Giveaway: Oreck VersaVac vacuum cleaner and steam mop ($250)
Before I had a kid, I mainly pulled out the vacuum to make sure the fibers of my carpet were all going in the same direction. I'm sure I dropped a potato chip every now and then, but that's about it.
I don't remember ever eating cereal on my couch, deciding I didn't want it, then turning the full bowl upside down to prove my point. I also don't think I ever poured myself a glass of orange juice and then hurled it across the kitchen because it wasn't apple. Or put a cracker on the carpet and then crushed it with my foot just for the hell of it.
These things are just not done by adults living on their own.
But once grown people add a toddler to their living arrangements, it's a whole other story— remember the kids up top?
I've always had a broom, a vacuum, a dust buster, a mop, a swiffer and something called a "swivel sweeper" all crammed into my tiny utility closet ready to spring into action when necessary. Cereal spilled in the kitchen— get the broom; cereal spilled on the rug— get the dustbuster; cereal and milk spilled in the kitchen— what happened to all the paper towels???; cereal and milk spilled on the rug— buy a new rug!
My utility closet is small and also contains my washer and dryer, so I usually have to take everything out to get the item I need. Attempting to get them all back in is a story that doesn't always have a happy ending…
Act I: I shove everything inside.
Act II: I close the door as quickly as possible.
Act III: Everything comes crashing down on me the next time I need to open the door.
With all this in mind, I was very excited when Oreck contacted me to do a review and giveaway of their new VersaVac— a vacuum cleaner and steam mop in one. They promised I would be able to do away with my broom, my dust bin, my mop and my bucket because the multi-tasking VersaVac can be used on all floor surfaces— including carpet, wood, tile and stone.
The VersaVac is very streamlined (as you can see above), but still has the same strong suctioning ability of a much larger vacuum. Plus, it's bagless (you just empty a removable canister and snap it back in place) which makes things even easier and is great for the environment.
It easily transitions from vacuum to steam mop by using a snap-on steam plate and filling a small removable tank with water at the sink. You can use a low setting for sealed hard wood floors and a higher setting for kitchen tile. So you can vacuum the crushed cracker out of your carpet and then two seconds later, use the same apparatus to get the sticky patches of badly cleaned-up juice off your kitchen tile. Making cleaning your home, if you feel the need to do such a thing, take much less time.
My only complaint is it doesn't have a hose attachment like my old vacuum so I would still hang on to my dustbuster to clean my crumb-filled couch.
Today, Oreck is giving away one VersaVac ($250) to one lucky reader.
Just follow the giveaway rules below and maybe the next time your child ends a crafting project by ceremoniously dumping a cup of glitter on your throw rug, you'll be excited to test out your new vacuum instead of wondering if you can trade your child in for an upgrade.
GIVEAWAY RULES
1. You must be a Mommy Shorts Facebook Fan or subscriber to enter. Then describe the biggest mess your kid(s) ever made along with your favorite VersaVac feature in the comment section below.
2. For a second entry, tweet about the giveaway and leave a second comment saying you did so:
Share your kid's messiest moment for a chance to win a $250 @Oreck VersaVac from @mommyshorts http://bit.ly/UZEQzq #giveaway
Winner will be chosen at random and announced on October 12th. Good luck!
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The giveaway winner must be a resident of U.S. 48 contiguous states. (Sorry, Hawaiian readers!)
I received a VersaVac in exchange for this post but as always, the opinions are my own. Oreck Corporation provided the prize for the sweepstakes but is not the sponsor of the sweepstakes.
Oh so many messes! My kids love to crush crackers, dry cereal, whatever on the living room carpet. I would love to have this handy for quick clean-ups!
Tweet sent! I’m secretly hoping my followers are all asleep so I have a better chance, though! 😉
My 7-month old daughter spit up all over the floor and on my way to get paper towels, I stepped in kitty barf in my bare feet. It was a bad morning.
The time they made “snow” from Styrofoam. Holy hell that was hard to clean. The vacuum blew that shizz around before it could suck it in. We ended up having to pick up each tiny “snowflake” by hand. Took hours.
