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.
ok, WOW – I could use this vacuum EVERYWHERE since my current one is worthless! But it would be given the most workout in my family room – lots of playing and general kid messiness there. Thanks!!
My living room
Every Room!!
In my kids room…..it’s always a big mess
Oooo I would LOVE to win this! My whole house would thank me, but most of all my living room…where my daughter has claimed her stake – spilling fishy crackers and the like everywhere! I hope I win!!!
The upstairs – it seems it would be soooo much easier to bring up and down the steps.
This sounds great! My daughters room, she’s allergic to everything!
My living room! Just got new carpet!
I don’t own a vacuum, so all the rooms in my apartment would benfit from a good vacuum….especially the living room.
I need this for the area rug in the family room. We got our first dog in June, and her hair is everywhere on the rug which is dark and trimmed in black.
I have to get on my hands and knees with a lint brush to try and get her hair off.
Hoping my number is the one picked!
Under our bed. Under our bed is very, very scary . . .
PS Hope your Daddy is doing better.
name a room, any room…are you kidding? Every room in my house would love an Oreck..
WOW that is some vacuum! Thanks for the giveaway. My living room constantly needs vacuuming from my piggies, oops i mean teenage sons, who continue to sneak in there to eat in front of the tv.
My vacuum is duct taped together … patched up … and prayed over regularly. But every room in my house could use a vacuuming by a fully functioning vac! However, it would be my kitchen, the main traffic area of my house, that could use it the most. We have a gravel drive- and every drive, bike ride, 4-wheel trek stirs up dust and dirt galore. Each speck of dust screams fun of some kind … but I’d be glad to get rid of it everyday since it’s in such plentiful supply!
Our bedroom – where every pet believes they have the right to sleep at all times.
My bedroom. Why????????? My two cats and I sleep there. And they love my electric blanket. The blanket is suppose to be hunter green. And when they get scared they run and hide under the bed and shed hair until the crisis is over.
I would love a new vacuum, especially for my living room. With two small kids, a dog, and a cat it is always dirty.
With two todlers and two dogs, the living room is the room that would benefit the most from winning an Oreck. It sure could use it.
I would love to win the Oreck. The living room and stairs would be most happy if I won.
Omg, first of all can I just say that my mouth dropped open when I saw that you had 818 comments! Took me forever to scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Okay, so the whole stinkin’ house would benefit, seriously. Two dogs, three kids, three daycare kids and brown carpeting! It’s a rental, not my personal choice, and it is heck to live with, lol.
Only pick one room that would benefit? OK – wholehouseroom – 3 kids = dirt everywhere!! I would love to win this!!
I would love to win this. The vacuum I have now does not pick up anything…I might as well get on my hands and knees and pick stuff off the carpet.
I would love to win that Oreck XL for the family room. We have a beagle who sheds and this Oreck would sure help!
Wow, this is an awesome giveaway! The room in my home that would benefit the most from the Oreck is my living room! That is where we spend the most time and that is the area that is always in need of a good vaccuuming! I love the antimicrobial air cleaning quality! That would probably help with my sinuses!
With two golden retrievers I believe my family room could really need a good cleaning. Please pick me. Thanks
I vaccuum everyday, even the garage sometimes. I think this vaccuum can do a very through job.
My first floor–it’s all kinda one room. The dirt from toddler’s snacks, my husbands muddy work boots, the dog hair, etc. accumulates in record time! I could greatly appreciate having an Oreck to clean up this mess every day! Plus, having a lightweight vacuum to carry to the other two floors would make my back very happy! :)
The room that would benefit the most from this would be our dining room. With an 8 month old learning to eat, the floor is quite full ;)
Great giveaway!
With a acre yard that our dog roams, he brings in all kinds of yard stuff on his feet, and he also likes to bring in small sticks and chew them up on the living room carpet, its not a pretty sight when he is done
The family room! Now that my baby boy can roll, every piece of dirt goes into his hands and then his mouth. Delicious!
Does it come with someone to push it too? :)
My living room. My kids use it as their playroom.
EVERY Room. With anywhere from 3-5 kids running around at any given time, the carpet gets dirty quick.
The master bedroom or should I say the dogs bedroom!
My living room is the hub of the house and in most need of the Oreck.
I have finnished the lower level of our home and 3 floors is too much to be carrying a vacuum up and down. Also a lower lever would be a perfect fit for this vacuum with any mold or mildew problems that may arise.
