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.
Are you kidding me? A bacteria and odor fighting agent?
The better question is, “Where wouldn’t I use this?” In my nasty, kid destroyed living room? Yes! I bet it could even get out embedded goldfish. In my husband’s office and man space? Yes! In every inch of my house that I theoretically vacuum? Of course. Now I have a reason to reach every inch….it would actually get clean. As opposed to the $50 vacuum I have owned for 4 years (I mean, let’s be honest, that thing stopped working awhile ago).
Oh, and the best part….I would feel less guilty for changing diapers on the floor!
I am desperate for this, BooMama!!!!
Oh, wow. If I had this I would be in housewife heaven. 4 kids, a dog and a husband all track in all sorts of disgusting stuff from outside.Dinning room would benefit the most, what with all of the black dog hair,dropped food, spilled drinks on my nice carpet! I would feel better waking up in the morning!
My living room gets the most traffic and would benefit from the Oreck
i have a yellow lab and 2 cats so all of my rooms in the house would benefit winning this vacuum !!!
I would LOVE an Oreck! My husband wanted to register for one for our wedding, but no one bought it for us. :(
My bedroom would benefit most, because the Oreck sucks up all the dust and doesn’t let it filter back into the air. That would really help me sleep allergy-free. And if it’s only 9 pounds I might still be able to carry it up the stairs even though I need shoulder surgery badly!
I hope Oreck gives you one, too, BooMama!
My family room could really use it. That’s the room that sees the most traffic.
I would love this vacuum! I am in a constant quest for a great vacuum and this one fits the bill! Plus, at 9 lbs. my kids could vacuum the stairs!
The dining room. It is food central after the young’uns
Andy’s room!!!!
Andy is 18 and is a SLOB!!!
The Oreck with its Odor Control would be perfect for picking up toenail clippings and stray food particles that litter his floor along with his dirty AND clean laundry!
Because of its light weight, he could use it and still talk on the phone and listen to the mp3 player.
Because it is so technilogically advanced, it would give him pause between the Oreck and the x-box!
bravo, Dave Oreck!!! An outstanding product for a challenging environment!!!
The living room could definitely benefit from this
I would love this vacuum. The room that needs it most is my computer room. I spend a lot of time in there. My two cats & my dog like to hang out in there with me & they shed, a lot!
My dining room could use this!
My dad does all the sweeping in our house. He would love to have a Oreck vacuum. Maybe I can do some when it just weigh around 7 to 9 lbs.
God Bless
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Good luck everyone
I think my basement would benefit from this vacuum because that’s where my cat lives and I need a light vacuum to be able to clean the place thoroughly. She sheds a lot of fur!
Oh my! Oh my! My living room, which gets the most traffic and the most crumbs on a daily basis, would LOVE to meet an Oreck. Thanks!
Well, my vacuum bit the dust the day before Christmas. So my front room needs the vacuum the most since we had a real tree and that is the gift that keeps on giving. Needles, oh the needles! Plus I have a just turned three year old. Does that get the sympathy vote?
You have absolutely no idea how badly I need this vaccuum! I need it most in my family room which houses many snacks and crumbs. You could eat off of my floor – oh yes you could because there is an entire meal lurking in the outer edges! :)
With 2 Huskies, 3 cats, and 3 children in sunny Florida, the Family room is a constant hairball with tracked in mud! The Oreck will give me my house back !
My dream is to have a vacuum for upstairs and a vacuum for downstairs so I don’t have to lug my big heavy vac up and down the stairs… then I’d be stylin’ indeed. So the new Oreck will be my upstairs vacuum!!!!! (in my fantasy).
My living room would definitely benefit from having an Oreck. My son’s and my husband’s allergies would definitely benefit from the greater cleaning of our carpet!!
My parents have an Oreck and love it. Maybe one this light would make me vacuum more. :-) My living room would benefit the most since it gets the most traffic.
Oh you have no idea how badly I need this! My living room carpet is just a mess. My vacuum doesn’t do nearly enough. The kids are always managing to sneak away with a cracker or something and then step all over it before I notice(IE: within two seconds).
my living room…..thats where we live after all….
thanks kim
sign me up…there’s no room in my mother’s house that wouldn’t benefit from this Oreck…dog hair goes everywhere…
What a nice treat…Between all the hair that I lost after giving birth x3 and all the hair our old girl, Mollie the Wonder Dog sheds on a daily basis our entire house needs the amazing cleaning from the handy, dandy oreck. Our Master Bedroom could use it the most as everyone currently resides in there on a regular basis. Enjoy your humor! Maybe you can win one, too!
My husband would love the Oreck….he’s in charge of any vaccuuming that needs doing and I know he’d love using it in the family room.
I think our living room would benefit the most. Dog hair everywhere!! I hope I win. Thanks!
I would love to win one of these. We have a short hair gray cat who sheds like a long hair and a Newfoundland dog who lays down a black carpet daily in my dining room. My dining room is also where the Christmas tree was so I’m sure I will be finding needles until next Christmas (unless the Oreck comes here to live).