The idea that I can vacuum and mop my kitchen floor at the same time melts my brain in orgasmic hope for a clean kitchen.
I actually have a very mess conscience 1.5 year old! But she loves letting the dogs inside even when they are covered in mud and who knows what else. A few weeks ago she opened the screened door (don’t worry I was in the same room watching!) and let the dogs in the house one of which had a dead chipmunk in his mouth. I had to run around the house after him to drop it… My daughter running behind me laughing like a wild child. If I could steam clean my entire house, I would.
Well the dining room carpet is stained with carrots, avocados, and corn – whenever she’s done, everything goes on the floor. And then she squishes it into the carpet. But the worst -so far- was knocking over boxes of cereal all over the kitchen floor, right after I cleaned the floor.
I love that you can vacuum and steam the floor at the same time.
Tweet sent! Hope I win!
It’s clear that my younger son is going to be the more mischievous one. I can’t remember any major or out of the ordinary messes by my first (or maybe I’ve blocked it out?). However, the other day my 4 yr old was doing a funny walk across the kitchen- he said he was only stepping on the dirty tiles. He stepped on every one. : /.
My baby isn’t even a year old yet… last week in a span of 20 minutes he shat on the carpet, then on me, then vomited down my shirt.
Think he’s sick? 😉
PS Bagless vacuum = best idea.
I peed in my pants in the kitchen, then walked all over the place with my pee soaked feet, despite my mama yelling, “Don’t move! Do! Not! Move!” while she ran to get paper towels.
Oops, and my favorite feature of the VersaVac is that it’s two in one so my mama will complain less about having to lug around two things all the time, which is how often we mess things up.
I was awakened late one night by my son’s crying. Upon entering his room, he told me he had thrown up. In my sleepy state, I checked out his bunk bed and thought that he threw up over the side onto the carpet below and on the side rails of his bed. That mess was bad enough. But when I pulled his quilt off of his bed, I heard what sounded like rain hitting the carpet. It was only then that I realized he had actually thrown up “in” his bed and what had been on the floor would have been the least of my worries, had I not slung vomit all over his room…..and myself.
Vacuuming and mopping from the same cleaner is pure brilliance. That is all.
The biggest mess my child made was when he decided to dig in my house plants. It took me forever and a month to clean all of the dirt out of my off-white carpet.
My favorite feature with the VersaVac is that it can replace my mop, mop bucket, hard-surface vacuum, and a regular vacuum in one fell swoop. One tool versus four? Awesome!
Mama just tweeted too.
My 2.5 year old daughter decided to “help” mommy since I was so busy changing
her baby twin brothers (who were crawling in different directions). She quietly
snuck upstairs and tried to clean the cats litter box for me. Apparently I
must’ve been muttering something about how nice it was of mommy to give them
fresh, clean diapers and she, being potty trained herself, needed something to
make fresh and clean. She proceeded to scoop out every last bit of litter and
contents all over the floor. We use a flushable litter and at some point she
decided to carry heaping scoops of dirty litter down the hall and into the
toilet. Most ended up on the carpet and bathroom tile. I really could’ve used
the VersaVac for that mess! I love that it can switch from carpet to floor and uses
the natural cleaning power of steam for hard surfaces. I have twin boys who just
started walking and my daughter is now 3. I have a feeling I am going to get a
LOT of use from this product.
My then two-year-old had discovered that when I put her in time out, she could just get up and walk away – imagine that! So I baby-gated her into her bedroom to keep her confined. In true-to-form terrible two-ness, she blew a gasket and began hurling herself against the baby gate which eventually popped free of its doorway. Child and gate crashed directly into a plant stand full of recently watered potted plants which consequently crashed all over the white carpet. It was an impressive 10-foot spread of leaves, dirt, mud, and broken pottery. My daughter looked up at me from the floor and said, “I go in time out now,” and proceeded meekly back into her room.
And I just tweeted it!
My house is located in a neighborhood with dirt(sand actually, because I live in Florida and there is no dirt) roads…I have an almost three year old boy who has made it his mission to bring the entire road into my home one tonka truck load at a time, rain or shine. How wonderful would it be to suck up the loose dirt and seconds later steam clean the mud!
