G5 Basic

With allergies, vacuuming is frequent especially with large in door pets for over 30 years! - have only owned preowned older well maintained high end vacs - only 1 vac has ever burned up motor wise which was a kirby g5 in all those years! Getting ready to pull out a 1977 rainbow "chrome dome" which was given to me free and came from a resale shop - it had a new motor and a newer eureka powerhead. Fabulous vac!

Kenmores are a dime a dozen on marketplace. Likewise, a light use kirby can be had for 60 bucks.

The Kirby G5 is your best bet. It’s a beast of a vacuum but will out clean and outlast anything from bissell or shark by decades.

Congratulations! Kirby should last you a very long time with just general maintenance and upkeep.

Kirby G5 here. Kirbys can be had cheap used on FB Marketplace.

Buy a used Kirby vacuum on FB marketplace. Go for a Heritage 2 or later G series Kirby vacuum and you'll be quite satisfied. With the G series, Sentria, or Avalir models, you can find a lot of attatchments for them. They made the same basic vacuum and attatchemts for 30+ years so they are interchangeable. You can still get parts for all of them. The Heritage 2 and older ones are great vacuums but parts and attatchments for them aren't as easy to find. They're still out there though on ebay a lot. Any vacuum store is more likely to carry parts for the newer ones. These Kirby vacuums are a bit heavy and bulky but they have so many uses and last forever. I have one from the 1950s that still works great! You can't buy a better vacuum for longevity. 

Just get a $50 Kirby at the thrift store. My mom would buy those cheap vacuums and they always just vaguely worked then would blow up for the dumbest reason. I got a G series Kirby at Goodwill for $18, a Royal for $20 and a Dyson DC46 cannister vac for $20- so if you look, you can find a nice vacuum for cheap.