Now in fairness I should tell you that I do not personally own an Oreck vacuum cleaner.
But Sister does. And Mama does. And if you were sitting around with all of us at any family gathering, at some point you would get to listen to Sister and Mama talk about the Oreck vacuum cleaner because OH! it’s so light! and OH! it just cleans like you wouldn’t believe! and OH! I don’t know what I ever did without it!
Suffice it to say that they are fans.
In fact, when Oreck contacted me about hosting a giveaway for the internets, I happened to be sitting in Mama and Daddy’s living room. I said, “Hey, Mama – Oreck wants to give away a vacuum on my blog,” and no kidding, she practically jumped out of her chair and said, “Well, you’d be CRAZY if you didn’t!”
I guess it has escaped my mama’s attention that I am crazy, you know, REGARDLESS.
Oh, a mother’s love. It is blind.
Anyway, here’s a little information about the Oreck XL Ultra Vacuum Cleaner:
The Oreck XL Ultra makes cleaning a breeze – the vacuum weighs just 9 lbs. and lays flat to fit under beds and furniture, yet has the suction velocity of a category 2 hurricane to eliminate dust, dander, pet hair, pollen and even dust mites in a snap. A hypo-allergenic filtration system eliminates 99.9% of all allergens as you clean, unlike other bagless vacuums, which spread dirt and dust as you empty the canister. Oreck is so confident in the quality of the Oreck XL Ultra that they offer a 10-year warranty plus 10 annual free tune-ups to ensure that your Oreck will last and last!
And by the way, the Oreck XL retails for $499.95.
So you would probably be excited if you won.
If you’d like to enter this giveaway, here’s what you do:
1. Click here to check out the specifics of the Oreck XL. Please don’t skip this step. Or the internet police will be forced to give you a ticket (all together now: “So get! With it!”).
2. Come back to my blog, leave a comment and tell me which room in your house would benefit the most from a brand-spankin’ new Oreck (only one comment per person, por favor).
3. That’s all!
One little catch: you do have to be a resident of the continental United States in order to be eligible to win.
This giveaway will be open until Tuesday, January 22, 2008. I’ll use Ye Olde Random.org to draw for a winner.
Have fun, y’all!
This giveaway is now closed.
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I would love to win this. My old vacuum has just about bit the dust. My living room for sure would benefit the most, the sand and mud tracked in during the winter is never ending.
I can’t possibly be the first!!!
I would love the Oreck – for my sister actually. She is moving to a new house with her three kids (under the age of 5) and desperately needs all the help in the housecleaning department she can get. So family room, bedroom, you name it – that room will benefit from an Oreck!!!
Thanks BooMama!
Ummm, like *every* room needs it, but I guess I would say the dining room needs it the most. Whoever thought it was a good idea to *carpet* the dining room when there might be *small children* was a total dingbat.
hello!! um, which room in my house WOULDn’t benefit from having a good ORECK-ing? if i’d have to pick one it would probably be the den since yes, (head down in shame) we still have the Christmas tree in there.
Good Morning! I would LOVE to win an Oreck XL. I’ve heard nothing but wonderful things about them. I’ve never owned an Oreck, but that’s what the Custodial folks at our church use and they are terrific!
My room that would benefit the most is the living room. I live on a sandy hill in East Texas, and in spite of everything I can do, the sand gets tracked in on the carpet in the living room. An Oreck XL would help a lot in trying to keep this carpet presentable!
Thanks!
Mae
I think I should be honest and say that every room in my house could use this little beauty! But, in keeping with rules, my child’s room would benefit most… what with all the pieces of toy clutter just waiting to be sucked up.
Which room would benefit most? The hallway upstairs. I would park this lovely vacuum right upstairs where I could look at it every day. Surely then I would actually plug it in a vacuum with it, don’t you think???
Pick me, pick me!
(And might I add that it’s awfully nice of you to gift this thing away when you don’t even have one yourself!)
I already have an Oreck, so if I won it, I would give it to my Mom. I think her living room would most benefit.
Not because she isn’t clean. Most of the traffic goes through there.
