I am generally aversed to any forms of house cleaning. Ok simply put: I'm Lazy with a capital L. That is, until i met Rainbow and my inhibitions evaporated. As of now.
One of the 11 Bestfriends referred me to Rainbow. She said R is very good. It took me a looooooong while to finally have him over at home. I cancelled him a couple of times fearing betrayal and misrepresentation and whatever, ya know.
Until the fateful day, My mum warned me not to do anything foolish. I reckon i had a perfect getaway excuse: i had another appointment at 2pm (That's you, Nan). Alas, I caved in. I couldn't deny that R is very good.....
Fri, I took leave to receive R with a warm welcome. We all need to get to know R better.
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Everyone, meet RAINBOW.
What? What did you think I was talking about? *wink*
Shhh DO NOT refer to it as a mere Vacuum. Rainbow gets very offended when you do that. It's actually a Medical Equipment. It sucks down Dustmites 10 inches deep (read: mattresses) and store them in a bowl of water underneath it like this:
This is how you fix the bowl on to the wheels
Water is spinned at donno what speed to keep the dust down and clean air up. This feature is better than your conventional vacuum with a dustbag because the dust you collected are able to escape thru some airholes. Worse is when we dont change the bag often, the things in there (prolly food) get decomposed to become maggots and they CAN come out!
Sales guy explaining that one hose is for DRY vacuuming only and the petrol pump-like hose is for dry AND wet. Wait. Or is it the other way around?
And this is how you pack all the accessories in one long box.
The sales guy made his pitch just weeks after i was given a pamphlet by KKHospital about Allergic Rhinitis. It said that minimising DUSTMITES will help to reduce the irritation of Tufeil's and my sensitive noses. Told me that i might wanna consider investing in a vacuum with HEPA (High efficiency particulate) filter vacuums.
He proposed a couple of installment plans via credit cards but i was not comfortable with them. In the end, he suggested POSB LoanAssist. The actual price of the unit is $3,200. Loan of $4,000 will be applied. The balance could be used for monthly repayment, and then after 6 months, Rainbow will give a CashBack covering the "interest" charged by the bank, and that can be used for the repayment of the next 6 months. So in effect, i won't hafta pay for the first year. and Monthly would cost me about $140.
My face lit up and that made me signed the deal. I was thinking that by then, my edu loan will be finished and then can be replaced by this. The tenor for this loan is 36months, altho i don really hafta pay for the first 12mths. He took almost 45min to close me.
We went to the bank the following business day. And i was disappointed to know that:
There are some charges and Insurance fee after the $4,000 so the balance is lesser and could only cover for prolly 4 months?
I am not able to pay IN ADVANCE during the first year as I had intended to put all the balance in that account so i wont use it. BAH
My mother, when she knew i bought this vacuum, got speechless. Almost like saying, "I TOLD YOU NOT TO BUY THIS THING, RIGHT?" Later i found out, it's because that we had once bought a supposedly "GOOD" vacuum from an uncle too at over $2,000 only to have it broke down quickly and besides it was too heavy and inconvenient to use. However, when she actually saw the thing, she said, "Oh. This is the one like Mak Long's which we had ever borrowed before to clean the carpet." Phew~ I felt so relieved she approved, finally.
We had a good fortune that my aunty who helped to clean the house once a week used to have this Rainbow and believed in it whole heartedly. So at least, i feel secured that she would not refuse to use this new cleaning equipment citing heavy-weight and cumbersome.
While i feel good about the purchase, I can't help doubting myself. Because there are also another school of thought that you should expose your children to germs so that they could get immune to it when they grow up. If they stay in a sterile condition for so long, the moment they hit a "dirty" environment (which is mostly everywhere), they could get sick easily.
*Shrug* What's done is done anyways. Let's just utilise it.
