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If you have pets I highly recommend a robot vacuum. I have a Roomba brand one but other brands have decent ones too. Having a freshly vacuumed floor every day is sooo nice.
They do like 90% as good a job vacuuming as a person does but if you’re like me vacuuming more than twice a week feels like a lot, so 90% every day on a set schedule is better overall.
How well do those work around household clutter though?
I think I might be a pretty un-neat person...
Depends on the clutter. Cables are the thing it really hates. Definitely helps to pick up the floor before you run it though, even if that’s just throwing stuff onto the nearest surface.
Personally I found it just makes me less bad about leaving shit on the floor, something I used to be really bad about.
Gotta take 5 mins to clear the floor before running it, yeah
Fabrics, papers, cables, hair ties. Ask your self "will this slide under the roomba?" Or "will two spinning rollers or a spinning brush latch on to this?" Otherwise if the object is big enough or heavy enough it'll bounce off it or navigate around it.
The nicer/newer roomba brand ones do the same thing. I set it to do the living room and office before I wake up and then it does the bedroom while I’m at work, it’s great. It also does straight parallel vacuum lines on the floor, which is a small detail but is super nice.
What
Are you saying you vacuum more or less often than that? Having a dog and two cats ideally I’d vacuum every day but I simply do not have the energy for that. Twice a week is me being good, once a week is probably what I do more often.
Waaaay less. Vacuum loud and crap. Maybe once a month.
Oh yeah no, in an apartment that’s mostly carpet with a dog and two cats, daily would be my ideal. The mostly carpet part is pretty important though, vacuuming was the only way to clean, sweeping wasn’t an option.
Gotta agree. Especially if your place is tiles or hard floors. I got a second hand one like ten years ago and it’s still going, though I’ve had to fix it up and replace parts over the years. They’re literally perfect if you have pets tbh. Definitely a bougie option but a worthy one.