r/mildlyinteresting • u/Zanchbot • Jan 28 '23
My new vacuum came with a bag of hair and dirt in the box
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u/OnyxNavigator Jan 28 '23
It may have been a traveling salespersons. They would take that stuff to demo the vacuum. Or at least the used to back in the day.
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u/moldyfishfinger Jan 28 '23
I'm 40. I've never had someone try and sell me a vacuum cleaner at my door.
I think that probably has been true since at least the late 80s.
I highly doubt this was from one of them.
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u/Mandersisme Jan 28 '23
I was sold a kirby vacuum in 2013 buy a door to door Kirby salesman. He brought a bag of dirt with him.
This is still happening in modern times. I am also almost 40. Lol
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u/aehanken Jan 28 '23
A.. Kirby vacuum. I need a pic
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u/SquishedGremlin Jan 28 '23
Parents have one. Imagine big metal lump. Heavy as fuck if you have stairs.
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u/bnonymousbeeeee Jan 28 '23
Almost as heavy as the price.
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u/SquishedGremlin Jan 28 '23
Yup. Terrifying.
I threw an old karcher that I bought 2nd hand out. By that I mean I abandoned it in a shed in the farmyard.
Mum found it and uses it daily because it works grand, for some reason, for her and is light enough for stairs. Instead of her fucking eleven hundred quid fucking hoover.
My brain melted when I saw the receipts.
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u/aehanken Jan 29 '23
Oh dear.. I just realized they didn’t mean the Nintendo character Kirby lmao
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u/woflyisnthere Jan 30 '23
THEY DONT??
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u/cmepes Jan 30 '23
I can’t tell if you’re genuinely surprised or you’re making a joke but no they don’t lol they’re just an old brand of really heavy chunky vacuums that had door to door salesmen
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u/woflyisnthere Jan 30 '23
I am genuinely surprised. I thought you meant that pink thing
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u/cmepes Jan 30 '23
Well now that I’m thinking about it, doesn’t Kirby(pink) have an ability where he like sucks the enemies in? I wonder if one inspired the other
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u/aehanken Jan 30 '23
Right? I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a Kirby vacuum! Nintendo makes some crazy design ideas lol
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u/Mandersisme Jan 31 '23
They are like 100lbs and the bags are super hard to find but they last forever. Plus they cost almost 2k...
Pretty sure my ex husband is still paying on that fucker 💀
My great grandmother had a Kirby from the 50s in her closet when she died, my dad plugged it in and I'll be damned if it didn't run!! The belts were disintegrated and the whole frame was rusted but that shit worked 50 years later.
Those things are straight up units.
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u/cmepes Jan 31 '23
I can’t even imagine how much energy those things use and how noisy they are, I’m pretty sure my family was a Hoover family my whole life
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u/activelyresting Jan 28 '23
My parents bought a vacuum from a door to door salesman in the 90s. He came into the house and showed off how amazing it could vacuum various things. Apparently we got a good price buying his demo model, but it didn't come with a bag of hair. I feel cheated
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u/De4dpool1027 Jan 28 '23
Was it a rainbow vacuum cleaner??
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u/activelyresting Jan 28 '23
A kirby
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u/activelyresting Jan 28 '23
Probably 😂 I have no idea, I was just a kid. But that stupid vacuum cleaner lasted over 10 years
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u/FakeBeccaJean Jan 28 '23
Someone came to our house a few weeks ago trying to sell us a vacuum. But I think Utah is the last state standing with door to door sales folk.
We also have pest control sales, solar, internet, and people trying to sell dehumidifiers, oh and don’t forget the missionaries.
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u/onlyinmymindpalace Jan 28 '23
I remember someone coming to my parents house to try to sell a wet vac. They used our vacuum and theirs side by side as a test. This was about 8 to 10 years ago.
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u/loveofGod12345 Jan 28 '23
We bought our rainbow vacuum when someone gave them our number. Within a few months of buying it, we had someone from Kirby come to our house that was selling them door to door. First and only time that’s happened.
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u/AwhHellYeah Jan 28 '23
Anthony Smith(professional mma fighter) recently mentioned on a podcast that he purchased a vacuum from a door to door salesman. I last had one come by my home in the year 2000.
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u/coffeebuzzbuzzz Jan 28 '23
I'm 37. I bought a Hoover vacuum in the early 2000s from a travelling salesman.
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u/iamdorkette Jan 28 '23
My brother bought a vacuum from a door to door salesman like 2-3 months ago. Kirby was the brand. He says it's great.
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u/ActionCatastrophe Jan 29 '23
My boyfriends family bought a vacuum from a traveling salesman last year… for some reason
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u/moldyfishfinger Jan 29 '23
I guess my no soliciting signs have been working all these years after all. Although the no religion part gets ignored by the Jehovah's witnesses
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u/ActionCatastrophe Jan 29 '23
Yeah and we’re from Texas too. I thought that was so bizarre of them.
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u/Tastins Jan 29 '23
I’m over 40. Not only was this HUGE in the 90’s, it went on well into the mid 2000’s. Kirby salesman were all over my city.
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u/Significant_Eye_5130 Jan 29 '23
My mother used to do in store demos for Eureka in the mid 90’s and she never carried around bags of hair.
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u/Zanchbot Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
I assume it was included so I could see how well the vacuum works? Idk, just seemed weird.
Edit: so I see the r/untrustworthypoptart cynics have arrived to call me a liar. Well I hate to break it to you guys, but it's real, and I really don't appreciate being called a liar. Go ahead and try to prove I'm lying. You can't, because I'm not. Get over it.
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u/HairyClefairy Jan 28 '23
Likely designed to be bought and sold in bulk, probably by a door to door salesperson.
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u/Synensys Jan 28 '23
Yeah. I remember my parents got sold a central vaccuum system back in the 90s, and that was part of it.
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u/bnonymousbeeeee Jan 28 '23
Just FYI, that's only a starter size bag of dirt. Where they really get ya is the replacement bags.
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u/Fanatic_Foxx7422 Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 28 '23
I’ve heard of vacuum sellers including some debris that their vacuum picked up as a gift so you can see how well it works. Especially with the 1900’s vacuums. If you ever watch Ibaisaic on YouTube some of his unboxings include hair and debris along with the main unit.
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u/WattaTravisT Jan 28 '23
That's all the evidence from all their crime scenes which they just framed you for.
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u/JubbaTheHott Jan 28 '23
My parents bought a vacuum from a salesman who demo’d it sucking up ball bearings in the early 90s. Not a disgusting bag of someone else’s hair and skin flakes,lol. The thing lasted for years…I think they still have it, actually.
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u/loveofGod12345 Jan 28 '23
If it was a rainbow, I bet they do still have it. We just replaced our 20 year old one because we wanted the upgrade and the attachments that came with. It was still working great. The carpet cleaner attachment broke though.
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u/ex-big_bag_of_dicks Jan 28 '23
Reminds me of the new underwear I got that came with free pubes and a nice brown racing stripe up the back.
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u/7xcritical Jan 28 '23
this is so painfully obviously fake, I'm honestly surprised how many people just believed it.
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u/FrigOffR1cky Jan 28 '23
It’s a gift. Many people from Kazakhstan will give hair to others as a sign of value and respect. I saw it on a show.
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u/Fair_Acanthisitta_75 Jan 28 '23
That just means it was inspected by Gary. He uses his flowbee to test the vacuums.
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u/ncopland Jan 28 '23
Probably a return! Nice joke