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.
Definetely the family room – I reluctantly let my kids bring snacks in there – they must always be so hungry because most of the snacks wind up on the floor!
I need a vacuum just for my craft room. A daily mess I make!
The Bedroom.
My living room. I have 4 kids and 2 pups. Vacuming is an everyday matter!!!
Between the kids and dogs, the family room is hard to keep up!
great website…
The room in my house which would benefit the most from the use of an Oreck would be the Master Bedroom, as it needs daily pick up of sock fuzz left by “hubby”.
right here in the living room where we keep the cat. i don’t know how she does it but she tracks her litter everywhere.
OMG! That dining room rug is a killer. It grips to lint, threads and nap like superglue. Sometimes it seems like I have to bend over and pick up every one.
My kitchen/living room combo. That seems to be where everything gets tracked in.
Cat hair everywhere. Got to clear it off the living room chair!!!!!!!!
living room
This is a big house with a 40×50 great room. We need to run an Oreck over the carpet in this room and the 12 other carpeted rooms.
Mercy me…… an Oreck will make the work load seem lighter, and I am all for that.
the room with the dirty floors
The room that would benefit the most from an Oreck is under my stove.
What? That’s not a room you say?
Oh, OK. Then where I really need it is under my refrigerator.
Ohhhh, I see…It has to be a “room”. Got it.
Then where I really need it is under my dishwasher.
Oh, for crying out loud! Gosh, y’all are picky.
Fine, then.
I REALLY NEED AN ORECK TO USE ON MY KIDS. WHEN THEY COME HOME FROM DAYCARE. WITH SAND IN THEIR SHOES. AND IN THEIR HAIR. AND IN THEIR EARS.
I figure if any vaccuum cleaner is up to that kind of task an Oreck is.
It’s time to retire the ol’ canister and get an upgrade in the suctioning of the dirt factor my children bring home with them.
My family room, where my dog sleeps, would definately benefit from an Oreck. My ex got possession of our Oreck in our divorce. Boo!
Have to say my bedroom. My furbabies are always sleeping in there and I am always cleaning up after them
My living room needs this badly (as does the rest of my house!) We have two dogs that shed like crazy! Thanks for the chance!
Our living room would benefit the most from a brand-spankin’ new Oreck ;) It’s where we spend most of our time. Not only does my dog shed ~ I hate to say, I do too, LOL. I have long dark hair that seems to fall out everywhere, but I still have lots of it!
*Thanks* so much for the giveaway!
The bedroom would gain the most from a new Oreck because it is the carpeted room we spend the most time in.
The living room because that is where our family hangs out the most. Thanks for the contest!
the family room because within one day of vacuuming the floor is a mess again. everyone lounges in there, eats and goofs off.
How about everywhere! Maybe the bedroom. I can finally get the cat fur from under the bed.
THe Living Room!
The room that need an Oreck is my living room. We have two cats and a long-coated dog, so our living room rug gets a lot of four-legged traffic, and there’s a big hair trail, so we could use a light-weight vacuum to keep the LR looking tidy!
I want the Oreck, no I need it. I have 10 cats, yes that is correct 10 cats. My living room is full of cat hair and I have not found a vacuum that works good enough. Please help!!!!
The living room is bound to benefit from a new Oreck vacuum. It needs that quick brush up when unexpected company call to say that they are on their way over.
My living room really needs this vacuum.
My den is begging for this! I have 2 dogs that are constantly on the move and shedding hair. I have had 2 vacuums “bite the dust” recently and an Oreck would be the answer to my prayers.
My living room – I have 4 dogs and two cats – Yikes!!
The room in my house that needs the oreck the most is my living room. I had a dog that sheds and I swear I have so much of her hair all over I don’t see how she has any hair on her body.
Our current vacuum is not doing much more than pushing the dustbunnies around. I can’t think of a room that wouldn’t benefit from a new vacuum!
This vacuum would be perfect for our living room where our poor three legged dog spends most of his day laying around.
I have a pet,I could really use this!
Living room. I board dogs in my home. So my living room is the dog lounge
My living room would definately benefit from having the Oreck XL Ultra vacuum. We have cats and kids and the living room is where we are most of the time.
