We have a fantastic vacuum. It's an old school Eureka and cost about $50.00 eight years ago. If it will fit in the tube, it gets sucked up by my vacuum. It's a beast. Vinny just keeps fixing it and fixing it and with any luck it will be with us forever. It's my very favorite. So, don't blame the vacuum for what transpired.
In the last month or so I have sucked up with my vacuum: old food, ants, spiders, earwigs, hairballs, vent lint, old food, bird feathers, dust, hair, spilled trash, old food, cobwebs, car gunk, staples, pins, glass, old food, Jedi hair, garden mud, glitter, and some old food.
The other day I was going to town cleaning K's room, and without looking decided to vacuum under her bed...all the way under with the hose and everything. Stupidly I was thinking, "If it's under the bed then she won't miss it when my vacuum eats it up." I heard a few wrappers being sucked up and even found a missing sock, but then I heard a bad sound. A very bad sound. It was the distinct sound of a small metal object being eaten by the beast, and I knew right away it was an earring.
I decided to ignore it.
Then a few days ago K came to me completely distraught. Vinny and I had bought her these beautiful and expensive dragonfly earrings a few years ago. No matter where K looked, she could not find one of them.
I decided to ignore it again.
Then this morning B was swinging around a bag of cereal and hit it on the stair rail, busting it open. As Vinny vacuumed it up, we could tell that it was time for the bag to be replaced. So my dilemma is this. Since I am afraid that the old vacuum bag may contain an expensive and sentimental item I now have it sitting on my garage step...awaiting my decision. The bag could contain the earring, but most likely all I will find is about 45 ants, 13 spiders and 4 earwigs the size of quarters because they have been feasting on all the old food little P has dropped during the last couple months. And if they don't spring out of the bag and eat me alive, I will most likely die from tetanus or some other awful sickness after my hands are cut by broken glass or stabbed with old dirty staples. Either way, I am pretty sure that bag contains certain death.
Death vs Sentimentality. What a dilemma!
9 years ago
9 comments:
break out the leather gloves! I remember when I was little, and I mean little, Mel vacuumed up some of my barbie accessories and she fished them out, I was so grateful and happy. And where you and Vinny bought her the earring it means a lot more than barbie accessories!
Ewww! Seriously, wear a mask because you are going to have all kinds of dust and skin cells coming out of that bag and you don't want to breath it in. Once, I didn't have to bag attached right and that stuff was all over the place.
I hope you find it!!
Get her the earring I say. Or, make it a game for your sons. The winner gets a prize!
It's worth the risk, isn't it?? I would probably be hoping it was in there...and I am NOT a sentimental person, but for K's sake I would be :)
Wow I'm glad I'm not in your shoes! I'd check out ebay and see if you could find the same earrings...might save you from tetanus!
I think you have two options:
1. Tell K you had the idea that the bag is another place to check. Offer to let her do it. ;-)
2. Get your strainer, a garbage bag and your hose. Place the strainer on the opened and flattened garbage bag. Empty contents in it and hose off gently. Larger items will stay in strainer. You don't have to touch anything.
sounds like melissa has searched for something in a vacuum bag before.
you could also dump it out on your driveway or something and then either vacuum it back up or hose it down. if those nasty bugs are still living they can make their escape. i'm curious to know how long they would have lived. actually maybe i don't want to know....just how expensive did you say???
This IS a dilemma. I know what I would do... and it wouldn't be the right the thing. :) Go on! You can do this! You've cleaned ALL sorts of nast in the past- this would just be another something for your resume! BUt I do agree with the suggestions of others... do it OUTSIDE on your driveway, or bribe a child to do it. :) And, wear gloves... and high heels and pearls. :) You'll be so classy.
I'm dying to know if you've decided what to do? If it were me, I would fish it out, with gloves on of course!
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