Love how light weight it is, I love the stick style type of vacuum, I find I vacuum a lot more often when I don't have to drudge out the big upright vacuum or carry a heavy one up and down stairs. We have a dog and kid so we vacuum a lot - the hard floors, the stairs and the couch almost everyday. The cord is the only thing that holds me up, I am a cordless person and would love to have this same thing but rechargeable instead of tethered to a wall. Otherwise it's great for us. We don't have any carpet, so I don't know how it works on carpets.