;-p What a fun give away!
My familyroom would get the most work out, I have 3 dogs who have a doggie door in the room.
The room in my house that would benefit the most from the Oreck would have to be the bedroom. Smelly socks are often carelessly thrown on the floor making the whole room have a really rank smell.
I could really really really use this.
I would use this in the room that my cats spend most of their time in.
I have five kids and five pets. What I’d like to know is what room WOULDN’T benefit from an Oreck XL???
My den would appreciate it the most, because my pets seem to throw of more hair in the den, and my kids pitch their sock lint and popcorn kernels on the floor.
My upstairs bedroom! I can’t remember the last time it was vacuumed well.
After ten million people eating popcorn, crackers, dragging dirt in while playing the Wii, my family room could use a good cleansing.
our living room could use the vacum the most
I would love to win this prize for my master bedroom. It is covered in a light beige carpet which I can’t seem to keep clean.
Yeah.
My entire apartment would benefit cause right now, I’m using a wet/dry vac that I also use in my truck. Great contest, thanks!
I would use the Oreck XL in every room. My current vacuum is an explosion waiting to happen. I’m waiting for the day my neighbors witness me heaving a flaming vacuum cleaner out the front door.
Hooray! I totally need a new vacuum (and who wants to spend multiple hundreds of dollars on something so dull??)
My living room & stairs down to the garage entrance would benefit most – they’re constantly covered in stuff that’s been tracked in by Hubby – he has an inability to keep ickyness on tiles where it’s easy to clean…
Only one room?!?! It may possibly be the living room since that’s where we come into the house . . . or it could be the room where my three sons, 7, 5 & 3 1/2 reside . . . . or it could be my 13 yr old’s room since she does not believe in cleaning unless I encourage her with something like a cattle prod . . . .it may even be that our play room is the place that needs it most . . . the decsision is too much for me, so I’ll let you pick which room in which it would work best. :)
love to have new vac, old one does not pick up dirt and annie’s cat hair
Definitely the family room where everyone hangs out each day.
With everyone tracking through my family room and all the snacks that are enjoyed there throughout the day that is definitely the area that would most benefit from an Oreck.
My poor living room would gain the most help.
We have hardwood floors in most of our house but 2 bedrooms are carpeted as well as the family room, which would be the room I vacuum the most.
Oh, heavens to Betsy! First, I need to say that I have another $400 pink vacuum that doesn’t make me very happy and we have been contemplating an Oreck but don’t want to drop the cash considering we just did a year ago!!!
So, to answer your question, it would be our bedroom. That’s our hub evenings and mornings. Our 140 lb Rottweiller mix “baby” and our other two “babies” ages 3 and 4 and my 250 lb “baby” (husband) and I all have tons of fun wrestling, cuddling, jumping, eating and watching DVD’s in our room. This is the room that needs to be clean of dog hair, crumbs, our hair; etc, etc, etc!
Can’t wait! Thanks for doing this :-)
Oh Boo Mama, EVERY room in my house would love this vacuum cleaner. They would fight over who gets to have their backs scratched and rubbed down first by this super duper vacuum cleaner.
Love the blog by the way!
Outstanding!!
I am a vaccuum FREAK! I vaccuum everyday – well, with two doggies and three boys, it kinda needs it (wink)!!!!!!
Love the anti-bacterial thingie!
Thanks for the giveaway!
EVERY room in my house would benefit, but my guest bedroom would especially benefit from an Oreck – my two cats have “claimed” that room, so I have to do extra vacuuming to keep up with all the cat hair!
I need to vacuum more with the windows open. My arms are not strong and this is just the right weight for me to use. With allergies rampant and needing to keep the place clean, this is just right for me.
My family room would benefit the most. Its where evrybody eats everything watching tv.
Vacuum looks great, my living room desperately needs a new vacuum. We have a fur-ball cat that sheds like crazy!
The whole house.
I love to clean…I love things to sparkle! I would cherish this Oreck. It would become my new BFF.
The satisfaction and acceptance of my current reality in my life depends on whether or not I win this vacuum.
The stairs. The stairs would benefit the most.
Jamie
I would say the most traffic room .. the great room and those awful steps that lead to everywhere! … However, I gave up my beloved Electrolux for a Kirby and would be so willing to give up the Kirby for the Oreck … not that the Kirby doesn’t do a good job but I can’t LIFT the darn thing! My husband would love it if I owned a vacuum I could actually use myself ;)
This would be perfect for my family room where my golden retriever spends most of his time! Thanks for the great giveaway!
living/dining area
Well…I suppose I have to admit that every room needs the Oreck! I am most concerned about the bedrooms because we have folks with asthma and allergies in our home and they really need a dust free sleeping room. But, based on visuals alone, I’d have to say the family room is crying for the Oreck. I vacuum nearly everyday, but dirt, animal dander, cookie crumbs, chip particals, glitter, cheerios, raisins, hard cat food, colored sand, loose hair/fur and dust have built up overnight again. Help me! I NEED an Oreck.
