We’ve dealt with a mostly-ineffectual $40 canister vac for a few years. But I get cold feet every time it’s suggested that we plunk down $200 on some plastic modern abomination likely to break after six months. I grew up running an array of nearly identical Hoovers around the hallways of rental properties, so I was inclined to just get an old Decade 80 (or whatever) and never look back. Fuck a Dyson!

So on today’s lunchtime excursion into the secular world, I spied a vintage, clunky, heavy old Kirby– a Heritage II “Legend” sitting on the curb soaking up rain. Who knows if it works. I’m going to let it dry out for a couple days. It had a note that said “free” rather than “broken”, so maybe I’m in luck.

Interestingly, there appears to be a Kirby cult (will I be “sucked” in?). Meanwhile, the company soldiers on, sustaining what must be one of the oldest and last true door-to-door sales routines (and probably the only one that will promise to rid my life of mite poop). Hell, it seems Kirby’s selling pretty much the same model they did 25 years ago. Weird.

Anyhow, here’s another project! Or maybe just more of someone else’s junk I’ll have to find a way to dispose of.