Your Car – Your Castle! – Keep it clean - Continued

Learn to use snacks that are not as messy – such as cut carrots instead of banana. Drink out of a container with a lid instead of a tea container or a can of soda. Bottles with lids prevent more spills more often. Instead of eating a muffin, opt for a bagel or a cookie that has less probably of crumbs. Pretzels could be better for some children instead of ice cream.  Learn to feed your children other types of snacks that won’t mean additional work for you later on in the day, week or month because they are easier to clean up right now.

Wipe down the inside of the vehicle when you are waiting on picking up one of the children from practice.  You can purchase many different types of disposable packages, so you can wipe the windows, wipe down the doors or the seats all with a wet nap and then throw it away. Armor all, sealants and protectors are almost all sold this ‘way’ now for convenience and storage.

Keep a little vacuum handy and charged in the garage. If you do find you have crumbs, rocks, sand or other little messy things in the car, you can sweep it out in five minutes flat by grabbing the little vacuum.  This prevents it from getting deep in the carpet making the carpet less appealing.

You car will smell fresher when you use any type of air freshener in it.  You can use fabreze, Lysol, your favorite cleaners, or just air cleaners that you set in the car – what ever type you use, you will love to be in your car more because it smells more like what you want it to. Don’t let the dog smells, smoke smells, dirty baby smells or traffic get to you when you climb in the car, use an air freshener and give yourself a delight!  Cars that smell fresher are worth more when you trade them in compared to the car that smells like a cigar or a wet dog.