My apartment might not be finished yet, but we’ve got new floors, new carpets, a new kitchen and some new furniture and I’m very interested in keeping them clean. Especially the couch and the banquette cushion around the dining room table. That cushion is a CRUMB MAGNET. Thankfully, BLACK+DECKER sent me their new AdvancedClean+ dustbuster to keep my place in check. Their newest cordless hand vacuum has a long extendable crevice tool that makes cleaning difficult places much easier. I can clean the banquette without bending down!
I don’t think my kids have ever seen me so obsessed with cleanliness. Check out the video below to see me in action. There is no crumb that my kids drop that doesn’t immediately get sucked up!
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My biggest crumb magnet is my living room table. It folds out which was cool before kids and now it’s just a table with a lot of cracks to collect crumbs 😀
My husband! I swear he leaves a trail of crumbs wherever he goes. This may make me brave enough to go into the man cave!
My biggest crumb magnets are by my outside doors. So much mud!!! My little kiddos aren’t good at taking off their shoes yet, 4yo, and 2 to twins. SOS!!!
My toddler’s car seat is the WORST! Sometimes I think she drops more than she actually gets into her mouth. Cheerios, goldfish, you name it. The good thing is that she loves to clean (crazy, I know – she thinks it’s fun), so I’m pretty sure I could get her to clean up after herself with this awesome vacuum!
Between a husband who loves snacks, two dogs, a cat, and an 8 year old, our house is FULL of crumbs. Our house was previously owned by a DIY fail family and the floors have gaps where every single crumb goes to die. I need help getting between these poorly fitted floorboards!
My son’s favorite thing to eat is rice. He also would rather not use a utensil. The rice then sticks to his hands and then periodically he shakes his hand to get it off flinging rice everywhere. There is rice everywhere!
Crumb magnet is the carpet in our dining room. WHO PUT CARPET IN A DINING ROOM!?
Pet fur crumbs gather in the nooks and crannies of our walls. I’d love to win one of these vacuums!
My hardwood floors. They are dark so they show Every. Single. Crumb. Im sweeping constantly!
The biggest crumb magnet is definitely in front of my French doors in my living room. They open to the back porch, so things get tracked in easily. It’s also where my son’s high chair sits, hello 2 year old who likes to throw food and is just overall messy!! And there’s a small gap between the wood floors and the door that it impossible to keep stuff out of, and basically impossible to vacuum with a normal vacuum! I’m surrounded by men, trust me, crumbs are all around!
My living room carpet!
My car! I avert my eyes when I get inside.
My biggest crumb magnet is my Goldendoodle who traps everything in his fur and leaves it wherever!
Lol honestly, it’s a tie between my husband’s and my three year old sons spot at the dinner table! 🤷♀️.
OF course my couch, and chairs and floor and everywhere. With 3 cats, 2 dogs, shedding season and my baby on the way, I so badly need this! 🙂
My couch! I just moved and was horrified at what I found in my couch. You’d think I never had the cushions on and just emptied my plate crumbs in the couch every night! So gross!!
I have a 4 year old and if you ask her who the Crumb Queen is, she’ll proudly say “ME!!!” She leaves crumbs wherever she goes but mostly they end up in the couch cushions 🤦🏻♀️ This vacuum would help immensely with getting in those crevices 🙌🏻
It would be the sofa…even though my teen daughter always swears she keeps her food on the napkin or plate! Having this readily available for HER to use would help tremendously!
Our little boy turned 3 this year and won’t sit still when he eats anymore! So I’m constantly trying to follow his trail of crumbs all around the house. Please send help in the form of vacuum suctioning power!
Our couch is the biggest crumb magnet. Even though the 4 year old isn’t supposed to eat out there, she still manages to make it a crumby mess on a regular basis.
Car seats!!!!! And the car in general. I always brace myself anytime we have to remove the car seats in the presence of a non-parent. The crumb situation is embarrassing!
The rug in our kitchen is perpetually covered in crumbs!
