Hahah, when I was in 2nd grade a Kirby salesmen came to our door, and my mom is a great person, but terrible and very gulible, and she ends up getting one. At the time we(the rest of the family) was very upset that she made this decision on her own, because AT the time, we just moved into her dream house(that took the family 5 years to build) that had a build in fucking vacumning system in the walls.

Anywho, lets fast forward to now..... WE STILL have the kirby and its STILLL working like the day we got it. That thing is a champ and ITS BUILD like a tank. It really suprised all of us how good these Kirby's are. So 2nd grade = 8 years old, me = 20.... so for 12 years that thing has been working like a champ with only a general maintenance for the scent, new lightbulb, a few more bags, and a general tweak and cleaning of the gears.

So, at the time it seemed like a dumb idea, however it turned out to be a pretty good investment and its still working, and I go over there sometimes to pick it up, and use in my apt.

Thats what I think of Kirby, its a "A+" vacuum