You have been likely been given some Cadillac of house broom advice. Now when you grow up and want Rolls Royce of house broom advice, you can click this: https://www.rubbermaidcommercial.com/cleaning/brooms/

Happy cake day! Is this a joke?! I assumed those things couldn’t possibly do any good?? They really work well?

My mother has hers from the 70s. It still gets used as a gym lock. I also have mine from somewhere around 1999.

Hemmingsford, Quebec. I go to the old factory every summer. It's now an amazing fripperie, or second hand store.

Sounds like the ones you’re buying are the Cadillac of house brooms based on my experience owning a Cadillac 😂

That’s what I have too.

NEVER buy appliances at a box store (Home Depot, Lowes, Best Buy) they only use "builder" quality parts. Manufacturers sell "builder" quality versions of appliances at a lower cost to box stores who buy in bulk. Margins stay the same and the manufacturer is whole because the components are cheap as hell.

This is why everyone complains about stuff breaks. So where do you buy appliances?

ONLY buy appliances from a commercial appliance retailer, your town has several. They will sell the exact model you see in a box store but the model # will have a slight variation. This will indicate cast iron components, 5 year warranties (vs 1 year on box store options) all for about the same cost or ~5% more.

I don't blame people who buy from box stores, because 99.9% of people don't know. But now you've read this and YOU (reader) know so I blame YOU (reader) if you continue to buy from these places and your appliances blow dong.

/NBCstar

This is the guy to ask (or search): https://www.tiktok.com/@mcmullanappliance

March? What year?

Me either, just my back. I lugged those 25 lb books everywhere. Ugh. Algebra was the worst! Probably 10 lbs by itself.

Phenomenal. And a great record.

I have a wisp broom. I got it at least 10 years ago and it's still going.

https://www.thewisp.com/

Shaker brooms unless your house is all carpet

For a standard broom, quickie. Buy the jobsite rated ones, fair warning they're heavy as hell, but durable.

I'm in construction, and they hold up to jobsite abuse, one of my quickie push brooms is over a decade old.

This:

https://tumutbroomfactory.com/

My broom brush came off and I fixed it with duct tape lol.

Consumer Reports online might be available to you via your library. Hardcopy definitely will be.

Currently their top 10 top rated for reliability front load washers are all LG. This agrees with my experience as I have been using an LG washer for 14 years with zero problems.

There is less data for top loaders, but Speed Queen wins for agitator machines and LG sweeps the HE/ agitator free category.

You sonofabitch

I entered high school in 2004. I don’t remember a damn combination!

Acknowledging this caveat, the brooms made by Berea College are beautiful, well made, sturdy and long lasting. I’ve had great experiences with several of their products and would highly recommend.

Sorry, I'm new to the sub.... Sounds like there are Samsung products that are hated here? I'm not lobbying for Samsung, in particular, it's just that it was an amazing good deal and (for once) it actually turned out to be a worthwhile purchase. I'm sure there are other stick vacuums that work well, too.

I'm totally telling my wife because it's hers! She will probably tear up know someone loves that bear as much as she does! That's awesome!

They're all over Amazon and probably Home Depot and other stores as well. The only brand I've ever purchased was YellowTop. They were advertised on some home shopping thing (QVC maybe?) 20 or so years ago. We got 2 brooms and the hand brush all still going strong. The one we use outside probably needs to be replaced because it gets used on concrete a lot. We like this brand because of the flat squeege blade on one side.

The quality of their product was good 20 years ago and I'm guessing it still is since they're still around.

Oh my I nearly cried when I saw this! I have the exact same bear from my childhood

I don't really think that fits into the BIFL mindset for me. I want to reduce disposable things as much as possible.