And not that she doesn’t have a vaccuum cleaner. This one would be much lighter for her back.
And I’m going to shut up now, but I really hope I win it for her.
This new Oreck could change my life. Our living room would receive the most benefit, but every room would reap the rewards. We have dogs, Rocky(3 legged Boxer)Pricess and Charlie (Labs)and my husband insists they need to be in the house. This vaccuum says it fights odor and bacteria. I would be so appreciative and tell everyone about this revolutionary product. I love your blog and you would never be disappointed with your pick should I win. This could even help our marriage :) Thanks for the opportunity!!
Ooohh, I would love an Oreck.
The room that would benefit the most is the family room. The kids play in there all day, plus when coming through the little hallway from the garage there tends to be a lot of “stuff” coming off shoes that were forgotten to be taken off at the door….
I’d love to win one. My family room could use some help since we have a black rug and a white/tan golden retriever! : )
I would love to win that Oreck XL and I just know it would work beautifully in my living room. Did I mention I have a Yellow Lab? Do you have any idea how much hair those dogs leave behind? Thankfully he is soooo cute, and the kids can make a mess too…..
Thanks!
Jean
I would love to have something like that for my son to be able to store under his dorm bed and keep his dorm clean—nothing that is powerful enough to clean the matted carpet in that room is also small enough to fit in that room, and then in the summer we could use it in the camper and that carpet is also cheap and matted and hard to vacuum.
Goodness sakes alive! Every room of my house could use an Oreck! But if one could it would have to be my kids’ playroom. Somedays I go in there and I can’t even see the floor. Now if the Oreck really wants to impress me, it will pick up legos! :)
Blessings,
Dori
Oh, my gosh Boomama, how I would love an Oreck vacuum cleaner! Because its light and now that I just found I have degenerative disc disease in 2 areas of my spine, vacuuming is torture of biblical proportions. And I love the bulldogs!!
Oh how very fun! I have three levels…so it’d be great on the main level and I’d carry that light appliance up and down the stairs like a gentle swan in Swan Lake :)
Love you!
Holly
Please pick me! Please pick me! My Hoover is ready to be retired!!! I would LOVE an Oreck! Every single room in my home would scream with delight if I was lucky enough to win this!! I’m crossing my fingers!
I’m thinking that it would definately be great for vacuuming my carpeted stairs… I have a cannister vacuum now- it does a good job, but it weighs a ton!
My daughter’s room – ’nuff said!!!
Love your blog,
K
I guess I would have to admit that EVERY room needs it! I have an Australian Shep, a Golden Retriever, a mutt AND a black & white cat (nothing is safe). :)
I would LOVE to win it! I am a newlywed and do not yet HAVE a vaccuum cleaner! My living room would benefit the most – as we moved into an old house and well… there is left over dirt…
I would LOVE to win this! My family room needs this desperately! Why?? Two reasons: 1)We have a 3 year old BOY and 2)We have a 90 lb black labrador.
The room that has our cats litter box could use the vacuum the most. You would be surprised how often I have to vacuum the floor in there!
I would use this the most in the family room, although I’d use it everywhere else, too! Hope your dad is feeling better. :o)
Um… it would definitely be the living room. Little black pet hairs are shivering in their boots right now…
My parents have one and have 3 long-haired dogs. They love it, so I would LOVE to have one myself.
What a terrific give-away! So exciting!
Well, my family room could best use the
Oreck. It’s the room in our house that
everyone uses the most, and unfortunately
it has the lightest colored carpet…almost white. What were we thinking?!?
Winning an Oreck would almost make vacuuming fun!
I am not sure that one room would benefit more than the other. It is altogether possible that my house would never been the same after using such a FINE vacuum cleaner in it!!
Oh definitely my dining room carpet it yearning for that Oreck! I never thought I would own a house with carpet in the dining room but we do now. Even though my kids aren’t that little anymore, we still make plenty of messes!
This is easy! The dogs room. I have a white doggie whose room has dark green carpet…can you get a visual?? Plus the odor shield thing??? Just perfect for this room!!
Thanks for the opportunity to win this vac!
