The Quirky Vacuum Blog of GoVacuum

There is an art form to slacking that I have mastered. It takes a lot of time and dedication, but if you’re willing to make the sacrifices, you too can become a master slacker such as myself. Here is the JustHave guide to slacking:

Step 1) Get a job, while this may seem like the last thing a slacker wants to do, it is vital to making sure you won’t be living in your grandparents basement or your siblings house.

Step 2) Show up to work everyday for 91 days. After 90 days your trial period is over and they can’t fire you without good reason, at least not without paying your unemployment.

Step 3) Buy a Sebo X-4 GoVacuum Pet Edition from GoVacuum, this is irrelevant, but if I don’t mention a product in every blog, I won’t have a job. As the black sheep of my family, I have to have a job or I won’t have a home to live in.

Step 4) On day 92 stop showing up to work, stop answering calls from your boss and never return his phone call. Just act like Ron Livingston in Office Space, you need to be able to truly channel his character and care free attitude.

Step 5) After not showing up to work for about a week, be the first to work one morning and act like nothing ever happened. Just look busy all day until your boss comes in your office and when he ask you where you’ve been and what happened? Say how much fun you had on your vacation and thank him for giving you the week off. This will make him think he forgot telling you to take a vacation and he’ll start to question his memory vs questioning you. (I recommend buying something from the dollar store and giving it to him as a souvenir, it makes your claim more believable)

Step 6) Order an IQAir air purifier from us and say it’s because of the dirty air at the office, it keeps making you sick and you needed the best HEPA air purifier on the market. This will allow me to keep my job, plus you now have an excuse for not showing up in the future as the last thing any corporate office wants is to be making their employees sick, it’s a liability for them.

Step 7) Search the Internet for something really great about your company. Chances are there is something out there on the web about your company that your boss doesn’t know about. Then take that to your boss and explain how when you were off work for the last 3 days you were working on that. He will be thrilled, give you praise and even offer to allow you to work from home!

Step 8) Enjoy the “working” at home schedule you now have and don’t ever, ever, ever, ever, ever tell your boss about these 8 steps!

In the event you fail to follow these 8 steps and you get fired, look at the bright side. You now get unemployment for not working, enjoy the paycheck for not having to do anything!

BREAKING GOVACUUM NEWS: (see step 7) On January 9th of this year, just one day after my last blog post- I started working on this and I’m proud to announce GoVacuum is featured in a Google Adwords Youtube promotional video! Check it out! Then you can visit our youtube channel which has about 150 videos with product reviews by yours truly (I was blinded back then and used to show up to work, but now I see the light as I have followed these 8 steps I created) Please ignore the fact the promo video was uploaded by Google in September 2011…

If you have any questions about how to be a slacker go ahead and email me justin@govacuum.com. Until then… ask not what you can do for your company, but what your company can do for you!

Yes, it’s been a month since I wrote a blog. My excuse? I needed a break, thus I took off for the Holidays (slacking is an art)!

Here I sit, it’s 2012, I hope everyone has a fantastic new year! I know here at GoVacuum it will be as we have a lot of exciting this going on. Miele launched the new Miele S194 QuickStep universal upright electric broom and I even filmed a video for it.

Another exciting thing is the new website GoVacuumOutlet.com*. This is where all our misfit vacuums end up. You know, the ones returned during the 60 day in-home trial period, the floor demos or the ones we have excess stock of and want to sell fast. Like the Riccar 1800 a vacuum that retails for over $1,500.00 and is sold for just $599.95!

These are just a couple of things we are working on here at GoVacuum, what other tricks do we have up our sleeve? Read the blog tomorrow and beyond to find out…

*Excludes Miele

I got the greatest Christmas tree the other night… Yes, A Charlie Brown Christmas Tree! IT’S AMAZING! :)

While decorating my glorious tree, I got in the holiday spirit and decided to rewrite a Christmas classic for our GoVacuum December newsletter (with some editorial help from Mike, who actually plays Santa in our GoVacuum Christmas video).

Anyhows… Here is what I came up with…

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, except for a Roomba 530,
It vacuumed the carpet that ever so dirty,
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of T2 Steam Boy’s danced in their heads;
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my rags
Had just settled down after changing the EZ Bagz.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew in a Pronto,
Tore open the shutters and looked below.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a Monster! Not eight little reindeer!

I thought for a moment shouldn’t this be St. Nick?

Wanna hear what happens next? Click Here, but Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

What? You don’t get the GoVacuum newsletter? Why not it’s filled with cool quirky things I write and fun products, sign up and you’ll be entered to win a robotic vacuum too! Click Here… justin@govacuum.com

Times A Wastin!

At the stroke of midnight tomorrow, Monday December 5th, 2011 The Miele Twist will be transformed back into a pumpkin! No wait, that’s Cinderellas carriage…

At precisely 10:04pm next Saturday night, The Miele s7210 will be struck by a bolt of lightning and sent back to 1985! No, that’s Back To The Future…

At 11:59pm December 5th, 2011 The Miele Twist vacuum cleaner sale ends and if you don’t order one before then, you’ll miss out and regret not getting one for only $399.00! Trust me you’ll be kicking yourself for years to come not purchasing your Miele s7 Twist s 7210 upright vacuum cleaner at the lowest price ever offered!

