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.
I would LOVE to win this! Because I live in a tiny tiny studio apartment in Manhattan, I’d say my living room/bedroom/kitchen would benefit most! :)
I love my Oreck and it would be great to have an upstairs and downstairs ORECK.
My bedroom and the dust bunnys there would benefit.
My living room because likt the vacum cleaner it SUCKS!
My kids bedroom would benefit the most from this great vacume.
Livingroom. My husband has a dune buggy shop and is a paraplegic. When he wheels in from the shop across my livingroom rug he leaves a trail. Would love to have this type of vacum could make things a whole lot easier on me.
I would love to win this vacuum. My family rooms gathers the most dirt since it is the highest foot traffic room. My kids play on the carpet in there all day so I want it to be clean.
Oh my Oh my could I use a new vacuum cleaner. My living room with the crazy fuzz-producing red carpet would benefit a whole lot!
Our living room would definitely benefit – we do a LOT of living in there!
God blessed me with a grand home that needs grand cleaning. So this would be a tremendous blessing on one of my three floors. Specifically doing steps!
My living room would benefit most from this vacuum cleaner. Thanks for the opportunity.
My carpeted dining room (who’s idea was that?). Luckily, we have a 1 year old that usually eats everything off of the floor, but I would love to vacuum it instead.
I would love to just choose one room that needs the vacuum, but to be honest I have 2 teenage sons so it would have to split duty and handle both of them… if I HAVE to choose one, it would by my 13 year olds room, he just has to snack while he is watching tv. typical. Thank you!!
The office would benefit the most since the carpet seems to show every tiny piece of dust or dirt.
I LOVE that this is nice and compact and only 9 pounds! It would greatly benefit our living room and dining room where we have the most activity and crumbs, play-doh, etc. I REALLY HOPE I WIN!
The one room would have to be the kitchen – since I have 2 little ones that like to play, I mean, eat their food with their hands and elbows (ahem), that room gets plenty of crumbs and crud all over the floor all day. ‘Nuff said. :)
Pesky threads, pesky fabric scraps, pesky paper scraps and hole punches…it’d have to be the craft room! I could use my very own Oreck for that room!
I would LOVE to have the Oreck XL Ultra to clean the dust and dirt from the carpet in my living room which is in between the back door and the dining area!
My children and their friends run in and between their room and the back yard all day long playing and tracking in dust, dirt and grass clippings. Even though they remove their shoes, the mess is unbelievable.
What is more, my vacuum is so heavy that it hurts my back to vacuum (I have already had back surgery and am allergic to dust) and I have to vacuum my house daily with 3 or more children home all day long every day. I usually have at least 6 or 7 children in my home on a typical day! That is a lot of dirt and dust.
I need a vacuum that really works!!!
I want a new vaccuum. I’ve always bought the cheapest one I can find. I wonder what a nice one would pick up? Does that mean there’s lots of crap on my floor?
My living room floor would love this vacuum. Thanks for the opportunity to play.
I would love a an Oreck. I think the family room needs the most vacuuming so that is where it would do the best for us.
Definitely our stairway and upstairs hallway. We have dark green plush carpeting, which shows every speck of dirt and dust
It’s a tie – my dining room, where my kids drop food on the floor, and my master bedroom, where my long hair falls the most, both need this vacuum equally!
My living room
The room that would benenfit most from the BEST VACUUM CLEANER ON THE PLANET? Hmmmmm…..let’s see…gotta be my son’s room. This is the son who surfs and tracks in sand, rock climbs and brings home rocks and dirt, snowboards and brings home salt and grit. The boy’s room smells worse than a kennel full of wet dogs. Only an Oreck can clean up that mess.
My living room and all the bedrooms. My daughter has severe dust mite allergies but we have to have a rug on the living room floor to muffle sound for our downstairs neighbors. We need a GOOD vacuum to vacuum every room, mattresses and pillow cases regularly. Please randomly select me!!!
oh nice,i was planning to buy a vaccum for my new home..and this contest just arrived on time..i guess for me..please enter me.smiles!!!
My whole house would benefit from this vacuum but if I had to pick a room, it would certainly be the dining room area. (Lots of crumbs :) This is so exciting. Please enter me.