OH! And anything that can actually combine all the cleaning functions that I need in, oh, any given hour in a house of 3 children, and not take up more space than the entire My Little Pony collection we’ve accumulated would be a joy beyond joy. 🙂
Elmer’s glue + pink glitter + baby brother + dog.
The thought of having something that is an all in one is blowing my mind. I am so jealous of people who have utility closets! My “utility closet” is the shower in our guest bath.
Tweetle dee deed.
Have you taken a look at my Christmas and Hanukkah lists (interfaith household here, so I get 2 lists right?) – a product like this is already on my lists! With an infant on the move and 2 wild pets, my cleaning supplies get more action in my household than anything else. Where do I start with the messes? Cuppy (the baby) thinks it’s “cute” to smack the arm of the person feeding her resulting in baby food being catapulted on my floors. That steam clean feature of the VersaVac would be really helpful for my floors because really who has time to scrum the floors on hands & knees every night. The Doctor says Cuppy can try finger foods soon, which means I’ve got a tsunami style mess about to hit my apartment. The Diva (the bird) sits in our living room and gets a hoot out of spraying seeds and Cheerio bits all over my living room. I step on bits of hard jagged bird seed all the time (I can only equate the feeling to as almost as painful as stepping on a lego). Plus now that Cuppy crawls, I’m always vacuuming and sweeping up The Diva’s mess so the baby doesn’t ingest bird seeds (don’t want to have to explain that one to the doctor). My current vacuum has seen better days, so I hope this Oreck VersaVac will help suck up every bit of seed & cheerio more efficiently. Last, but certainly not least, Mr. Happy (the dog). I think this comment box isn’t big enough for the mayhem he leaves regularly. Let’s just say, my evening routine just about every night includes cleaning up dog pee and/or destroyed household items. This magic wand, I mean, vacuum that you are giving away would make my life a million times easier (and would be easy to store in my tiny apartment). Plus it would allow me to take an appliance like this off my holiday lists, because there is just something really sad about getting appliances for the holidays.
My dear sweet adorable two year old (whom I love very much) decided it would be fun to spread my entire 1000 sq. foot upstairs with baby powder. Every try cleaning that stuff up? The first time he did this (yes, he did it twice) I tried sweeping and mopping (since the whole upstairs is wood flooring), but interestingly enough, baby powder just floats in the air if you sweep, and when you mop, it gets wet, turns into a paste, and eventually dries back into a powder… I must have mopped 3 times! The second time (two days later) I vacuumed it up. Took two hours on my knees. (Some other time, remind me to tell you what he was doing while I was vacuuming up the mess…)
I love that this machine is versatile. I have wanted a steamer for years now.
I’m a FB fan and just tweeted the contest!
I’m a FB fan and love the fact that it can be used on all surfaces. Why you ask? Because one time my daughter pooped on the floor. In the kitchen. I ‘shit’ you not.
Send help. Vacuum help.
And I just tweeted it. About your giveaway, not about my daughter pooping on the floor.
I’m a FB fan! My daughter has a thing for Gold Bond powder… so much so that we have to hide it from her or she pries off the lid (HOW??) and creates a snowstorm in whatever room she happens to be in. That’s stuff’s almost as hard as fire extinguisher powder to clean up!
I do not have human babies but I do have two cats. One likes to eat any and all string/ribbon/yarn and then proceed to vomit it up as soon as we leave the house. We then come home to dried nastiness that I have to scrub to get up.
Oh Lord where to start… Styrofoam “snow,” crushed cereal into the carpet, making “cookies” and getting granulated sugar all over the kitchen AND dining room… That was exciting! You know granulated sugar NEVER goes away once spilled. There is ALWAYS some lingering, even a year later! I love the bagless component, and have never owned one! I hate the bags, they’re dirty, stuff ALWAYS falls out of them when you change them – nasty!
so many messes, so little time. My 2 year old thinks it is hilarious to hurl his cup of milk and all the food on his plate/bowl onto the floor. Sometimes it lands on the hardwood for slightly easier clean up, other times it reaches all the way to the carpet. AWESOME!
