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I’m a single mom with a toddler and a dog in the house — keeping things clean is a full-time job, and that’s before I sit down to write about fitness for Tom’s Guide. Recently, I swapped my cordless Dyson V8 for the corded Miele Guard M1 Cat and Dog Flex cleaner, and I’m never going back.The Dyson V8 is a cordless vacuum, which is often on sale for $589 in the US, but you can often find it on offer for a lot less. The Miele Guard M1 is a bagged canister vacuum, which is around the same price in the US. I put the two head-to-head over a month of testing

Dyson

V8

The Dyson V8 is an excellent cordless vacuum, with 40 minutes of power between charges.