Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

My house has both hardwood and carpeted floorss. It has many many stairs (carpeted) and strange nooks and crannies and spaces most vacuums can only enter via hose. I also have many pets who shed a mountain of fur on a daily basis. I own a Dyson, and it is a very powerful effective machine. It was expensive. I will probably leave it to someone in my will. But it is very heavy and can be hard to maneuver. Enter the Bissell PowerGlide Pet Bagless Upright Vacuum with Lift-Off Technology 2763. It is an awesome vacuum. Why? 1. Operating it is intuitive. I've had vacuums that came with instructional DVDs. Can I say that that isn't first on my list of things I want to watch after a long day? The only instructions you need are on the box (and on Amazon, once you've tossed the box in the recycling). Or look at the vacuum. It has little icons (big enough to actually see) when you need a hint. 2. Carpeted stairs. Ooh, baby. The vacuum comes apart so you're not hauling an upright up the stairs. Using the pet attachment, you can easily suck up enough fur to make yourself another dog. 3. It swivels. I don't know why no one thought of this sooner, because life is full of corners and angles and twists and turns, and most vacuums go forward and backwards and that's it. This one swivels, making it easy to maneuver around corners. 4. The head fits into the kick space beneath the cupboards in the kitchen. My cupboards apparently hang too low for most vacuums. The Bissell sneaks in there nicely. 5. The switch to turn on the brush attachment is up by the handle, so you don't have to get on your hands and knees to switch when going from carpet to hardwood to linoleum to tile. 6. You can see how much dirt you've sucked up. I know, I know. It gets gross. But I like to be able to see that I've accomplished something. 7. It appears to be self-propelling. Instead of having to forcibly move the vacuum forward, it seems to go forward on its own. 8. No bags! 9. The attachments it comes with are actually useful. The Pet TurboEraser Tool works beautifully for cleaning up all varieties of dog and cat fur. 10. It only weighs less than 20 pounds. And the detachable portable vacuum weighs even less -- approximately 8 pounds. 11. It costs half as much as a Dyson. What can I say? It sucks in a very good way.