r/workingmoms • u/Proper_Cat980 • Nov 28 '25

Working Mom Success Ro 👏🏼 bot 👏🏼 vac 👏🏼 uum

This is not an ad or a bot. I am a cheap and stubborn mom who is here to admit that I was wrong!

I am generally not a very spendy person. I tend to agonize over large purchases and resist consumerism when I can. But HECK you guys, we splurged on a robot vacuum a week ago and I cannot express how satisfying it’s been.

I’ve seen mixed results in reviews online but our house is like the perfect scenario with:

-single story

-hard floors

-minimal stuff and furniture with taller legs

Now before bed, we load the dishwasher while the robot vacuums and mops the house and wake up with floors clean like a fancy hotel. I would say I got an hour of my time back but let’s be honest, I was NOT cleaning the floors every day- we were just living in a grungy house lol.

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u/blossom_rays Nov 28 '25

For the one you picked, does it make a lot of noise? We have single story, hard wood floors… but my fear is that it will run all night and keep the dogs awake who sleep in the main living space, potentially us too. I saw the sale on Costco too though and had a thought about it. We have cleaners every two weeks but with the dogs I still have a mess within 3 days of the cleaning!

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u/ShadowlessKat Nov 28 '25

We have ours set to run each day starting at noon. It usually finishes the house by 5 pm.

Depending on the vacuum, you can schedule when it runs.

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u/blossom_rays Nov 29 '25

I work from home so I don’t want to hear it then either…

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u/ShadowlessKat Nov 29 '25

Oh that makes sense. I don't know that you'll find a vacuum that doesn't make any noise. You'd just have to schedule it for non work and non sleep hours I guess