Forgot to add my favorite feature. I currently have a vacuum and a swiffer. it would be amazing to combine two into one!
My kids for the most part are not too bad but they can manage to crush goldfish into billions of pieces faster than I can shove a cookie in my mouth to keep them from seeing it.
I love that it’s bagless.
tweeted.
It wasn’t my particular kid but my ex’s 3-year-old decided one day to put lotion on…an entire bottle of baby lotion was not only on him but also in a nice little mound on our living room rug! To top it all off he found some baby powder and dumped that on top of his little creation!
My favorite feature of the VersaVac is the slim all-in-one design. We live in a tiny apartment and storage space is limited. Getting rid of some of the cleaning tools crowding up my home would be awesome!
I don’t have kids, yet (working on it!) but I’ve got three dogs, one of whom is a 6 month old puppy who decided to escape his crate and eat a feather pillow. I had 2 inch deep feathers ALL over my 2000sq foot house. The vacuum motor started smoking and then died while trying to clean it up. We bought another vacuum and it did the same thing, but luckily it was at the end of the mess. We need a new vacuum, lol.
Let’s see, I have two.
There was the time my then 4 year old daughter decided she wanted to “help” me do dishes so she put liquid dishwashing soap in the dish washer. I saw the dish washer closed (and being a single mom at the time, thought I had already put soap in) so I started it. Youngest was taking a nap and my daughter was coloring quietly so I decided to “close my eyes” on the couch. 30 minutes later I get woken up to the wettest, coldest, bubbly hug ever, and FREAKED OUT! Bubbles had overtaken my small kitchen and my daughter then played in it and carried them all over the apartment. Such a wet mess.
Then there was the time when I answered the door to Jehovah’s Witnesses and heard giggling behind me. I turned and saw tiny white footprints all over my rug and hardwood floors. After slamming the door in the Witness’s faces (sorry) I followed the prints to their room and found they made “snow” with not one, not two, but three huge bottles of baby powder. It took me a month to get it all up and make sure the floors weren’t slick. I also fell about a dozen times because of it and sprained my ankle.
I’ve used a vacuum/steam mop before (I borrowed from a friend) and love them. And this will come in handy since my vacuum has decided it doesn’t want to suck anymore but instead it wants to be awesome. I told it it was awesomely sucky for crapping out on me.
The biggest mess.. hmm.. that would be last week when my 3 year old learned how to use the fridge lock and decided to rub butter all over the entire kitchen while I was nursing my 2 month old. And I mean ALL over. He walked out of the kitchen COVERED in it! I walked in the kitchen and the table and chairs, cabinets, the floor, EVERYTHING was covered in butter. I didn’t even realize that there was that much butter inside a tub!
Tweeted it.
I am not sure if this is something the Oreck could help with or not, but the biggest mess Anna ever made was in her crib…she woke up from her nap, took off her diaper and smeared poop everywhere! Literally everywhere. It was very traumatic for everyone involved and we started duct taping her diapers on after that (just kidding of course, but seriously considered it).
PS I am already a FB fan!
I am a FB fan and already even an ORECK fan. It is sad that I am wanting this more than say, shoes, or a purse, or anything I would have wanted pre-toddler.
My sweet one (whose M.O. is to make a mess and then get hysterically upset about the fact it exists…so I am both cleaning and COMFORTING the perpetrator!)pulled a bottle of soy sauce out of the fridge while I was cooking, ran through our living room with it and began to ‘paint’ with it on the walls. Soy sauce is REALLY hard to get out of things like carpets. FYI.
After a particularly long day of working (as a nanny for 5 children) i finally got home to find me DH had gotten mud all over the floor in the kitchen. I swept and mopped, just as I finished my son asked if he could help, I told him he could put the broom away, Ds managed to knock a canister of instant coffee on to my freshly washed (still wet!) floor. So freeze dried coffee started brewing its self all over my floor, sweep and mop AGAIN. When I finished up my little mess maker says mom I’m gOing to put the dishes away, I told him ok and went to change my clothes. Next thing I know, I hear CRASH! “uh oh” I run in to see my son standing in a moutian of sugar! All over my still wet, twice washed, kitchen floor!!! He was moving the sugar canister with the intention of washing up the counter. Oh my bob!! I could only laugh as I washed the floor AGAIN!
