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[meerasedai]

Does anyone remember central vacuuming systems? My uncle has one in his house, but I've never seen another place with one. Yet, I remember my mom telling me that they were common in the 80s; apparently we had such a system when we lived in NY.

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[cottonmanifesto]

my parents have one in VT

[meerasedai]

I wonder why more places DON'T have one; it seems pretty convenient to me!

[cottonmanifesto]

they have an island in the kitchen with the vacuum in it. it's the best thing ever.

[meerasedai]

OMG, that sounds so great! When I design my own house, it'll have this.

[heaven_falling]

how does that work? i have never heard of such a thing.

[meerasedai]

There's a vacuum pump that sits generally in your basement, and has ducts to all the rooms in your house, where there are covered outlets. You lift the flap to the outlet, and the vacuum starts. Stick in a hose in the outlet, (like the extension hose on an upright vacuum) voila! A vacuum that you don't have to lug around everywhere.

Affy reminded me of such a thing; it would be handy for quick vacuuming tasks like clearing my hair from the bathroom floor.

[calikat_616]

That sounds awesome. I'd never heard of it either. I was thinking of you the other day when some of my classmates who are in the writing program were talking about setting up websites for themselves. :) Oh, and now I'm doing your thing where you're online, but I'm telling your post anyway. Hehe.

[meerasedai]

LOL, this way its recorded for ~all eternity~

Tell her to get a blogspot or something if she wants to keep it writing-based. Otherwise, tell her to employ her friendly neighborhood freelancer ;)

[audacian]

An ex of mine had it on long island. I thought it was kind of creepy.

[meerasedai]

Why is it creepy?!

[audacian]

Because it was a hole in your wall that SUCKED THINGS IN. It was too Poltergeisty!

[meerasedai]

EEE! Don't ruin this amazing invention for me! (those movies scared the crap out of me when I was little)

[thejoysofjess]

My MIL has one. It's weird to me.

[meerasedai]

It sounds like the coolest thing ever!

[thejoysofjess]

It seems like more of a pain in the ass to me. It's like a canister vacuum, essentially. You have to plug the tube into the wall and then run it and you have to have plugs in the wall every so often so the vacuum can reach everything. And then you have this big giant canister of absolute crap in your garage. I'd much rather have a normal vacuum, thank you very much. It is much easier to wrangle.

[meerasedai]

Hrm. Also lol at it in your garage: I take it you guys don't have basements or somesuch?