Today is the yesterday that we will regret tomorrow.
Many years ago I got a regular Dyson vacuum that plugs into the wall (DC17 Asthma and Allergy). I have a registration email from Dyson I got on 5/20/2009. It still works. Over 15 years! All I have ever done to it is empty it and clean out the rollers of hair n stuff. It does “smell” in that it has that yucky vacuum cleaner smell whenever you use it but I just thought that’s how it was and if you wanted to avoid the stank you need to buy a new one ever few years. We don’t use it nearly as much as we should b
More recently I purchased a Dyson V8 Absolute SV10 which is a cordless vacuum. I figured that if it was easier, we would vacuum more! And the robot ones at the time just wouldn’t work for us. It was about $250 on a Black Friday sale on Nov 30, 2019 (I found a receipt from Paypal to Dyson direct!). Originally it was $450 and I even got some kit that was valued at about $60. Also got a V7 at the time and I imagine it was $150 or less. I just didn’t get why the V8 would be much better and I wanted to compare.