You know, the good old fashioned kind with a couple of brishes that spin as you sweep.....anyone got one?
Do you recommend them? Do they get the carpet clean?
but I have seen them somewhere
), so we use it to clean the carpets if something gets spilled. We still use the vacuum cleaner, just not as often as we should as we aren't very good at coping with the inevitable meltdown. 
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