TimesToCome

Life in the flyover

Scooba and Roomba

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It’s not quite Jane Jettson’s lifestyle but we are getting closer. Home cleaning now seems to consist mostly of pushing buttons and moving things.

I move the dirty dishes into the dishwasher push some buttons, then I move them back to the cabinets when they are done. I move the dirty laundry to the washer push some buttons, then the dryer push some buttons, then back to the closets. I take the ironing to the cleaners, then back to the house. I move clutter from all over the house back to its respective home. I push the buttons on the robots and dump them when they are full.

If they’d just find a way to build a robot to take care of the bathrooms and dusting I’d be all set.

I love my floor robots, I can’t say enough good about them. I use the Roombas on the rugs and the Scoobas on the tile floors. I’m guessing they says me a few hours every week. You don’t have to worry about payroll taxes and green cards either.

Now that I’ve used the Sage Pet model for a while I can say it does do better at picking up pet hair. But unlike the others it is suicidal. The others stay away from the stairs, the Sage model gets hung up on the top stair a fair bit and managed to pitch itself down the stairs this week. It did survive unscathed.

iRobot Roomba 4210 Discovery Floorvac Robotic Vacuum, White

iRobot Roomba Intelligent Floorvac Robotic Vacuum, Red

iRobot Roomba 4230 Remote Scheduler Robotic Vacuum

iRobot Roomba 4105 Intelligent Floorvac Robotic Vacuum, Sage

iRobot Scooba Floor Washing Robotic Hard Surface Cleaner

Written by Linda MacPhee-Cobb

April 9th, 2007 at 6:00 am

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