No matter how lightly you tread, your shoes are high powered dirt magnets that inevitably bring the outdoors in. Luckily, others handle the indoor vacuuming at my home – it’s one of the perks of marriage. But my luck ends at the driveway, an unpaved witch’s brew of dirt, leaves and stump grindings. Car floorboards quickly become debris pits, then I’m sent to the gas station pay-vac (another marital “perk”) to evict the ick. We recently received a Makita 18V LXT cordless portable vacuum cleaner to check out. The XCV11 is a brushless battery powered wet/dry vac, dust extractor and blower. And it turned my chore into my pleasure! Read More