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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WINNER UPDATE:
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I swear my couch collects crumbs even when nobody sits there lol. I am constantly vacuuming the cushions. This little vacuum would come in so handy!
The biggest crumb magnets in the house are actually both sofas and it is actually pet hair. Such a pain to keep clean. 🙁
With 3 kids all in sports, i need all the help I can get! I have a four year old who seems to have his own bucket list of crazy messy things he can do.
The biggest crumb magnet is the baby who spends his time rolling around on the floor getting ready to crawl, and putting everything in his mouth he can find!
We have hardwood floors and they attract dust balls and crumbs every minute of the day. I’m sweeping at least twice a day.
My biggest crumb magnet is my 12yo daughter. From food crumbs to art crumbs that girl leaves a trail behind her any where she goes.
Definitely the spot under my younger son’s chair at the table!
The carpet is the biggest crumb magnet in my house! I have a 2 year old cat whose fur, litter, and food ends up everywhere!! I have a hand-vac that’s on its last life and isn’t cutting it anymore! This would be perfect to help clean up after Nugget!
The biggest crumb magnet is under the high chair. I watch my niece on the week days and I’m always on my hands and knees grabbing crumbs. Here I thought I was done with that part of life, though at 9 and 6, my kids aren’t exactly crumb free. 😂
The biggest crumb magnet in my home is the kitchen table. My children seem to get hungry the minute I’ve finished cleaning. Honestly it’s horrendous.
Kitchen island. My 3 year old has started carrying her own damp paper towels because she never sees me without one.
My car!!!!! Its pretty gross. 🙁 Lets just say the goldfish crumbs have made a permanent place in there. The extension would be a game changer! My current vacuum just can’t get into to seats very well. With 3 kids under 3 there are many more messes in my future! That cordless handheld would be a DREAM 👏😁
My dog has a toy that you put treats into. Instead of working to get the treat out in one piece, he crunches it up into tiny pieces and empties the crumbs on the floor, then eats what he can and leaves the rest! This would be super helpful for his messes!
Our dark grey couch 😫
My biggest crumb magnet is our couch. I’m afraid to stick my hand between the cushions.
My almost 3 yr old son…. he is always covered in whatever he eats!!
My biggest crumb magnet is my bra. Seriously, is there nobody else out there that could use a Black & Decker for their bra?! 🤣🤣
The biggest crumb catcher in my house would be the grooves of the dining table. If my truck is an extension of my home, than the car seat takes first place.
Under my kitchen cabinets, and someone my 10month old. He manages to find anything this mama misses. Is vacuuming your children frowned upon?! 😬
Underneath my cabinets in the kitchen are the worst! I vacuum my tile all the time but have to sweep out those corners before hand. This would make my life so much easier!!
My hard floors it’s impossible with a baby & a dog. Oklahoma is soooo dusty.
Somehow my carpeted stairs are a crumb magnet. No one eats on them but cat hair, crumbs and random dust balls make their way there. Stairs suck to vacuum too….this would make it easier!
When I was a kid I dreamed of having a small handheld vacuum, it was something I always wanted but felt silly asking for it. Now as an adult it would be super handy to clean up the sofa and the floor in front of the sofa which is the real crumb magnet in my apartment.
My biggest crumb magnet is my car lol. Every time I clean it out I tell myself, ok, no Loren food in the car. That lasts for maybe a day if I’m lucky with 5 kids 😂😂😂
For real the biggest crumb magnet is wherever my husband is sitting! He’s worse than a kiddo, more is on the floor and between the couch cushions than in his mouth🙄😂 love him tho🤷🏽♀️
My biggest crumb magnet is definitely my car. With a 5 year old, a 2 year old, a baby on the way, a dog, and a husband, it is nearly impossible to keep crumb-free. My husband loves to point out how messy my car is compared to his. 🙄
I am uncertain what possessed me to but a chocolate brown couch, but it certainly loves to collect crumbs!
My largest crumb magnet is def the weird area under my cabinets. I sweep and sweep and the baby still finds a way to find something under there to put in her mouth!
My husband! 😂 He leaves a trail wherever he goes, I think he might be worse than the two kids and the dog combined!
POPCORN. It’s all my 3 yr old currently eats and it. is. everywhere. All the places, all the time!
The couch…only because it’s the only place the puppy is too big too crawl under. But I would also love a dustbuster to help me keep all those baseboards clean, because we know no one else even knows that is something you have to clean lol.
