I would never say that motherhood was crummy, but my life is definitely filled with crumbs.
At any given time, the living room floor is littered with spilled cereal, broken pretzels, wet food that crusted over and turned into crumbs, dried Play Doh, tiny paper scraps from poorly supervised crafts and other embarrassing things that make me not want to invite anyone over ever. Let’s not even talk about the glitter *shudder*.
To stem the crumb tide, I’ve been vacuuming daily, eating up valuable time that could be spent paying attention to my children, writing very important blog posts, or going to the gym. (Yes, I know vacuuming is supposed to burn calories, but not the way I do it, stopping to check my phone every few minutes when I get bored.)
Then something totally life changing happened. Eufy sent me their brand new RoboVac 30C. It vacuums the entire first floor without me touching it. It is equally effective sucking up debris from hardwood and carpet and is so thin (only 7.25 cm tall) that it gets under the kitchen cabinets and furniture where nobody has been in years.
The RoboVac 30C is something you can totally set and forget, because its sensors prevent it from crashing into any obstacles, including little humans. But I have to say, I love controlling it by remote when I’m spot cleaning (it drives like a dream!) and it’s also a “smart” product that you can command by voice with Alexa or Google Assistant.
It has some really cool features, too. “Edge mode” tells the RoboVac to focus on the perimeter of the room where all the dust bunnies collect. There’s also a magnetic strip you can place anywhere you want the RoboVac to avoid. But my #1 favorite bell and whistle? It is self-docking. You press a little home button and it drives itself to its charging station, locking in to recharge without you even touching it. This means you can stow your charger under a bookcase, totally out of sight, like we did. No more hiding the vacuum cleaner in a closet before the dinner party. It hides itself!
My kids are also wildly entertained by the RoboVac. It’s funny, ever since they were babies and started tossing food on the floor–a habit I really hoped they’d have grown out of by now–I was jealous of families with dogs. A hungry, undiscriminating pup would have really saved me a lot of cleaning. But it turns out the RoboVac is not all that different from a dog, the way the kids follow it around and talk to it. For one thing, my older daughter misread the Eufy logo as “Guffy,” so that’s its name now. Here, Guffy Guffy! Good boy, Guffy.
But unlike a dog, Guffy is super quiet. One night, seconds before dinner, I knocked over a pepper grinder and sent about a million whole peppercorns skittering across the kitchen floor. In 2 seconds, I had Guffy working the problem while I ate a hot meal, and nobody even noticed because my kids’ normal chatter is way louder than the soft hum of a RoboVac.
Honestly, I can’t believe it has taken me this long to get a robot vacuum. It is life changing, people. Life changing. They say robots will take over all our jobs; well, vacuuming is one job I am truly happy to relinquish. The robot is much better at it anyway. I feel like freaking Jane Jetson. All I need now is for my private jet to fold up into a briefcase.
The RoboVac 30C was provided to me for review. Opinions are my own.