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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Beige carpet throughout the house and five kids. ‘Nuff said.
The great room of course. Everyone congregates there! :D
Thanks for hosting the bloggy giveaway, Sophie!
I hope your Dad is feeling better.
I’ve been studying the ads and longing for one for years! I would dearly love to have one to use in my (upstairs) master bedroom — would be so easy to haul up the stairs!
I would love to have an Oreck. My mama has one, too, and always brags about it! I think my carpeted staircase would benefit the most since it is so light…I might actually vacuum them more often!!! Thanks!
My daughter’s playroom which is also know to the rest of us as the DEN.
If I won this Oreck XL, I would vacuum! And that would make my wife extremely happy, and that might have great consequenses…LOL
The living room definately needs this the most.
I’ve been wanting one of those nifty vacuumes for a LONG time. Since we homeschool and we’re ALWAYS making messes, I need something GOOD to get all the crumbs and eraser shreddings and paper snips and whatnot out of my carpet. Particularly, my living room, cuz, well – we live in there! :)
~Bev~
I would love to win this! We have 2 cats and a baby on the way. I need something that will pick up all the cat hair!
Um, that would be the living room. You know, where the dog rolls on the carpet, the 2 year old dumps the sand out of his pockets, everyone drops crumbs, etc., etc., ect.
Living in an old house with steep stairs is a lovely experience except when it’s time to vacuum. I would love the Oreck XL for any part of my house, but particularly for the 2nd floor. I know just where I’d store it, and even if I did have to lug it on stairs, I wouldn’t break my back or any other part of my body doing it.
Oh, all my rooms would benefit, but definitely the family room/play room!! And since my 10 year old vacuum cleaner is on it’s last leg, a new one would be GREAT!
Boy, do I need this – my current vacuum sucks! Well, no, it doesn’t suck – at least not well (crackin’ myself up here!). The living room is the most used room in the house and thus is vacuumed immensely.
Okay, I have the most adorable one year-old. He has yet to learn how to walk. However, he does know how to get around on my wood floors. He “belly surfs.” Try to imagine a little person doing the breast stroke and you’ll get the idea. I mention this because I also have the most adorable five year-old and a very cute 53 year-old. Since my older two enjoy playing in the dirt and cannot for the life of them remember to take their shoes off BEFORE entering the house, I’d have to say every room and my baby’s outfits would benefit BIG TIME!
Dog hair. Polly Pocket shoes. Snack crumbs.
Sadly this is the state of my living room.
Plus, how can you go wrong with “IntellaShield™ Technology”? It would make me better about having the aforementioned crud on my LR floor….
Okay, seriously – I couldn’t pick which room would benefit most. I’d have to say that whatever room my one-year-old daughter is in at the time would really love a cleanup. I guess the living room would love it the best, seeing as how there are cheerios, goldfish, teddy grahams and whoknowswhat embedded in the carpets!! Pick me, pick me!!!
I would mainly use it in my living room since that’s where we spend most of the time and we have to go through it to get to just about every other part of the house.
With four kids(and 3 cats) my whole house would benefit!!!
We don’t have much carpet, but I vacuum our wood floors. We do have carpet in our sunroom which is where I could really use this vac because it is where we come in from the backyard. I really think that this vac would be helpful with my ds’s dustmite allergy. Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
I’d love one! We’re moving into a fairly dirty house soon and the living room could sure use a good cleaning!
Oh….this is too good. We have had ladybug infestation at our house, and I cannot get the smell out of our vacuum–who knew that ladybugs emit an unpleasant odor?? But combined with dog hair and the unidentified jarbies of 3 children, it stinks. This Oreck with Intellishield would solve my problem.
When I saw the words “odor control” I knew this was the one for me. Ok, random.org, don’t let me down!
Not only will the dining room’living room floor combo be a much happier and cleaner place for the 4th child to start crawling on but the ease it will lend to getting the whole house ready to be sold would be fabulous.
Hope your Dad is doing better
Any room where the dog has been. Or the cats. Or the kids. Or the husband.
I guess I could have just shortened that to “any room”.
Well, even though my roomba does a mighty fine job and it pushes itself, i could use a big vacuum for the playroom rug which just never has looked clean, even when it was new. add four kids to that rug and its downright gross.
I would love an orek because I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and any light vacuum is my best friend! The room that could use this the most….would be my laundry because that is where I keep Sophie’s crate. Sophie is a short haired dog…so she doesn’t shed too much…but when you have a dog in the house, there is always dirt!
