Here are the top ranked choices via consumer reports:

My wife likes her Bissell Ready Clean cordless vacuum. It has an agitator and the vacuum can become a handheld as well for hitting tight corners.


Bissell Ready Clean Cordless

If its in the budget you'd like to spend Amazon Prime Day Deals are going on, they have a nice stick vacuum that converts to a hand held with plenty of attachments, $110, very similar to the Dyson style stick vacuums and they have sold a lot, there are over 13K ratings and it's a 4.8 star unit.

Foppapedretti Stick Vacuum Link

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Originally posted by PeteF:

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Originally posted by h2oys:
This Shark has been outstanding and also had very high consumer reports grades.

Second this. Very good for small messes in the kitchen. Has a metal filter screen and a pleated paper filter. Allows you to clean flour and such without blowing it all over the place. Mines ~3yo. No issues. Was ~100 IIRC

Another vote for this one. Just bought one from Costco. Really like it so far.

I was given the Dyson, and wouldn't have spent that money. However, having had it for several years now, I think it is worth $300. Every other small cordless vac I have had was either worthless after a year because of battery problems or was worthless from the start because it wouldn't pick up anything that weighed more than ashes.

The Dyson, with the stick and floor head is actually a competent room vacuum. It is a great handheld without the stick and using the more traditional handheld attachments. Most importantly it has been durable.

It is expensive, but I would say it is worth it.

I like the Milwaukee hand held, if for no other reason that it takes the Milwaukee rechargable batteries I already use.

$107 Amazon Link

Not really a hand-held but I just bought this Milwaukee vac.

https://www.amazon.com/Milwauk...id=1689110481&sr=8-2



Uses my 18V batteries and very compact and works pretty dang good.
I bought the wife a Dyson hand-held that also converts to something push-able but IMO it's performance lackluster.
The Milwaukee is a winner, IMO.

I have a Bissell AeroSlim that’s about $40 and does everything I need it to do. It’s not any kind of replacement for something bigger or designed for large messes but it works great on small jobs.

That Shark WV201 is on sale in Amazon's Prime Day $83

We purchased an LG Cord Zero A9 on a Walmart flash sale last winter. Used it as a secondary vacuum at our office for quick messes or places our commercial vacuum couldn't reach well (crevices). This summer we moved it into our coach as intended. It came with 2 batteries, and has a convenient charging station and a number of accessories. 2 dogs with hardwood floors, granite tile, and a bunch of runner rugs. We use it twice a day in the coach. We've been fulltime in this coach for a month now, and I'm very grateful for the vacuum. It works great on pet hair, multi-surfaces (including the dog beds). A single battery will get the whole 40' coach clean. I've yet to have a battery die and still have more vacuuming to do. I installed the charging station in the master bedroom closet, the cradle charges the secondary battery as well as the primary installed in the vacuum head. It charges reasonably fast and doesn't seem to consume too much power (which matters when you're off-grid running an inverter and generator for 2 weeks).

Here's a link:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Res...efurbished/689437485

It looks like the current price is $20 more than we paid, and I don't believe we got a refurbished model.

Black and Decker Dustbuster at Walmart. $20 rechargeable. My wife bought one for her sewing room, it works so well, I had her grab one for my gun room. I’d like one more for the kitchen for when I look down from the breakfast bar and see crumbs all over the floor!

We have a Black and Decker Dustbuster that was ranked well when we got it several years ago. It’s performed well (2 speeds) and, IIRC, wasn’t terribly expensive

Black & Decker BDH2000SLB.
The unit has a paper replaceable filter and 20 V lithium battery. Ours has run flawlessly for for years.

Another vote for Shark WV201

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Originally posted by parabellum:
What do you like for a cordless handheld vaccuum that doesn't cost 300 dollars?

All of the tool manufacturers make them, if you have cordless drills etc. Ryobi, dewalt both work well and use the normal drill batteries.