Holy Moly — I know which room would benefit the most — the guest bedroom. That’s where my Central Vacuum system doesn’t reach. ::giggle:: Well — it reaches, but that part of the system is plugged with something. Someday — we’ll figure it out. Hopefully it won’t be something that stinks when it gets old!
Oh man — I really shouldn’t enter this — but I bet it would get used MORE than my central vac does… I hate lugging that long hose around (Never, never, never tell my husband that please!)
°Ü° Thanks BooMama!!
Oh, we so need a new vacuum. And an Oreck?? That would be a dream. I know I would sing and do a happy dance as I clean my house with carpeting in EVERY room ( well, except the kitchen and bathroom).
Love your bloggy friend, Cheryl from MA
What a great giveaway! My family room would definitely benefit the most.
Oh! Our living room would without a doubt benefit the most from an Oreck, because, you know…we LIVE in it. All the time! Two little boys playing in the floor and coming and going. I really ought to vacuum twice a day. Or at least more often than I actually do. I won’t say how often I do (or don’t vacuum) though. Because that would be embarassing. ;)
Just one room????
Mine would be our family room – it’s the high traffic room. It seems to be the room that the entire troop of neighborhood kids track through most everyday. Oh did I mention they forget to clean their feet before coming in out of the yard and/or sandbox?
PS: How’s your Dad doing? Any update?
Is he home from the hospital?
My family room, for sure. However, I am starting to appreciate the cool pattern left by crunched up cheerios and goldfish crackers, kinda groovy.
I would LOVE a new Oreck vacuum! My $90 Target model is pretty much dead after 8 years of use. The room that would benefit the most from this is my family room, hands down. Between DH, my 2 year old, and my dog, the room gets nasty fast. I think I have to vacuum it 3 times a week at minimum. And I have dark furniture, so I typically vacuum it at least twice a week too.
Thanks for this giveaway!
My upstairs would definately benefit from a new vacuum.
Just one room? They could ALL benefit… however, my living room is what I will say! The dog hair is everywhere and I vacuum almost daily!
My bedroom!! All the other bedrooms have hardwood floors so I have to think hard before dragging that heavy old sweeper up those 16 stairs to my bedroom. I would have no excuse whatsoever not to clean that rug daily!
Which room??? Oh, I’d love to use it in our playroom, where I could make hundreds of teeny tiny little high heeled Polly Pocket shoes disappear in about 2 minutes flat.
Those things hurt when you step on them in the middle of the night!
My living room would definitely see the most use from a new vacuum (it’s where our dog mostly stays)!
Oh. my. word. What I wouldn’t do for a vacuum that doesn’t sound like a jet plane and scare my baby boy! Needless to say I can only vacuum when his daddy’s home to hold him so he doesn’t get scared.
My living room would love you forever. It gets all the grossness from people coming in from outside and forgetting to take off their shoes. Then we usually eat in there because the kitchen table us overflowing with stuff. And then my sweet little baby has to crawl around on it. (and occasionally drool or spit up on it)
For the love of clean I would really appreciate this vacuum!
I need to clean EVERY room in my house with this….pesky cat hairs!
My living room! My 2 year old leaves a CONSTANT trail of crumbs.
If I had to only pick one room, I’d say the family room; only because it gets the most traffic. That was a terribly boring answer, but I’d love to win just the same! Count me in!
I have been wanting one of these badboys for years! I am glued to the TV everytime one of the Oreck XL commercials come on and dream of the day I can afford one :) Ahhh, that’ll be the day!
Okay – I’m probably the only man that wants this thing-but I’ll say it’s for my fiance if that makes it any better. This whole intellashield thing fascinates me and the hypo-allergenic filter might be the answer to my endless sneezing. My whole downstairs area is carpeted and my office definitely could use this thing. Besides, if it’s good enough for your mama and sister then it’s good enough for us.
Have wanted one of these for ages… I hate dragging my Dyson (which I love) up and down the stairs. So all my upstairs rooms would benefit since they don’t get vacuumed as often as they should.
Oh ours just bit the dust or should I say spits out dust. We could really use this! The room that I would use this in the most is the boys room … they keep it so dirty from their shoes!
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