For the past couple of years this painting by Reverend Jen Miller of her beloved chihuahua Rev Jen Jr wearing a cowboy hat has been the one and only adult item that I have purchased myself for my apartment. 

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With everything else having been scored for free in one way or another - that is until I needed to buy a new vacuum cleaner.

I figured that I would go to Bed Bathand Beyond for this purchase since I’ve seen people testing out all sorts of vacuum cleaners there in the past, and since I knew that they had a fairly wide variety of vacuum cleaner options I figured that this was my best shot.

I had looked online to compare vacuums first before actually going to BBBY.  I found a nice one that was in my price range for about $150.00 and off I went for my second adult purchase for my place.

Once inside the wide open BBBY vacuum cleaner display area I asked the kind store associate for help in finding the one specific vacuum that I wanted to buy (I hadn’t seen it while looking by myself) and she informed me that this one in particular was currently out of stock.  Since my apartment was a mess and my old vacuum was of no more good use to me, I needed to make a decision on a different vacuum to buy - and I was going to need help.

The BBBY store associate was more than happy to help me, she very carefully explained all of the different features that the various vacuums I was interested in had, and during this time a manager of sorts walked up to her to inform her that there was a customer looking at the really expensive vacuums and that she should help them before me - as if my money was no good!  The kind BBBY store associate brushed the manager off, and continued to help me. 

After about ten more seconds of her helping me I realized that I couldn’t concentrate on any vacuums with the manager standing a few feet away staring at us awaiting the store associate to ditch me, so I let her go so that I wouldn’t feel eyes burning holes in me.  Plus I was the one who was going to have to make the decision of what vacuum I was going to buy anyway, so I braved up and began looking.

Every single vacuum that I looked at I felt as though I was looking at the lemon of all vacuums, because in reality, what do I know about vacuums other than they should clean my floors at the very least.

I spotted one slim red one with a removable hepafilter that was way under my price max ($75) and I just couldn’t let myself pick it up out of fear that an entire chorus of people would come in singing “You are a sucker, you are buying the lamest, and worst made vacuum in the store…”

And then after casually passing by the display of boxes about a dozen times to examine enough of the box I spotted Fruit Loops.

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I figured, “Well, if it can pick up a bunch of dry Fruit Loops, it has to be good.”  And so I bought me a new vacuum based off the fact that it can suck up fruit loops on a hard tile floor.

When I got the vacuum back to home to my living room I was examining the box in even further detail, and that’s when I noticed that it’s the “#1 Best Cleaning Full Size Upright under 12 lbs!”

Well, I really got the top of the line on the cheap, I thought.  Then I realized that the reason why it’s the best under 12lbs because they are the only fools to build one under 12lbs, but hey, I’m the only one foolish enough to buy one under 12lbs. 

At least I’m a fool with clean floors!