Take Care,
Wendie
My living room. My poor old dirt devil picked up Luke Skywalkers left arm (kids)as well as it’s daily 10 pounds of dog, cat, and people hair. Now it barely works.Help!
My computer would not let me see the features but my Rainbow is on the blink (it is 19 years old) and I need a new vacuum cleaner. One that really gets the dog hairs in my house and helps with the pet smells! I just like a really clean floor!
I’d love to win this vacuum!
I am in desperate need of this vacuum! My husband and I use the one from my college days! Yuck! Our bathroom would benefit greatly from this vacuum. It is carpeted and very hairy! I put my 6 month old on the floor (on a blanket for now) when I am getting ready and would love to feel like I could lay him on CLEAN carpet!
My dining room. Definitely. Combine steel gray carpet with a two year old toddler who LOVES to eat and doesn’t care so much about where food lands. I so should vaccum after every meal…
ummm… er… yea
I could really use this in my family room where we have a couple of new grandchildren in the family crawling and walking around. There is a lot of traffic through this room and could use a cleaner that will pick up the tiniest dust particles.
Absolutely the living room! Debris from people walking in and cat hair on the furniture could use this vacuum!
I would LOVE an Oreck and would LOVE to use it upstairs in our bonus room (the new place we ALWAYS are) and my daughter’s room. I’d love to see how it stacks up to the hair left EVERYWHERE by our yellow lab!!
I really need a new vacuum for the whole house, but especially for the great room. We live right by the beach, and the kids come in and out all day with sand on their feet, although they do try to wipe off what they can. It’s very hard on a vacuum cleaner to always be picking up sand.
I would use the Oreck upstairs in all of my bedrooms because my current vacuum is so heavy, I hardly take the trip upstairs with it! I hope I win!!
kids room
Definitely would be the living room-most used room in the house!
I just spend several minutes on the floor picking up little bits of things my current vacuum cleaner missed. It works poorly and is heavy. I would love to have an Oreck to use in my family room and on my stairs.
I would love to have this vacuum. Every room in my house would benefit as I have two very messy, muddy boys!
I know this sounds crazy, but we have carpets in the garage and with all the winter salt,sand, and soot it really could use a good vacuum.
Please pick me! My schoolroom and living room are carpeted and my vacuum is PITIFUL!
This vacuum would be great for my husband’s hobby room- lots of little model pieces and the cat’s litter box is in the same room.
Family room.
The entire house would benefit, but especially the den/playroom area. I have lots of allergies, and my daughter seems to have inherited them, unfortunately. So this vacuum would be great w/ its allergen-fighting capabilities!
The hall is full of dust bunnies! I need an exterminator vacuum!
my hallway has my dog that loves to rest in when no one is home, it leaves plenty of hair on the carpeting that is difficult to remove. I try to vacuum it but I must change the bag each time or it smells like something is burning. I bought a bagless vacuum which solved my problem after using 3 different brands of bag cleaners. I would love to find out if the Oreck doesn’t smell or if it would have the same problem. My dog is a siberian husky who is not a stinky dog but when his hair is vacuumed into a bag, it smells bad.
My bathroom would love to meet this vacuum. I have long hair and I am sure my bathroom gets tired of it all over the floor.
All my rooms could use a new vaccuum. My favorite one just died after 8 years. I have 2 cats and lots of cat fur lives on the carpets. You should see the fur on my clothes but that is another story.
I have 2 dogs an I’m constantly vaccuuming my family room.
Please enter me. I think I could use this in every room. The Living Room has the most traffic, so it would benefit the most.
The hallway with the kitty litter box. No need to explain.
My computer/tv room needs it, my old one barely works
I would have to say my den would benefit the most
Thank you so much!
Wow! That is the some vaccum. The vaccum of my dreams. My son’s room could most use the Oreck as it will help to reduce allergens.
A have a good size carpeted storage room where the cat litter box is. This would be a perfect place to start with the Oreck
oh, how i need this!! we just moved to a house with carpeted stairs and my old vacuum is HEAVY! i think my living room would benefit most.
Thank you!
The front foyer where everyone walks in and brings the dirt from outside.
