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.
My entire upstairs.
Wow, what a great giveaway! I would love this for our living room. We had 2 dogs and 3 kids so the floor are always covered with something. Our old vacuum seems to be on its last legs.
My entire house actually. With two active teenage boys and pets, every room gets hit
My living room where everything happens all day long.
That would be my living room. Being a small house this room gets more activity as well as having the front door comming into it.
After searching for the bottom of this list I can see why you will use Ye Olde Random.org to draw for a winner.
My whole house will certainly benefit from the Oreck XL Ultra Vacuum Cleaner. However, my son’s room will benefit the most. He and his buddies sure know how to leave me with a challenge.
My sister pulled out her new one at our Christmas party this year and after seeing it in action…oh yeah, I want one too!
Thank you!~:’D
What a perfect thing to win since my old vaccum is acting up. (we are going to have to take it in to get fixed again)
If I had to pick ONE room I would pick the living room since that’s the room we are in all the time and the room that gets stilled on the most as well. (beside the kitchen/dining area, but that’s wood)
My main room would benefit the most – where the kids play – I love this:
“IntellaShield™ technology creates a bacteria-fighting barrier around the Oreck XL Vacuum, combining antimicrobial protection to resist the growth of odor and stain causing bacteria plus powerful odor control. First, Microban®, an antimicrobial agent, is built right into the vacuum cleaner. It actually penetrates microbes and inhibits their growth and ability to multiply.”
Who wouldn’t need one of these?!
The Oreck would be of best use in my living room. It’s the biggest room in my house. I also have a cat that I keep inside and this 24/7 vac which is great for odors would be a great help. Sounds like this vacuum is the one to have.
My living room, because that’s where the cat and dog spend the most time. You can just imagine!
That wonderful Oreck would be great for all carpeted rooms in my home – which is pretty much every room. I might even let the family eat in the carpeted dining room more often! Oh the family memories we could create if only we had that Oreck. (sigh) :-)
I can never get my vacuum cleaner up the stairs, so this would be great for cleaning my whole second floor!
Please, dear GOD, let me win this. I hate our current vacuum cleaner so much I refuse to use it.
OH! I would love it for my non-shedding dog who instead of leaving hairs drags tons of grass, leaves etc. into my house!
Bedroom. My better half sheds.
oh yeah…. I have really been needing a good vacuum for my living room and downstairs hallway. With two cats, there is hair and kitty litter everywhere. I don’t know how they do it, but they get that sand into every nook and cranny in the house.
Thanks for the chance.
Like most everyone else has said…ANY room would be praising God for an Oreck! I just asked my 3 year old what room is dirtiest and he said his sister’s room…so we’ll go with that!
My son’s bedroom would benefit the most from this vacuum. Our cat has started sleeping under his bed, and the more cat hair we can remove, the better our son sleeps.
My living room is begging for this! So lightweight and maneuverable–perfect for my family’s cozy apartment.
My hallway would benifit from this vacuum. I live in New England and my hallway looks like a mud room with all the sand and salt from outside. My current vacuum just sort of spuuters and weezes when I use it in the hallway.
I asked for an Oreck for Christmas but I didn’t get it…my husband said that he would never hear the end of it if he bought me a vacuum cleaner for Christmas, even though I asked for it…he is probably right! ;-) Anyhoo, my living room and kitchen are in the same room (1 big space). This is where my LO plays and the dog roams. This space would benefit most from an Oreck, I’m sure!
My daughter’s house would benefit the most if I won this. She borrows my vacuum every week, so if I won this one, I could give her my old Oreck. Thanks for a great contest!
WOW! Since we live in a one-room loft, the entire place would benefit!
I LOVE to vacuum. The Oreck would be my bedroom’s best friend. Then, I would not hesitate to let my little babe hang out on the floor.
I would love this vaccum!! I have a bit of an obsession and vaccum several times a week. My main living room would benefit the best since it is our high traffic area.
Thanks!
With two cats, it would be heaven to win a new vacuum. My living room rug would thank you, since that is where the cats hang out the most.
i think the nursery would definitely benefit from a new vaccum!!