I would love it for all rooms, but especially my living room. Because, well, we do most of our “living” in there. And to hopefully increase my chances (just in case the random-number-picking-thing reads comments) I also have 2 kids (that’s right 2! not one but TWO! oohhh, how ever does she do it?) & they can be messy. For good measure, they aren’t grown kids, they are little (4 & 2). I’m crossing my fingers in hopes that all of this crucial info is increasing my chances of winning!
With a boy on the cusp of the teenage years, his room would benefit the very most, but the entire house would certainly be all the better with this great vacuum.
Have a blessed day!
Oh man, the living room is out of control with 3 under the age of 5. I wonder if praying will help me win…..
Our den or playroom floor. It’s a toss up between the two! What an INCREDIBLE prize!!!! How exciting! I’d love to win. Thank you, Boomama and Oreck!
The hallway. You know…that area that directly links the 2-year-old and 5-year-old’s rooms. You know…that area that houses the pathway to their ever-so-clean bathroom as well?
My basement would benefit the most!
Bedrooms, definitely the bedrooms! Sign me up!
Oh, yes, please! My front room has BLACK carpet which shows everything!
I am entering this on behalf of my sister Sassy. Her vaccuum…well I would say it sucks, but it doesn’t. It sucks NOTHING up. It’s awful.
Being the good sister I am, I went to her house to babysit so she and her devoted husband could go on a date. I walked into her living room and heard “CRUNCH”. I looked down and saw all kinds of cheerio-nonsense. And a couple cheetos, I’m pretty sure.
As I said, I’m a great sister, so I pulled her vaccuum out to clean it up. Not so much. It grabbed some stuff, but not all. So please, for my Sister Sassy, I would love to win this prize.
Hey BooMama, Thankyou for even being willing to do this. I hope that if I don’t win someone very deserving does. Now, I would love to win because my dining room could use a good vacuuming. I homeschool our two children, take care of a two year old (not mine, in heart only), a cat and well with all the cutting for art and snacks and three meals per day I NEED it. (Smile) Thanks again BooMama!!
Our family room in the basement could really use an Oreck. Lugging down our old heavy vacuum is no picnic.
Thanks, Boomama!
Oh. my. goodness!!!! Sophie, I have been wanting one of these forever, and it now comes in RED, too, the color of my 40′s.
I would probably use it to suck all the boy dirt off JD Green’s bedroom floor, carefully avoiding all those Lego and Playmobil guys, of course, hee, hee, hee!
Thanks so much for hosting on behalf of Sister and Mama’s recommendations. You’re the best! Hope your daddy’s doin’ better today. Still praying.
Okay, I need that vacuum cleaner badly! I would use it for my whole house, but especially in the living room, with all the carpet there. It sounds terrific. I do hope I win!!
What room would benefit…my kids rooms! Oh a new Oreck would make vacuuming fun! (Ok maybe not fun, but I’d do it more!)
My rugs in my living room and bedroom could really use a good cleaning. I have always wanted an oreck. Our church has them and they are great.
Definitely the living room… with 4 kids and a very small house, this room is constantly in need of a vacuum. (P.S. ignore the fact that I am from Canada….does it count that I have a U.S. mailing address?).
Oh, the living room would benefit the most. You know the one where all the living takes place.
I just bought a very good, brand new vacuum cleaner 1 year ago so I am entering this contest for a friend of mine who desperately needs to replace her vacuum. Please sign me up and I’ll pray God will use us to bless my dear friend.
Rachel in Columbus, MS
That’s a tough one. I would have to say our master bedroom though. It is the most common gathering place to eat, socialize, and play with the ever-shedding dog for the Princess.
Okay…two dogs, 100 pounds each; one very furry cat; one 8-year old boy; one infant due in February. My whole house needs the Oreck, especially our living room. Lightweight sounds like an 8-year old boy might even have a new helper job!!! YEAH!!
Oh my! What a wonder it would be in my family room. The dust bunnies are taunting me.
Oh my! My living room would love to be cared for by an Oreck.Thanks for the opportunity.
p.s. how’s your Dad?
I could really use a new vacuum cleaner for our house! We have a dog and cat and our preschooler is allergic to them so it is always a battle to keep the house clean!
Oh my, and I NEED a new vacuum! I could vacuum my living room two times a day! 2 cats and a dog and lots of visitors=NEED clean floors.
Thanks for the chance to win!
2 spaces–my stairs (which no one likes to lug the vacuum up and down) and the upstairs kids area–there’s always lots of things sprinkled everywhere!!
Yes ma’am! I’d love to win the vacuum. There’s not one room that wouldn’t benefit from some good suction, but if I had to pick, I guess it would be the living room rug. It gets a lot of abuse. My son poured out a bag of crackers and crumbs all over it yesterday.
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