Flashback to...

My junior high years and avocado shag carpet. I ran across an article about new trends in shag carpet and was immediately sent back a few years.
My sister is 15 years older than me. One summer I stayed with her to help babysit my nieces. My sister ran her own hair salon from her basement so she was near. I helped keep my 2 nieces upstairs and also helped with cooking and cleaning.
Along with her living room, there was another room upfront of the house that had shag carpet. It was part of mine and my older niece's duty to vacuum this shag carpet daily. Now that does not sound so bad but my sister is a super clean freak! Vacuuming would have been easy but no. Vacuuming consisted of: first a quick vacuum…then raking with a special shag carpet rake…vacuuming again and again. This process was done not just once a day but up to three times a day depending on my sister’s level of cleanliness.
In the rest of the house there were hard wood floors with various area rugs about. However you did not want to step on them as her floors were shined and polished and you would slip and slide on the rugs.
I have seen pictures of these new shag carpets and they do look softer and come in a larger variety of colors. I am also sure that with today’s carpets being made from different materials that the care will be a lot easier. Well, depending on if your sister is compulsive or not.