My Couch!!!! I don’t know it even happens but it’s he biggest crumb magnet!!
THE COUCH. I have a phobia of putting my hands between the cushions to look for the remote for fear of getting crumbs under my finger nails. Bleh. I vacuum under the cushions once a week, which requires me to take apart my vacuum cleaner to make the extender work.
The biggest crumb magnet in our life is the trail that my 17th month old somehow manages to leave behind him wherever he goes! 😂
Biggest crumb magnets in my household are the spaces between the couch cushions and under the cabinets! Help!!!
Definitely the space between the sofa cushions! The cushions are attached so there’s just a deep crack that’s so hard to get to!
Definitely the couch for me as well. It just attracts allll the crumbs and likes to keep them in, too.
The couch! Trying to break the habit of snacking on the living room!
My couches for sure! The couches are right up there with the car seats though!
The right side of the couch where my husband sits gets the most crumbs… I wonder how?!? Lol I also have two dogs that I have to chase around that leave stuffed animal fluff and fur around! This would help, so I don’t have to hull a huge vacuum everywhere!!
My kid is the biggest crumb magnet. He gets up from the table and it doesn’t matter what we ate, there’s food stuck to his pants, feet, arms… everywhere!
My entire living room floor; it looks like a chip factory exploded. Between my MIL and then my 2 year old who gets food from my MIL, my living room floor is a disaster. But this would work WONDERS in my couch! I have all of these books and crannies that are so hard to get in
The floor around the high chair! And, technically not IN the house, but the car seat gets full of Cheerios and Goldfish that are tough to get out.
Biggest crumb magnet: obviously under my one year old high chair, OMG, everyday, 3 times a day, at least, I have to be constantly cleaning, vacuuming, wiping, you name it.
Our couch is our biggest crumb magnet since we do a lot of eating there! I don’t know how there are so many Cheerios between the cushions!
Where do I begin haha The hardwood with two pets and a five year old is bad but I swear the area rug in the family room is worse! Would love to not have to drag out the big vacuum every time I need to clean up crumbs or pet hair.
LITERALLY ANYWHERE MY DOG OR BOYFRIEND BREATHE AROUND. I don’t even know what’s real anymore. Please!! 🤪
My biggest crumb magnet is without a doubt the area where we keep our litter box for our Eevee! And also with six people in the house, 4 of them kids, the endless amount of crumbs through out the house, especially on the sofa, is another big one. This would make my life a whole lot easier!
Car seats!!! My kids are always “starving” every time they get into the car so they are always eating snacks in it. I have been wanting to invest in a portable little vacuum to clean my car more often and to make it easier than always using the shop vac!
My 3yo’s car seat and our couch for sure.
My silverware drawer!!! And I can’t figure out why 🤣
Omg mine too! Like how do you get crumbs where clean dishes are stored?!
100% in between the couch cushions. So gross!! Also under the two year old’s highchair!
Omg I so need one of those!!! Between my kids and my dogs I think it’s a tie as to who is the biggest crumb magnet!
I swear it’s my couch and the cup holders on the couch. My kids are big time snackers and leave their crumbs EVERYWHERE on the couch. This would be such a big help getting up all those little bitty crumbs.
The biggest crumb magnet is under the table where my littlest one sits!
Under our dining table!
In between the cushions on the couch! And we don’t allow food in the living room. How does that happen?
My couch and the rug in my son’s room. They’re always full of dog hair, chips crumbs, those goldfish that somehow break while still inside the bowl.
Our biggest crumb catcher is our kitchen. With a 9 year old wanting to try to make her own snacks and helping make dinner I am forever picking up in the kitchen. The Advaced Clean and dustbuster would definitely help!
My entire HOUSE is a crumb magnet for my 6 month old puppy, Blake, who is a girl not a boy! She wanders around eating her food, dropping piece by piece as she goes along. I swear, sometimes stepping on a piece of dog food is as bad as stepping on a Lego!
Under the couch is awful. I can only get under there with my normal vacuum every couple months so it gets really bad. I swear, the kids must be shoving things under there on purpose!
My obvious answer would be our couch, because let’s face it, TV is the best babysitter of all. And helps me out when my kids won’t eat. Thanks, TV. Thanks, Leather Couch.
My kids leave crumbs all over the dining area I’m constantly sweeping and vacuuming. My son is a crumb monster haha especially movie night when I have to move the couch the sweep/vacuum under it.
