diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6976b38..0a4a1a7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ## [Unreleased]
 
 - *chore*: add sentinel example
-- *feat**: idempotency for tasks (#67)
+- *feat*: idempotency for tasks (#67)
+- *chore*: streamline vacuuming and examples (#68)
 
 ## [1.0.0-rc.7] - 2026-04-09
 
diff --git a/examples/vacuum.rs b/examples/vacuum.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7c1c6bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/vacuum.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+use std::env;
+
+use apalis::prelude::*;
+use apalis_core::backend::Vacuum;
+use apalis_redis::{RedisConfig, RedisContext, RedisStorage};
+use redis::Client;
+
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() {
+    let client = Client::open(env::var("REDIS_URL").unwrap()).unwrap();
+    let conn = client.get_connection_manager().await.unwrap();
+    let mut backend = RedisStorage::new_with_config(
+        conn,
+        RedisConfig::default()
+            .set_namespace("redis_vacuum_worker")
+            .set_buffer_size(100),
+    );
+    backend.push(42).await.unwrap();
+    async fn task(task: u32, ctx: RedisContext, wrk: WorkerContext) -> Result<(), BoxDynError> {
+        let handle = std::thread::current();
+        println!("{task:?}, {ctx:?}, Thread: {:?}", handle.id());
+        wrk.stop().unwrap();
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    let worker = WorkerBuilder::new("rango-tango")
+        .backend(backend.clone())
+        .on_event(|ctx, ev| {
+            println!("CTX {:?}, On Event = {:?}", ctx.name(), ev);
+        })
+        .build(task);
+    worker.run().await.unwrap();
+
+    // You can combine this with apalis-cron to vacuum on interval
+    backend.vacuum().await.unwrap();
+}
diff --git a/lua/vacuum.lua b/lua/vacuum.lua
index 82327f9..15e4b7b 100644
--- a/lua/vacuum.lua
+++ b/lua/vacuum.lua
@@ -1,26 +1,25 @@
--- Lua script to clean up data in Redis
+-- KEYS[1]: the task data hash
+-- KEYS[2]: the metadata prefix (e.g. "task_meta")
 
--- Define the keys
-local done_list_key = KEYS[1]
-local data_hash = KEYS[2]
+local terminal_statuses = { Done = true, Failed = true, Killed = true }
+local result_hash = KEYS[2] .. ":result"
 
--- Iterate through done_list
-local done_list_ids = redis.call('ZRANGE', done_list_key, 0, -1)
+local deleted = 0
 
--- Initialize a variable to count the number of removed items
-local removed_items_count = 0
+local fields = redis.call("hgetall", KEYS[1])
 
-for _, id in ipairs(done_list_ids) do
+-- fields is a flat list of [field, value, field, value, ...]
+for i = 1, #fields, 2 do
+  local task_id = fields[i]
+  local meta_key = KEYS[2] .. ':' .. task_id
+  local status = redis.call("hget", meta_key, "status")
 
-    local is_member = redis.call('HEXISTS', data_hash, id)
-    if is_member == 1 then
-        -- Remove entry from data_hash
-        redis.call('HDEL', data_hash, id)
-        removed_items_count = removed_items_count + 1
-    end
+  if status and terminal_statuses[status] then
+    redis.call("hdel", KEYS[1], task_id)
+    redis.call("hdel", result_hash, task_id)
+    redis.call("del", meta_key)
+    deleted = deleted + 1
+  end
 end
 
--- Clean the done_list
-redis.call('DEL', done_list_key)
-
-return removed_items_count
+return deleted
diff --git a/src/fetcher.rs b/src/fetcher.rs
index 9fac310..451b51f 100644
--- a/src/fetcher.rs
+++ b/src/fetcher.rs
@@ -197,8 +197,6 @@ pub fn deserialize_with_meta<'a>(
             Some(idempotency_key_raw)
         };
 
-        dbg!(&idempotency_key);
-
         let meta = meta_fields[9..]
             .chunks(2)
             .filter_map(|chunk| {
diff --git a/src/queries/mod.rs b/src/queries/mod.rs
index 9f171a8..bee1c31 100644
--- a/src/queries/mod.rs
+++ b/src/queries/mod.rs
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ mod list_queues;
 mod list_tasks;
 mod list_workers;
 mod metrics;
+mod vacuum;
 mod wait_for;
diff --git a/src/queries/vacuum.rs b/src/queries/vacuum.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5e22c48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/queries/vacuum.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+use apalis_core::backend::Vacuum;
+use apalis_core::backend::codec::Codec;
+use redis::aio::ConnectionLike;
+
+use crate::RedisStorage;
+
+impl<Args, Conn, C> Vacuum for RedisStorage<Args, Conn, C>
+where
+    Args: Unpin + Send + Sync + 'static,
+    Conn: ConnectionLike + Clone + Send + Sync + 'static,
+    C: Codec<Args, Compact = Vec<u8>> + Unpin + Send + 'static,
+    C::Error: std::error::Error + Send + Sync + 'static,
+{
+    async fn vacuum(&mut self) -> Result<usize, Self::Error> {
+        let vacuum_script = redis::Script::new(include_str!("../../lua/vacuum.lua"));
+        vacuum_script
+            .key(self.config.job_data_hash())
+            .key(self.config.job_meta_hash())
+            .invoke_async(&mut self.conn)
+            .await
+    }
+}