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For the vacuum cleaner "scene" in your novel, you could say that she had the TV set on while she was doing some vacuuming right in fromt of the set. She sees that the TV set's CRT is having crazy colors running thru the picture on the CRT, and thinking that she is slowly destroying the TV set, turns off the vacuum cleaner right in front of the set. And the CRT now has purity issues and dammit I have to have the TV repairman back in. And a note saying had she just slowly kept vacuuming and eventually turned the vacuum off only when she was about ten feet away from the set the funny colors would have gone away (that she would have degaussed the set herself). If it fits your plot line, the TV repairman could show her this trick with her vacuum (maybe to make his customer feel better, good for future business).
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