What do you do on a hot and sticky summer day? Clean the car out of course! And if you can get the whole family involved then maybe, just maybe, it won’t get that bad ever again. Well, one can hope…
“Honey, I just found a way to cut our gas costs,” my husband, Tom tells me. I’m thinking that being the brilliant guy that he is, he has figured out something new that I can tell you about in the Frugal Living Blog.
But no, that isn’t it. “With all of the pounds of stuff coming out of this car, it is bound to give us better gas milage.”
My husband, you see, has designated this afternoon for the “mini-van clean out” project. When I had last heard from him, he was trying to drum up enthusiasm in the kids to help muck out the stuff that has been accumulating for the last few months.
“Who wants to help clean out the car?!?” he asks enthusiastically.
The younger two fall for this and are eager to help. Our oldest knows better. I’m still recovering from an illness, so I have an excuse to sit on the couch in the air conditioning and watch the movie, “Tron.” This winds up being more torturous than removing melted hard candy from the floor of the car, so I drag myself out anyway. From the confines of the reclined front seat, designate items that are either trash or stuff that goes back into the house.
Tom is right. There is more stuff left in the mini-van than most people have in their living rooms. Every car seat is an island of its own, surrounded by each child’s own survival kit that includes several books, a ton of small toys and a church pretzel hard enough to hammer nails. And lest you think I was joking about China, there it is, wedged halfway under the front seat, a puzzle piece from a world map jigsaw.
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