I am not a big conspiracy theory kind of guy, but I believe that the manufacturers of vacuum cleaners are all in cahoots to make us buy new ones every few years. I go to the store and buy the one which says it will pick up your dog and remove all the hair from his body. I get it home and for the first few times I use it, I am impressed. The dog still has his hair but, every few strokes I have to empty the container of spinning hair and other familiars from my carpet. But then it starts, there on the floor is a small piece of what looks like wadded up kleenex. I run over it, it is still there, I run over it again, it remains. I take the vacuum to the garage and disassemble it, check every part not really finding anything but knowing that soon I will be cursing this thing and looking longingly at the newer model I pass on the shelf at Walmart. All of this is part of the plan to make me get another one which makes greater claims of sucking power but get closer to the cost of my kids college tuition. But like the cheaper model, this one will start to disappoint me within a few months and I will again watch the small sliver of paper reappear from under the vacuum, as I run over it, again and again, hoping for a miracle to occur, that is that the vacuum sucks like it should!