I would love it for all my carpets but especially on the stairs because it is so lightweight!
yes i want to win, my living roon could really beterfit from this
I would use this in every room of my house! I have lots of animals.
Every room would benefit due to our lovely shedding Corgi (but we love him to pieces…)
Every room would benefit, but my daughters would probably give it the best test.
My den would like the Oreck because of all the popcorn that is eaten downstairs watching TV.
that pesky living room floor would benefit the most….pick me!!! :)
My livingroom would benifit the most, because of the dust that gets put out into the air affects all of my electronic…not good. My back would benefit with the lightweight vaccum doing the stairs.
every room the dog visits…
My house would be so spotless!
My den! The cat litter box is in there.
I definitely need this vacuum for the my family room! My kids love to eat graham crackers and popcorn…Do I need to say anything more?!? ;-D
My bedroom would benefit the most because that’s the room that collects the most hair – my own and the cat’s!
The family room where my 2 year old insists on eating all of her meals.
Any room because there is cat hair every where!
I haven’t read the 1168 comments to this drawing, but I am certain I need this the least of anyone. However, I WANT it. I WANT it BAD. Does that help?
I could really use an Oreck in my bedroom!
The dog hair is awful on the carpet and I really have a hard time getting it out.
With a family of 6 … and others in and out … we would need a good vacuum throughout the house. I think the kid’s playroom would benefit the most considering the amount of play time put into it … and how hard the kids are on that poor room! : )
oh yeah, so I can vacuum my bedroom.
My living room needs this the most due to one large chocolate lab that hibernates there during the winter. Oh, please, please Ye Olde Random.org, please pick me!
Wow, I need a new vacuum! I am using my sister’s cast off and she nearly wore it out before she gave it to me.
My foyer would benefit the most. It is the one semi-room that gets ALL the traffic and I hate having a dirty carpet as the first thing you see.
I will cross my fingers but random.org never seems to like me. :0(
Who knows? Maybe 08 is the year of Lucky Random Number-ness for me. ;0)
It would be our bedroom. I always lack of vacuuming up there so when I do, it needs a little extra help!
my living room would be very happy if I won this
My basement family room would benefit the most from an Oreck because I can barely lug my big old vaccume down two flights of stairs so it doesn’t get done very often.
I need this! I have a white lab mix named Daisy. We love her very much but Miss Daisy sheds a lot! This Oreck would be used in every room!!
Thank you for the chance to win an Oreck!
My entire house would LOVE this prize, but I’d especially like it in our dining room for 2 reasons: to pick up food crumbs and because that’s where our dog always sleeps:)
What a great giveaway! We are moving from a house with all hardwood floors to a house with all carpet. So every room in my new house would love this new vacuum!
The floor in my breakfast room would be my dirtiest spot – Cheerios, crumbs, bits of whatever my kids decided is better off on the floor than on their trays.
My living room which seems to be perpetually dirty.
i think my living room/entryway would love to be cleaned with this handy dandy vacuum! i sure would love to own an oreck!
my almost-but-not-quite-finished new basement which will surely be a cavern of sawdust, carpet fragments, paint chips and contractor dirt before long! Thanks!
the computer room where the cat hangs out..shes a Persian named Scmutzfink..she lives up to her name.
I’d use the Oreck mostly in my living room since that’s the first thing people see on entry but my whole house needs a really good vac since my old one is falling apart.
I sounds like our computer room would benifit the most from using the Oric. We eat and use the computer at the same time. Crums fall on the floor and in crevises.
my den/family room it gets a beating.
The living and dining room defintely…seems to me that’s where my son ends up playing and mom and dad end up vegging!
My living room and dining room!
You have over 1000 comments!! Is that a new record? I’ve heard friends sign the praises of their Orecks, maybe I’ll win.
My kitchen, where my Dad tracks in dirt from his boots!
My living room would benefit the most
fingers crossed!
Thank you
my basement!! thanks
All my rooms could use the Oreck! I have 4 boys and they remind me everyday what boys they are!
If I had to pick a room that would benefit the most it would have to be the living room. That is where we spend most of our family time together and I like to keep it looking nice!