Some of us were not gifted with perfect sight… or even good sight for that matter. Many of us just flat out can’t see without our glasses. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner the last thing you or I would want would be to not be able to see the gorgeous face of the one we love so dearly. A new set of eye glasses can be very costly, the idea of getting a pair of eye glasses such as those pictured above, specifically for a Holiday like Valentine’s Day, seems like crazy talk to most of us living on a budget. In the turmoil filled economy we live in, who isn’t on a budget? What if I told you that you could get Valentine’s Day glasses with designer quality at a price that won’t break the bank? No, seriously, factory direct pricing on eye glasses so you can get prescription eye glasses for less than most places sell reading glasses for! That place would be ZenniOptical, they can get away with selling designer quality glasses at factory direct prices because they are the factory! You’ll never see designer frames at Zenni, in fact, you’ll never see off brand frames at Zenni, they only sell their own frames. Top quality, at prices that no one else can even come close to!

Oh, to the yeah!!! I just got these stylish frames delivered to my home! Can you guess how much they cost me? $100? $200? It is the internet so $50 isn’t too hard to believe… but what if I told you that I got these delivered to my house for less than $20!!!! Yeah, that’s right, even after S&H fees I still paid under $20 for my new stylish prescription eyeglasses. I know what you’re thinking, heck I was thinking the same thing. They can’t be any good can they? I mean that’s like the price you pay for retail non-prescription reading eyeglasses that you see on stands in pharmacies. So you think that it can’t hurt to go ahead and make the purchase, not like it’ll matter if they’re no good with how little they cost… then you get them, and like me you will be surprised! I’ve had $200 designer frames before, that felt lower quality than these do. So to be honest, I’ll never go to any store other than Zenni Optical for my eyeglasses again. They keep their prices low by only selling their brand of eyeglasses, no designer frames to bring up the price, only designer quality directly from the source!

Oreck is great too for the same reasons… Beyond those two they’re all pretty freakin’ boring. Miele sells the same vacuum cleaner over, and over, and over again one for $550 it’s blue. Then they paint it “melon yellow” add an LED light bar and resell THE EXACT SAME MACHINE for $750… oh, then they switch it up and add a HEPA filter paint it white and sell it for $800 then if you really want the best possible Miele they take their white one paint it red give you an extra crevice tool for cleaning keyboards and blinds and sell it to you for $950. You think I’m exaggerating? No seriously do some research all of their models use the exact same engines, basically everything is the same except the few differences that I pointed out between their low end model and their top of the line model you pay $400 for an LED light bar, HEPA filter, and a crevice tool… oh, and a different paint color, that I’ve heard chips off if you bump anything hard enough to bend the plastic.

Hoover and Dyson seem to be in a competition to see who can create the most bland machine possible. They use each others designs so that you see not one, or two, but ten or so “models” of the same vacuum cleaner with varying price ranges and attachments that accompany them, oh and cord lengths.

Bissell and Electrolux seem to be in competition to create the UGLIEST machines possible. And they can’t decide if they want to compete with Dirt Devil and Shark for the worst vacuum cleaners possible, or if they want to fight for the mid range vacuum cleaner spot against Hoover and Dyson. One minute I’m reviewing a $40 Bissell that looks as though you may be lucky to even get it home without breaking it, the next they’ve got a $500 machine that has the same core design aspects as Hoover and Dyson with a little Bissell ugly flare thrown in to mask some of the more generic parts of the vacuum cleaner.

So yeah… as a reviewer that is why Eureka and Oreck top my list of favorite vacuum cleaners to add to the site. Don’t get me wrong, if I were trying to do something other than make money with the site… if every “review” wasn’t just a sales pitch in disguise I would point everyone to the Kirby website to save money. It may sound ridiculous that a $1,500 machine would save money, but think about it for a minute. The average lifespan of a modern Hoover or a Dyson is 2 years… that’s $400 every 2 years. Now if you want to throw in a carpet scrubber that’s another $250. A Kirby will last you 100 years without breaking a sweat… but lets be nice to the other vacuum cleaners and say you treat your Kirby REALLY badly and give it a very short life span of 20 years. That’s $4,000 just for vacuum cleaners (that uh… BTW don’t do as good of a job cleaning the carpet so you need to buy a new carpet scrubber once every 5 years since you don’t use it that frequently) $5,000 if you go the traditional route of cheap POS vacuum cleaner and cheap POS carpet scrubber keeping it alive as long as you can. Or you can go the route of $1,500 for a vacuum cleaner that when abused to death will only last you 20 years. Unfortunately there is no money in Kirby’s for me on the website. I’m trying to point people to Amazon.com to buy their vacuum cleaners where I get 4% of the action (unless I sell 7 items in the month then I get 6%). So you go right on ahead and follow the usual route of buying 2-3 Sharks or Dirt Devil’s at $50 a piece… then when you realize that they barely last 3 months and their warranty is crap go get yourself a Hoover or a Dyson that will last you 2ish years, you’ll love it I promise… oh and make sure to hit up the links on my site before each purchase… shoot man that’s a good $20 every 2 years for me!

And with that I think I’m going to stick with just the one review for the day. After doing 7 yesterday I think it’s about time that I got an easy day.

Anyways, here are the reviews that I put up. One is for a small handheld Sanitaire the Sanitaire SC3683A Commercial Canister Vacuum Cleaner Review which is basically the same machine as the Eureka mighty mite… since Eureka now owns Sanitaire that’s no surprise since Eureka has been using a lot of Sanitaire designs and marketing them to both home and commercial applications. Then I got another Bissell review up about the Bissell Healthy Home Upright Vacuum Cleaner, Bagless, 12 Amp, 16N5 Review only realized that there is a newer version of that vacuum cleaner AFTER I had already written the review… oh well it’ll give me another one to do this month