Ditch your vacuum and GO SHARK!

Lets talk vacuum. Being I have worked over 5 years in home improvement stores being an appliance specialist, kitchen designer, part of my job was getting training on vacuums. I started working at home depot when I was 18 (2008) in 2009 I purchased my own home. I needed a vacuum so made a huge leap to buying a Dyson at the retail price of $399. no Home Depot does not give employee discounts FYI. Anyway I thought I hit the jackpot of Cleaning appliances. Fast forward to now 2018. The Dyson has seen better days and is in very rough shape with me beating the crap out of it even with my Rosey (Roomba vacuum) working at least every other day. With our tax money I decided to start looking into the possibility of purchasing a new vacuum. Of course I start looking at Dyson. Being the cheapskate I am the price tag of the Dyson is not appealing to me. My mom in the past has had Shark brand items that worked pretty good ( these items were just the cheap old stick vacs of the past) and I have been seeing more and more on Shark. I added Shark brand into my search criteria. Reviews are for the most part very positive and  above 4.5 stars. Now I have NEVER been the person to base a purchase on reviews. Ive learned in the appliance retail industry to take all reviews with a grain of salt because everyone loves to give the negative review. Searching through the millions ( ok not millions) of Shark vaccum models I'm really overwhelmed and some of the price tags are up in the Dyson range. I'm at a loss. After 3 months of looking online, going to stores and touching the products, asking facebook friends I FINALLY took the plunge. Hallelujah!! Just GO SHARK! I also took an even bigger leap into buying refurbished. Buying 2 vacuums for the price of 1 now that's a deal to shout bout! I bought the Shark Rotator Lift Away speed NV680 and Shark Rocket HV300 Certified Refurbished. reading other blogs and reviews reassured me they go through extensive testing individually and still have manufactured warranty. Retail if I were to purchase separate they would have been $495.99. Get ready for this... I paid drum roll....... $182.99!!! If that's not a deal I don't know what is. I received them in a timely manner packaging was great all parts clean and new looking, smell clean, look clean. That was a real worry that they would smell or have dirt in them and who knows what else, this was not the case. I could not wait to vacuum. I had just vacuumed the whole house the day before with my Dyson D40 I believe was the model. I assemble my new vacuums and hit the pavement so to speak. I don't get but 5 feet into my room and I'm completely disgusted to how much dirt is already in the canister. I cant forget to mention I just shampooed our carpet the week prior. Once I'm done with my room using the upright vac and the canister is completely full, I wanted to go over it with my stick vac just to see what happened. Again so much nasty in the canister. Don't take that the wrong way either thinking well then the vacuum cant be that great if your canister is filling not 5 mins after you vacuum.Just this past weekend we replaced our carpet with laminate wood floor and the sandy, dirt substance that was found under our carpet was what the shark was pulling up. BARF! We have been here for 7 months in this house, I vacuum at least every other day and shampoo carpets once a month. JUST GROSS! The dyson did pull a little bit of this substance up but I just assumed this was just dead skin in our carpets. So to say that Shark can do this is amazing!!! I'm also very happy that the brush head of the vacuums can fit under my cabinets where my dyson did not. I was scared of not liking the wand on the Shark but that is far from the case I love it! I was worried about the width of the brush head was smaller and wouldn't like it but again not the case I can fit into more spaces YAY!! My best friend also just recently bought a Shark and she has 3 children and LOVES it! If I were to say any cons of the Shark would be that when using the wand the vacuum does tip over easy and the LED lights on the front really show all the dirt I have been missing if you take that as a con lol. All in all GO SHARK VACUUM!!! If you are in the market for a new vacuum I hope this post will help you or if you have a friend in the market feel free to share this post! I would love to hear all your feed back on the blog or on your vacuum! Thanks for reading and enjoy the dirt bunny pictures below! :)