I bought these bags for my sanitary counter. They work great, but sometimes the sleeve that attaches to the vacuum (it's a bit thicker than writing paper) breaks and the dirt gets into the cloth bag. Out of 12 bags this happened about 3 times while vacuuming and the last bag I tried to put in this morning just ripped all over but luckily that was before I started vacuuming. I had to throw it away. In general the pockets are good but not perfect.