Day 137 - Keep The Car Clean, Or At Least Try.

With 3 kids and 2 dogs, my car can become very messy. Over the years I have gotten used to candy stuck in the carpet, endless juice box straws and a weird smell that can only come from kids. It has always seemed to me to be part of parenting. We accept that our car will become a dump. But, that mind set is starting to lose it's charm.

I really don't like driving in a dirty car and I think that the kids need to understand that they need to throw their junk away, or bring their stuff into the house when we are done driving. Contrary to the opinion of children every where, the car is not another garbage receptacle. Today, I work on changing my mind set and the kids mind set. We treat the car with some respect and keep it clean. After all, we spend a lot of time driving from place to place. It is always nicer when it is clean.

In December I paid to have it cleaned and detailed. I know that sounds like a big expense. But, keep in mind that the car I am currently driving is 7 years old. My youngest was a baby when we bought it. I had never paid for such a service, but vowed to have clean and detail the car yearly after seeing what a difference it made. For the first few weeks the kids were motivated to keep the space clean. But, as time went by, they forgot and so did I. We change that today, today we start to keep it clean.