I recently bought an inexpensive robot vacuum cleaner after years of easily resisting the trend. After a very bad ankle break last summer that won’t heal, and two knee replacements in recent months, I have mobility challenges that keep me from a lot of chores I used to keep up with easily.

I am far from Suzy Homemaker, and I don’t keep an immaculate house, but I have a thing about thorough dusting and well cleaned floors. My husband took on many things, including vacuuming, and my daughter in law helps, as well as grandchildren. Still, I decided to try out the little robot, just to help out.

I am pleased to say that my $89 investment has paid off big time. The vacuum cleaner isn’t perfect, but it is so much better than I expected that it satisfies even floor picky me. If you really want it to work its best, put away clutter, of course, and put chairs and barstools up. It will really clean under couches and beds, go from room to room, and it has little stiff brushes sticking out that rotate and clean at baseboards and in corners.

It has been a pretty long time since I’ve spent under a hundred dollars and been so well pleased. So, I decided, for curiosity’s sake, to see what else you guys come up with. What is your favorite buy lately, large or small?

If this post is enjoyed, I think I’ll do one soon on home improvement and repair items. I spent many years working in the home improvement industry, from my start selling kitchen and bath fixtures, cabinets, appliances and electrical fixtures, moving on the my greater love for lumber, building materials, and milwork, including high end windows and doors. Hint: when I win the lottery my modest home on the banks of the Tennessee River, or one of her lakes, will have only Marvin Windows in it. Unless Kolbe and Kolbe has closed the gap in the years since I left the trade.

But that passion of mine is for a later post. Today it is all about hickeydoodles and hooti, a plural for hootus. That’s a favorite WeeWeed term that makes me smile.

 

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