A tale of two vacuums

My husband and I have been married 13 1/2 years, and one of our first purchases with our wedding money was a vacuum cleaner. I remember how we went to the nearest town with a Super Wal-mart (our college town now has one but didn’t then) . Every time we went to this town, we’d eat dinner at El Chico Mexican Restaurant, then do the shopping. I don’t remember what else we bought other than the vacuum and a cheap set of shelves for our towels and washclothes since the bathrooms in the married housing on campus didn’t have storage space. The shelves are in my office now, holding up part of my…uh…extensive book collection. The vacuum, bless her little dirt-sucking soul, is now in the large garbage can outside. After cleaning the carpets in four apartments and one house, she finally bit it a couple of weeks ago. May I have a moment of silence for the dearly departed…

Funny how more than 13 years later, I was back at a Super Wal-mart, this time in a different state, looking for a vacuum. And the passage of time was illustrated by how much vacuums had changed. Back when I was still a college senior living in an apartment you could roughly fit in my current den, we came home with the traditional model with a bag inside. This time, I came home with a bagless model guaranteed to never lose suction. Awesome! Fear me, carpet dirt!

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