Vacuuming socks and toys

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Hey people! The other week I was just cleaning the house again, and as usually I went through the rooms of my kids (6 and 8) before vacuuming there so I don't pick anything up that I'm not supposed to. I hated that I always did that because I wanted them to learn to keep their rooms clean themselves. But when I started to vacuum, something unexpected happened. I did not notice the tip of a sock coming from under the bed, and I went right over it with the vac. To my surprise, the vacuum did not even flinch and just got loud for a second, and then the sock already went "schlooop" through the hose. Now this really speaks for Dyson vacuums (it was a really long sock either!). Because I decided to not get the sock out of the vacuum, I changed my parenting methods from this day on. From now on, I never went through their rooms beforehand und just went for it with the vacuum. I picked up a lot of socks, legos, polly pockets etc. before my kids eventually learned to clean up properly. Do you guys have similar methods or do you not vacuum up things intentionally sometimes? :D