:00 pm
That’s what they’re supposed to do: Collect dust!
Comment by Daryl — February 12, 2011 @ 8:21 am
Yes, but not on the outside…
Comment by Don — February 13, 2011 @ 3:59 am