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It is my opinion that people own vaccum cleaners for, primarily, one of two reasons; either they don’t like keeping their house clean, or they don’t feel as if they have time to without this modern convenience.

Taking the second reason first, let me posit that if you do not have time to clean all of your house without appliances, you might want to consider whether or not you have too much house. If you don;t have enough time to clean it, you probably aren’t there enough to enjoy it. Why? Perhaps because you are too busy earning money to pay for all that space and for all the stuff you warehouse in it, and all the modern conveneinces, like the vacuum cleaner, that you need just to keep up with it. Perhaps a smaller, cheaper house with less “stuff” in it would require less expensive “conveniences” and give you time to actually enjoy it.

As to not liking to clean your house, there’s nothing wrong with that right? No one likes cleaning, do they? Yes, yes they do. There is a sense of self-possession and pride in taking care of the things you own and doing it yourself, and what do you own that is worth more than your house? Perhaps you are simply disconnected from your house since you spend so few hours awake there. Ask yourself whether you have any particular feeling towards your house above and beyond what you feel for a hotel room on a trip. if you do not, it is no wonder you don;t like cleaning it, it isn’t really yours. you belong to it, not the other way around…