As many of you know, we are in the process of finishing our basement. A most ginormous undertaking to say the least. But most thankfully we are in the final stages! Huzzah!
We just finished the mudding and taping and tackling the accompanying mess. There are 3 different shop vacs in my house right now, all used to keep the dust under control. A crappy one that doesn't get used much, a filterless one to suck up water and one with a special sheet rock filter to suck up dust.
Good times.
My awesomeness arrives with the great idea to vacuum out our heat vents with a shop vac.
I lugged the shop vac withOUT the filter upstairs and went to work. It was doing such a great job that I got carried away and started vacuuming everything, including the patio steps that were covered with sand.
I was a good 2/3 done with my kitchen floor when I noticed that because there was no filter, everything I vacuumed was flying out the back all over my counters.
We are talking heat vent grodies, dog hair, sand, paper, the whole caboodle.
NASTY!
So I lug the filtered vacuum upstairs to pretty much re-vacuum the entire kitchen.
It was during this re-vac that my second brilliant idea came about.
My laptop keyboard gets pretty gross, I am a total type and eat girl, so I gave it a quick pass with the shop vac to take care of crumbs.
It took care of the crumbs alright.....it also took care of letter Q.


Gone.

Sucked into an abyss of sheet rock dust and other such wonders.
After a 10 minute debate of just how necessary was the letter Q on a keyboard, I pulled out the filter, sliced it open and sifted away searching for Mr. MIA.



You may not know how many disgusting things are lurking in your heat vents and back porches, but I do....

Fortunately fortune smiled on my quickly and the missing letter appeared.



And even more fortunately it popped right back on, good as new.
See....... qqqqqQQQQQqqqq.

The moral of my story, shop vacs do some great things, but vacuuming off keyboards should not be one of them.

Oh, and filters are a must.

On a lighter note, I found this shirt at Target and I love it! Very Weston and only 6 dollars.
Nice.