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 could really use an Oreck XL vacumn, since my great room (Family Room/Kitchen) can use a daily vacumning, especially since I have a kitty that sheds.
My living room would benefit the most. I need a good vacuum!!!!!
If I won this vacuum, the dining room would benefit most.
Because we are a bunch of pigs you know.
And our dining room floor would be very thankful.
Every room in my house could use a good vacuum. We just moved into a new house on the 21st of December, and we had to buy a cheapo vacuum because our old house had Central Vac…this one does not. :( I am sure that Oreck would have a love affair with my carpets!!! And it would give my daughter (15) something to help around the house by doing…she’s not too fond of our cheapo. Thanks, and keep up the good work blogging…and Uganda…AWESOME! Can’t wait to hear about it! Blessings! Steph
um, every stinkin’ room in my house! oh my freakin’ stars!!!! i want that!
Our living room would benefit the most from a new Oreck!
My living room with all the upholstered furniture and rugs
is a magnet for dog hair. The dogs tend to sleep there and I’d use the
Oreck to best advantage in that room. My bedroom would be a close
second, though!
My whole house my vac is over 20 years old
If it only weighs 9 pounds, I think its my stairwell that would most benefit! I hardly ever vaccuum the stairs! Too hard!
Oh, definitely the living room. Sometimes our 3 cats even let us in there! They literally own this room…oh yes, and the adjoining dining room, and the kitchen.
I give up! How embarassing…my precious kitties own our home!
My living room. It’s the cats’ favorite room, so it’s always covered in cat fur.
I would use it in the family room!
With 2 dogs (one long hair), 4 cats, 3 kids (four if you include the husband), a squirrel and three hamsters.. what room would NOT benefit from a great vaccum? lol
The living room would get the most attention just because it’s the most traveled and most often seen. Ah, the joy of a light weight, full strength vacuum that folds down to go under furniture!
I would use this mostly in “the baby’s room” to keep it spotlessly clean.
My vacum died last week. This whole hose would be grateful
Since the Oreck has the ability to reduce odors and bacteria, I think my living room would benefit the most. Our old vacuum picks up the pet odors from the previous owners pets and disburses them throughout the room…ugh!
The Oreck is what my house really needs. The living room would benefit the most with a daily build-up of dirt from the kids and dogs.
I have 4 cats, a dog, an 8 yr old boy and can’t leave out a hubby…lol So my living room would benefit most trust me. I vacum once or twice a dayevery single day. I would love one of these vacums. Good luck to all on here going for this giveaway:)
My living room would benefit the most from the vacuum because my cats spend all their time in the room and shed alot of cat hair.
totally the bedroom, thats where i spend most of my time
My bedroom would benefit the most.
This would be great for our bedroom…light grey carpet/long black-haired dog=vacuum every day at least.
It would also be great to live in the guest house so we didn’t have to tote a vacuum up those steep steps every time to vacuum.
Can I say every room?
A great vacuum cleaner would do the trick!
Our living room would definitely benefit from winning this fine product. :)
My old vac is dead, I need it everywhere.
I would love to win one, my living room would benefit the most
My living room area, that’s where we have our birds… and boy are they messy !!
My front room, where me, my dog and 4 cats hang out!
My living room would benefit the most. The carpet is 20 years old, but I love it. When my grandkids come over, they play on the carpet, all 6 of them! They have allergies and I want the carpet as clean as it can be.
Does the hall count as a room? It seems to be the area that collects the most cat hair and dust. I could sure use the Oreck!
I do not have a vacuum at all and my house is getting very dirty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP ME
My family room would benefit the most because my dogs love that room the best.
My living room for sure would benefit the most with seven people and adog in and out of it everyday thanks.
my family room where everybody always is.
Yes please I would like to enter since my vacuum just broke.
With wall-to-wall carpeting throughout our home, I could really put the Oreck through its paces!
My family room where I have a thick room sized rug.
My bedroom because it’s light and can be easily used.
My family room because of all the little crumbs the children leave behind!
My poor carpet is awful thanks to two kids and I really need a new vacuum!
I would love to win a new vacuum for my living room! My dog sheds so bad and my current vacuum just does not pick up the hair very well.
My living room would benefit the nost because everyone uses that most often. There always seems to be a mess to clean up in there!
I’d have to say my family room would benefit the most, where the dogs tend to gather and roll around while playing and where the kids manage to get everything from crayon shavings to sand ground into the carpet. I have burned out 2 regular sweepers in the last 14 months.
Great Prize!
My basement needs help. With four cats and a litter box along with my daughter and her friends. I need help. A lightweight vacuum that actually works would be wonderful. I have a bad back so carrying down a full size vacuum is not pleasant.
BooMama,
My “Family Room” sez clean me with Oreck XL, pleeze!
I have four boys and a grand daughter, I need it in the family room!
The kids’ room will definitely benefit most from this nice ORECK vacuum!
Would be great for my living room.
All my carpeted rooms as we have two long-haired cats.
I would LOVE one of these for my playroom!
Two dogs and one four year old!!! ‘Nuff said.
My bedroom would benfit most. It is the only carpedted room in the house and I have 8 dogs! So lots of dog hair!
oh my gosh – do I ever abuse vaccuums according to my huisband – my parrots room could use a super delux one!! my current one is on its last legs!!!
I really need this for my kids’ playroom! I just try not to look in the carpet in there :) Getting it super-clean and allergen-free would be wonderful!
I really need a hepa vac like this for my bedroom. My wife suffers from alergies. This vac would help immensely.
The lightweight feature sounds nice! I would love to win this! Thanks.