My wife would love it! She hates ours. Has to be the den first.
My $39 bissell sounds like a defective jet engine. I hate to vacuum because it’s sooooo loud. All my rooms would benefit, especially my bedroom which my labrador loves to hang out in with me. And she is a shedder! Thank you.
Girlfriend…every room in my house is calling the name Oreck right now.
WOW!
Wow! This Oreck vacuum cleaner looks amazing! :)
My living room is the room most in need of this vacuum cleaner. My 3 year old son and now our 9 week old foster daughter spend a lot of time playing on the carpet and my current vacuum cleaner just doesn’t do the job on getting it clean enough for my little ones!
Thanks for entering me in this amazing drawing!
We have three extremely adorable dogs–a beagle, a beagle/lab mix, and a lhasa apso. My husband takes all three of them for a run every day in the fields and marshes near our house. The beagle and the beagle/lab mix shed so much that we could build another dog out of all the hair each night, and the lhasa apso’s long winter coat absolutely fills with mud. Plus, we live on a dirt road, so the dogs (and the husband) get even more mud-coated on the way home. We have no mud room or entryway, and our front door opens right into the front room (can you say, “house designed by a MAN??). By the time I get home from work, the mud has usually dried into piles of sand. Sand and dog hair! What an attractive combination. Our floor should probably be swept every hour on the hour (right, like THAT’s going to happen). This Oreck would help out a lot. It would pick up so much more of the fine sand (and Lab undercoat) than we can get with the broom!
The worst room is the living room.
My living room would SO Thank You!
dansan826 at yahoo.com
I love the fact that my current vacuum sucks like it is supposed to. I just don’t like the fact that when I empty it I cannot breathe!I think my lungs would most benefit from the Oreck if I should be fortunate enough to win .As far as a room goes, Hummmmmm…… I guess my living room since that is where we are most of the time but wherever we go our dogs follow us, so really my whole two- story rural home could really benefit from such an awsome sweeper. (My Sister brags about her too.)
Son’s room!
My bedroom and upstairs hallway would think that a new Oreck would be splendid. They are a little sad and forgotten about nowadays. But with a brand spankin’ new vaccum, I’m sure I’d pay attention to them every single day!
All we have is a mini-vacuum. My kids’ playroom could really use a high end vacuum to pick up all of the snack crumbs they leave in every crevice.
I think my living room needs the Oreck the most because that is where we spend the most time, but it is also where the dog and the cat are most of the time. I love reading your blog and am one of the tens that read your posts. God will be with you in Africa :) God bless you for being willing to go.
Oh, what I could DO with an Oreck!
The living room! I have a 4 year old who is a mini crafter and there is a constant flow of paper, bits and of course snacks. Not to mention I have a husband who is allergic to cats and well, we have 2. This would help soooo much.
Our den would definitely benefit due to 5 boys under 7 tracking in dirt, grass, cheerios, and what not. Not to mention the 105 lb Greater Swiss Mountain dog that somehow found it’s way to our home (via my husband) who sheds hair like nothing I’ve ever seen before. And I’m sure my stairs would appreciate it too, as our currant vacuum lost those parts a l.o.n.g. time ago. And did I mention that my husband used to vacuum with our currant vacuum when he was a child? I think it’s time for a new one. :)
My 2 children share a room and could really use this to help mom keep the place clean!
My toy room would probably benefit from this the most. My boys are always dumping things out and grinding them into the floor! Thank you!
I hope I win! I hope I win! I would use this sucker (pardon the pun) under the crevices of my bed in the master bedroom. I’ve got lint balls the size of tumbleweeds down there, and it gives me the creeps when I hear them whistsling through the plains of wall to wall carpet late at night.
My living room…where my little dog plays…and SHEDS…
Deby
Definitely our dining area – which, for some odd reason, has CARPET! :)
Bedroom carpeting!
This would be great! I have terrible allergies and could use a new vaccum for my bedroom.
I have always wished for an Oreck! This giveaway (could be) a dream come true!
My living room carpet would definitely benefit the most from me having an Oreck.
Thank you for listening to your Mama and saying yes to Oreck!
