I think shoelaces are my worst enemy when it comes to vacumming. I have sucked them up on several occassions, then I had to turn off the machine and take it apart to get them out cause the other ends were still laced on a shoe…

I twittered about it too!

http://twitter.com/EricaMueller/statuses/1476473900

I have a totally embarrassing vacuum story. I have SUPER curly hair, and when i was a youngster, I had read somewhere about a hair stylist in LA using a vacuum to straighten hair. So, at age 12, i got my mom’s big ole canister vacuum, and had at it! Well, there were multiple issues with my beauty plan.

1. I didn’t think to take off the floor attachment thing, so my hair wrapped around the roller.

2. Because of the awkward position I was in, I couldn’t easily reach the on/off switch, so actually sat and debated for 45 seconds or so how I was going to go about this (vacuum still on and roller still getting tighter). I finally turned it off, and then had no idea what to do. I then had the giant vacuum stick hanging from my head, as I sat on the floor looking in the mirror thinking wow, i am the biggest a___ ever. LOL.

3. I am lazy. I made no attempt to unravel my hair, and just cut it off (imagine having to drag the canister into the bathroom to get scissors, and back).

I was not a bright kid. :-)

This probably isn’t the best vacuum story, but pet owners should be able to relate. We have lots of pets…that shed…a lot. We have a pretty nice vacuum, it’s no Dyson, but it works pretty well, the only problem is (even though we vacuum pretty regularly) the hair likes to get clogged in the tube, which causes the vacuum to overheat, which causes it to shut off for about an hour. We have to watch the tube, and empty the container after every room, or vacuuming could literally turn into an all day event while we wait for the vacuum to start working again.

Probably makes our house sound like a smelly, fur covered dump, but it’s not really, we just have a clog-prone vacuum :P

http://twitter.com/konen/status/1476586639

There is a wonderful tweet about this giveaway at http://tinyurl.com/c5yfzm
Thanks Alice!!

We had Berber rugs installed at our old house, and there was a small loop that was dangerously taller than all the rest. Our ferrets would constantly try to pull it, but I would guard it with my life so that they didn’t unzip it from wall to wall.

All this anxiety about a preventing a pet from destroying a new carpet must have distracted me, because one day while driving the Hoover around, the loop of death got caught in the roller and immediately pulled about 16 inches of additional loops right out of the carpet. There was nothing I could do but snip it loose, unwind it from the roller, and go on my way. All I have to say is thank goodness for throw rugs.

@Jason, I’ve had our new vacuum overheat from a clogged filter and shut off on me before, about half through the rooms and an half hour before a party at my house. Luckily, I keep the Berber eating Hoover around as a backup.

My blog post can be seen at http://waytoomanyquestions.blogspot.com/2009/04/great-thinkers-at-alice.html

I follow you on twitter and I tweeted :)

http://twitter.com/laughwithleslie/status/1476793409

always_317537(at)yahoo(dot)com

My best vacuuming story would be … my chihuahua loves pulling out her least favorite food pieces out of her dog food bowl and I find them with the vacuum!!

One of my favorite parts of vacuuming when I was a kid (we had one of those central vacuum systems – where you use the long tube thing with attachments) was listening to the stuff I vacuumed up travel through the tube, through the house, and down into the basement where the box that caught everything was. Now of course, with two dogs and two cats in our house, and no fun central vac, it’s not nearly as fun.

This isn’t really a hilarious vacuum story, but it’s my most memorable. We had a fire in our laundry room this year and it freaked me out more than anything could have. Since I was little, I’ve had nightmares about my house catching on fire and dying. Luckily we were all safe, but everything in our laundry room was ruined. After it was all cleaned up a few days later, my roommate and I set out to replace our vacuum among other appliances. We picked out something that had attachments to clean the fans and blinds since soot landed on every surface in our apartment. When we got home, we cleaned the whole apartment with the neat attachments and sang while we worked. After everything was sparkling, we sighed with relief and smiled to ourselves. Such an insignificant purchase had lifted my spirits to much, it was unbelievable.

