The Kirby vacuum parts , along with the Rainbow vacuum and the Thermax vacuum were instrumental in changing the way people in American clean their carpets. In the good old days before the vacuum cleaner was invented, people had several different ways to get their carpets clean. Remember the old rug beaters?

A rug beater was very simple to use. All you had to do was take your grubby old rug outside and hang it on some suitable length of rope or wire. more often than not, you would find that everyone used the clothes line. If you are under 30 years old you may be scratching your head and saying to yourself, “what’s a clothes line?”.

A clothes line was simply a small rope strung out between two poles or posts. It was then used to hang wet clothes on, in an regulated manner, in the hopes that the cloudly overcast would go away and let some of the bright sunshine in on your wet clothes. Hanging wet clothes out on a clothes line was also used to curb the weather in some regions of the country. If your city had been experiencing a drought, all you had to do was let the laundry get more or less dry and it was a sure fire way to make it rain.

Finding good places on the internet for getting your Kirby bags can be difficult sometimes.

Back to the dirty rug. After hanging your diry rug on the clothes line (remember, the  Kirby vacuum parts hadn’t been invented yet) you simply take your son’s old ball bat and beat the dickens out of the rug. Seemly endless clouds of dust will appear and cover you and every thing in your back yard with black powder. At this point you need to hang some wet clothes on the clothes line so that at least you will get a shower to settle the dust. Which, now that I think about it would solve your dirty rug problem too.

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