"I want to vaccuum"

It's my life. So we're cleaning so we can go away later this week and a friend will watch the house, etc... Anyway so we're vaccuuming, or actually the wife is and the vaccuum is not sucking. So we play with the vaccuum for awhile and she keeps saying we should take off the bottom. I keep saying that the belt is fine, newish and working. Now keep in mind that she does the vaccuuming (from other posts I bet you know what my job is!)... so she's sitting on the floor in the living room (imagine white rugs and black dog) vaccuuming with the hose, which seems to work fine. I finally finish cloroxing the stove to come in and help. She finally convinces me to dig a phillips head screwdriver out of the garage to remove the bottom plate. Once we get it off she shoves a finger up the hose and begins pulling out clumps of stuff, including plastic, and a poker chip! A white plastic poker chip clogging the hose from the base into the bagless filter area. We have a bit of a chuckle and I remind her that she's our designate vaccuumer. So I throw out the rubbish and she sets off again brilliantly. Then boom, snap no belt. Now I was the one who bought a new belt mere year ago and now here we're searching for a new belt 72 hours before our trip with a floor out of a bad McCartney/Wonder hit from the 80s. You know the one I mean. So she finds the extra belt I bought and we unscrew the bottom and the belt pops off intact! I reset the belt, screw it back together and empty the hair from the bag. And off she goes!