I tweeted about it: http://twitter.com/BlissBowman/status/1477014424

Posted a blog, too: http://craftingcupcake.blogspot.com/2009/04/alice-giveaway-win-roomba.html

My Dog Levi (A boston Terrier/Black Lab mix) HATES the vaccuum! Even a dust buster makes him crazy. We didn’t mention this little detail to my parents and we left him with my parents for 2 weeks while my husband & I took our honeymoon and my mom started to vaccuum and Levi all about attacked the vaccuum cleaner! She figured it out after awhile to just try to ignore him hopping around the vaccuum and barking furiously at the thing!
http://twitter.com/JackieCStone (I dont know how to give you the exact Twitter post, but here is my page!)

So, I had to vaccuum as a chore when I was young and we had this very old, metal Kirby. One day I sucked up a coin and totally broke the thing. My parents were not happy. I also can remember getting other random items stuck in it: dolls hair, socks, etc. Hahaha. Maybe it’s a good thing I just sweep the floors nowadays.

PS. To make up for my shennanigans I got my parents a Rooma for Christmas a couple years back! Now I could use one…

I Tweeted:
http://twitter.com/esea/status/1477246624

My Mom has super-long hair, well past her hips and, as such, she is a vacuum killer. We used to go through one vacuum a year because her hair would do nefarious things to the vacuum motors and they’d die.

I was using an older vacuum once and thought I could get in a few more good cleanings before it died. I was rocking out to my music when I smelled the distinctive smell of burning motor. I was sooo close to being done with the house, though, so I kept going. Smoke started pouring out of the little vacuum but I only had a few more feet to go when the smell changed from burning motor to burning plastic.

I looked down and saw a tiny little flame dancing inside the vacuum so I whipped the plug out of the wall, grabbed the vacuum, and dashed outside. I doused it with the garden hose until the flame died out.

My Mom thought it was hilarious to come home and find the vacuum lying in a puddle in the backyard. I did too once I got over the smell of burning plastic and near incineration.

http://twitter.com/ParsingNonsense/status/1477257304

Remember those old vacuums with the bag you had to pull out? Well my mom had one of those horrible things and when I moved I inherited it. So one day I am getting ready to have a little get together at my house. Now I needed to vaccum the rug but the bag was stuffed full of dirt and I didn’t have another one. So I figured that I could take it out and try to dump out some of the dirt. Now it’s almost party time and I am sticking my fingers into that little tiny hole at the bottom trying to get it loose. Well it came loose all over the floor and rug. OMG so there I was covered in dust and crud. I almost started crying but then when I looked at the spillage, I started laughing and coughing (from the dust) and just sat there looking at the mess. I had a broom but not a dust pan so I had to go next door and ask the neighbor. He looked at me like I was some sort of alien. Luckily, after he stopped laughing, offered me his vacuum instead of the dust pan. I got cleaned up, vacuumed up the mess and the party went off. I even invited the neighbor. I always remembered to have extra bags on hand from then on. THank god they made bagless vacuums.

Here is my tweet:
http://twitter.com/carogonza/status/1477591187

Tweeted! http://twitter.com/AZcomm/status/1477682915

I recall having to vaccuum when I was a kid and my mom’s little black poodle would go nuts, barking and yapping and jumping to and fro in front of the vaccuum. Thankfully, I’m a pacifist, so the little fella never got injured!

I tweeted! http:///twitter.com/cornellian2001

And here’s my story: my fav vacuum incident was when I was trying to clean up quickly while my tot trailed around behind me. She was playing with her silver bracelet from her grandma! She dropped it in front of the vacuum just as I was going over that spot. Before I could stop, the vacuum had sucked it in! I have yet to find it inside the vacuum!!

I tweeted about the contest, and blogged about my vacuum cleaner, which spit more out than it sucked in. Here’s both:

http://twitter.com/heartsleeve/status/1477854158
http://robot-heart.tumblr.com/post/94225595/when-i-first-moved-to-portland-i-didnt-have-a-vacuum

I want a roomba!

Not much a story, but an epic battle: One of my mother’s Westhighland White Terriers will bark at the vacuum ferociously, but never let it get more than 2 feet from it, yet, he won’t let it get more than 5 feet from him.

The image if that of my mother pushing around a vacuum with a small white dog barking and hopping around it as if tethered to it by an imaginary pole. Adorable.

Well, this didn’t happen to me (seriously!) but in high school I had a friend that just found out her boyfriend was cheating on her. She figured she’d try to give herself a hickey using a vacuum to make him jealous!! As soon as the nozzle thing hit her skin, she freaked out and screamed at me to shut it off.

It’s funny now! (heck it was funny then too!)

