A clean vacuum is essential in the process of vacuuming with purpose.
Unfortunately the cost of replacing vacuum bags can run as high as $10.00 a piece.
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| Re Use your Vacuum bag |
To re-use your vacuum bag, care must be taken to ensure that the cardboard hole
for connection is not damaged or destroyed in the process of removing the bag from the vacuum.
With a package of Velcro and a half hour time invested
it is possible to triple the life of a "disposable" vacuum bag.
HowTo
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| Re-Use a "Disposable" Vacuum Bag |
This cuts off the seam and allows
the bag to open.
This was a used bag.I emptied the contents and turned the bag inside out. I gave it a good shake out and turned the bag right side out.
#2. Trim an additional 1/4 inch
off of 3 sides of the vacuum bag.
The front and both sides.
The back of the bag is left uncut.
It remains approx.1/2 inch longer
than the front and sides of the bag.
Remember Velcro has a front and a back.
I recycled the Velcro on this bag so it happens to be stitched on in 2 inch strips.
Velcro is attached.
#3. A piece of Velcro Front
is stitched to the OUTSIDE of the bag.
Sew along the front edge and down both sides
TO THE CENTER of the folds on either side only.
#4. Onto the back (remaining) part of the folds
a strip of Velcro Back is attached.
The velcro front and velcro back create a good seal in the bag folds.
#5. A piece of Velcro back is then stitched to the INSIDE on the (longer) back flap of the bag.
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| Lillian the Domestic Engineer |
#6. Tuck in the side
meeting velcro front with velcro back at center fold.
#7. Fold the back flap over the front of the bag.
Re insert bag into vacuum.
Turn it on and Suck it up.
Oh Kirby!
I have now worked at the feat of sucking it up for over 40 years!
Canisters, uprights, built in, bag less, useless, wonder less and hopeless...
Like it or not Vacuums are a part of us.
I remember the day a door to door salesman arrived on our doorstep lugging his shiny upright vacuum.
It was red hot. It had a light on the front of it. It had a cloth bag with a scraper built in to clean itself and it came with a handful of cool tools. It was 1975.
I remember him coming in and dumping a line of dirt on the carpet in an effort to impress.
I remember him claiming that there was nothing out there that could compare to the likes of his
... KirbyVacuum
And then he turned it on.
I remember the noise of it. You couldn't hear yourself think.
I remember the power of it. The dirt disappeared.
I remember that the weight of it and the improbability of carrying it.
I remember the cost of acquiring it and the payment options
that came with that.
I remember the proud look of ownership on my Mothers face.
I recall the cleaning schedule that she then made.
Saturday would become my vacuuming day.
I remember her request that we follow up the vacuuming
with the combs of a rake!
Yup,we were to groom the shag carpet for heavens sake!
Recently I ran into old Kirby at my work place. The moment I turned him on he blew dust at my face.
The bag was filthy and the zipper was out of place.
Suck it up suddenly meant something else to me.Mean, mean machine.
Kirby whined and Kirby wurred as the memories of his success became more blurred.
I parked him back in the closet with my fond memories and got out the compact Kenmore
that was next to it. Sometimes size does matters!
The tools of the trade may be changing but the fact remains
that with a dirty vacuum bag one will work in vain.
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