Their home is so big that they need a riding vacuum cleaner for the floors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This month is the spring Boise Area Parade of Homes. Their brochure was inserted in Boise Weekly. Some homes have reasonable areas, 2000 to 3000 square feet. But #19, The Phoenix, has 8561 square feet – almost 0.2 acres! Keeping all those the floors clean really calls for a riding vacuum. I joked about one a couple decades ago, when I looked for the biggest home listed in the Portland, Oregon metro area, and found a 15,000 square foot estate in the wine country near Newberg.  Here’s a more recent one in Oregon with 13,462 square feet (0.31 acres).     

 

There was a cartoon about a riding vacuum by Alan Dunn back in 1944. In 1988 Roseanne Barr quipped that she'll clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner. There are two brief humorous YouTube videos about riding vacuums: one from CBH Homes that mentions a mulching attachment, and another from Saturday Night Live. There also is a serious one for the Eureka Tigra.

 

If your home is that big, then your yard might be so big that you need a GPS to find the back door from the garden. 

 

The image was adapted from one for a street sweeper in Belfast at Wikimedia Commons.