Thanks for the great giveaway!!
janeener at gmail dot com

http://twitter.com/lVloose/status/1479229886
The best thing about vacuuming is when the rug gets all plush and soft and you like the feel of it under bare feet. One time I put a nylon pantyhose over the end of the vacuum tube to find a lost contact lens in a room. It took a while but I finally found it and it made my grandpa very happy.

My best (and scariest) vacuuming story happened when I accidentally vacuumed up a spider egg sack that was ready to hatch. All the teeny tiny baby spiders hatched into the removable canister. I was too scared to empty it out so I made my husband do it. It was neat but icky at the same time.

http://twitter.com/julstew

I’m only admitting this because I really want a Roomba… My mom used to vacuum her cat – instead of a ShedEnder she pulled out a Shop-Vac. Lazy or savvy pet groomer? You decide. Anyway the cat loved it.

http://twitter.com/deannaboss

bugs, bugs, bugs! This is time of year we have soooo many of the japanese beetles in the suning themselves in the warm sun. They literally crawl out of the woodwork. Yuck
The bugs stink when squished, so the vacuum is the way to clean them up. Yea for the vacuum. The only problem is that it is a daily task once the weather warms. Wonder if the Roomba climbs walls??

http://twitter.com/redredjule

My story isn’t amazing but my vacuum is well-travelled. Seriously, do you have any idea much less space a Roomba would take in my apartment?? Follow me on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/scarletncream

My story isn’t amazing but my vacuum is well-travelled (http://scarletncream.blogspot.com/2009/04/vacuuming-stories.html). Seriously, do you have any idea much less space a Roomba would take in my apartment?? Follow me on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/scarletncream

When my son was about 10 he had asked his grandfather if he could keep the garden snake that he had found. He had it for about a week and then it disappeared suddenly. Come to find out I vacuumed it up and he had is father take the vacuum apart and it was still alive.

My son is fascinated by vacuums. He has no fewer than 3 toy vacuums, and has laid claim to my rechargeable Shark. And then his world came crashing down in a cloud of dust. He is highly allergic to dust mites. And cannot even be in the house when I use the vacuum. Sob. Sob. Sob.

I have heard that the Roomba is safe to use with allergy kids. My joy knows no bounds.

http://twitter.com/Fiddledeedee

Years ago, one of my kids spilled a red colored drink on our white carpet. I panicked and grabbed the hose attachment on the vacuum cleaner, which actually power-sucked the liquid right up and saved the carpet. Unfortunately, it fried the vacuum cleaner because you’re not supposed to vacuum wet stuff unless you’re using a wet/dry vac, which I wasn’t.

Sorry! I think I was supposed to include the tweet link in the last comment: http://twitter.com/DawnMHSH/statuses/1483413370

see @kierkito. 2 days ago I was vacuuming, and once again the belt broke….happens quite often. Now it lacks suction too, so all the sand we have been dragging into the house was kicked into new locations.

My labradoodle hats the vacuum. She chases and barks at it like it is a possessed creature.She freaks even more when I vacuum near her beloved toys.

http://twitter.com/dopepeddler

My dog’s arch-enemy is the vacume cleaner. This makes it quite difficult to clean a room with him constantly growling and snapping at the vacume.

Wow, my stories aren’t nearly as exciting as some of those above! My son (16 mos.) is afraid of the vacuum, so I wear him in a ring sling while I vacuum…the other day he accidentally turned the vacuum ON and was not happy about that. :) Also, at the camp where I work, I once vaccuumed the entire office without a bag in the vacuum. I was in a hurry, and on my way out the door, I looked back and the floor was still covered in dirt and those little rocks. When I investigated, I realized the problem. :)

Oh no! I thought it read funniest but it says best story, now I just willingly gave away an embarassing moment about myself to the public. eh, c’est la vie.

http://www.imeem.com/people/iJ5nnJ/blogs/2009/04/10/KUUerJXH/dogs-vacuums-dont-mix

after coming back home from college for the summer, I had found out that my parents had gotten a dog, a very small chihuahua mix… very cute. sometime during the weekend it was my turn to vacuum the house, which sucks because our vacuum is less effective than someone using a straw. each time using this is agony: this barely picks anything up, and at the same time makes a large amount of noise. the dog just exacerbated things by having to be completely freaked out by the thing, oddly enough switching between moments of fear and courage where it would try to fight back against the vacuum. I tried to work around it but eventually just put the dog outside, which my parents hate since our dog is defenseless against the elements, since that became the faster action. I still had a crappy time vacuuming with that horrible vacuum cleaner. I actually look forward to school since I won’t be home to vacuum.

