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WHIZZZZ updated

Our vacuum has been slowly declining.

We read in the New Yorker about Dyson who invented a whole new, top to bottom, vacuum. The Cyclone.

It has been in our mind for awhile.

Since we moved to the condo and now vacuum our own floors, we are keenly aware of our Hoover's limitations. Back and forth no side to side. Trouble on bare floors. A tendency to break the drive belt. Bags.

The Dyson Cyclone (the middle priced one which is still expensive but not a lot more than other high quality vacuums) has a ball for a wheel. It swings and swivels. It has a hose which houses the handle. Handle out reveals a slinky hose.

And the cyclone. You sort of want to get down on hands and knees and watch it swirl.

John thinks that it automatically senses when it is on a rug and adjusts for the brushing.

I, personally, intend to stay as far away from it as possible.

I do the wets. My technical breakthrough is to get all new cleaning products. Method brand. Wonderful.

Labels: housekeeping, tools, toys

ULTIMATE TOOLS

I have a few small obsessions. No surprise there, I suppose.

One of them is finding ideal tools for certain jobs.

Many years ago, I found one of those soap dispensing sponge dish cleaners. It was great. You swabbed the dish, soap. You didn't have to get out the soap bottle. Just swab.

But there was something wrong. The sponge got dirty too fast, the soap got dirty and grungy, the sponge fell apart.

I tried many brands.

Now, I think that I have found the ultimate in soap dispensing sponge tools. The OXO easy hold sponge.

It comes in two versions, with a plastic scrubber over the sponge (better because it is cleanable and lasts longer and abrades cookware surfaces safely.

It will not get contaminated in the soap part because it has a ball valve. You get soap to the sponge every so often by pressing a little "button" which compresses the air in the chamber and scoots the soap through the ball valve. Nifty.

There are refillables but the life of the sponge part is much longer.

And it is bigger! A full three inches of happy sponge surface.

We haven't been using it long but it is a winner already.

I love this thing. And I don't even do the dishes. I will have to ask the dishwasher how he likes it.

Labels: tools