Wasting Money While Thinking You're Actually Saving....

Okay, so I currently have six dogs (a malamut husky, a collie/something mix and husky/collies mix babies from them (okay they aren't babies anymore, they are 2.5 years old)....which means vacuuming a lot...needless to say I've used a lot of different types/brands of vacuums over the years.

I've used, built-ins, plug in and rechargeable ones, Filter Queens, Dirt Devil's and Hoover's, you name them and I've probably tried them over the years (from when I had just one dog all the way up until I had 14 dogs and right up to this morning)....okay son came in to say something to me and I totally lost my train of thought...ugh. Maybe it will come back, but if not it couldn't have been that important...I hope. :D

My current (and last vacuum I'll ever have to buy) is a Dyson. I love this vacuum so much. It gets the hair from all my dogs, no matter what the length, gets all my hair (though it usually gets pretty wrapped around the beater bar) and everything else either the dogs or any of us humans seem to get onto the floors and carpets. Its easy to use, not super heavy, (though some days it feels like its full of rocks,) and you can easily take it apart to clean everything when things get gummed up.

I've spent a small fortune on vacuums over the past 26 years of married life but could have saved myself a lot of money and stress if I'd just saved up and bought the Dyson from the get go.

Has anyone else thought they were saving money only to add it all up and realize they wasted more than double what they would have spent on what you thought was the expensive item (in my case the Dyson)?