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.
Umm…let’s see. My bedroom. It is Grand Central. So, yeah, sadly, my bedroom needs it the most!
My whole house could use the Oreck since I live in AZ but the room that could benefit the most would be my guest room. I foster cats and kittens who are taken off the euthanasia list at the pound and help them to love and trust again while they await their forever homes. That room gets covered in hair and dander and my current vacuum cleaner is at deaths door so I am in desperate need of a new one and I would LOVE an Oreck.
living room
Between two kids, a dog and the messiest husband on earth, my family room NEEDS this vacuum!
Oh my Gosh!! With My three daughters and their messy bedrooms – I could definately use this!!
Can stairs actually be considered a room for this contest? My stairs seem to need vacuuming the most. Honestly, you’d think my family ate, drank, worked, played and slept on the stairs.
Wow, the specs on this ORECK is amazing! The greatest feature is it use 1/3 of the electricity of a regular vaccum!!
All room would benefit from this totally awesome vaccum! The most would be the dining room, it gets the most traffic.
How about the garage? I would love to see it clean up all the junk left over from all the snow that we have seen this year.
Ohhhh! Please pick me my bedroom needs it most.
I would use this new vaccum in every room of my new house that I just purchased with my brand new fiancee because we haven’t got a vaccum yet
The living room. We enter the house in the living room and track the leaves and acorn bits from all the lovely huge oak trees in the front yard.
My hallways will benefit the most and my husband will get the most use of it:)
Every room in my house is in desperate need of a GOOD vacuuming. My old vacuum barely picks up anything anymore. With a 2-year-old that is a master Houdini and can pick ANY child lock to get to the food she wants, we find our carpet often coated with a handful of shredded cheese she snatched out of the fridge, or we step on ground up Cheerios she got out of the pantry. Top it with her favorite, raisins, and we could REALLY use an Oreck!
my computer room. you know that old thing about “my dog ate my homework”? my cat LOVES to shred any paper i leave on the floor. there’s little paper shreds all over the floor of the room where i have my computer. would be nice to zip around and vacuum them up with the lightweight oreck vacuum. i’ve wanted an oreck for a while now. thanks.
My living room floor! It is where my dog naps, kids play, and hubs walks through with mud on his shoes…. I desperately need an Orek!
every room my dog goes into.
:-)
My house and my husband would LOVE if I could win this! Our vacuum cleaner is so old and does a junky job. Of course, the entire house would benefit from it, but the living room would get the most use since that is where we are most of the time … and where we drop the most crumbs. Also, our baby is at the stage where she’ll learn to crawl soon so I REALLLLLLLLLLLLLY need a better vacuum!! I’ve heard the best things about Oreck!
FABULOUS giveaway! Thanks for the chance to enter!
~melody~
My family room really needs this! Thanks for offering this!
our living room needs this badly. That’s the room where we (my husband, I , almost 2 year old son, dog, and cat) spend most of our time.
The living room/ play room/ dog room…all one room, many roles…the vaccum would need that anti-baterial shield to survive!
My children’s rooms would definately benefit the most from this vacuum, we all know what a mess kids can make!
The playroom needs the oreck the most right now. Thanks for the great blog.
I am sure the dust bunny colonies that have formed in my house would run from room to room to escape the Oreck so I would have to say every room would benefit!!
My family room definitely needs a cleaning using a great vacuum. The rabbit food and cat food always seem to be scattered on the carpet by our pets.
I’m gonna be a little unconventional on this one. . .I’m gonna say that MASONS room needs it the most!! He smuggles doritos, cookies, cheese crackers, its a HOT MESS!! LOL
I would LOVE to win! Count me in Boo!
The stairs would greatly benefit from this vacuum. They seem to be a magnet for all types of dirt this house accumulate. From dog hair to cracker crumbs, the stairs are in need of a good vacuum cleaner.
Like many of the others, our family room needs help. With two cats and a dog the rug gets it bad.
I sooooooo need a new vacuum!
With 4 messy homeschooled kids…my kitchen/familyroom would love a new Oreck!!!
forgot to say the our play room needs help! too many squished cheerios in the carpet!
