Handheld Vacuum for Wife: Perfect Gift or Blunder

For some reason, vacuum cleaners are often associated with women so it is not hard to guess that many husbands at some point consider buying a vacuum cleaner as a gift for their wives. To help with the decision, in this article, I discuss whether one of the newly designed cordless handheld vacuum models would make a good gift.

At first glance, buying your wife any vacuum cleaner appears to be a blunder and there is some truth to it. A vacuum cleaner has no purpose but to make her clean the house more efficiently. Such a gift would imply that it is your wife’s job to do cleaning and would be an indirect way of telling her to attend to housework. Obviously, that is hardly the kindest message you can convey to your wife on her birthday or some other important date.

There are, however, other instances where a lightweight cordless vacuum cleaner can prove to be a nice gift for your spouse. The key point here is that the gift must serve to faciliate your wife's life or help with some activity she loves and takes pride in. Consider a lady who loves her pets. Let us assume she is also likes to keep the place clean at all times and is having a hard time vacuuming the hair constantly shed by her beloved pets. In this specific case, a cordless vacuum can relieve her of the burden of moving around a bulky corded vacuum every few hours just to get rid of a few strands of pet hair. This would be a gift that essentially makes her life better, not yours. Another case where it is not a terrible idea to get your wife a handheld vacuum is if she has a fascination for cooking and she makes a mess often by dropping on the floor one ingredient or the other. We all know you cannot just leave a small lump of flour on your kitchen floor. You must vacuum it. That means she has to stop making her favorite cake and go fetch the canister vacuum that lies in some far away corner of the home. If this sort of interruption is a serious annoyance for her, she will be more than glad to have the best cordless handheld vacuum at her disposal.

In the final analysis, though it is certainly a risky choice, it is hard to reach a definite conclusion on the suitability of a handheld vacuum as a gift for your wife. You need to consider the lifestyle and character of your spouse as well as the context to come up with the right gift.

I am freelance writer interested in home design and product related reviews.