I love that this is not a unitask tool! It does it all!!
My daughter had a blast with some corn starch once, the aftermath looked similar to the photo above, but it was in the kitchen instead of the living room. I could have really used an awesome vacuum to help me clean up that mess. I would love the Oreck VersaVac for the ease of transitioning from vacuum to steam mop – it sounds like an awesome product!
When my son was 2, he got out a pack of markers and colored the entire kitchen floor with them; now I’d like to get revenge by making him use this to clean whole house. 🙂
Ella and her friend recently went to town with a tube of diaper cream all over her bedroom! The worst of it ended up on her 4 foot tall stuffed giraffe! It was a hand me down, but one of those really expensive beautiful stuffed animals. I still haven’t tackled cleaning it because I’m not sure how to deal. Think I could lay it down and steam clean with the VersaVac? I should have known they were up to something when it was quiet in her room for more than 5 minutes. ack!
Well, my older daughter’s messiest moment really wasn’t her fault. She had that stomach flu that like everyone and their mom got last December. It was that night that I learned that you need more than 3 crib sheets. See, as an adult, I only need two sets: one for the bed and one in the wash/closet. I thought I was being clever by having one extra sheet. As it turns out, I needed about 5 sheets, a whole extra pillow, and three identical blankets. She didn’t accept any bedding substitutes, so the washer was running all night.
Right around midnight when I was washing puke out of her hair, I got sick as well. Fortunately, I made the toilet.
My younger daughter is too young to make messes with anything other than the usual kinds with poop. One time at the beach, she picked up a handful of sand and flung it into her own face. That’ll teach me to try to change her diaper on a beach blanket, I suppose. We had to use most of a water bottle to clean the sand off around her eyes. Next time the situation came up, I carried her back to the car to change her.
I forgot to say I’m a FB fan
I’m fortunate enough to have hardwood throughout my kitchen/dining/living area, so cleaning up discarded food next to the high chair isn’t too terrible (especially since my son still thinks it’s fun to help!). But, I very rarely mop, and have been coveting a steam mop for some time! My son’s biggest mess was probably when we brought home some Chipotle for dinner, and he had a nice burrito bowl with carnitas, the spiced pork. He gleefuly made sure it landed on the floor as well as smeared through his hair (does the VersaVac come with a baby-hair-washing attachment?). I assigned myself extra difficulty points to this clean-up task because we have two cats, meaning I was trying to fend them off, finish my own dinner (lest they leap at it), stop the mess from getting worse, and clean up my son, all at once. Joy.
Biggest mess? My mind. My brain is now just one big jumbled mess of two-year-old INSANITY.
My favorite feature is that it is an all-in-one package deal and not the size of a tank. We live in a tiny apartment with zero storage space so this would really come in handy!
My son a few years ago decided to some how dump a whole bin of scoopable kitty litter onto our carpet and pour a whole gallon each of milk and tea on it then he went on to spread butter onto windows, carpet, a tv, and a cat or two in the middle of the night while everyone else slept 🙁 My youngest daughter just a few months ago decided to open a bottle of betadine and shake it all over two rooms upstairs while I tried to clean up the downstairs. It looked like a murder scene with all the little splashes and big puddles all over the place…they are so luck they are cute 🙂
My daughter dumped a Costco sized jar of olive oil on the kitchen floor. My immediate thought was “thank goodness it’s on the hardwood floor. It will be easy to clean up.” WRONG. It took weeks to get it all the way off. In the meantime, the floor was nice and slippery. I can’t tell you how many times I bit it during the clean up phase.
The VersaVac would have been very helpful since it switches from a vacuum to a mop…my favorite feature!!
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A broom and vacuum in one. Sign me up.
My daughter was a ‘happy spitter’ from birth. That meant no surface was spared. I swear, she would try and aim for spots on the couch/carpet/rugs that hadn’t been christened yet. I was so relieved when she stopped spitting up nine months later. Then we had to buy a new rug.
