June 13, 2016

My Miele Vacuum Really Sucks!

(For an August 2016 update, scroll to the end) The vacuum. The essential wedding registry item and ‘housewife’ appliance. Having been a young couple who had never lived together, my husband and I didn’t have a vacuum (besides the essential college dorm Dustbuster). So when we got married, we registered for one with lots of bells and whistles and hoped it would last awhile. Fast forward fifteen years, and my upright Eureka vacuum was close to death. But what to buy? Consumer Reports was usually my go-to source for…