That’s what he’s using now! It does work, but I think his dream is a vacuum that does everything which…maybe doesn’t exist, lol.
We also have a dyson we swap heads on for hardwood versus carpet. It’s fine, I loved it for a while but with the plank style we have now it does THUMPTHUMP over the seams constantly and it drives me nuts lol. So now I have a higher power upright HEPA for carpet and the swiffer for the hardwood. We use the dyson to clean off the swiffer 
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Haha, you have a whole team over there!
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Well, it accumulated in parts. Plus we have 2 stories- the dyson is down and the upright is up. If I want a quick toddler chaos pickup. The dyson is getting old and weaker too, plus wildfires, so I wanted a strong HEPA. Baby crawling on the flooring esp incentivized that.
ETA dyson station and swiffer are just outside my garage door.
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I have a friend with a husky mix who sheds everywhere and she swears by her Roomba. It might not get everything but it keeps it manageable lol. Downside is having to adjust to the Roomba lifestyle.
When I had a dog and cat, I was team Dyson.
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I have a roomba. It’s good for two things. It does a quick, lazy pass like a careless child with a broom (better than nothing, but the corners and edges still have to be swept) and it gets under furniture. I wouldn’t want it as my only cleaning tool but I’m glad I have it.
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Great feedback, thanks @Smacky and @iualia!
It sounds like a roomba is not the answer for us, and I can’t quite swing a Dyson price-wise. If anyone else has an alternate rec lmk! I’ve also done a lot of research on my own and one of my top contenders is a vacuum model that’s used by housekeeping units in hotels, but I also have a few more standard picks. I just always like to double check here since we have so many good shoppers. Honestly this whole thing is my husband’s fault, he shouldn’t have adopted a long haired cat and a long haired lady if he didn’t want to live in an apartment filled with hair 
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Sigh, the ozeri pan was not up to the job of scrambled eggs after a year.
Any recs on another pan? I mean i know teflon is supposed to give you stomach cancer or something. Is that real
Will i never eat scrambled eggs again
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If you perfectly care for Teflon, it’s theoretically pretty inert and safe. But you can’t heat it too high, scratch it at all, etc otherwise yes the “forever chemical” health concerns are at play (we don’t definitely know what level of exposure is the concern, still an active area of research, etc). Personally that stresses me out. So I just replace my ceramic style non stick every couple years when they stop working. And only use them for eggs. And just accept that it’s a type of pan that doesn’t last forever for me.
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We have a Dyson stick, which is fine but not magical. We have an iRobot sweeper/mop thing, which I don’t care for at all because it pretty much takes all damn day to do the ground floor.
(I did not buy either of these.)
I mostly broom sweep the bare floors and then steam mop them once/month. I use the Dyson on the rugs and am not impressed.
I will eventually break down and buy a regular Dyson. I like a vacuum with an extension hose to get in corners and reach up to the ceiling.
We have 4 cats, one of whom is very, very, very furry.
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Makes total sense!
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Thanks, good to know!
I have a very easy floor cleaning situation, which is all hard floors with one short-haired but high-shed cat. Both vacs that I use do very well with my short-haired (but extremely shed-y very fine textured hair) cat hair.
I have an off-brand (eufy) robot vac for the main living area (uncomplicated hard floors with a lot of corners/furniture), and it does a great job overall, and definitely gets more corners/details with it’s little whirly corner brushes than I would with the regular vac.
I also have a canister Miele that I bought for semi-cheap from a lady in a grocery store parking lot about 10 years ago. It’s still going strong and I’ve almost run out of bags that came with it. I hate throwing away the bags b/c it feels wasteful, but it does a good job keeping the dust/debris controlled, I never feel allergic or itchy-eyed after vacuuming. For the minimal front door rug, it would do a better job if I used the head that had the beater on it, but I’m 99% too lazy to dig it out when I don’t need it for the rest of the house, I just use the ‘parquet’/hard floor head.
I used my mom’s upright-style dyson over the holidays and hated it (words cannot express how much I hated it). I found it very heavy (especially compared to my miele canister) and difficult to use, and especially hard on my wrists which is not usually an issue for me except with my large cast iron pan. I never could get it on the right setting to stand upright on it’s own without a few tries. The setting to switch between carpet and hard floors also felt extremely arbitrary and difficult to control/get right. I feel ridiculous, but I’m team canister and/or miele at this point. I haven’t used any ‘wand’/‘stick’ style vacs.
eta: plz enjoy this novel about vacuums!
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We have a Miele but I actually don’t use it all that often, because I have a Neato (similar to Roomba) with the pet brush. I run it almost every day to pick up litter and hair, but mostly litter (on hardwood and rugs). I call it “my pet that earns its keep”. I’m on my third one and I ended up getting an Asurion warranty for this one because they inevitably have issues, but I got my second one repaired and I’m so happy to have backup when this one is away for servicing. When I got my first Neato, the Roomba didn’t have mapping capabilities and just bounced all over the place until it ran out of batteries but I hear that they’re better now (the Neato is very methodical and can even go back to its base station and charge and then pick up where they left off). I may try a Roomba next time depending on how long this third Neato lasts.
So my recommendation is a robot vacuum with a pet brush (as long as you pick up cat toys and other stuff it might try to eat), but also some kind of full vacuum for a deep cleaning every so often. The Neato really keeps me sane despite the periodic issues, and I’m very happy with my Miele when I use it.
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Where is your favorite place to order prescription glasses from? I’ve ordered from Zenni before and like them especially for the price. My 3 year old likely is going to be getting glasses soon and I want to make sure I have some back ups. Also I might just order an extra for myself because I want to.
Does anyone have something like this for storing cans in your pantry? Is there a better one out there?
How bad is your three year old’s vision? I wore glasses from age 2 on and never once lost a pair. The eye doctor told my parents ahead of time I’d never lose a pair because they’re so obviously essential. My sister and husband have both lost multiple pairs of glasses because they’re more nice to haves for them than for me. For kid glasses, I’d prioritize glasses that fit really well and are built to not break, but I don’t have any particular favorite places.
The glasses i got from zeni were really good. The glasses I for from glassesusa (something like that), quite a few years ago now) were Not Good. Something was off with the focal point or something.
+1 on prioritizing fit. My kid’s vision isn’t awful - he can play at the playground with out his glasses but he needs them in the classroom - so we did have to prod him originally to wear them, but eventually they just became part of our routine.
My then-four year old had to start wearing glasses and we got the flexible frames which I believe Zenni doesn’t carry? I’m not sure. We got a spare set of glasses - with insurance it was cheaper to buy two pairs at the same time or else I probably wouldn’t have. We started using the spares a year later after his original lenses were so scratched up (luckily his prescription was stable). The spares are not flexible frames but they’ve been standing up to his abuse pretty well (never met a couch somersault he didn’t like). If I could go back I’d see if I could get spares with cheap frames but the lenses match the flexible frames (if that’s possible) and then just swap out the lenses.
Oh, another thing I wish I had heard of six months earlier are ear wings. At a follow up appointment our eye doctor was like “Try to get him to look through the glasses instead of over the top” and I said “I would but they always slip down” and poof they put ear wings on his frames. They ones we have are flexible rubbery kind of materials so they were easy to move to his second set of frames.
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They aren’t bad which is why I think when the time comes she will probably loose some. I and the same and have never lost a pair because I’m terribly blind.