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    Roomba, Robot Vacuum Cleaner

    Has anyone had experience with one or its competitors?

    My son bought us one last week at Costco, and we are finding the thing is much more effective than we dreamed. Our house is pretty cluttered with furniture that old people collect over the years, which I assumed would stop or trap one of these robots, but it has not. The owner has to give it a fair break by picking up stray charging cables and shoes with laces and the like, but otherwise it is programmed to get out of most situations.

    I had just vacuumed & mopped the day my son brought the gizmo in, yet the dust container filled up each time it returned automatically to it’s charging station, finding dust we had missed in our cleaning routine. The machine takes about an hour and a half to fully charge and runs about for a bit over an hour. It came with one infrared device that can be placed at a door, which the Roomba recognizes causing it to turn around. All-in-all, we are pretty happy with it except it is noisy on the hard floors, but not so much on carpeted areas. Goomba - the name we gave the new member of the family - will do a nice job on the collected dust bunnies under the bed you never seem to get to, as long as the other stuff you hide there is removed.

    This Roomba goes for $350 @ Costco.
    The company also makes a similar one to use in conjunction with the dusting one that is said to mop hard surfaces.
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    We have a collection of the beloved little guys

    At home we have one on each floor and the same at the cottage. About the only negative thing is that if they get stuck under something and the battery runs out before they find their way out we have to go on a search mission---but that is not a daily problem. The most noise comes from the tile floors, which we have a lot of---they "bump" at every grout joint. Like you, we were amazed at what they pick-up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    I had just vacuumed & mopped the day my son brought the gizmo in
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    My retinue of servants were holed up fearing the COVID panic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    My retinue of servants were holed up fearing the COVID panic.
    Necessity can be a strong motivator......Ben
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    Retinue - a group of advisers, assistants, or others accompanying an important person.

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    Sitting here now, in a freshly cleaned office---done by human professionals and not a robot---the robot comes in second. My floors shine, because they were damp moped and the air smells like fresh flowers

    ....and they (as they have been dong) wore their masks
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    Sitting here now, in a freshly cleaned office---done by human professionals and not a robot---the robot comes in second. My floors shine, because they were damp moped and the air smells like fresh flowers

    ....and they (as they have been dong) wore their masks
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    It’s good to be king...pull!”
    Yes it is---even if it is fleeting
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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