It is genuinely embarrassing how much more I am motivated to vacuum my apartment after finding a Dyson V11 battery powered vacuum on a smokin’ deal about 6 months ago. “Plugging the vacuum in” should not be such a hurdle to keeping my house clean… and yet here we are.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My life has become about either adding or removing friction in my life to circumvent my self sabotage, so yeah, I get it

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is an honestly great way to put it, and it’s 100% true for me as well

[–] Szyler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

A way to remove friction here is robovacs. I have mine to run on a timer so I don't even have to start it myself.

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

Oooo, for me it's also winding the cord back up when done.

Cordless vacuums are amazing for me.

[–] Wfh@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Major improvement over the stock Dyson: replacing the dying battery with a power drill battery adapter. The big ones easily have 2-3x the capacity of a new stock battery, which let me vacuum my whole flat at least 3 times before ~~swapping in a fresh battery~~ executive dysfunction kicks in.

[–] greenskye@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same. Dealing with a cord was enough hassle to very rarely ever use it.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

my hurdle is moving it up and down stairs, especially in my narrow basement stairs

so I have a shitty little old vacuum that lives plugged in downstairs, and the good vacuum lives on the main floor

problem is it's a bag vacuum, not canister... I hate the subscription & garbage aspect of it, so I tend to use it only when necessary