The living room gets the dirtiest at our house because it’s in the middle so we’re always going through it.
The family room.
My entryway, on into the living room, is in dire need of a better vacuum cleaner! I’ve always coveted an Oreck — thanks for the drawing!
Are house really needs this before are 2 month old starts to crawl around on our floors.
I have severe allergies and any vacuum that can clean the carpet and the air will be quite welcome to operate in every room in my house.
My bedroom, where sock fluff inexplicably breaks off socks and unshakably embeds in the carpet, would benefit immensely from the Oreck.
Hi! I would love to win the Oreck! I would use it most in our playroom – constant dirt from shoes, little pieces of paper and other craft stuff, etc – and on our rug under our dining room table, everyday on the rug!
I would love this prize.
Truthfully, the whole house would benefit from this vacuum! (But I’ll say the basement if I have to pick only one room.) Our vac is old and I’m certain it’s not picking up everything it should.
My family room can really use this. When my freinds come over on Sundays to watch football, it looks like the parking lot of Lambeau Field after a game. My wife ain’t too happy!!
My entry-way would really benefit from this vacuum! Dirt and sidewalk salt are tracked in the house all winter long!
Umm…if I were to be truthful, every room in my house needs a good vacuum. My current one sucks…well because it doesn’t suck well!! LOL
My front room would benefit the most. However I would use in all my rooms. I have allergies and 3 inside dogs. I love my dogs but I allergies kill me. I think the Oreck would help this out as far as controlling some of the odors and getting up all that yucky hair they shed. Wow I would love to win this.
I have 5 dogs and a newborn baby, so this vaccum would certainly be put to use anywhere in my house. The worst room, though, is probably our kitchen where the dogs come in from the outside, and is hard to keep clean!
Whichever room my long-haired cat decides to spend the most time in on any given day!
I have 80 dogs and 10 newborn babies. So i’d say my living room of my shanty needs it most. Our current vacuum which consists of a hose which is connected to my mouth which i attempt to suck the dirt up. It doesn’t work very well as that I’m allergic to everything and have to live in a plastic ball. Imagine how much dirt fills my ball!
Any room in my house could use this vaccum! I have an old cocker spanial, two long haired cats and two DSH cats. My bedroom is “fur-Central”
My living room gets the most traffic in my house and I need a new vaccuum cleaner. It would be awesome to win!
I would use it in the family room, where we live most of the time.
Oh my bedroom where my dog sleeps and sheds most of her hair.
Thanks for the contest
Definitely my living room where the dogs lounge around all day!
downstairs
Oh, that would answer some serious mama-prayers in my boys’ room! Especially if it can survive the occassional ingestion of LEGOS! They’ve taken over! Hee! Hee!
Our living room would benefit the most. It’s the first room you step into.
I have an Oreck that is about three years old; it is our second Oreck. We would love to have this newer version to clean up after our two pals who are doggies. One in particular has the silky hair of a Sheltie. Plus, there’s something called dog dander. And they do track in, but we love them anyway.
My upstairs hallway would definitely benefit from this vacuum. The kids traipse up and down that hallway leaving all kinds of dirt everywhere. Plus they wouldn’t be able to complain about the weight of a heavy vacuum. win-win situation all around!!!
My living room is really lived in. We enjoy our home and spend alot of living in our living room. We have two dogs and a cat that our members of the family. Sure would like some help keeping it clean for all to enjoy.
My sewing/craft room definitely is the room that would need it most. There’s always a mess in there.
My family room has traffic to and from the kitchen, basement, bedrooms and office….it needs help! With the light weight Oreck ALL family members will use it!
Definitely the dining room would benefit! I love that it only weighs 9 pounds- it will be so much easier than what I currently have to haul up and down the stairs!
My children’s bedroom!
My allergist told me to get rid of my cat. Like that’s gonna happen. Plesae please please let me have this wonderful Oreck vacuum with hypo-allergenic filtration system. My cat says it’s the vacuum…or his life!
I realyyyyy need a new vacumn! I live with 2 pigs.My husband of 26 years and my very messy grandson.
Actually the whole place needs it but since it’s snowing and they dump all that stuff on the roads and sidewalk for traction and to melt the snow and it all gets tracked in, I’ll say the living room.