When one of my twins was about 3 she was laying down supposed to be taking a nap. When I went into her room I discovered a scene from one of my nightmares. She fingerpainted her entire room with poop. Floor to celing, walls, carpet, mini blinds bedding, herself……everything! I found myself in my own personal hell. I think my favorite feature would be the steam mop so I can sanitize the poop walls! (for the record I sanitized that room from top to bottom with bleach, 3 times. Then we moved!)
Well we’re moving in two weeks, so of course that means that in the past week the kiddo has spilled both blue and red juice on the carpet. Add to that a dog and cat who regularly puke on the carpet, and dog and husband who track in Tennessee red mud and I’ve given up all hope of getting my deposit back….
I hate vacuuming, mopping, sweeping, pretty much any cleaning, so at least having one machine to do it all *might* entice me to clean more often!
I’m a Mommy Shorts FB fan and I tweeted!
I’m a FB fan and a subscriber!
We were potty training our son and he shat on our white shag rug. I tried to catch it with my hands (b/c that’s what moms do?) but I missed some of it.
With four kids, I’ve cleaned more than my fair share of messes. My most memorable, however, was when my son dumped a large container of cottage cheese on a carpeted floor and spread it around to all four corners with his hands like it was some sort of finger painting project. Cottage cheese ground into carpet? I’m not sure even the VersaVac could have handled that one. Gross!
Just when I think I have seen the biggest mess my 2.5 year old (aka, the “caveman”) can do — whether it is peeing/pooing on anything but the potty and proudly letting me know he went “potty”, to grinding any food that requires carpet cleaner and elbow grease (not just a quick vacuum – because that would be too nice on mommy), to shredding any magazine that is “accidentally” left out for his taking and strewing it across the house and saying “i did it!” with the same enthusiasm as when he pees and poops all over the house, to our latest which includes standing on the back of the couch and throwing magic nuudles, blocks, cars and legos (I know how you love stepping on a lego) everywhere — IT GET’S WORSE!
Not to mention the zoo we have — two dogs that like to eat cat poop and leave a trail of cat liter from the basement to their beds, leave remnants of chewed up caveman toys all over the house (yesterday it was a mtachbox car- metal pieces everywhere!) and tear apart the recycling anytime they are left alone for more than 4 hours; and a cat that likes to leave “presents” for us at the back door upon entry into the house.
Oh how a VersaVac with it’s 2 in 1 cleaning system could save the lives of everyone around me when messes are to be made, I might actually enjoy clean up! I think that the nicest feature is the trigger lock for constant steaming, because if I had one of these the steamer would always be on! The 2-year warranty is nice too because then I know it will last me safely through the caveman phase.
My 3 kids thought it would be fun to smear a container of Vick’s Vapor Rub all over the walls and themselves,and then they “made snow” with a bottle of baby powder. I’m pretty sure not all the baby powder ever got out of my carpet. I would have loved the vacuum/steamer combo that day, and I would love a steamer for the everyday messes they make on the hardwood floors.
I tweeted about the giveaway! @cskingel
I tweeted it 🙂
just tweeted:)
Joined you on fb under straykattt and tweeted under mya98604!!! Keeping fingers crossed!!!
The biggest mess was made by my biggest kid …aka…my husband!!! He was playing xbox with all his brothers once and decided to punch his younger brother who’s foot was on the end table at the time and knocked a blood red candle all over the carpet…if this lucky gem would help me clean it I am all for it!!! (ps I am a facebook fan 🙂 )
Have to admit, I have no children, could never have any…but I could definitely use a vacuum!
My son dumped a bag of flour on my just mopped and wet kitchen floor.
The worst mess my daughter ever made was when she dropped a glass bottle of beer in our front hallway next to my living room (don’t judge me:). My husband thought it would be cute to ask my almost 2 year old at the time to bring him a beer from the refrigerator. She almost made it to his spot on the couch when CRASH! She dropped the full bottle all over the tiles… beer and glass everywhere… as if I lived in a frat house! The Oreck VersaVac would have been perfect because I could have ensured there was no glass left on the floor by using the vaccuum and then made sure I wasn’t stepping in sticky beer for the next week with the steam cleaner!