With 2 kids and a dog, my family room would get the most use out of a new vacuum.
It would have to be my living room. My mother always sneezes at my house. My dogs running through the living room make it worse for her – even though I just vacuumed before she got here. I guess my old vacuum doesn’t do a good enough job with the pollen and dust, and she’s just miserable when she comes to visit.
This would be perfect for the second floor of my home – no more lugging my clunky canister vacuum up there. My boys’ bedroom would most certainly benefit from it. Thanks.
What a Great Prize! I have heard nothing but Great things about the Oreck. I have three dogs and they all live in the family room with ALL their Hair!!It’s everywhere!!
Bedrooms are only rooms with carpet.
wow, what room wouldn’t? protects from bacteria?! this is a dream vacuum for my two children in diapers, shaggy dog home!
I would love to have the Oreck for my living room. Thats where my puppy hangs out the most. Ohh, the dog hair!
Probably the living room, it sees a lot of use and its where a lot of snacks go down.
I hate to vacuum! On good days I convince my husband how much fun he would have taking a turn at the job. I have ALWAYS wanted an Oreck vacuum. Which room – easy question – all of them. Thanks – I appreciated the opportunity to vent about my least favorite job.
I would LOVE to have an Oreck. I live way out in the country so there is lots of dirt. My mother-in-law got one last year & absolutely LOVES it!! She has 5 cats (most of them white long haired cats) in the house along with 2 dogs & the Oreck does an excellent job with all the hair. Please, please pick me.
Wow. Do you suppose this is Better than a Dyson? It sure does look like it! So now, in addition to bloggity goodness, you’re offering giveaway goodness. Anyway you slice it, it’s a big slice of Awesome!
misslisslee
i currently own a fabulous vacuum cleaner, but now i have 3 floors that need vacuuming. Having one dedicated to one floor would be awesome!
The Oreck would benefit my entire house, but the living room especially. We have five dogs, English Mastiffs and they shed terribly. Literally we have hair on every single surface. This really bothers me because my 5 month old grandson lives with us and I hate seeing hair on his clothes and toys. My current vacuum is just a pathetic mess that barely sucks up anything and I can’t afford to buy a new one.
with a shedding german shepherd, the whole place would make out. every time we vacuum…there is more dog hair than anything
my living room would love it
You know that Rosie had an Oreck and sang its praises. I would use it for ALL surfaces (carpet, tile, wood)!
My Bedroom! We have cats and a dog!!
Love, love the vacuum! My living room would love, love it too!!!
My living room would love this vacuum, so would I!
My living room could really use this vacuum
This is so great! I have an indoor golden retriever named Izzie who sheds like crazy! I could vacuum three times a day and still find hair…drives me nuts (short trip I know). So, my family room would probably see the most use with a new Oreck! Thanks.
So only our bedrooms & the playroom in the basement are carpeted, but they are VERY important rooms! We could use a new vacuum!
I would like to win an Oreck vacuum.
And I liked that handy little canister they offered on the website, too!
I NEED this vaccuum so bad! My kids rooms would benefit most- I have no idea how they get all kinds of bits all over the floor!!!
The room that get used the most my living room.
My wife and I would love to win this vacuum to replace our aging dinosaur. Our entire carpeted 2nd floor would love to get some Oreck TLC…especially my home office.
My doggy living room!
The actual motor part of this vacuum looks small enough to get in all the cracks and crevices of the area below my bar stools – where the kids eat a lot of meals and snack. Needless to say there are a ton of crumbs dropped.
There is a picture of the vacuum going over hardwood floors – so this is great for me!
My living room…I have two children. A two year old and a one year old. Let’s just say I’m ALWAYS stepping on cheerio’s and fruit snacks! Yuck!!!
THANKS!
Oh. My. GAH.
My husband’s office. In a word, N-A-S-T-Y. 8 offices for $300 a month. And, it’s in a part of town called “little Mexico.” Yeah. You get the idea.
My Dad has an Oreck, and he loves it.
I have terrible allergies so this would be great in our bedrooms! I really would love this!!
My sons floor is a just a mess. A MESS I say!
My front room would look much nicer when vacuumed with an Oreck
My bonus room could use this vacuum!
Uhm…is there a room in MY house that wouldn’t benefit from the use of an Oreck! Cool giveaway!
PS – LOVE your blog!
