I bought my parents a $200 upright vacuum cleaner the other year, and I have to use it a lot. It's fine except it's a little loud, a whiny shriek, and sometimes it gets clogged and for some reason unbeknownst to me they made it so tou have to unscrew a bunch of screws on the bottom just to open it to unclog it. I don't see why they didn't just put a couple of latches there or something. IIRC I got them that one because the previous one would always get clogged. And also it was from like the '80s and we never seemed to have bags for it because they became so hard to find. The one I bought them is bagless, which is nice.