I have to tell you that the best purchase I’ve made in years has been my Rumba vacuum cleaner. In case you haven’t heard, Rumba is a robotic vacuum cleaner that cleans your floors for you. While you may think it’s meant only for those too lazy to get off the couch and clean their floors the old-fashioned way, Rumba vacuum cleaners have been bought by all sorts of people. It’s perfect for seniors who can’t get around very well, especially if they have trouble lifting and maneuvering a heavy vacuum. Marketed as the Robotic Floorvac and sold by iRobot, millions of Rumba vacuum cleaners have been sold since it was first released in 2002.
The Rumba vacuum cleaner is extremely compact in size, so you’ll hardly notice it’s vacuuming as it roams around the house cleaning floors. It is shaped like a circle, only 34 centimeters in diameter and about three inches high. It has a bumper around the outside so it won’t scratch or scratch your furniture or walls. In fact, the bumper is what detects contact and tells the device when to maneuver around an object. What I like best about the Rumba vacuum is that it does everything on its own, even going back to its base charger to turn it on.
If you don’t want Rumba to vacuum while you watch TV and eat Bon Bons, you can set the machine to clean the house when you’re gone. It will do its job of vacuuming up dirt and debris from your floor, then return to its charger without you having to mess with it. To get fully charged, you just need to sit at your home base for three hours! The Rumba vacuum cleaner is truly the best thing to happen to housework since the invention of the maid.