I would say our bedroom would most benefit from the new Oreck. The dust bunnies, they are a’fornicatin’ under the bed! Mercy!
My living room! My husband tracks his dirty landscaper’s boots in there every night! Ugh!
Living room. I would love to have an Oreck! I have always wanted and Oreck! I have always dreamed of being June Cleaver, wearing my pearl necklace, high heal shoes and best dress vacuuming the floor! I NEED me an Oreck! Yes indeedy I do!
my kitchen!!
I think that my living room would be the room that would be the one. I would love to win. I have a 5 year old and a crazy terrier and the living room is definately a room that needs more love.
With 2 cats, a 2 year old, and a 12 year old, my house needs this! To suck up the kitty litter odor, the fruit puffs, and any chips that that happens to hit the floor. The living room is where we spend most of our time, so that would have to be the place that could use it!
Oh my! My kids rooms! They need it!
I would love this for my daughters 3rd floor bedroom.
My living room!! Thanks for the contest
With a 60 pd Boxer living indoors, it is a battle to remove her hair from the carpets. I have to vacum 3 x’s a week. The family room would benefit from this vacum the most.
My office cries for an Oreck. I haven’t vacuumed under my desk in 3 plus years.
With a cat and a toddler in my house, I could use an Oreck to clean-up all the mess in my bonus room (like cat hair, stickers, plato, you get the idea!). Maybe then when we have friends over, we can actually have them come upstairs!
Oh, man. My husband (if you can believe it) keeps telling me that we need to get a new vacuum. All this Oreck goodness would make cleaning up after our new puppy a breeze! He spends most of his days cooped up in our kitchen since it’s the one room without carpet. Sweeping the floor and finding all that hair…would love to try this vacuum out on it.
My living room could use this. Cats and dogs and kids all love the living room.
With a big shedding dog and two black cats that all sleep in my bedroom, that would be the room I really really need this vaccum for. The carpet gets a thick layer of animal hair on it constantly and my current vaccum won’t pick it all up.
My living room needs an Oreck! We eat at the couch b/c we do not have a dining room so there are crumbs everywhere!
My living room is always a mess. We could use this and need it!
Pick me PLEASE!
Oh my!! How exciting!! My living room needs an Oreck — Henry the dog hangs out in there the most!! Please, please pick me!!!
as someone who truly lives in their living room There is no doubt my Living Room
This would certainly make doing my living room Soooooooooo much easier, and BETTER
My 6 year old daughters room would benefit the most as she has asthma and any help eliminating allergens is always appreciated
I’d love to win this for our family room, where everything gets done and everyone stays all the time!
My kids playroom would benefit the most ! That room always needs serious vacumming help !
The room in my house that most needs a new vacuum is the (carpeted) dining room. I have a toddler…’nuff said. :-)
it only weighs 9 lbs.?! my daughter’s first morning diaper weighs that much and that is certainly the room that could benefit the most from an Oreck! Please Ye Olde Random.org, pick me, pick me!
Did I mention all of my vacuum’s have been hand-me-downs!? : )
Wow! IntellaShield™ Technology! Who could ask for more than that in a vacuum? While I do love to watch my little pet Roomba vacuum, a really good sucker would be a plus. Especially in the basement, where the kids just deposit their dirt and grime. And the family room. And I’d even use it in the kitchen. OK, you got me, I’d use it ALL over the house!
I would love this vacuum. In all my 16 years of marriage I’ve never had a “good” vacuum, just servicable. Our living room is the place that it would be used most. As the name implies it is where we spend the most of our time so therefore gets the dirtiest.
My husband and son both have asthma so this vacuum sounds like it will be great for that.
My kids bedrooms would definitely benefit from a new Oreck. Does it also happen to suck up clothes, and other weird, yet un-explainable but gross teenager things left on the floor??
Do stairs count as a room??? I have 2 flights of stairs that I dread vaccUuming because mine is so darn heavy…I always end up with a backache. So this Oreck would be great for that! I would be THRILLED to win such a great vaccuum!
My girls playroom/den is where I would use it the most, but I don’t think it would be a room that benefited the most- I think it would be me…no more dragging around my HEAVY vaccuum 3-4 times a day(i’m OCD) , just whip out my light, new ORECK! And my OCD heart sings when it reads about the microban!!!!! Could I be lucky enough to win this?!??? My fingers and toes and legs are crossed!!!