http://twitter.com/rolandoguerra/status/1488265109

My best vacuuming story is not actually my own, but it affected me. When I got my first apartment, the only furniture I had was a futon. I acquired a mostly lovely living room set very inexpensively because the prior owner’s mother in law had decided to vacuum their curtains for them. She did this by setting the vacuum on the couch, and it sucked a small hole in the attached cushion. She, in turn, purchased a new living room set for them. I got a slightly damaged set for next to nothing. Their loss, my gain. But I learned not to set the vacuum on the couch while using the attachment.

I tweeted about this contest and follow you on twitter. http://twitter.com/3carnations/status/1490752118

I always hated vacuuming. When I was in high school, my hands used to turn blue and would ache with any sort of vibrations – typing, playing the piano, vacuuming… I told my mom that I couldn’t vacuum because my hands would hurt. She was so sweet, she would do it for me. I seem to have grown out of the hand issue and am very capable of doing this chore. But I still hate it. My husband and I have a deal: If I help him move the chairs and furniture in our apartment, he’ll do the vacuuming.

I follow you on twitter and tweeted

http://twitter.com/freebates/status/1490797947

thanks!

Here’s my story…my 2 yo LOVES LOVES LOVES vacuuming. Ever since he was a baby he has never been scared of the vacuum. I actually think vacuum was one of his first words. The girls at his daycare vacuum at the end of the day and he has always been mesmerized by it. He follows them (and us) around trying to hold the handle to help vacuum. He’ll even try to plug it in for you, which of course we don’t let him do, but it’s precious how much he loves to clean!!

I’ve been in the market for a Scooba (roomba that mops) but a Roomba would be pretty awesome too! Though my son might not like it as much as the vacuum cleaner!

Reading these comments makes me feel lucky! The worst vacuuming incident I ever had was years ago when I worked part time at a clothing store. I was trying to vacuum the store at closing time, and it started spitting wads of dirt and grime onto the floor – the exact opposite of what we hope a vacuum will achieve! I ended up staying there half an hour after my shift was over trying to get it cleaned up. Apparently the vacuum had been broken for some time, but they hadn’t wanted to replace it.

Thank you for this amazing contest! A Roomba is seriously the next best thing to having your own “Rosie the Maid” from the Jetson!

Here’s my tweet:
http://twitter.com/hardertobreathe/status/1490809736

http://twitter.com/titicuervo

I don’t really have a funny vacuuming story… I don’t vacuum much, my place is a mess, I could really use a roomba…

http://freebates.blogspot.com/2009/04/do-you-know-alice.html

There’s by blog post. Thanks so much for this chance!! I need all the help I can get!! :)

I ran over my vac cord and it got sucked into the vac. Plastic was eaten off the cord and it smelled like burnt rubber in the house. Now the cord is wrapped with electrical tape. I actually have an older roomba which I love, I would like this amped up version as a second vac. solta(at)hotmaildotcom

tweeted here

http://twitter.com/solstar/status/1491169137

When I was young, I tried to propel a cart I made out of a luggage rack and a dolly by having a vacuum suck up twine and pull me! :)

In the end, it didn’t work very well (of course), and I broke my mother’s vacuum. It was a learning experience non-the-less. The original tweet is here:

http://twitter.com/Benjamin_Taylor/statuses/1490952213

If I got a Roomba, I’d use it in a creative way like my old vacuum story. I’ve always wanted a Roomba, for that very reason.

I’m a follower!

It’s awful to say, but my little brother was terrified of the vacuum. SO, of course being the mean big sister, I used to chase him around the house. Awful, I know!

my tweet:

https://twitter.com/alexisbyam/status/1492268101

My vacuuming story is the best. My hubby does it. I love a house trained man. He vacuums and dusts. This would make a nice surprise for him.

One day my hubby and I wake up to find the biggest wasp we’ve ever seen flying around our bedroom (how it got there I don’t know). I’m not going near the thing (I threw the blanket over myself!) and let him take care of it. He’s a weenie too, so he took the vacuum and made a huge pole linking all the attachments to each other so he could stand like 10 feet away to suck the thing up. Over the years we’ve sucked more bugs up with the thing than dirt I think! ^_^

My son’s lab absoluely hated the vacuum, the broom, and the water hose. She would attack with a vengence. I don’t know if the noise or what bothered her.