Since the Great Flood of 07, only our bedrooms are carpeted. (God does work all things together for good!)
I think my bedroom would benefit most, since it is the one with the old carpet, and I have the worst allergies.
I too think my whole home would benefit from such a fabulous vacuum cleaner. However, I think the room that would benefit the most would be the living room. We tend to do so much “living” in there!
Clean me up my whole sandy beach house, please.
What a great thing! I would keep the Oreck downstairs for a back-saving addition to our family room, children who are allergic to dust bedroom areas! It would be wonderful!
My living room which is where we do so much of our everything and where my baby girl of 10 months crawls around could REALLY use an Oreck!
Okay, if I must only choose one room, it would be the livingroom — the room wherein every type of juice has been spilled…where cheerios are victims of toddler stomping & where graham crackers are used as hotwheels ramps.
We’re just getting ready to finish our basement and I definitely think that room would benefit most from a new Oreck. The cat hair, the kids’ littls scraps of paper, the crumbs…I can envision it all already. Thanks for the giveaway!
Since my current vacuum is from circa 647 B.C., every room in my house could benefit from the magical powers of the Oreck – especially the living room!
My entire house would benefit since I live out in the middle of a farm with a lot of sand!!! You can only imagine how much dirt gets tracked into my house!
I’d love the Oreck. I have a little one who crawls everywhere and i really need to get one.
For the love of a pet rabbit named Laney, my family would love the Oreck. I can see my precious daughter helpin’ vacuum the living room (especially because Oreck is light-love that!).
In the midst of an unseasonal thaw here in the tundra, the living room may well recover from muddy boot syndrome with this little gem!!
woah, i think a bunch of people want this thing…I would definately love it for the kitchen, to get all those crumbs left by our dd.
OHHHH I SO need a new vacuum!! I fear mine is at the end f it’s life.. I would go CRAZY w/o a vacuum…we now a dog…’doesn’t shed much’ Um ya..WROOONNG the is dog hair EVERY…thankfully she does not wander upsatirs or down…just the main level…that is where this will definately be of use to me..I have to vacuum everyday between my Shiba Inu & the kids HELP! Thanks for the opportunity (Plus I just re broke my leg arrgh and if it is a light as it states than this will help a ton it would be easier to lugg my broken leg & nice light a vacuum up the stairs…oh sooo many stairs. Now, I know what you are thinking…get hubby to do it…he just got deployed so it’s just me….
Thanks again!!
I would love this for everyone room. I have two cats! It would be great because of the odor stopping that is in the bag! Never really read about this vacuum before now, I am impressed.
my very much used family room. I have 3 boys and they invite friends over to play video games or just hang out. I always have crumbs dirt and gos knows what else all over the floor and my vacuum I use now never seems to pick it all up. Ive heard great things about this vacuum and would love to own this one. Thanks
hope everyone has a good year
It is what room will NOT benefit!
I have used one before and the cat and dog hair…gone lickity split! Plus with my MS…I can control the vacuum without using both hands. But, the living room where all the animals, human and 4 legged are the messiest is the best place to use the Oreck. Kitchen is second, the next big handout!
Thanks for the chance..this would be so helpful for me since my friend took it back the same day!
Ugh, the KIDS’ rooms! ‘Nough said, right?! (10 year warranty!!!! wow!) This is SUCH a cool giveaway!!
My vacuum desperately needs to be replaced. Just lost my job this week and so I won’t be purchasing another one anytime soon. My living room would enjoy a good cleaning.
Myriam
Are you kidding? All the rooms in my house could use this amazing vaccum. I have horrible allergies and my vaccum just doesnt get all the dust and allergens that make it into my home. Hope I win!
cristallie333@gmail.com
ok, see because I’m comment number 1471 I just know I’m going to win! LOL What in the world does that mean? I don’t know but a girl can dream can’t she!!
My vacuum is 10 years old, and on it’s last leg! My living room and my stairs need this the most.
I would have to say our living room only because that is the room we spend most of our time in! Between the kids and the animals – it gets dirty quick!
Pet hair and shoe dirt. Not to mention dust. Absolutely our living room.And Orecks are really nice vacuums.
