These are my vacuum lines… 
This is my beautiful vacuum…
As many of you know I am an avid vacuumer. I vacuum the downstairs carpet everyday and I do the wood floors about every other day, depending on how much dust is revealed with the morning sun. I also vacuum the entire upstairs every other day and sometimes lately I have been doing it every day now that our house is on the market. I know that this may seem crazy to most of you but vacuuming makes me happy. I LOVE my vacuum lines. I also love that it only takes me a few minutes to vacuum and after I am done the house feels 100x cleaner. Pip also loves my vacuum lines. It makes me crazy but most of the time as soon as I am done vacuuming he will go roll around and paw at the lines. Sometimes I will get the vacuum back out and go back over the lines but usually I just cringe and walk away chalking it up to the fact that he’s having a good time. I’m sure it will be the same once I have kids so it makes for good practice.
If Matt were here he would tell me that I have to confess about what I do when we have company over. So… what I do is I put everything that needs to be put on the table on the table, I light all the candles in the family and dining rooms, I turn on the music in the family room, and then I vacuum. After I vacuum no one is allowed to walk on the carpet until the first person walks through the door. Luckily our living room, downstairs bath and kitchen are all wood floors other wise we might be contained to one tiny corner! This makes Matt crazy! But I am a perfectionist and I want the house to look perfect when people come in so that’s my rule. If Matt had known that before we got married I wonder if he still would have said “I do.” Hmmm…
There is only one person, that I know of, that shares my strange obsession with vacuuming and that is my friend Beckie Luff. Beckie is actually the reason that I bought my beautiful Dyson. I was over at her house one afternoon and her Dyson was sitting out. She showed me all the cool features of her Dyson and she even let me try it out (most of you are probably thinking big whoop!), I was so excited. I immediately fell in vacuum love and a couple months later I took all my birthday money to Costco and bought myself my very own Dyson! Walking into Costco that day I felt like I had just won the lottery, I was so excited that I even walked right past the huge display of vacuums!!!
Anyways back to the vacuum lines. Most of you probably just vacuum in any random order and it doesn’t really matter what it looks like as long as it’s all clean. Well not me, I’m crazy. Every time I rearrange the furniture I come up with, what I think is, the best way to vacuum the room; and then I vacuum it that same exact way… every day. Every once in a while if I get a little crazy and try something different I can still see the lines from my other way of doing it because they are literally ingrained into the carpet. It usually takes about 2 times to completely get rid of the old lines. Sometimes, when I am feeling under the whether, Matt will offer to vacuum for me. While this is an incredibly sweet thing for him to offer, 99.9% of the time I tell him no thanks. It makes me crazy when he vacuums because it’s not in the same pattern that I do it in and I think it looks funny. Like I said before…I’m crazy. :)
This is my beautiful vacuum…As many of you know I am an avid vacuumer. I vacuum the downstairs carpet everyday and I do the wood floors about every other day, depending on how much dust is revealed with the morning sun. I also vacuum the entire upstairs every other day and sometimes lately I have been doing it every day now that our house is on the market. I know that this may seem crazy to most of you but vacuuming makes me happy. I LOVE my vacuum lines. I also love that it only takes me a few minutes to vacuum and after I am done the house feels 100x cleaner. Pip also loves my vacuum lines. It makes me crazy but most of the time as soon as I am done vacuuming he will go roll around and paw at the lines. Sometimes I will get the vacuum back out and go back over the lines but usually I just cringe and walk away chalking it up to the fact that he’s having a good time. I’m sure it will be the same once I have kids so it makes for good practice.If Matt were here he would tell me that I have to confess about what I do when we have company over. So… what I do is I put everything that needs to be put on the table on the table, I light all the candles in the family and dining rooms, I turn on the music in the family room, and then I vacuum. After I vacuum no one is allowed to walk on the carpet until the first person walks through the door. Luckily our living room, downstairs bath and kitchen are all wood floors other wise we might be contained to one tiny corner! This makes Matt crazy! But I am a perfectionist and I want the house to look perfect when people come in so that’s my rule. If Matt had known that before we got married I wonder if he still would have said “I do.” Hmmm…
There is only one person, that I know of, that shares my strange obsession with vacuuming and that is my friend Beckie Luff. Beckie is actually the reason that I bought my beautiful Dyson. I was over at her house one afternoon and her Dyson was sitting out. She showed me all the cool features of her Dyson and she even let me try it out (most of you are probably thinking big whoop!), I was so excited. I immediately fell in vacuum love and a couple months later I took all my birthday money to Costco and bought myself my very own Dyson! Walking into Costco that day I felt like I had just won the lottery, I was so excited that I even walked right past the huge display of vacuums!!!
Anyways back to the vacuum lines. Most of you probably just vacuum in any random order and it doesn’t really matter what it looks like as long as it’s all clean. Well not me, I’m crazy. Every time I rearrange the furniture I come up with, what I think is, the best way to vacuum the room; and then I vacuum it that same exact way… every day. Every once in a while if I get a little crazy and try something different I can still see the lines from my other way of doing it because they are literally ingrained into the carpet. It usually takes about 2 times to completely get rid of the old lines. Sometimes, when I am feeling under the whether, Matt will offer to vacuum for me. While this is an incredibly sweet thing for him to offer, 99.9% of the time I tell him no thanks. It makes me crazy when he vacuums because it’s not in the same pattern that I do it in and I think it looks funny. Like I said before…I’m crazy. :)
So how do you decide how to vacuum around the furniture? In case any husbands with a lot of free time wanted cool lines on their floor. Hypothetically.
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