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I’ve had this vacuum for a little over a month and have mixed feelings.

When it worked, it was quite loud, but sucked up everything I put in its path (including large paint chips when moving out of an apartment). It had no problem picking up hair from a carpet (handy with two cats) and didn’t require me to stop after completing a room and pull hair out of the belt like my preceding vacuum. No problem with the cord length but had a LARGE problem with the cord attachments. Namely, whenever you use one of the hose attachments, the main vac never turns off, so it’s sucking through the hose and through the bottom simultaneously (even when the handle is locked upright), resulting, sometimes, in dust shooting out of the hole where the hose connects.

The reason it gets two stars is my fiance went to vacuum last night with the hose attachment, went to move the vacuum so she could reach a spot, and accidentally went over the cord with the bottom of the vacuum for half of a second. In that half second, the cord was completely shredded and severed, caused an electrical fire, and burnt our carpet.

A call to Hoover informed us that this is not considered a manufacturer’s defect (even though having the bottom constantly running seems like a pretty big design flaw, idle or not), so we will have to pay to have it repaired ($25-40, depending on the vacuum). Needless to say, we’re not pleased.

UPDATE: Turns out the $25-40 is actually $80-90 with parts and labor. That’s more than it cost to purchase the vacuum in the first place. Hoover just lost a customer.
Paris Jigsaw Puzzle 500pc

I have used this card with my Canon HD video camera for more than a year now. It works perfectly and I have not had any issues at all. I would definitely purchase again.
Garmin GPS Nuvi 275t

This is wonderful book! Ever curious about what happens behind the scenes of a circus? Well this story shows that it’s nothing like you’ve ever imagined. Jacob Jankowski is en route to become a veternarian when all of a sudden he loses his parents and everything changes. He decides to run away and runs into a traveling circus. He eventually gets a job with them as their “vet”, and gets an inside look on the running of the circus. But wait, now Jacob is a 90… or is it 93 year old man living in a dull nursing home. The way that this novel flashes back and forth between the present old man and the past young Jacob as his story with the circus and the excentric characters he meets there adds a wonderful effect to this story. It’s a must read, once you pick up the book, you won’t want to put it down until the end. You’ll never believe the crazyness behind the freakshows and the secretive and passionate characters behind the facade of happiness.
Mcpc gigabit TX SX

I’m so thrilled with this book. I brought it home and my 12 1/2 year old daughter vanished with it. Soon pages were full of post-it notes marking the items she wanted to make. By bedtime she’d made a shower gel and an anti-acne honey potion. She is just coming of age with skin problems and is aware of how many chemicals there are in conventional products (she reacts to the SLS that is in most shampoos, even some of the ones at Whole Foods). This book totally pays for itself in what you save on beauty products.
EcoBeauty Scrubs Rubs Masks