I get a lot of value out of my Roomba. It takes me quite a bit longer than 10 minutes to vacuum manually. Whenever I want the Roomba to do its thing, I spend

I get a lot of value out of my Roomba. It takes me quite a bit longer than 10 minutes to vacuum manually. Whenever I want the Roomba to do its thing, I spend 5 minutes picking things up off the floor (mostly cat toys that I'd have to pick up anyway if I were vacuuming manually) that would trip it up, and then I start it up and ignore it. Sure, it takes longer to vacuum than I would, but aside from the initial 5 minutes of effort, I don't have to do anything. I do also have the model that goes back to the base station to empty its own bin; not having that would be annoying. Even my sister ended up buying one after I talked about it with her. She was looking for a way to make her daily nighttime kid cleanup ritual less work. Same deal with her: it takes longer for it to do its job than if she were doing it herself, but while it's vacuuming she can clean something else, and be ready for bed earlier than she'd otherwise be.