Car Disgustingness
I cleaned out my car today. You can be shocked, it’s alright.
I didn’t go to any extremes like using carpet shampoo or anything, but it has literally been years since it got vacuumed. I’m not kidding. It was disgusting. I didn’t remember to take a before picture but it’s okay because I wouldn’t want to violate the Internet with something like that. And I’m not taking an after picture because it would just look like most people’s BEFORE pictures.
I mostly manage to keep my house clean. My car, not so much. It’s just so not a priority. First of all, have you seen it?
It is a totally rad nineteen-eighty-seven beat up pile of metal Honda Accord. It is awesome I tell you. We’ve driven it all over the place, on multiple long-distance trips and everywhere in between since we paid a grand total of five hundred bucks for it almost six years ago.
It has been bumped into trucks, smashed deer, seen its share of leaks, and had various innards go out, but my trusty fix-it-all husband over here keeps her running and swears we’ll have her till Sarah is sixteen and we can give it to her as her first car!
Awesome.
I’m so ready to have another kid just so we HAVE to get a van. (Just kidding, I want more babies anyway, because, BABIES!)
I promise if we ever do get a semi-decent vehicle, I will take care of her inside and out.
- I won’t wait till it rains to pull it out of the garage so it can have a shower.
- I will ban all foods except for on long trips, and then I promise to vacuum as soon as we get there. I will not allow any toy, book, or other article to be taken in there except it be brought back out as soon as we get home.
- I will not allow somebody’s wet panties to slip under the front seat only to be forgotten until they dry up so much the smell disappears and everyone forgets all about them for several months.
- I will remember to roll up the windows so leaves and dust don’t blow in.
- I will keep an Old Navy bag hooked to the gear shifter thingie to serve as a trashcan and TRASH WILL GO IN IT!
Actually, all of those rules are in place as of this second, even with the junky old car, because she is what we have right now and I should take better care of her!
And because I spent entirely too long cleaning her out and I want all that work to last longer than ten minutes!
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The house, it is under contract! They were asking 129,000 (down from 136), we offered 123, they countered at 125, and, even though they sent us the inspection report (which the previous potential buyers paid for) and there are some things we’ll need to fix, it is still an amazing deal and we’re taking it. Someone else even put another offer in today, so I’m glad we’re under contract. July 14th is the closing day.
Now I’m just dreaming of how to furnish it. Someday, you know, when we have extra money floating around. Probably after the day when we can get a van. ;)
mom
RE: the cockroach question a while back…at 3:30 in Virginia this morning as we were getting into the car for the airport, (after dad telling him he might have a cockroach crawling up his leg) your little brother asked, ‘What’s a cockroach?’
I guess we didn’t have any in Stafford or NN and definitely not in CO or UT. Poor kid…he’s so deprived!
jessica
So I came over to see if you’d written anything about the shampoo free stuff and this post came up and then this sentence made me laugh out loud and is probably my most favorite sentence of yours ever:
It is a totally rad nineteen-eighty-seven beat up pile of metal Honda Accord.
Bwhahahaha! I don’t know why, but I love that.
Simply Mother
Ha, you should see the thing in person, it would make you laugh too. There’s a splotch of dirt on one of the doors that has been there for 2 years and I guess we just don’t get enough storms here to get it washed off. Sad, I know.
I haven’t written about the shampoo-free thing, I’m not sure why. I guess I was waiting to see if I was really committed, and I’m still not sure. I love that I don’t have to wash my hair as frequently–it doesn’t really get greasy, just kind of limp and hard to style after a couple of days. Right after I wash it with the baking soda/acv method, it is really nice and easy to style, and it seems to hold a style/stay in place better, even without any product in it.
But I have been noticing a lot little white specks in it. The hair-cutter lady said it’s not dandruff, she thinks it’s just dry skin. I didn’t tell her what I was doing, but she told me to try a conditioner with tea tree oil in it so I might just try putting some in with the ACV.