My youngest son loves the vacuum. He will always calm down when I turn on the vacuum.

My twitter:
http://twitter.com/mrscathynorth/status/1494215842

I tweeted! http://twitter.com/ingoodcents. I think the vacuuming experience that sticks out most in my mind was when I was vacuuming someone elses home for them. Their carpet was all ratty and every 5 seconds, I got caught on a peice of carpet. It took forever and was so annoying! My dogs and youngest daughter are scared of the vacuum, so when I clean here, they run in all directions screaming and barking!

Vacuums work wonders for fussy babies. Calms him down every time.

Well my story is about my daughter who is 25y and is afraid to vacuum, every time she vacuums she has broken the vacuum.. Started when she was a teenager… I think it is because she does not pick up the big pieces off the floor first…

Sorry forgot to leave my link http://twitter.com/StacyCaddy

Be best (or probably worst actually, lol) vacuum experience was when I first moved into my own place. I was young and excited to vacuum (crazy I know) my very own carpet. I started smelling smoke but wasn’t really sure why.. My mom never made me vacuum the floor and so I thought maybe that was normal.. and then suddenly smoke started coming up out of the bottom of the vacuum! I was so freaked out I ripped it out of the plug and threw it outside thinking it was going to catch the whole place on fire!

There was no fire just random smoke thank goodness. I still don’t know why it happened but still to this day I think about it every time I turn on the vacuum and always have my nose ready to smell for possible vacuum fires! :)

I’m following you on Twitter and tweeted :) http://twitter.com/mygoodcents/status/1500046047

I wrote a blog post about my experience with the vomiting vacuum here:

http://contest-corner.blogspot.com/2009/04/win-roomba-at-alicecom.html

Thanks so much for the contest! I’ve wanted a Roomba for years, so my fingers are crossed!!!

I follow on Twitter posted a tweet: http://twitter.com/NwsArdtheblogs

I don’t have a funny one but I know a story of what happened to my husband and his brother. Little brother was messing with the vacuum instead of doing his chore and decided to give himself a “hickey” well when parents got home little brother blamed it on big brother and big brother got grounded!.

I follow on twitter. 1amypugmire.

Well this vacuum would be perfect for us. My daughter is in a very busy phase of her life right now and everytime I got to vacuum she grabs the cord and pulls it so it jerks her and she trys to stand in front of the vacuum while I do it which is scary. so i think we could really benefit from this.

I was vaccuming around my old deaf cat. She never heard the vacumm…she didn’t notice….until it sucked up her tail! I had never seen her jump up so fast and SCREECH so loud either…I LMAO.. but then felt horrible. My poor kitty.

forgot to put my twitter addy in the body but it is in the website place :)

http://twitter.com/mrsT1975

http://twitter.com/yzgirl4/status/1502058300
tweeted yzgirl4

Let’s see, my daughter received these little tiny disney princesses for christmas. THeir shoes were are about the size of a quarter of my pinky nail. She loved them more than anything else she received. I explained to her how tiny they were and how easily they can get lost. Well….I vacuumed one up. Yup, she was devastated. I could have taught her a lesson to not leave her toys laying around, but instead I had to pull apart my vacuume and dig through the cat hair, dust and dirt to retrieve this tiny shoe. I don’t think i would have done it if she didn’t love it so much. She learned her lesson anyway because she never leaves them on the floor
yzgirl4 at verizon dot net

http://twitter.com/Lisa4Christ/status/1506927225

I have trouble vacuuming the pet hair off the furniture. I borrowed a friend’s vacuum and it worked wonderfully. When I ask where she got it, she had been dumpster diving!

My son used to be afraid of the vacuum, but now he loves playing with the toy vacuum cleaner and he likes cleaning up!!

My dog attacks my vacuum. The edges are worn from him biting it. If I pick up the vacuum to take it upstairs he really goes berserk. Once it is back in the closet (its home) all is well and he can go back to sleeping. http://twitter.com/katmorton/status/1531058641

When i was a teen in the nineties I imagined that gaming systems would at some point be like this… there’s no doubt this is one of the greatest innovations of all time. I’m ordering my little cousin one for the holidays .

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