I need this vacuum very much because I have alot of stairs in my house and a bad back. I could really use it in my bedroom, especially under the bed.
The foyer. So much dirt gets tracked in!
With five kids, a long haired cat, and a parrot? Every room!
Oh WOW!! I would love an Oreck for every room but especially the classroom/gameroom. My son eats every manner of cumbly food and my daughter is the arts and crafts queen. Needless to say the scraps and crumbs make my kenmore vacuum whimper with fear!
Actually, my entire house would benefit cause I’m using a “hand-me-down” vac, that’s been handed down from my Mom to 2 brothers before I got it! But, if I have to choose one room, it would be my 4-yr-old daughter’s room…….it’s amazing what I find in there!!!! Thanks for the contest!
I would LOVE this vacuum…. especially since my current vacuum smokes whenever you turn it on and it gets worse when you vacuum the stairs. We live in a two-story house and the stairs always need to be vacuumed the worst! So you get done cleaning and the house smells like it’s on fire – not exactly what I was going for when I started cleaning!! :)
I could really use it on my stairs, but if that does not count as a room then definitely the dining room where my rug attracts any and all white fuzzies know to man (it’s a black carpet).
My Bedroom, where all the dirt and dust goes on to the floor when the clothes come off.
Yeeeee hawwwww! I would love to win.
living room!
Being the only female in a house full of males any room would be overjoyed at the new Oreck!! If I had to pick 1 room it would be our family room that needs a revolving door & this awesome sweeper!! Thanks a bunch!
This vacuum sounds awesome! My whole house could use a vacuum like this, but the room that could use it the most would have to be the living room. Between the dog hair, foot traffic, and the kids playing and eating there, etc. it’s a mess!
My living room would most definitely benefit most, as it is the hands down most vacuumed room. And my vacuum cleaner is anoying. So I really hope mr. random number generator picks me! :o)
I need one of these!
My bedroom would benefit so much from this vaccuum. My dog sleeps in there and she sheds so much.
WOW. THATS ALL I CAN SAY. THANKS
We have a couple of Oreck vaccuums at our church and I love them. I want one for my living room, because, HELLO, I have a little boy who likes all things dirt.
In my house, the room that would benefit the most from this vacuum is the downstair greatroom. I have pergo and 2 children 20 months apart. Whenever they eat and drop food on the floor it seems to get tracked from one end to the other. I am tired of sweeping.
My dining room rug could soooo use this. Please, random generator, please!!!
I have carpet in my very large master bathroom. This could really get the hair off the floor for sure.
Thanks!!!
THE LOVING ROO, WITH ALL THE TRAFIC
Our bedroom could use this Oreck. Between the cat throwing up pine needles and his hair being everywhere. We need a good vacuum!
Presently my basement could really use that awesome Oreck the most. We have house guest with 3 children living there until they can get a place. Thank you !!!
Wow. My family room could use the help the most, I think. Between the cat hair, dog hair, toddler crumbs, and normal traffic, my new carpet doesn’t look so new!
Great Vacuum!!
My living room would definitely benefit the most.
Love your blog! It’s rocks!
Thanks :)
My livingroom gets the most traffic with kitchen second.
Wow, this is an amazing giveaway! Please enter me into your drawing. My living room would definitely benefit the most, as it is the favorite room of both my cats.
Add me to the fray! My entry and livingroom get the most use and need for the vacumn!
The livingroom with the dog and the kids, its te room that needs it the most.
Boy, I sure hope I win this…..my whole house would benefit, as it would get vacuumed a lot more often. Right now, I have to go to my Mom’s to borrow her vac, then return it after I’m finished. Needless to say, I don’t vacuum as often as I should.
Our entire downstairs would benefit – and my arms and back. Currently I lug the heavy vacuum from upstairs (carpet) to downstairs (hardwood).
Thanks for giving us all a chance. I’ve always thought an Oreck would be nice.
Every room in my house! My son, his wife and their 2 boys (3 and 1 years old) have moved in. I live in Florida where the sand is every where. My floors are done daily. I really can use this vacuum.
Our bedroom would benefit the most from this vacuum.
my bedroom would benefit the most! I hate lugging the heavy vacuum up the stairs and Orecks are sooo light!
My WHOLE house could use this, but the playroom would definitely be the most shocked by such an awesome machine!
My family room desperately needs a very powerful vacuum.
I would use this to vacuum my own room because I’m not allowed to touch my stepmom’s vacuum.
big h’s room. by far. oh, and didn’t skip the step. oh no i didn’t.
Being honest, every room in my house could use it. I think the most needy room would probably be my craftroom/computer room.
with bits of material , dust, and food scraps, andshort plush carpeting, this room attracts everything it can. and it holds onto it, unless i get down and clean up by hand. i could really use a good vac- pick me!
WOOOOO HOOOOO! I love the odor shield…the warranty…the free tune-ups…WOW!