With the weight of only 9lbs. and I can never get my stairs clean, especially with a year-round shedding Golden Retriever, I think my stairs ,both upstairs and down to the finished basement, would be my choice of rooms,even though we don’t normally call stairs a room.
My youngest son moved out a couple of months ago into his own apartment. You have to understand – he was always a pack rat – refused to get rid of ANYTHING until he graduated high school. Then, after 18 years, he all of a sudden decided to get rid of EVERYTHING. I’m doing pretty good now about missing him and wanting to move in with him…..but, I still can’t bring myself to clean his bedroom and I’m not certain what color the carpet is underneath all the MESS. I just open the door every once in a while, spray febreeze, and quickly close it. My vacuum would probably choke on the first run through. An Oreck would make the job so much easier.
My family room carpet would probably purr from being vaccuumed with an Oreck! With two cats (one of whom is going bald) and a Golden Retriever, there is so much fur on our family room carpet that at times, I’m convinced it’s a actually another pet! I’m sure we’d be amazed at what we found in there after a good cleaning with a superstar vaccuum like Oreck. Using it for the first time, I would feel as giddy as an archaeologist on her first big dig!
We just moved to a new house and the carpet is really nice. I need this for my living room in the worst way! With 3 kids and a cat…the vacuuming never stops! I also have arthritis and have heard this is so easy to use.
We could really use a new Oreck vacumn at our small mom and pop restaurant in santa Rosa CA We are open 364 days a year so we would use it once a day 364 times a year.
The family room needs it most.
My living room needs this…
My living room REALLY needs this vacuum because my wonderful little rescued Miniature Pinscher trio tend to leave little doggie hair reminders of their presence EVERYWHERE!
My roomate has a dog he lets in the house and its hair is EVERYWHERE. Mostly i want to vacuum the hlls where it collects
The spare bedroom where the kitty litter box is. I have a pad that is suppose to catch the litter when they come out, but it just doesn’t. I think the cats jump over it.
Living room, where my 2 dogs spend all their spare time!
to clean it all
Wow, I cant believe this giveaway !
the room in my house that could so use this would be the downstairs kids living room, between snacks and visits from every kid in the neighborhood, it is always the messiest room in the whole house.
Our computer room could use a lot of help.
37 years! Yes. I need a new vacuum cleaner. And I have heard such good things about the Oreck.
THanks.
My living room would most benefit from the Oreck vacuum cleaner. My vacuum is 15 years old and just yesterday while using it, it smelled like smoke.
It would work great for cleaning the living room of the dirt and dog hair.
I have an oreck & love it! Need another one for upstairs so I don’t have to lug it up & down, although I need the exercise heh heh:)
I would love a new vacuum mine is so heavy and this Oreck is so light. My living room would most benefit from it since my dog sheds a ton of fur a day it seems. Since my place has carpet everywhere I could vacuum the stairs so easily with the Oreck.
My steps would benefit the most. My current vacuum requires too much muscle, and dark green carpet shows everthing…..
The Bedroom would benefit the most and so would I. I have allergies and asthma so this would help with my breathing at night. The rest of the house would love it to.
Thank you,
Diane
My parents have owned an Oreck vacuum for YEARS and they still love it. We just replaced the carpet in our 14 year old house and we still have our $80 dollar Wal-Mart vacuum. I have been wanting to get a new and better one to keep the carpet looking its best, but it is not in our budget any time soon. Thank you so much for posting this!
The dining and living room
I would have to say the living/family room. It’s so hard to keep clean. We spend all our time togther in this room, it’s our main entrance, used for watching movies, playing games, entertaining, etc.. There is sooo much traffic in this room daily. My two year old vacuum keeps spitting out it’s HEPA filter. Thanks for your consideration.
Hi actually my computer room could use it most since that’s where we are ALL the time! Great contest!
Oh, our living room could benefit from this, dontcha know? We’ve got two big dogs who have a doggie door and know how to use it! Dusty in the summer and muddy in the spring!
My dorm room would benefit the most from this vacuum cleaner, it would make life a lot easier.
My 14-year-old Oreck is still going strong but a new one with the better filtration features etc. sure would be nice to get all the cat hair in my family room.
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