I would love to win this vacuum. I’m allergic to dust, of all things and my current vacuum is a dud!Thanks.
I have boys and dogs!
My livingroom!!!!! With three kids – who each play a sport – and a white fluffy dog my livingroom needs vacuumed about everyday – ugh!!!!!
My familyroom would really benefit because we live in that room- 2 adults, 1 teenager, 1 toddler, 1 dog, and 2 cats!
I think the whole house would benefit from the Oreck! We’ve got 3 cats, 1 dog, and a couple of goats (though I do my best to keep those guys out!).
I think the master bedroom, because that’s where my two cats sleep! I need a GOOD vacuum for all the cat hair those two produce. (allergies and all, I can’t part with them, so Oreck would be the next best thing!
Without a doubt, my family room. 2 kids & 2 cats, ‘nough said
A new Oreck will be most used in my living room.
The basement – that’s where the cats stay at night!
Which room would benefit most? Definitely the living room! That’s where we spend the most time, so it’s always in need of a good vacuuming. We have 2 adults, 1 toddler, 1 dog, and 1 cat all contributing their own mess to the “needs to be vacuumed” floor.
It’s sooooo mine!
The oreck vacuum would be great in my living room which is my cat’s favorite hangout.
Really hard topick just ONE room, though I would say the Family room. I mean with the two dogs sleeping there all day ( and all night for that matter) and my lovely 2 yr old seeeking her snacks in to watch spongebob! please I must vacuum that room 2 times daily, the vacuum cleaner gets a real work out!!!
I have a beautiful bedroom with lilac walls and a deep purple plush carpet, I love it but does it ever show every speck of dust, thread etc. So the Oreck vacuum would be awesome to win.
My neighbor has an Oreck and says they are great. I have tried several bagless vacuums and they all end up quitting in a very short time. My whole house is carpet, except for the kitchen, so all the rooms need it. I guess I would have to say the living room the most. I like the 10 year warranty and annual tune-ups concept.
Our bedroom would benefit most. The cats like the wrestle in there and they make a mess!
The living room is where it’s most needed, the cats hang out on the purple sofa and leave cat hair it, help!
After 4 1/2 years of living with our gracious in-laws we’re finally moving into our own house with our precious baby girl! Yea!!! Since we don’t have anything by which to clean by, we defintely could use a vaccum (really any would do), but why not go for the best? :)
The Living Room could surely use this as it always gets the most traffic.
I live in a tri-level. The middle level would benefit the most as that is where the kids, my husband, our guests and 2 cats seem to congregate the most. Which is logical seeing as that is also where the kitchen is!
We have allergies in our house so all rooms would benefit from this great vacuum. If I have to choose one though, I’ll say the bedroom.
My daughter’s room would benefit most as she always has her toddler friends playing!!!
Great giveaway! You should change your name to Luckymama soon!
I would love a light vacuum for my back, and for the stairs. With 7 kids, you can imagine how much room we have to clean and how OFTEN I have to clean!
The kids room – since they roll on the floor all day.
Oh how awesome would a BRAND SPANKING NEW ORECK be?!? I could actually retire the old hand-me-down I got from my mom. With a cat, a soon-to-be-chosen dog, and two teenage boys, I could TOTALLY use their amazing antimicrobial, hypo-allergenic, powerful machine! And it’s not a back-breaker! Gotta love it! :D
Need new vacuum for my back and upstairs!!!
OH OUR BEDROOM MY HUBBY HAS ALLERGIES SOOO BAD!
Yep, my vac bit the dust and the bedrooms are really not looking to good. And my daughter has vocal cord disorder and allergies as well. This would help a lot.
I DONT NEED A VACUUM. BUT I HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE ORECK AND ID LOVE TO HAVE ONE
My master bedroom could REALLY use this Oreck vacuum. I have read great reviews about this cleaning machine and would love to own one! My yorkie and maltese hang out in the bedroom while I am away at work and so it constantly needs vacuuming! Getting rid of the dirt, dust, and pet dander would be much easier with a new ORECK!
Have a great day!
3 kids and two dogs and one messy hubby
The bedroom. It is always a mess
ok since I’m in the thousands, I know I have a snowball’s chance in getting picked….but, I would dearly love to get my hands on an ORECK
i want this sooo bad the living room is dirty
What a great giveaway! My family room would definitely benefit the most
I reunite people with heirlooms (photographs, family letters, Bibles, etc.)I find in antique stores, garage sales and other places. I have terrible allergies and the old papers are all over my office. It would be great to win this item to help me continue my effort of reuniting family heirlooms and help my allergies at the same time.
Definitely the living room, between the messy grandchildren and my shedding pooch, this room is always in need, thanks for the contest and good luck to all of you
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The living room, but my whole home is carpet covered.
I would use it in every room in the house! We have 5 boys and a 100lb dog that sheds. There hasn’t been a clean spot in the house since we moved in. No matter how hard we try!
Oh my! I would love to win this for my daughter. I have always wanted one but wouldn’t get it for myself. My daughter, on the other hand, really needs it because she ruptured a disc in her back while pregnant. With a new little baby boy on the way, she needs something light weight to keep the entryway to the living room clean. Don’t want the little one to get all germy when he learns to crawl! Thanks for the contest! Sorry your dad is under the weather. Hopefully he will be feeling better real soon!
I would like this for my living room rug.
My entire apartment since my other vacuum has “no more suction left” and is on its “last days”. I have a long haired cat that I definitely need a good vacuum and I know this one is. Did I mention my allergies need it also. ;-) Thanks and Happy 2008!!