Oh my goodness every room in my house but the one that would benefit the most from people and doggie walking I would have to say would be the living room, where everone and everything walks.
that would definitely be the living room! dog hair is the worst!
the whole place
The living room of course needs the Oreck the most, since it sees the most action!
Um our entire house can always use a vacuum thanks to our two Great Danes, but if I had to choose one it’d be the den!
The living room, Blue Heeler sheds bad!
My bedroom would benefit from this handy-dandy vacuum because I, my friends, eat crackers in bed. Thank you. Thank you all.
My living room! My baby is stating to crawl and we’re vacuuming at least once a day to keep the floor clean for him.
Pick us!
Okay, almost as badly as my family room could use some help with that special vacuum, I think my garage/play room could as well! The carpet in my family room is, well, roughly 12 years old–yuck! But if things did not work out, I am thinking that I should look into the SPEED iron also advertised on their website! Does someone come with it to actually iron quickly for you :)??!! Thanks for hosting another great giveaway. I am glad your dad is doing better. I am sooo excited for you for your trip to the Toto song :).
My bedroom needs the most attention.
Our living room definitely needs an Oreck. We live a little too much in it.
Glad your Dad is doing better!
Hey Boomama,
I could use it in every room, I live in Texas and we all know how dusty it gets here! It would be an awesome thing to win, oh yes it would!!
I can only pick one room? It would have to be my craft room as there are always little bits of stuff in the carpet.
EVERY ROOM in my house could benefit from this…
Glad to hear your Daddy is better!
My Living room that gets the most action and in desparte need of constant cleaning!
The stairs. With the Carpet. That shows all the Cat Fur.
My current vacuum rolls over and plays dead when it gets to the stairs.
Every room in my house could use this vacuum but I think my oldest son’s room would benefit the most since he has allergies. This sounds like such a nice vacuum! Thanks for the great giveaway.
One room? How about the entire house…..3 children and a dog. Enough said.
oh my word, EVERY room in my house could use this fabulous vac! the one i use now was in our terrible moving accident and it sucks…or it doesn’t suck…errr…it’s no good! pick me!
My living room and kitchen would benefit from this vacuum cleaner. thanks.
Definitely my family room – dogs & kids – need I say more?
Due to back problems, it is very difficult for me to vaccuum my carpeted stairs due to the weight of my current vaccuum. That is the spot where an Oreck would help me the very most. Thank you in advance!!!!! : )
upstairs bedroom! It rarely gets vacuumed because of the steep stairs…oh my the dust and the mites…shudder!
Does “whole house” count as a room? No? O.K. Then I would have go with the living room. Having a long haired cat takes it’s toll on my couches…
Well of course every room in my home would benefit but what would benefit the most is not a room but that would be ME! My back, my legs, my arms, my life would benefit from a vacuum like an Oreck.
the bottom of the stairs, my girls favorite place to eat crackers
Hi! I entire home would benefit. We live in a townhome with lots of nasty carpet…even the stairs.
My whole house could use a good vacuuming. I loaned mine to a friend and haven’t seen it since.
The room that will most benefit from that bacteria feature, is my fireplace nook.
When my dog just can’t help himself, he helps himself to that area: yuk. Little seems to help so far.
I am in need of a vaccumm, that’s why I’m here entering for this vaccumm. My old one is a Rainbow that I have had for over 18 years, and it’s falling apart. HELP!
I’m starting to fall apart too, and need something that is light weight for all my rooms, as the dust bunnies are starting to pile up.
Thanks Oreck!
the entry area is a mess all the time!
My living room is the hangout for the cat’s…and my son:) It could really use a good oreck-ing!
My living room
My family room – with children, there are always crumbs.
My living room! 2 children can really make a mess sometimes!
I have a huge formal living/dining room that is full of the kids toys and it always needs to be vacuumed.
My hall closet would probably benefit the most because the Oreck is much more compact than that big, old heavy monstrosity of a prehistoric vacuum currently residing there!
Omg my living room would benefit the most. I have a toddler and lets just say cherrios, cherrios and cookie crumbs :).
My family room would most benefit from this vacuum (and oh what a great vacuum it is!) as it is the most used room in the house! Great giveaway!