I always wanted an oreck vacuum!
Oh! I need an Oreck. Let me just say VERY BIG BLACK DOG, and 2 toddlers…:)
An Oreck would be perfect for my basement, because that’s the room we let the dog in and out of! Her footprints drive me batty! Also, I have problems with my shoulder, and I’d love a 9 lb. vacuum for all the stairs we have in this house!!
The playroom! The playroom! dog, cat, preschooler, 1st grader, dad in the mud, snow boots, crushed-unidentifiable mess….
=) thank you!!!
emily
I have to pick just one room??? All of them! I am a vaccuum freak and have already gone through 3 in the past year! If I could find a vaccuum that cleans to my liking you better believe everybody would know about it. This one sounds like it’s up for the challenge!
Well, every room would benefit from using the Oreck XL Ultra, but if I would have to choose one I would say the bathroom. That is where we keep the litterbox and with 5 cats, there is always a trail of litter that needs cleaned up.
My stairs would benefit the very most. My vacuum is way to heavy to hold on to it AND vacuum at the same time so they get pretty neglected.
My family room is simply screaming for the help of this vacuum. My vacuum hose recently broke, the vacuum I borrowed from my mother is old and heavy as a body ( im appreciative not ungrateful) but it’s heck on the back and the family room is truly a family room rug. I’d like to win. Thank you very mucfor offering even if I don’t win. GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!
Why do vacs seem to bite the dust way too fast (or rather not!)? Thank you — I’m here all week! Anyway, our eat-in kitchen would probably benefit most — thanks for being interested. :-)
The room that would benefit the most would either be my bedroom or the living room. They get the most activity. I have been without a vacuum for an entire month already and it does NOT look good!
The room in my house that would benefit most from an Oreck Vacuum is my dining room. I have 3 children always dropping little crumbs of food there or tracking stuff in from the adjoining patio.
The room with the birds would benefit the most.
Three kids, 2 dogs & a Husband…of course my house would benefit with a new Oreck & so would I
The allergens being eliminated!!! My three kids and I are fighting awful allergies right now ~ the wind blowing like crazy doesn’t help! I’d love to give my house an Oreck clean!!!! Especially my boys room. My baby boy turned one last month…he was born premature and last winter dealt with RSV! Right now he has a cold and I just wish I could get his room super clean to alleviate chances of ending up in the hospital this year!
With the Oreck being so light I could even use it with the beater brush on my couch after my grand-puppies come to visit. Having allergies and asthma it is really hard to get it clean enough with just a hose and end tool.
My living room!!! Definitely my living room :) I would like to win, please. Thank you.
2 dogs, 2 cats. Need I say more?
The hallway. The cat litter box is there so the litter is constantly being tracked throughout the house.
My living room needs the most help. It’s the hub of our family. We have cat hair, dog hair, goldfish crumbs, pretzel crumbs, packaging peanuts shredded. You name it we have all over the floor. You might be wondering why in the world is this stuff still all over the floor?? It’s because my stupid vacummm won’t pick up anything heavier than air. !!@#!. So i have resorted to sweeping all that stuff up with a broom. Lord help my allergies! Help Me People!!!
Our den would love this vacuum! It is where we (humans and animals) spend most of our time. Lightweight and antimicrobial, love it!
This vacuum would be so great to have since I have a couple of medical conditions which affect my joints, ligaments, and tendons and make it very hard to use ordinary heavy vacuums. My livingroom and bedroom would benefit the most from using it because we spend the most time there with our shedding dog. Oh, please, I really would love this vacuum!!!!
My den would love this vacuum. We track in and out all day and by the time we go to bed it there is enough grit to fill up a sandbox:)
Oh I would totally love this new oreck. I am singer of oreck praises, my mom has that one, and oh how I love it. I could just say one room of my house would benefit all would benefit, including the kitchen, those orecks can do a (good) number on hard floors. Oh I love the inventor.
Hello? Odors and bacteria? That would be the kid-full playroom/tv room/living room/full of dropped snack bits room…..eeewwwww.
Being a small person I love the weight also the 10 year warranty and free checkups.