Not to let DH use my new hoover on food

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Got a new and very expensive cordless dyson. DH said, oh it works really well on toddler food after meals.

AIBU to make him use the old hoover if he wants to clean up food with it? You can't hoover food can you??

AIBU to love my new hoover so much as well

Is is specifically yours then?

I would think you can hoover whatever you like. Hoovering up toddler food is much easier than wiping up.

Get a dog.

It is specifically my hoover because we already had a functioning hoover but I wanted a dyson for my asthma. And because it's nicer.

Pobble can you really hoover peas and pasta sauce though?

Nomo I don't want to pick up dog poo.

I agree with you there OP. We have an old battered dyson but in would still pick up the big bits of food before hoovering. That's if the dog hasn't got to them first, she is a very effective BLW cleaner.

I hoover up everything that can possibly be hoovered!

Reminds me of the time we had a Dirt Devil hoover, it was in the shop for repair as it broke down after only a couple of months use.

When we got it back there was a rather snippy note attached stating "This Hoover has been used to clean dirty floors, we had to remove rather a lot of dust, please ensure the hoover is not used for this purpose again"

What are you meant to clean your floors with then ?

So you don't want your Hoover to be used to Hoover up mess? What's it for then? Some food mess is much Easier to Hoover to clean up.

I wouldn't hoover up food, it would make the hoover smell and be a nightmare to clean surely. I would wipe it up personally, but then we only have hard floors which are easy to wipe.

If you vacuum up food in a bag less vacuum cleaner, make sure you empty it and check for internal food smears every time. Otherwise it goes mouldy inside the vacuum, smells and is a bugger to clean out (speaks from experience here).

Whatever you do, don't try and hoover up vomit (I know - sorry!). A boyfriend of mine did it when we were teenagers and, well, it didn't end well, let's just leave it at that...

I have a hand held dyson and its made cleaning up after messy toddler meal times much easier. I Hoover up food but not sloppy or wet food. They are really easy to take apart and you can clean all the pieces and wash the filter.

So yes. YABU.

Noooo don't let him do it. I hoovered rice pasta etc whI le DD2 was weaning and now have a fucled and highly smelly dyson that stinks out my utility.

We've actually had to replace it and now I can't decide whether to even bother getting the old one serviced to resuscitate it or chuck it but that's seems such a waste of ££££.

Oh and I don't Hoover up good off the table, I wipe that. Just off the carpet and kitchen floor.

I'd hoover up dried food like biscuit crumbs but not wet food.

Dry food fine, wet food no.

You cannot Hoover up anything unless you possess a Hoover. You can, however, vacuum it. Or I suppose you could Dyson it if you really want to use a brand name.

I wouldn't use a bagless vacuum cleaner on food, no. It would need very regular cleaning to avoid smelling horrendous otherwise.

If your DH is going to empty and clean out the rubbish compartment every time he uses it then fine. If not - use a bagged system.

Nomo I don't want to pick up dog poo

You could hoover it up.

My DH used my new Dyson to hoover the patio because he couldnt be bothered to find the brush. Needless to say it broke it utterly.

If you wouldn't use a broom on it, you probably shouldn't use a Hoover.
In other words, dry material only. IMHO

Hic

No one I know here in Aberdeen, calls it a vacuum cleaner, it is and has always been a hoover.

Regardless of the brand name.

Crohnically, good point thanks, hadn't even thought about it going mouldy. Ugh.

Dojo, I cant even imagine hoovering up vomit :-o I wonder if there are videos on youtube.

Vermicious. I will pretend you didn't say that.

wyrdybird, I will buy a new dustpan and brush and he can mess those up instead.

Hic, it's a generic verb now, surely?

It's not a generic verb, it's a brand name. A Hoover is a vacuum cleaner but not all vacuum cleaners are Hoovers. Some, for example your new one, are Dysons. Even the iPad autocorrects it to capitalised!

We bought a new Dyson because I wanted to use it to hoover up baby/toddler food, art project remnants etc. So YABU. A vacuum cleaner is a utilitarian item designed to do a job (and it can be cleaned if it gets really filthy).

Though I would draw the line at vacuuming up vomit!!

We have an old vacuum cleaner for toddler food spills and really manky jobs. Then the 'good' one for making sure everything is actually properly clean. Yanbu unless he's prepared to clean it out properly each time.