Do you really want to be that person who lives life with shoulda, woulda, coulda’s? Set an example for your family and show them that you’re ceasing an opportunity of a lifetime! For an opportunity is only an opportunity, IF you cease the opportunity! Ask not what you can do for your vacuum, ask what you Miele Twist vacuum can do for you! Every journey, starts with one footstep… (ok, I forget the rest of the inspirational quotes I learned in life)

So, grab your Miele s7210 Twist and carpe diem! Do it soon though, because the sale ends in just hours and times a tickin!

If you have a question about a ghost- Bill Murray is the man, but if you have a question about a vacuum- you get stuck with little old me. Feel cheated? So do I, I get stuck with a Powr-Flite PF1000BP backpack vacuum cleaner and not a GhostBusters Proton Pack. Yet, with my new Powr-Flite PF1000BP I can run around my house and hopefully be 1/2 as cool as this guy!

Okay, so point of the fact is this… AskGoVacuum.com. Another GoVacuum website where you can ask the most obscure question about your vacuum cleaner and we will answer. After all, knowledge is power and an empowered consumer knows GoVacuum is the best vacuum website with the best prices, free shipping, 60 day returns… yadda daada daada… toot out own horn, but we can do that because of things like this.

Plus, not only will we answer your questions, but we’ll even shoot a video to show you how to fix the problem! Yes, most everyone can repair their own vacuum (I mean if I can do it, who can’t?) and with us filming a detailed directional how to video for your questions YOU can fix your own vacuum!

Here is how it works, post a question at AskGoVacuum.com and we will shoot a video and reply to your question with it. You can then order your parts at GoVacuum.com or call us at 888-468-2210. That’s it! We make it easy on you. Here is an example of a video I shot the other day for a question about how to replace the handle release foot pedal on a Bissell upright vacuum cleaner.



Remember when it comes to vacuums… GoVacuum! justin@govacuum.com

Now you see it, now you don’t! I’m not talking about Miele S7 Twist SALE that ends Monday, I’m talking of the garbage bags we use and sell at GoVacuum.

Much like my work ethic, these garbage bags have the tendency to disappear. Yes, The EZ Bagz are 100% Oxo-biodegradable thanks to the revolutionary 100% degradable non-toxic polymer they’re made from.

Finally! I always thought, why do I spend the time sorting and recycling paper, plastic and metal; when my sorted garbage is all going in a bag that’s not biodegradable? Doesn’t make much sense does it?

All that’s changed thanks to EZ Bagz and GoVacuum. What’s really cool about these bags is they are 12 in 1! You replace 1 bag and you actually replaced 12! Checkout the video I shot last night of yours truly changing the trash bag (see, I work… on occasion).

Everyone should try a package of these EZ Bagz, as they are very inexpensive at under $.50 per bag with FREE shipping when you purchase from Govacuum.com. They come in a 24 pack and are 13 gallons. You always have 60 days to return them with free return shipping if you don’t love them!

Try them and tell me what you think of them! justin@govacuum.com

If I had a dollar for every time I heard, “you don’t know when to shut your mouth do you”? The 1st time I heard it was in the womb as my mom was trying to sleep. I remember in 1st grade my teacher telling me to sit down and shut my mouth as I explained how she was wrong about how the alphabet song goes. Then there was the more recent ex-girlfriend who must have had the same teacher, because all I heard was “learn to filter yourself and shut your mouth” (so much for honesty, even though that’s what she claimed she wanted)… Anyhows…

The reason I bring this up is the other day I posted about how the Miele s7210 Twist vacuum is part of our Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday Sale at ONLY $399! I didn’t stop though, at the bottom I said “Next thing you know he’s gonna want me to show up to the office and film a video for the darn thing…”.

This coupled with showing up at the office more then 1 day a week and filming videos for the new Miele s6 S6270 vacuums, has him thinking I should be filming videos for the vacuums we offer for sale and then blogging about them… :( ughh… work… ewwwwww!

He told me, “Justin, customers want to see the machines being used in videos and since you seem to always speak unfiltered and run your mouth, you should be doing this. Just give an overview of the machines and your honest unfiltered opinion”.

Okay, so apparently I run my mouth and speak without a filter (yeah, I would have never guessed that on my own without them pointing it out) and while this a reason I’m single and I can live the bachelors life to the fullest, it’s now the very same reason I have a larger workload at GoVacuum.com. I guess I can’t complain, because I’m being paid to write and film videos which is something I love to do, but then again, I’m “unfiltered and run my mouth”.. so, I will.

What about my hammocks? Who will keep them company? I wanted to start a 99% occupy movement of my hammocks during work hours, now that epic dream will never transpire =(

Here I am writing this blog and posting about how if I had just kept my mouth shut and filtered myself I would be able to lay in the sun all day during work hours (and not be single), but nope I run my mouth and things get all twisted. Speaking of Twisted, here is the video I shot for the Miele Twist s7210 upright vacuum that’s now on sale!

