Weird to borrow neighbor's vacuum?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I wasn't expecting six pages of responses. I ended up just sweeping my rugs with a broom and made the most of it. The good news is that I was able to score a new Sebo E3 vacuum on a Black Friday sale from a local vac shop so I guess the timing worked out.

If you can afford a $1500 vac, why do you need to borrow one? You buy a $40-50 one and have it delivered same day.

On Thanksgiving?

Yes

[Anonymous]

I would need more context before answering.

How well do you know this particular neighbor?
Have you borrowed things from each other before this??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t bother me at all. Some of you people have issues.

DCUM is populated by extreme introverts who are convinced their neighbors are all drug trafficking narcos in Chevy Chase who have homes that would give them ebola if they ever allow shoes inside and who can't eat anything either through a restaurant, left out for more than 10 minutes or made in anyone's home, ever, because they are basically vomming and shitting themselves like 4x a week apparently from lack of hygiene of others. They are simultaneously the most traveled people ever, but cannot stay in a room where a vacuum has been used more than once and insist on cloroxing a space to autoclave levels like surgery will be performed on them right there. They shower between 3 and 5 times a day and walk around spraying sanitizer for every interaction for health yet are constantly, I mean, constantly sick and freaking out about it.

Why are you singling out CCDC innocents? Thanks to this thread I finally understand that I've been wearing Marylanders (including probably CCMDers and Bethesdans!) underwear and sucking on their stank-breath toothbrushs every time the cleaners lug that petri dish into my home. Egads!

And raw dogging their spouses! You're probably going to die from your disgusting habit of bringing in regular cleaners to your obviously contaminated den of disgust and filth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happy Thanksgiving! Long story short, we have company coming at 1pm and my son just came upstairs to tell me that our vacuum started sparking and smoking and no longer turns on. Would you feel weird if your neighbor asked you to borrow your vacuum? Our cleaning person doesn't come until tomorrow so it's been since Sunday that we vacuumed and it shows.

Ffs, go buy one at Target for $60!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does everyone saying no have a bagless vacuum? Because I consider myself pretty easily squicked out by many odd things (e.g. cannot sit in restaurant booths due to fear of crumbs in the seat crack) but if it was a neighbor I knew, I'd be OK with them borrowing my vacuum. It's a Miele with a bag. I'd just change the bag after. Definitely would not lend a bagless vacuum, though.

Classic bag-vacuum elitist response! Not everyone can afford the fancy bag vacuums!

Um what? Up until maybe 20-30 years ago, almost all vacuums had bags.

Liar. Bag vacuums have always been the vacuums of the elite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does everyone saying no have a bagless vacuum? Because I consider myself pretty easily squicked out by many odd things (e.g. cannot sit in restaurant booths due to fear of crumbs in the seat crack) but if it was a neighbor I knew, I'd be OK with them borrowing my vacuum. It's a Miele with a bag. I'd just change the bag after. Definitely would not lend a bagless vacuum, though.

Classic bag-vacuum elitist response! Not everyone can afford the fancy bag vacuums!

Um what? Up until maybe 20-30 years ago, almost all vacuums had bags.

And now it’s clearly a status symbol to have a bagless vacuum so you can see the germs, dirt, grime it satisfactorily conquered. Everybody knows that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does everyone saying no have a bagless vacuum? Because I consider myself pretty easily squicked out by many odd things (e.g. cannot sit in restaurant booths due to fear of crumbs in the seat crack) but if it was a neighbor I knew, I'd be OK with them borrowing my vacuum. It's a Miele with a bag. I'd just change the bag after. Definitely would not lend a bagless vacuum, though.

Classic bag-vacuum elitist response! Not everyone can afford the fancy bag vacuums!

Um what? Up until maybe 20-30 years ago, almost all vacuums had bags.

And now it’s clearly a status symbol to have a bagless vacuum so you can see the germs, dirt, grime it satisfactorily conquered. Everybody knows that.

+1. It's always a fun experiment to put that under a microscope and show my kids the filth they are bringing into my house.

[Anonymous]

Do the vacuum swappers on here have a signal on their door or something to let other swapping-enthusiasts know?

Maybe a vacuum wand or bag attached by the front door.

Upside down? Sideways? What do the different positions signify?

Does a wand with the fur on the end mean something different than a bare plastic wand?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does everyone saying no have a bagless vacuum? Because I consider myself pretty easily squicked out by many odd things (e.g. cannot sit in restaurant booths due to fear of crumbs in the seat crack) but if it was a neighbor I knew, I'd be OK with them borrowing my vacuum. It's a Miele with a bag. I'd just change the bag after. Definitely would not lend a bagless vacuum, though.

Classic bag-vacuum elitist response! Not everyone can afford the fancy bag vacuums!

Um what? Up until maybe 20-30 years ago, almost all vacuums had bags.