Sometimes I look at the floor after my kids are done “eating” a meal and think we could feed a family with just the crumbs and food on the floor!
In between couch cushions where my son crumbles crackers and hides them!
I have a few places, all of our tile flooring is a dust and crumb magnet but especially under the couches, kitchen table and all around that space under the kitchen cabinets. Then theres the couch. My husband thinks that the spaces in between the cushions is for empty candy or fruit snack wrappers along with the all of the couch crumbs which is from my son, the crumb king!!
Most crumbs are under the stools at the kitchen island since the three kids prefer to eat there over the table. This would be a great vacuum for the kids to easily get the crumbs since they wouldn’t have to move the heavy stools!
The biggest crumb collector in my house would be under the cupboards. I swear my family makes toast and empties the crumbs into the corner by the lazy susan. 🤦🏼♀️😂
It’s between the hardwood floors or husband! The dust and crumbs collects under the tables and sofa. For the husband, he leaves a trail wherever he goes. Then blames it on whoever is around the kids or even my self. He will even including the dogs in on making the mess. Haha.
The path my son takes! I am convinced he leaves more crumbs in his path than he gets in his mouth. The table, the chair, the couch, the rug ( where you can easily see every single crumb on it!), nothing is safe! Our dog needs help on the clean up crew!!
Where we keep the shoes by the door! It gathers so much dirt and dust it’s gross!
Our play mat attracts so much unexplainable particles. I’ll vacuum and I’ll still find more things on there!
Under and all around my 11 month old’s high chair! He drops more than he eats these days and my back is over it!!
My 1 year old makes a huge mess under her high chair and the space is hard to access with a regular vacuum. She also loves to eat snacks on the go so my floors (and her car seat!) are constantly getting covered in crumbs.
My kids and now the new puppy!!
I got a new couch a couple of months ago and it seems like I can never keep it clean!
Biggest crumb maker is me. How can 2 cookies cover a work desk, chair seat and under the desk in seconds? What a mess. A vacuum would be an great crumb control.
Our whole house has hardwood floors and the dust balls,crumbs and dog hair drive me crazy!Seems I am sweeping every minute of the day.
My kids high chairs!! Oh my goodness. I am constantly scooping and dumping crumbs out of and around those things. We just have one of the robot vacuums so I’ll block that area off and stick it in there but it’s not very efficient lmao. I could really use one of these bad boys!
My kitchen floor in the corners. So hard to get with the broom.
Oh it’s a toss up between under the dining room table (we eat AND do schoolwork there, so it’s a wreck) and the CAR. I so desperately want to keep my new car clean, but my kids manage to get crumbs everywhere even if they aren’t eating!!!
The biggest crumb magnet is parked in my driveway. Between my kids, my dog and my job delivering produce subscription boxes, my mini van is DISGUSTING! This would change my life, lol
The sectional is the biggest crumb magnet and the area rug in the living room loves to collect fur from 2 cats. It’s neverending.
Our couch does but I do not know how. The kids barely ever snack on it. I guess the couple times they do most of the food ends up on the couch rather than in their stomachs
Definitely our couch! My twin one year olds are quite messy and they walk along the couches with their sticky/crumby hands.
Biggest crumb magnet? Can I just answer: My entire home?!?!
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The biggest crumb magnet around here is the kitchen floor!!! I swear there are just piles a crumbs under the table even if no one has just eaten…? Also a crumb magnet? The chubby little legs of my 9 month old.
Besides the normal messy kid stuff (I have 3), my 1st grader picks the erasers of his pencils while doing homework!!! It’s soooooo annoying!! I have started to make him get the dust pan and sweep up under his chair after doing homework. Little eraser pieces everywhere. Uggghhhhhh!
My husband is the crumb magnet. He brings in dirt from outside and working . I sweep my hardwood floors like 306754753 times a day between him and the toddler tornado.