The area right inside the door…connected to the living room…it’s not exactly a foyer b/c our house isn’t that fancy ha, but it’s that type of area…it’s where the dog always sits…so that always needs vacuuming!
Entry/hallway gets so much traffic.
Oh nice! I have 2 sets of stairs, a hallway, a family room and 4 bedrooms that could benefit from this. Probably my car too!
My vaccuum just died, so until I replace it I’ve been sweeping with a shop vac :)
this would be awesome for my whole house, but most of all for my living room where my 2 year old eats crackers!! I have to vaccuum there everyday no matter what.
Great contest by the way, you people are generous, how nice. Thanks!
Wow! What a terrific giveaway!
We would use this awesome vacuum to clean my 4 and 2 year old’s room and the living room. They suffered so much last winter with upper resperatory issues. I have heard that the Oreck can help keep certain allergens down and help keep allergies at bay at home. I would LOVE to win this one!
Thanks again!
fructifying at ourblessedarrows dot com
This would get daily use in the over lived in living room!
My bedroom would most benefit from this vacuum. For some reason it’s the hub of my house.
This would definately be great for my sons room. His carpet needs vaccumed everyday. He definately makes a mess of his carpet.
We have two (yes 2!) Great Pyrenese living in our house. Need I say more?
Well, just that I would really like that vacuum.
My living room! Nothing gets all the pet hair!
I would love to own an Oreck vaccuum. The room in my home that would be of most use with an Oreck vaccuum is my laundry room.
Neeed this!!
My family room could benefit greatly from this vacuum
I could really use a new vacuum for my den/family room. I have to vacuum in there AT LEAST once a day. We have two cats, plus that’s the room that we enter the house through, so there’s all manner of debris on the carpet.
And the carpet? It’s dark green, so it shows every speck of anything that falls on it.
My current vacuum cleaner is adequate, but probably on its last leg. I’d love a new QUALITY vacuum cleaner to help spiffy up the place!
My second floor where the bedrooms are. That way I would not have to shlep the vacuum up and down the stairs. That gets old pretty fast and feels like a lead weight carting up. It would also not be nice to have a better quality vacuum.
My whole house could certainly use the Oreck, but, my room would probably benefit the most!
Love your blog!
I could use this in our family room in the basement. We spend much of our time in their.
My living room would definitely benefit the most. The boys run through her often. Thanks for the opp to win.
I would love to win this Oreck. I am a city girl that has relocated to the country and finding it harded to keep the carpet vacuumed. My living room would love this ! We tend to have a lot of weekend company that now lovingly call our home their Bed and Breakfast ! Thanks for the chance and have a blessed day !
The playroom! It would definitely put the Oreck to the test!I have five little ones who don’t always listen to “Eat that in the Kitchen please!” I’m a huge Oreck fan…it weighs less than my baby!
My den NEEDS this Oreck! :0) Note to self – NEVER get such light colored carpet again!
Love your blog! Thanks!
I just got a vacuum for Christmas from hubby. It’s OK because I asked for it. What I mean to say is, it was on my list. I would definitely use the Oreck upstairs for livingrooms and bedrooms and keep my other new one in the basement.
Hair! Hair! everywhere! I have three Pomeranian and believe me they have a lot of hair. I do more cleaning now then when I had all eight of my kids living at home.
My living room would benefit. My dogs keep tearing apart their stuffed toys.
I don’t live in the States, but I have a very dear friend in Virginia that I would give it to. She has cats, so i know she would appreciate it.
Awesome giveaway! I think my living room would benefit most from this vacuum.
Son’s ROOM = its messy!!
My main living area, living, dining and kitchen would benefit because I have a dog that sheds and boys that are muddy.
My living room could benifit the most from a new Oreck vacuum cleaner because we burn wood in the winter and it creates a lot of dust(and ashes),and we live on a dirt road(more dust).
Definitely the master bedroom – getting the dust from under the bed sucks!
Every room! My cat sheds like crazy. If I had to pick one room, I’d go with the front room. It would be nice to be able to sit on the couch without taking half of my cat to work with me!