My car! It’s the worst! But also basically anywhere my 5 year old goes, crumbs will follow!
My living room rug is the worst! My daughter likes to eat snacks on it and the dogs fur gets all over it! Her room is a close second though!
Ugh, the grooves in the dining room table and the slats in the chairs. So gorgeous to look at but maybe I should have thought a little bit about cleaning it prior to buying it!
Under our kitchen table and around the food dish for the pets, and the bottom stair!
The couches and one carpeted room, that collect all the pet hair!! The worst!
Oddly, I think the rugs in our bathroom collect the most dog hair. 🙄 I think because our sweet girl lays on that rug every morning waiting for me to get out of the shower!
The cat hoovers them up!
Does the car count? So. Many. Crumbs. In all the crevices of my children’s car seats and the actual car underneath!
We have wood floors and I feel they are the biggest crumb magnet as a whole. I’ll vacuum and sweep, turn around, a new crumb appears. I feel the carpet hides them better or at least keeps the crumbs from moving across the floor due to friction. 😂. I’m sure the two kids, two dogs, and husband don’t help the situation.
The spice drawer in my kitchen drives me nuts with little bits of salt and everything everywhere but it’s too small for a regular vacuum. I end up trying to wipe it out with paper towels which is 🤪
The carpet! 4 seconds after I vacuum there are crumbs all over the floor and I haven’t given the kids any food!
The carpet under our high chair! Our baby is cute, but boy is she messy!
The legs of our dining table – really under the entire table. I sweep under there at least 3x a day -this would be so much better!!
Biggest crumb magnet is the sofa cushions, also the kids table always has crumbs
My foyer which is not a foyer and just a doormat lol. We have a shedding pine tree and one of those trees that’s pretty for a week then all the petals fall off. It’s the bane of my existence right now.
My biggest crumb catcher is for sure my car! I’m in college so I practically live out of that thing!
Ummm my whole house! Especially the hardwood floors! The floors in the kitchen and under the table! Do my kids food even make it in their mouths?!
Right now I feel like my whole house is a crumb magnet with my 15 month old walking around with snacks constantly but if I had to narrow it down it would have to be the couch where most snacks are consumed!
The couch! I keep telling my kids I’m not going to let them eat there anymore, but I always give in.
Between a chocolate lab and three boys I’m not sure if I can narrow it down to just one. The dog does clean up the boys crumbs but she replaces it with her hair! 😫
The biggest crumb magnet is my carpet….from postpartum hair loss 🙁
The high chair splash zone! The toddler and dog are in cahoots. At least she now says “mouth” & aims for the dogs mouth.
My biggest crumb magnet is my car! We are always on the go due to my oldest and her gymnastics and Girl Scout life! But with her being 11 and two littles under 6, snacks keep them entertained. Good for mommie until I look in the back seats and car seats😕
The car seats!!!! Every time I clean them out I feel like I could easily feed a couple more children 🙈🙈
Definitely my couch!
My biggest crumb magnet is definitely my hard floor. Kitchen and two dining tables/art tables. It seems no matter what I do I’m always stepping on something from someone!
My hardwood floors are terrible. They’re always dusty and furry. It doesn’t matter how often I clean them.
My biggest crumb magnet is our camper! Camping with 2 kids and 2 dogs it gets MESSY after a weekend in the woods. This would be perfect in that small space! Thanks for the chance.
Our biggest crumb magnet is definitely the couch. My kids always want to vacuum but our upright is a bit too much for them.
The couch of course! A place where we comfortably eat and entertain.
My couches. Ugh, they have crevices that my current vacuum just can’t get.
ugh-the floor under my 3 2/3 year old’s seat. So. Many. Crumbs.
My house. My house is the biggest crumb Manet. Followed closely by my child and car. Help!
Ugh. Magnet 🧲
Our biggest issue is the tiny crevice between the couch and the side table! It is a dog hair, dust, crumb, lego pieces, shopkins, you name it it’s there magnet!
Our biggest issue is the space between our fridge aNd the counter! Everything seems to collect there!
The back of the couch! My cat likes to chill there and his hair stays. Hope I win one to make it easier to keep clean for my grandson
My daughter is our crumbs factory, since she is a firm believer when you crumble your food it gets twice as much. (lol) Good thing is, she also likes cleaning. With this vacuum, she could do it on her own, that would be amazing.