I liked the light weight so overlooked the downsides, like that it blows air out the front (fun to chase the blowing-around dog hairs, we get our exercise where we can...) and that the cord was too short. But, it completely died after less than 2 years. Trashed it and bit the bullet and bought a Shark. The Shark was just delivered and is still in the box, no rush on the cleaning thing, but it does have a 5 year warranty so I figure the cost per year will be less than the Eureka piece of junk. Like my BFF said, vacuum cleaners don't get used all that much in my house (I prefer to be called "domestically challenged") so if it lasted less than 2 years for me...