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3 story house, 2 kids and several rags here - our Roomba changed our lives. It forces you (and the kids) to clean all toys in the evening, it will clean the living room every night and then I carry it to other stories as I see fit. I have also adjusted all our furniture to either sit on the floor or be "roomba tall" - and now I can not imagine how people live with that dust under a sofa or a wardrobe :)

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Yes, the toys thing is great - we have the cleaning set at 10am every morning and you've never seen a kid scramble to tidy up so quickly as when she hears the robot start up!

I also have a couple of kids and have thought this would be a great side effect of getting a Roomba, but then I always think, after I clean up all the toys running an upright would only add 5% more effort to my total clean up time. Then again maybe that's a nice forcing function.

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