Hate alone is not enough to nourish. But there’s rage too.

everytime the iroomba comes up on woot! i hesitate for a few seconds and the let it sell out while i read reviews and manuals trying to figure out if it’ll be worth while. everytime, that is, until the last time. i bought one during the last woot-off.
i didn’t even own a vacuum so the cost of a vacuum helped me justify the purchase. i suppose most purchasers justify the purchase based on the claim that it will save them time. i cannot make that claim.
when i set the thing up for the first time, i spent 20 minutes perfecting the location of the home base (it fits nicely under my bed). once that task was complete, i pressed the clean button on the remote control and proceeded to watch the robot navigate under and around the 9 legs of my desk and chair and move to the next room bouncing from wall to wall. i probably watched for 40 minutes. hows that for a time saver?
i’m not a super busy person where i can say that i don’t have enough time to sweep my floors and my place isn’t that big so it isn’t a huge production to pull out the broom and clean the floors.
so i guess this is really just a productive form of entertainment for me. the $99 cable package that i pay for but haven’t watched in two months doesn’t clean my floors, just my bank account.