The Kirby vacuum bags , along with the Rainbow vacuum and the Thermax vacuum were instrumental in changing the way people in American clean their carpets. In the old days way back before the vacuum cleaner was invented, people had several dissimilar ways to get their rugs clean. Remember the old rug beaters?

A rug beater was very simple to use. All you had to do was take your dirty old rug outside and hang it on some good length of rope or wire. by and large, you would find that everyone used the clothes line. If you are under 30 years old you may be scratching your head and saying to yourself, “what’s a clothes line?”.

A clothes line was merely a small rope strung out between two poles or posts. It was then used to hang wet clothes on, in an orderly manner, in the hopes that the cloudly overcast would go away and let some of the bright sunshine in on your wet clothes. Hanging wet clothes out on a clothes line was also used to control the weather in some regions of the country. If your city had been experiencing a drought, all you had to do was let the laundry get nearly dry and it was a sure fire way to make it rain.

Finding good places on the Net for getting your Kirby vacuum cleaner can be difficult sometimes.

Back to the dirty rug. After hanging your diry rug on the clothes line (remember, the  Kirby vacuum cleaner parts hadn’t been invented yet) you simply take your son’s old baseball bat and beat the dickens out of the rug. Seemly endless clouds of dust will appear and cover you and every thing in your back yard with black powder. At this point you need to hang some wet clothes on the clothes line so that at least you will get a shower to settle the dust. Which, now that I think about it would solve your dirty rug problem too.