Biggest mess?
How can one choose such a thing?
It would tie between the the “I think we should draw all over the kitchen tiles with markers and crayons” and any poopapalooza explosion which I will refrain from going into detail. The steam vac feature would be soooo handy.
I tweeted! reggie_tyler
Oh, and I’m a FB fan!
Ugh – we have a 20-month-old who has just discovered the joy of throwing food all over the floor… plus an almost 7-year-old who loves to track in mud after playing in the backyard. We also have 2 big dogs (different colors, so the hair shows up regardless of what color you are wearing). (Come to think of it, maybe that’s NOT mud being tracking in? Ewww!) AND my husband, the auto mechanic, who brings home grease, oil, gasoline, fluids of all sorts each day after work. I’m a FB fan desperately in need of some help cleaning up after everybody.
My daughter has lately decided she loves the TASTE of food, but not necessarily swallowing it once she’s chewed… so there are lots of pre-chewed food piles landing on our floors. Gross, and sticky! Would looooove to try out the steam-cleaning part of this vacuum (as well as the vacuum part, for the dog hair that keeps piling up… and sticking to the chewed-food-piles. YUM!)
Biggest mess my kids have ever made… I actually have pretty “clean” kids. We’ve had the occasional poo disaster, the occasional goldfish mess. But my favorite was on a trip from AZ to San Diego. We have three rows in the car and the two oldest were in the very back. Everything was going great. Snacks were passed back, drinks were passed back. The three year old was loving it. When we got to our hotel, I congratulated them on how great they were. Cut to the next hot summer day. I open the back and there was a patty of dried, smelly road trip goop (goldfish, smooshed grapes, milk, milk, more milk, and a lollipop for good measure). Needless to say, no more snacks in the car.
When my daughter was 11 months old, I left her in the living room watching Yo Gabba Gabba so I could use the bathroom in peace. I had forgotten about the recent addition of a candy bowl to the side table, but apparently she hadn’t. I came out of the shower to a room and baby covered in Hershey chocolate and foil. It was everywhere – ground into the carpet, rubbed into the couch, finger painted on the wall, and drooled down her front. The next day during a diaper change, I had the pleasure of discovering that she had eaten the foil as well as the chocolate. Super!
Tweeted!
I am a FB fan and the biggest mess my kids ever made was helping me make dinner one night. I stupidly let my 4 year old son hold the bag of Israeli Couscous to pour into the pot. Missed the pot and went all over my tile floor. 3 months later, I am finding that it has made it’s way all over our house, though I have swept, vacuumed, gotten on my hands and knees to search for more. I love that the Oreck has no bag – very eco-friendly.
i tweeted too!
I am fan on facebook. My daughter is still a newborn.
I’m still so mad about the money we spent on this “pro grade” vacuum that can convert to a shampooer because I NEVER USE IT. It’s bulky. I want this vacuum! My kid can’t eat neatly and I have to clean up before the dogs get to it. It’s so hard cleaning with paper towels and napkins, and the waste! Would love this steam mop for that mess and then the vacuum to get the crumbs off his shirt :). My fav feature is its compactness and versatility.
Here’s my tweet! https://twitter.com/lisacng/status/251354352369934338
I love that it’s also a steamer!
I think the biggest mess they made was the time they emptied two soap dispensers on the stairs because they knew it would make the ride faster when the put the mattress on the stairs to slide down. I STILL don’t know how the whole box of Rice Krispies was supposed to factor in, but they added that too.
One bad mess was powdered lemonade mix all over the floor. It was impossible to clean up. I love that with the versa vac you can do away with your mop !
Worst mess: potty training, wants to sleep in the nude, gets up in the night, goes near his bedroom door, poops on the floor, calls me, i come in and push the door open right on over the poop, giving it a good smear into the carpet, then he runs over into the poop and armed with poopy toes does circles around his bedroom. will the oreck handle that kind of mess? does it have a poop brush attachment?
maybe not, but seriously i NEED that steamer for the kitchen floor because cleaning up after my toddler was bad enough but now that my eight month old’s eating three disgustingly messy meals a day… i can’t handle this crap.
