Advantages: Consideration of all features will make the search easier.
Disadvantages: Vacuuming is still a useless and horrible task, regardless of what you buy.

...One of my most least favorite household chores is vacuuming. It’s such a waste of time and effort. I mean, think about it; what are your floors for, anyway? To walk on, right? With your dirty, muddy, dusty footwear, right? (With apologies to the Japanese, who are enlightened enough to remove said footwear at the front door.) So regardless of your efforts, as soon as you finish cleaning the floors, they’ll get dirty again, right? Right. OK, so now we’ve established one Fundamental Truth about floor care: It’s a Sisyphean task. Here’s another: If you don’t take care of your floors, the crud will build up more and more until you’ll be kicking up clouds of dust and dirt with every step, your feet with stick to the floor, your kids won’t want to bring their friends home, your friends will all cluck in scandal... Read review

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Advantages: Exactly like the big version
Disadvantages: Expensive

...My daughter had a toy vacuum cleaner and it broke and she was pretty upset as she loved playing it. Well along comes Christmas and my daughter is opening her presents when she gets to the one from my aunt and it was a vacuum cleaner, but not any vacuum cleaner but a Henry vacuum cleaner. My aunt then explained that she was buying a vacuum cleaner for herself, a Henry of course and as she left she spotted this little version in the window so rushed back in and asked if it was for sale. The sales assistant explained it was a toy and not a mini version, she informed in she knew it was and just wanted to know if they sold them, which they did. You guessed it she brought it so that was why my little girl got one. What do you get? A Henry vacuum cleaner, the obvious item, which looks exactly like the proper Henry. Inside you get... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Useless on carpets.

...Bought this as a quick replacement for a broken upright vacuum cleaner. Knew that cylinder vacuums weren't ideally suited for large carpet areas, but not too bothered as I only vacuum about twice a month. I have used many different vacuum cleaners over the years, and I can honestly say this is the least effective vacuum cleaner I have ever used. Am puzzled by one of the earlier reviewers praising it and then describing spending 30 minutes vacuuming one room and building up a sweat. I have had the same experience - spending ages and hard effort to vacuum a carpet and it not looking much cleaner at the end. Unlike them, I feel this defeats the purpose of vacuuming. The build quality looks fine, and the loud motor certainly sounds as if it's halfway decent, but there's virtually no suction. When it does suck up some fluff... Read review

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Advantages: Good for role play
Disadvantages: Some pieces cant be removed

...and opposites. Musical fun: There are four fun songs to sing along to. There are also a variety of sound, sure to make your child smile. Imagination: Push the vacuum along for great role-playing fun. It makes a realistic vacuuming noise, which is great fun. There is a volume switch to adjust the sound levels-very useful! OTHER DETAILS This little vacuum is bright yellow with two large purple wheels on the back, while the handle is blue. The upright section of the vacuum has a drum that spins when the vacuum is pushed on the floor -the drum features lots of small pictures that are shown as the toy is pushed along. The back of the upright features moldings of a hose and accessories but nothing that is removable-this is quite frustrating for children when they discover that they cant remove it. On one side the vacuum has an on/off switch... Read review

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Advantages: Picks up brilliantly, even on wood and tile flooring, good value for money, easy to use.
Disadvantages: A little heavy, hose is too short for stairs

...I always buy very cheap vacuum cleaners, so its no surprise really that they seem to give up after about 6 months! I bought this vacuum from a discount website, and it was still less than £90 with postage! It came to me with very simple instructions, and I had it together within 15 minutes. I had been without a vacuum for about 4 days (a long time in the world of pets and children!) so tried it out immediately. Being 1700w, I had expected it to be quite loud, but was pleasantly surprised to find it was no louder than my old cleaner, which was only about 1400w! It picked up everything effortlessly, and the crevice nozzle took care of the skirtings, under the sofa and between the cushions with no problems at all. I found it to be a little less effective on ceramic tiles, but not terribly so, and it was still much better than other... Read review

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Advantages: No bags to empty, motor to pull or push along. lightweight. efficient. Lasts a lifetime.
Disadvantages: best fitted whilst building your house. fairly expensive.

...I lived in America a few years back, for a couple of years. Certain things rubbed of on me! Kids said I had become Americanised. Mainly from the accent, but it does tend to rub off., they also have some very good ideas. ! So, when the opportunity arrived for us to build our own house, the ideas came tumbling out. What a chance for me to express my newly discovered ideas. Early in the project we visted an Ideal Home exhibition locally. It wasn't a very big exhibition, but Wow! there in front of my eyes was the very thing. Lets do it!, we said. We did it! and we don't regret it. The built in vacuum cleaner. Expensive, yes! but we bargained with the salesman until we had a good reduction on the price. You can do that at shows!. Salesmen often get good commission there, they also would rather not take the demo goods home... Read review

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Advantages: bagless, long flexible pipe attached, very long lead, good at getting up pet hairs
Disadvantages: cleaning filter, noisy, overheats

...This cleaner arrived in a box in three pieces, the instructions were not very clear but the pieces were simple enouch to work out how they should be assembled. On first use the main thing noticed was the noise, this is not a quiet vacuum for when the children are in bed. The turboforce and rotating brushes were brilliant at lifting the pile and picking up the pet hairs, fantastic i thought, but shame abouth the sound. The cable is very long so from one room to the next it is very easy to move without having to relocate the power supply. All was well although with such good pick up the waste container was soon ready for emptying. This can be a messy task as the filter needs taking out and manually tapping until it is clear of debris. Don't do this in the house or all your hard work is wasted. Unfortunately after what seemed... Read review

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Advantages: Publicise shops etc.,enjoying to watch
Disadvantages: completely pointless may aswell make up a new tv program made up of commercials

...Commercials, we see them every where not just on tele, Billboards,buses etc. Pointlessly taking up space and time in our lives advertising things hardly anyone cares about. However, on some rare occasions there are some that give you a chuckle and have a glimmer of hope that someone will be interested. Here are my top 10: 10.Fosters. I like the fosters advert when the aussie is going to get his hair cut and he goes through loads of hairstyles but then gets one and uses wax to make it stick out, then he goes to a beach party and uses his hair to keep it cool ' Nice one Trev' 'Yeah' 9.Strongbow. This agin is a good one , two men are standing in a pub with two pints of strongbow and suddenly they get transported to a whale, one guy is saying how strongbow gets your bitter and sweet taste buds while the other is trying to get out... Read review

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Advantages: Some of them at least aren't on anymore
Disadvantages: All of it - horrible adverts!

...Television Commercials. You could watch them if you get the chance, to see how bad they are but I wouldn't recommend it if you like your sanity.... Read review

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Advantages: none
Disadvantages: some

...Visiting the ciao café I came across this placement, and thought why not go for it! There have been some great commercials over the years and some not so great, and here I outline some of my worst ones. Here are my ten (+), in no particular order: 1. Kit Kat: Haven’t Kit Kat have had some good and bad adverts over the years? One of the worst and yet funniest was the one where the little girl was watching her Dad (presumably) on the cranes you see at the seaside). The crane lowered and picked up a teddy by the head, heading towards the ‘drop zone’ you sit thinking when is it going to fall (after all that’s what happens in real life isn’t it?) Anyway the crane gets to the drop zone, and opens slightly. Unfortunately for the little girl the teddy’s head comes off and she just wins its body! 2... Read review

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