There was a famous story about a guy whose robot vacuum rolled over dog poop and spread it over every square foot of his carpet very, very methodically.

I'm Christine Cyr Clissette. I'm Kyra Blackwell.

I'm Rosie Garant, and you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

This episode is called Vacuums That Don't Suck.

Hello, Christine and Kaira.

Hello, Rosie.

I'm excited to bring in the first of our spring cleaning episodes.

We're really leaning into it this month.

That's right. March.

Yeah, it's March. It's spring.

I'm personally holding my own feet to the fire.

We got to do better. Oh, excuse me. We. I got to do better. Well, Rosie, do you have a good vacuum?

I have an okay vacuum is what I'm prepared to say at this time. I think that's like a box a lot of people would check, honestly. Yeah, I have had very bad vacuums. I have used very good vacuums. Right now, I have an okay vacuum.

I have been editing a ton of wirecutters cleaning coverage lately for a little project. I can't

quite share yet, but it's going to be big, it's going to be awesome.

But what I've found remarkable is that in so many of these pieces we have on the site about how to clean basically anything in your home, vacuums show up so often and sometimes in surprising ways because

they're just so versatile. And I think if you're going to invest in one thing to really clean your home, a vacuum is almost always going to be one of the best investments you can make, just because it's the best thing for getting up that dust, for cleaning weird places in your home. It can be really effective for, you know, capturing allergens in your home. And it is really terrible when you have a

bad vacuum. I do remember when my mom bought a Kirby vacuum in the 90s because a door-to-door

salesman convinced her that it was like the best thing in the world. That's right. That was a thing.

What did these look like? They look like these gigantic tanks. I mean, the design has changed now, but the one that's still currently sitting in my parents' house is like chrome and huge and it weighs a thousand pounds.

And when it gets to be that hard to use, you never use it. And then there's no point in buying it in the first place.

You know, we have a lot of vacuum recommendations on our site. Kirby, I don't think, is one of them. We've come a long way. We have come a long way. I don't think you have to buy a tank these days,

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