I subscribe to your email under kellywcuATyahooDOTcom, like you on FB(Kelly D Saver) And the biggest mess my kids have made is spilling a large bag of cereal on the kitchen floor. My favorite feature of this vacuum is the adjustable steam settings.
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My lovely daughter has a fabulous habit of disposing of all leftovers on her plate when she has decided she’s finished eating… she drops and/or throws them on the ground around her. My kitchen floor is officially a “shoes should be worn at all times” area of my house. Try as I may, that floor is never clean. The most attractive quality of the VersaVac for me is that it is a broom AND a vacuum… Sweeping is quite the task for me because of the “help” I receive from my daughter… but vacuuming… . You so much as SAY the word vacuum and this kid is running for the safety of the couch and wimpering. I might actually succeed at sweeping. 🙂
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The biggest mess we’ve had to deal with that our kids had made, is a full bag of sugar that they accidently spilled, walked around in and basically got all over our kitchen, down our hallway and into some of the other rooms.
My favorite feature is the The on/off brushroll so I can vac both carpet and our wood floors.
Thanks so much.
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My youngest got a hold of the tube of A&D and proceeded to rub/paint? her walls, dresser and carpet in her room.This happened while she was napping?!! 😉
Love a bagless vacuum and would love a steam mop too.
Oh, how to choose that best mess… I think coming home to my 3 year old (being “watched” by my husband) having foud and opened a large can of coffee beans. She threw them all over the kitchen… the best part being that the dog tried to help clean up by eating as many beans as he could. Evening spent going to emergency vet with hopped up dog- and returning to clean up coffee/dog vomit.
Good Times!
Oops- “found”
And since we have carpet and hardwoods, the all in one would be perfect! Sorry ’bout
all the comments- mom brain at work…
Worst mess ever was they night before all of my in-laws were set to arrive at my house to celebrate Christmas. I left my daughter to play with some toys while I ran around the house like a mad-women trying to get things in order. When she got suspiciously quiet and I went to check on her, I found that she had pulled a poopy diaper out of her diaper pail, given it to the dog, who had in turn chewed it to shreds while spreading poop everywhere. On the carpet, on the hard floor, on the dog…
I love the versatility… if only it came with dog-cleaning attachment it would be perfect 😉
Anyone else know how many styrofoam “beans” are in a kid-size beanbag? We do! 9 million, 444 thousand, 8 hundred and 2. (Approximately)
Those things have the worlds strongest static electrical icharge, as well as the ability to scatter across an entire kitchen at the mere sight of a vacuum.
I love that the Oreck is so versatile and even looks fun to use!
We waited for more than 12 weeks for our living room rug that we bought from ABC Carpet and Home because it was supposedly being hand made in India. The sales person was horrible but oh, how I loved (past tense) that rug.
Fast forward 2 year and a toddler. My 2yo simultaneously vomited and had a diaper blow out on our rug. I got the stains out, and after a while the foul odor, but it will never be the same rug. Every time I look at it now, it is just the scene of the crime.
My son had the norovirus a couple years ago and I swear that he puked on every surface imaginable–from the furniture, his bed, the floors, me, my hubby, the cars, etc. it was a nightmare!!
I love that this vacuum is bag less and has a steamer. Clean-ups sound as if they would be streamlined!
FB fan (Kimberly C); my kids spill lots and lots of cereal – on the floor, on rugs, on carpets. I’ve broken many vacuums trying to pick up their messes! I also love that the VersaVac has a removable brushroll – we have rugs that cannot have a beater brush on them!
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The worst my daughter has done was pull an entire pitcher full of red kool-aide out of the fridge and pour all over the floor. that stuff STAINS everything!
My dogs are way worse though. They both got into something and had diareaha all over the carpet on top of eating the poo they then threw it back up with blood. The carpet has never recovered. Dogs are fine though….
And then I tweeted it! Thanks!