Epic Win: Dustbuster
Submitted by H Edwards
Even though they don’t make ‘em like they used to, DustBusters from the 80’s and 90’s were full of epic win. There’s probably thousands of DustBusters originally purchased in the 80’s, still out there and still working. The DustBuster belongs in the Men’s Hall of Fame, right next to Duct Tape and WD-40.
From Wikipedia:
The Black & Decker DustBuster is a cordless vacuum cleaner that was introduced in January, 1979.
It was designed by Carroll Gantz, FIDSA, when he was Manager of the B&D US Consumer Power Tool Division’s Industrial Design Department. It was developed by Black & Decker. Over a million Dustbusters were sold in its first year, four times that of the traditional hand-held vac market. It also came in 110v with an attachable hose and tools. As the name suggests, the device used suction power to pick up fine dirt, such as, pet hair, dust, etc. The product has been redesigned several times. However, The original DustBuster has been discontinued by Black & Decker.
SRSLY?
Epic Win: Jumping the Shark
Epic FAIL.
Dustbusters were (and are) useless applicances. One would do better to pick up dust and dump it down the Dustbuster’s throat rather than trying to utilize the machine’s “vacuum”.
Junk. Serious junk.
Right.
And if you’ve managed to clean up more than three fluffs, you had to empty that piece of crap…
My grandma still has her ORIGINAL dustbuster, it’s always plugged in charging in the same outlet it’s been in, for years. I don’t even know if she actually uses it.
My grandma still chases people around with hers at times…
Ours didn’t work so great and the cats hated us whenever we turned it on. Although, chasing them around with it was sort of fun.
I hate when you didn’t dump it, but put it back to charge it anyway, and all of the crap inside fell out! Grrrr!
Yeah, I remember more annoyance than convenience from the dustbuster. The worst was when my mom would make me vacuum the steps with the darn thing, it took forever and it really didn’t pick up dust or lint very well.
Oh man, we had this awesome little dirt devil for vacuuming the steps, which my mom would make me do every morning before school. The only thing my mom would do with the dustbuster is dustbuster my head when she gave me a hair cut. It sucked and never worked
This article was obviously written by a man who lived in a house with a DustBuster, but never actually used said DustBuster.
Dustbusters are great and all, but NOT an epic win. Yeesh.
Aw, c’mon you killjoys.
A. I own a dustbuster.
2. It works.
C. Yes, you have to go over everything three or four times, but it does eventually pick things up.
D. Okay, fine, it’s kind of a piece of a crap.
V. But IT’S A DUSTBUSTER. Yeah… I guess it’s only a win in concept, and a fail in execution.
This thing blew my little mind when I first saw it as a little kid. That must be why, after my family got one, I immediately tore a napkin that had fallen on the floor to pieces just to use the Dustbuster on it. Didn’t occur to me AT ALL that it would have been easier just to throw it away.