And now it’s clearly a status symbol to have a bagless vacuum so you can see the germs, dirt, grime it satisfactorily conquered. Everybody knows that.

Real status is having the illegal housekeeper open the bag and prepare the slides for the kids.

No sense doing menial labor like that yourself, have a mimosa instead and lecture the kids and scold the housekeeper about how bad she has it cause of her looks, and how much you feel badly for her and men are pigs instead.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t bother me at all. Some of you people have issues.

DCUM is populated by extreme introverts who are convinced their neighbors are all drug trafficking narcos in Chevy Chase who have homes that would give them ebola if they ever allow shoes inside and who can't eat anything either through a restaurant, left out for more than 10 minutes or made in anyone's home, ever, because they are basically vomming and shitting themselves like 4x a week apparently from lack of hygiene of others. They are simultaneously the most traveled people ever, but cannot stay in a room where a vacuum has been used more than once and insist on cloroxing a space to autoclave levels like surgery will be performed on them right there. They shower between 3 and 5 times a day and walk around spraying sanitizer for every interaction for health yet are constantly, I mean, constantly sick and freaking out about it.

Spot on. Don’t forget, they also never open windows because then their house will smell like “outside“. The horror!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t bother me at all. Some of you people have issues.

DCUM is populated by extreme introverts who are convinced their neighbors are all drug trafficking narcos in Chevy Chase who have homes that would give them ebola if they ever allow shoes inside and who can't eat anything either through a restaurant, left out for more than 10 minutes or made in anyone's home, ever, because they are basically vomming and shitting themselves like 4x a week apparently from lack of hygiene of others. They are simultaneously the most traveled people ever, but cannot stay in a room where a vacuum has been used more than once and insist on cloroxing a space to autoclave levels like surgery will be performed on them right there. They shower between 3 and 5 times a day and walk around spraying sanitizer for every interaction for health yet are constantly, I mean, constantly sick and freaking out about it.

Funny to me because the biggest psych germophobe I know lives in Chevy Chase DC. I don’t know how she manages to even leave the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t bother me at all. Some of you people have issues.

DCUM is populated by extreme introverts who are convinced their neighbors are all drug trafficking narcos in Chevy Chase who have homes that would give them ebola if they ever allow shoes inside and who can't eat anything either through a restaurant, left out for more than 10 minutes or made in anyone's home, ever, because they are basically vomming and shitting themselves like 4x a week apparently from lack of hygiene of others. They are simultaneously the most traveled people ever, but cannot stay in a room where a vacuum has been used more than once and insist on cloroxing a space to autoclave levels like surgery will be performed on them right there. They shower between 3 and 5 times a day and walk around spraying sanitizer for every interaction for health yet are constantly, I mean, constantly sick and freaking out about it.

Spot on. Don’t forget, they also never open windows because then their house will smell like “outside“. The horror!

There is construction dust in the air and woodsmoke! Actual woodsmoke!
Covid germs also!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t bother me at all. Some of you people have issues.

DCUM is populated by extreme introverts who are convinced their neighbors are all drug trafficking narcos in Chevy Chase who have homes that would give them ebola if they ever allow shoes inside and who can't eat anything either through a restaurant, left out for more than 10 minutes or made in anyone's home, ever, because they are basically vomming and shitting themselves like 4x a week apparently from lack of hygiene of others. They are simultaneously the most traveled people ever, but cannot stay in a room where a vacuum has been used more than once and insist on cloroxing a space to autoclave levels like surgery will be performed on them right there. They shower between 3 and 5 times a day and walk around spraying sanitizer for every interaction for health yet are constantly, I mean, constantly sick and freaking out about it.

Spot on. Don’t forget, they also never open windows because then their house will smell like “outside“. The horror!

There is construction dust in the air and woodsmoke! Actual woodsmoke!
Covid germs also!

Construction dust contains asbestos!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t bother me at all. Some of you people have issues.

DCUM is populated by extreme introverts who are convinced their neighbors are all drug trafficking narcos in Chevy Chase who have homes that would give them ebola if they ever allow shoes inside and who can't eat anything either through a restaurant, left out for more than 10 minutes or made in anyone's home, ever, because they are basically vomming and shitting themselves like 4x a week apparently from lack of hygiene of others. They are simultaneously the most traveled people ever, but cannot stay in a room where a vacuum has been used more than once and insist on cloroxing a space to autoclave levels like surgery will be performed on them right there. They shower between 3 and 5 times a day and walk around spraying sanitizer for every interaction for health yet are constantly, I mean, constantly sick and freaking out about it.

Spot on. Don’t forget, they also never open windows because then their house will smell like “outside“. The horror!

There is construction dust in the air and woodsmoke! Actual woodsmoke!
Covid germs also!

Construction dust contains asbestos!

Well at least that will help prevent fires from all the sparks from fireplaces burning wood!