I love a clean house. I just don’t love doing the cleaning. However, as I always tell my daughter – you cannot only do the fun things in life. You have to do a whole lot of un-fun stuff if you want to live in a clean house. And, yes – we want to live in a clean house.

It seems absurd to me that in the middle of a huge oil crisis, when everyone is screaming about saving energy, that I should just add to the commotion by plugging in all of my appliances. I’ve got an awesome vacuum cleaner, but I left it behind in my old house so we could use it to keep the house clean to show it while trying to sell it. Much to my chagrin, my ex is living in the house with his new wife now and trying to put off selling in the house. In the meantime, my vacuum and washer and dryer and a few other appliances are there, out of reach for my own use.

I need a new vacuum while I am waiting for my ex to get around to getting my things back to me and while I was shopping around I began to be really attracted to the Energy Star ® approved Dirt Devil AccuCharge stick vac and hand vac. Not only do they use 70% less energy, the cordless vacuum is also idea for me since we are heading right into hurricane season in Florida. I love the idea of being able to clean the house even when the power is out.

That reminds me about the hurricanes back in 1994. Our power was out for four days. While that might not seem like a long time, it was miserable from the inside looking out. The house got filthy as the sand and damp was tracked in by everyone. I was almost climbing the walls wanting to vacuum. If I’d had a cordless vac back then, I could have saved myself a WHOLE lot of insanity.