I finally got tired of carting our big vacuum up and down the stairs just to clean our area rugs. I did get a bit further behind on the vacuuming because this arrived a few days late due to a mixup in shipping, but once it arrived, the extra accumulated cat hair allowed it to prove its worth immediately. It picked up more in one pass than our big (non-Bissell) vacuum, and was easier to use and more maneuverable, as well. The only issue I ran into was that the bin only held about ½ a rug's worth of hair, but I can remedy that by vacuuming more frequently, which was the whole point of buying this in the first place. Couldn't be happier with the purchase!