Honestly, I've been using those $40 stick vacuums from the drugstore for years and just thought my carpet was supposed to look kind of flat and dingy. Last weekend I borrowed my neighbor's Miele canister vacuum and ran it over my living room rug - the amount of dirt and pet hair it pulled up was insane. I bet I've been walking on a layer of grime this whole time because I was too cheap to spend over $100. Has anyone else had that shock when you finally use a decent vacuum?
I run a small moving company in Austin and we needed new dollies for our next big job. I had to pick between the standard 4-wheel furniture dolly and the flat platform cart with pneumatic tires. The flat cart costs about $80 more per unit but handles stairs way better. I went with the flat carts because three of our last five jobs had staircases. So far they've saved us at least 2 hours per move and nobody has complained about scraping walls. Has anyone else had good luck using those stair climbing attachments for dollies?