Do You Really Need A Hand Vac For Your Home?

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You have an upright (or a canister) vacuum and you are probably wondering whether or not you need a hand vac too. If you are asking yourself this question, you probably:

• Don’t have a hand vacuum already
• Don’t think that you need one
• Don’t use your big vacuum all that much
• Don’t use the attachments on your vacuum

So, what is the answer to whether or not you need a hand vac.

The New Car Syndrome

A lot of people buy hand vacuums about the same time they buy a new car. Why? Because they tell themselves that they need to clean their car more often in order for it to stay “new”.

If you have a new car (or just want to keep your wreck nice), a hand vac is going to be pretty convenient, and you won’t have to worry about lugging your vacuum outside every Saturday morning to clean your car.

A lot of people kid themselves by thinking that since they are going to wash their car at the car wash, they will just use the vacuum there while they are waiting in line.

Sure, this sounds like a good idea, but if you have ever had the bad luck of using one of those vacuums, you are going to know how bad they are. By the time you have pumped quarter after quarter in the machine, you could have used a hand vac two or three times already (and bought yourself a couple of cold sodas from a vending machine with the money that you saved.)

Picking Up After The Pet

Another reason people typically get a hand vacuum is that they finally realize how dirty their pets are. I got my first hand vacuum given to my at the ripe age of 12 by my mother when she was sick of seeing bird feathers and seeds all over my bedroom floor.

Now, hand vacuums are powerful enough to pick up hair, and some of them are even designed to get up all of that hair off of the sofa or bed without sucking up and damaging your blankets or upholstery.

Using a hand vacuum is going to be easier than dragging out your big vacuum daily.

Kids Aren’t Clean

If anyone claims that their children are clean, you are going to be able to call them on it. Kids make messes and sometimes it is easier to just suck the whole mess up rather than try to clean it up.

A hand vacuum with a rotating brush is going to be able to clean the cereal that has been dropped on (and then ground into) your rug easier than anything else can clean it.

The advantage of a hand vac is that you are going to be able to use it during nap time, when vacuuming would otherwise be off-limits.

Sure, you may be kidding yourself that you don’t need a hand vacuum, but most people who do get one (well, a high quality hand vacuum) are going to find that they use it constantly.

Do you have any hand vacuum recommendations? What type of messes do you clean up with yours?

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