I guess you should expect to see more of these as apparently this whole having to actually work at work thing is finally catching up to me. Yet, I find irony in me now being paid to run my mouth and be unfiltered… I was obviously just in training for this job my whole life!

justin@govacuum.com if you would like to run your mouth a little at me.

I was laying in my new giant memory foam LoveSac at my house all comfy and content. I was tired after adding The New Miele S6 Vacuums to our website and filming videos much like the new S6 Miele Red Velvet video below… (What? Act like you don’t rock out to a little Prince every now and then too!)

Then reality struck, the phone rang and I was told to be at work for something important at 1pm. It’s 12:30 I told the GoVacuum misfit that called me, he said “big boss mans orders”. Grrrrrr…

I arrived at 1pm, expecting to be told something epic like our Black Friday, Small Business Saturday & Cyber Monday Deal of The Miele Twist SALE For Only $399 was off or something. Nope it’s still only $399, but for a limited time only.

Anyhow, what was going on? THANKSGIVING that’s what! We had a Thanksgiving celebration, plus it was one of my favorite misfit’s Birthday! Rupak AKA SuperMan (for what he does for GoVacuum on a daily basis) had his 17th (that’s what he claimed) Birthday party… GoVacuum style.

SuperMan is one of those guys who is always on the ball, ensuring orders are placed, processed, everyone works well together and just about everything else under the roof. I’m not trying to build my buddys ego up, but between him and his son (who also works at GoVacuum) there is nothing that can’t be done. His friendly attitude and attention to detail ensures the wheels of GoVacuum stay moving. Furthermore, his hard work ensures I can do fun things… like work less ;)

So we had our Birthday and Thanksgiving feast, I ate some Turkey and ironically we had red velvet cake. The turkey made me tired so I returned back home for a much needed “nap”. I did pose for a picture with another misfit and the new Miele S6 vacuums (this way big boss man thinks I actually worked… Mamma didn’t raise no fool! An eccentric slacker… yes, a fool… no!)


Now… back to The Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade and eggnog… after all, I’m celebrating this day with family… lucky me… HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! justin@govacuum.com

Okay… Maybe I’m becoming George Costanza a little more each day. While I might not live at home with mom and dad (plus I have my hair), old George Costanza and I both have trouble romancing the ladies, we both do the Costanza minimum at work each day and it goes without saying we’re both obviously very handsome. The thing we have most in common… velvet!

Yes, Georgie would drape himself in velvet and so would I! I mean velvet is soft, relaxing and just sets you at ease and makes you feel good. Which is why I’m loving the newest and one of the best vacuums on the market today (literally- they just hit the web today). The Miele Red Velvet S6270 . This vacuum is AWESOME!

It’s covered in velvet! YES! VELVET! I mean a German built Miele S6 vacuum cleaner that is made out of velvet is a reality! I don’t know if Miele knew about George’s and my obsession with velvet, but this thing is like the highlight of my week! Forget all the Black Friday Sales, this is the best deal on Earth.

Once again, a vacuum in velvet… OMG! I want to pet this thing all day, no really I do, so much so I even made a video of me… petting the vacuum (Really?! & I can’t figure out why I don’t have a girl friend!? hmm…)!

Nonetheless, BUY this vacuum, it’s lightweight, easy to use, quiet, very powerful and quite the looker much like George and I. ;)

You WILL love this vacuum, I personally guarantee it! Just make sure you buy it online from GoVacuum.com, because we have 60 day in home trials, free shipping paid both ways and we’ve got great customer service 7 days a week! Give us and The Miele Red Velvet s 6270 vacuum a try and you’ll be shouting GoVacuum!

Have a question about the Miele Red Velvet or a Miele Red Velvet Review? email me justin@goavcuum.com 41627029USA

Okay so I have stayed up most of the night filming videos for the new Miele s6 canister vacuums and let me tell you… they are AWESOME!

These little boogers are lightweight, powerful, quiet and built solid! There are 4 new vacuums in the S6 series of Miele canisters that are replacing the S4 series of vacuum cleaners.

They are the Miele S6270 Red Velvet which is literally velvet! YES! It’s covered in velvet! Soooooo sweet looking and I just like petting it! Buy one, you will understand!

The Miele s6270 Quartz canister which is just like the Red Velvet, just without the velvet and it’s white.

The next is the Miele S6270 Onyx that is a sweet jet black finish with silver lining and has a turbo nozzle.

Finally, there is the Miele S6270 Topaz canister vacuum with a 217-3 power nozzle brush.

These 4 machines are amazing and made in Germany by Miele, all have the Miele Vortex motor and all are very, very quiet, but powerful!

With 60 day in home trials, free shipping to you and free return shipping, why wouldn’t everyone buy from us? We even have Miele vacuum reviews on our website, GoVacuum.com

Have a question about the Miele? email me justin@goavcuum.com