I know you said “in your home”, but my biggest crumb magnet is my car under my kids booster seats specifically. Between food crumbs, (which shouldn’t even be there because there is a no eating policy in my car…I freak out over choking) and leaves/dirt/ shreds of paper from who knows where, I am always amazed at how nasty it gets under those seats. Help a mama out here. 😂
Definitely the couch! It’s a crumb magnet, crayon magnet and a fork magnet. (I found 3! forks in the couch the other day) But those crumbs get in all the cracks and crevices in our couch!
Definitely the corners!! They attract the 4 animals fur, plus the 3 daughters always seem to leave so many messes! I would love to have something like this especially when I have to deal with so much pain. This would even be easy for my 3 year old to use and help mama out!
I have 3 boys who love to snack! My biggest crumb magnet is my car! I would love to use this in my car or for quick crumb messes made.
Our couch!!
We recently relocated and opted to rent for the first year while we scope out areas and houses to buy so I am extra crazy with keeping our carpets clean. With 2 kids and 2 dogs it’s been extra crazy. Basically anywhere they can bring snacks- despite being told to eat at the table only!
Thank you for the chance!
I am a mom to three boys so basically my life is filled with crumbs!! But I would love to try this in the car!!!
My middle child is the biggest crumb magnet. You can find crumbs at whichever spot he last ate and dirt wherever he last sat in the car. He could totally use this to clean his mess!
Indirectly in my home: my car!!! It’s the biggest crumb magnet! Working two nursing jobs has me eating on the go more than not. The healthier things are, the crumbier they get! Please help!
My area rug in the living room! Many snacks are eaten here with guests.
Well with my oldest at Harlow’s age (I think they are only a couple weeks apart) and my younger one turning 3 in a couple weeks, there are crumbs a lot of places. BUT, I think this would be more for my mess! I have to vacuum my bathroom floor EVERY day after I fix my hair. It’s super thick and for some reason, I am still losing hair like I’m 3 months postpartum instead of 3 years. I mean, if it wasn’t hair vacuumed off of a floor, it would be enough to donate and make a wig out of. 🙂 So I would love something to make that easier!!!
The door jam from the porch inside the living, it’s an absolute mess all the time.
It’s gotta be in Charlotte, my poor car. Bless her heart, she hauls around my 3 granddaughters that I have custody of, plus the two grandchildren who live with their Mom and the little guy I babysit and love, love, love. Right now it’s softball season so we have granola bar crumbs, sunflower seed shells, field dirt, my scorekeeping pencil shavings……poor Charlotte may never forgive me. And in our small town, well, using the carwash vacuum is a guaranteed social hour. <3
Lol, our couch! I have a husband, 2 kids, and 2 dogs. Yeah, they are all a hot mess! I might need to condemn my son’s end of the couch. Did you know that they make these things called paper towels to wipe your hands on? Apparently his brain doesn’t hear “use the paper towel” when I (of course) politely ask him to use one instead of the couch.
My entire house – I have a one year old that likes to feed the dog! 😂
My entire house – I have a one year old that likes to feed the dog! 😂
The kitchen rug and my car are my biggest crumb magnets!
Any spot under my husband! He’s a crumb maker
My couch! I don’t even understand how so many crumbs settle into the crevices.
The biggest crumb magnets are my front door area living room and back patio entrance because kids and shoes and in and out and backpacks and bags and jackets getting dropped and picked up and hung!! It is never ending I don’t know how many times a day I clean the front entrance lol but it is never clean!!! Dirt, crumbs, twigs, you name it, it’s there!
My car 😰 crumbs EVERYWHERE
Underneath the dining room table! We have two boys and hard wood floors. It doesn’t matter how many times we say “eat over your plate”, there are always crumbs under the table. Would love to have a vacuum that is portable and can make quick work of getting the daily crumbs.
There must be a huge crumb magnet in between the cushions on the sofa! There are also tons of crumbs on the kitchen floor. I could sure use this dust buster/vacuum!
Between the cat and the kids, this would be so helpful for the couch or underneath the dining table! The size makes it possible for the kids to help, too!
My couch! My soul sucking children insist on feeding my couch everything they eat!
