Who chose your vacuum cleaner?

In the 21 years that we've been married, we've been through 4 vacuum cleaners.
The first one already belonged to my other half. When it puttered out, I picked the next one. I loved that vacuum. It was light, easy to use, easy to empty, had a super long cord and only had a couple attachments. That one lasted 8 years. Pretty good for a family of 4 and a dog.

I was sad when it died. So I'm gettin ready to head out in search of the next great vacuum when the man pipes up and says he wants to go. That's fine, I don't mind his company. I had NO idea however, that he wanted to go because he wanted to choose the next vacuum! All I kept thinking was...why do you care what the vacuum looks like or has? You don't even use the damn thing! Seriously? I mean, his opinion counts but c'mon! In 21 years he's probably vacuumed the house a couple dozen times at best. Humph.

Anyway, he picked it...I hated it. It was heavy and complicated to empty and had too many filters on it to clean out. So every time I had to empty it, I asked Bill to do it. It didn't take him too long to figure out that I knew more about vacuums than he did. After a couple years, I started sucking up everything, in hopes of its demise. Rocks, nails, tacks, socks, big dead bugs on the porch, balls of hair from my brush. I even went out in the yard one day and sucked up mulch and dirt! Finally, when we remodeled the kitchen, I used it to suck up all the drywall dust :-) Yup, that did it!!! Hooray! I was so happy.

Our next trip to buy a vacuum was more balanced. I still didn't get the one I wanted but at least that one was a compromise on both our parts. I was still thinking though, why does it matter to YOU. It was an OK vacuum and the best part was the retractable cord. It only lasted a year though. I was mad because it was expensive. Why is everything made to be replaced? Grrrr.

The vacuum we have now is perfectly fine. (because I picked it) Super light, only a couple attachments, works really great and only cost $40 at Walmart. Bill is even using it more!

I brought all of that up because I read an article not too long ago that said men are the primary vacuum picker outers in the family and wasn't that silly because typically men don't vacuum.
So I forgave the man in my house ~ turns out, he's just normal when it comes to vacuums.