Under the table. My sons drop crumbs and don’t even care lol I think this is light enough for them to clean up their own mess 🙂
The biggest crumb magnet has to be our sofa!1 You won’t believe what I find under it sometimes!! Specially with twins around the house the crumbles are twice as much!! 😀
My biggest crumb magnet is my teen. The mess follows him around the house! This is a great giveaway!
Biggest crumb magnet seems to be the fireplace! They don’t even eat there!
My 16 month old is the biggest crumb maker! The dog does his best to do clean up, but isn’t quite as throrough as I’d like 😂 with another crumb maker on the way, we could use the help!
my kids are the biggest crumb magnets. how are they so filthy all the time! thank god they’re cute.
Our biggest crumb magnet is under the kitchen table! It is where my kids and I spend a lot of time having snacks/meals and doing crafts. I feel like I am constantly cleaning underneath them. I would greatly appreciate a vacuum to make this chore easier!
My car! 3 car seats- feels like there’s always new crumbs in there!
The biggest crumb magnet is my treadmill! Calories
consumed while exercising don’t count, right? LOL. Someone is ALWAYS eating a snack around me while I walk.
The biggest crumb magnet in my house is under the kitchen table where my toddler (and husband!) sit. I feel like I constantly wipe, vacuum and mop under there and am on the market for a new Dustbuster to make my cleaning slightly a bit easier!
My downstairs bathroom has cat litter that need to be vacuumed constantly, and also cat hair and dog hair and kids who sneak food they “won’t spill” everywhere and then step on. Hmmmmmm.
The biggest crumb magnet in my house is my coffee table! The top has ridges on it so it’s a hassle to wipe off!
My biggest crumb magnet is anything in the kitchen. I am constantly sweeping and cleaning to no avail!
Crumbs, crumbs everywhere. I’ve even found crumbs in my bed, on many occasions. And hairs. I don’t even have a dog, I have a kid and a man.
The car seats! Ugh whether it’s food crumbs or glitter somehow everything get impeded in the seats of my car.
*imbedded lol
Both the couch and UNDER my son’s fitted sheet.. I really don’t know why. Not sure I would be happy if I did find out the reason. Ignorance is bliss
My biggest crumb magnets are equally my toddler and 17 year old. The toddler like to eat her crackers like corn on the cob and the teen is a hot mess with everything! Oh and of course dog hair!
My BIGGEST crumb magnet…unfortunately covers 90 percent of my house.. it’s my CARPET!! It’s kind of tall shaggy carpet and once you drop something you WILL lose it haha. My 2 year old is the biggest crumb maker.. she smashes up her goldfish then say.. “Mama mess”….yeah mama see’s the mess.
CAR SEATS. all the crumbs and the tiny cracks… what a head ache.
The floor below the kitchen bench where my kids eat breakfast! It is always covered in crumbs!
My carpeted stairs! Everything else I can keep clean, but those are close to impossible to maintain the way I like.
The biggest crumb magnet in my house… besides my couch… are the heating vents in the floor! You can make a meal from the debris that falls into the vents 🤮
My kitchen is my biggest crumb catch all! We love carbs and there are constantly crackers and sandwiches being eaten. I’m always trying to keep all the nooks and crannies clean but it’s an uphill battle. Who am I kidding? My entire house is a crumb magnet with 4 kids!
The biggest crumb magnet is the carseats. I swear the kids aren’t allowed to eat in their seats yet both are covered in food with crumbs and chunks of snacks in between the cushions. And now the 1 year like to step on food she drops so 2 or 3 cheerios on the floor turns into millions of itty bitty pieces really fast.
My kitchen! It needs to be vacuumed daily.
The biggest crumb magnet in my home is a hard one to give the award too. Between 2 kids and 4 dogs, I don’t know if the vaccum ever leaves my hand. Under the dining table or under the ottoman or the rug by the back door. I think it’s time to award my eldest child with a vaccum of his own. Then 2 of us can fight the crumb monster(s)!!