To be impressed and ever so slightly jealous that I never thought of this??

[ownedbySWD]

Took DC to the country park today, and while waiting for a space in the carpark, noticed another mum packing up. Before folding her buggy into the boot, she pulled out a scrubbing brush and scrubbed each wheel! She then replaced it into its plastic baggie cover, popped it into the bottom of the buggy and happily loaded it - mud free! - into her boot.

Am now eyeing my own grubby-wheeled buggy with a new perspective entirely!

Ah well, it matches the grubby, muddy dog....

[ThePlatypusAlwaysTriumphs]

Haha! I had 2 dogs as well as 3 dc under 5, my car is just called "the skip". Give not a fuck!

[iMogster]

I have a plastic car boot liner. It was dirt cheap ,anyway my boot isn't dirty and I can just shake dry mud off the liner now and again. No faffing about and boot isn't dirty or in need of hoovering.

[AGnu]

We keep a black bag in the car to put under the buggy when it gets really bad. The only other thing I do to keep the car vaguely clean is keep the DC's wellies in a carrier bag when they're filthy. I discovered that it's possible to sit a child in the boot, place wellied foot inside carrier bag & remove welly from foot without getting my hands dirty. Putting the middle seat down means the child can crawl through to their seat without shoes on & without needing to be carried. Apparently it's hilarious to run the metre from the car to the front door while barefoot!

[ownedbySWD]

Dinosaurs I was practicing being zen. ;) I need a lot of practice at it.

[AhhhhThatsBass]

There's a big asda near me which does a full valet service (including interior) for around £17. I just do that. Mind you, I don't think my buggy wheels ever get that dirty.

[Dinosaursdontgrowontrees]

Am I the only miserable cow that would be pissed off if I was waiting for a parking space and some tosser was cleaning her buggy wheels before she put it in the car! Get in the car and piss off so I can have your space!

[arrrrghhwinehelpswithteens]

ooo shower caps for buggy wheels. My DB’s partner is pregnant, due in Feb, and he’s bloody OCD about dirt & his cars so I think I’ll get some to put in the welcome box!!! 👍👍

[mygorgeousmilo]

*precious about dirt I mean!

[mygorgeousmilo]

We have a washing basket in our boot, where all the filthy stuff goes. I let them get absolutely rotten at forests and beaches and the like - but when we get to the car I clean everyone off and put anything really filthy in the basket. We also take wellies to farms etc in an empty box and clean socks to wear on the way home. I have been known to put water with a tiny bit of detergent in an empty laundry liquid bottle to rinse off wellies on the way home. I let the kids be wild and free and get muddy and be normal, I’m not previous anout dort or their clothes - just don’t really want it to go all over the car and be traipsed through the hallway as soon as we get in. I can’t stand going to outdoorsy places and watching parents get cross with their kids for getting dirty, but yeah I do my best to de-mud them once we’re done.

[SecretSmellies]

God I love the washing basket in the boot idea.

[serialtester]

I have never worried about pushchair wheels or hoovered the boot of a car or worn or owned a shower cap.

[MycatsaPirate]

I am totally lazy when it comes to keeping my car clean and relatively tidy. There is always stuff in it, the boot currently has three folded down rescue boxes (for birds/small wildlife), an old booster seat that we don't need but am reluctant to throw away 'just in case' and a few carrier bags.

If it wasn't for DP washing and hovering the cars and van, they wouldn't get done. I do enough cleaning inside the house.

Just as an aside, at our local beach they have a dog shower. It's bloody brilliant (although I don't have a dog, I like watching other people put their dogs in it). Literally a huge Perspex box with enough space for two dogs, shower attachment and then buttons to press for water, shampoo, conditioner, even flea stuff! Then blow dry. Perfect for sandy dogs.

[Spudlet]

Nononono. If you keep the inside of the car clean, the outside will look dirtier in contrast. It's far better if it all matches.

Also, ds likes flinging himself headfirst into muddy puddles. This is not me exaggerating for comic effect or anything. He returns from walks looking like a spa attendee after a particularly satisfying full body mud pack. Thank god for waterproof everything... but the clean car ship sailed a looooong time ago

[notforyou]

I may be wrong , but that boot buddy product I remember from dragon's den! (See 1st comment) I remember thinking , how clever !

Anyone?

[Headofthehive55]

The only thing I've dried in the back if the car is a couple of pairs of knickers when we went impromptu paddling on a hot day so the kids just went in their knickers and I dried them on the parcel shelf on the way home!

[Headofthehive55]

I have never once cleaned a pram wheel...what do you do with scooters, bikes, football boots? Mucky children ?

[Lovingit81]

What happened to just getting the car cleaned every few weeks??

[Headofthehive55]

You hoover a car boot?

[HenryBiggleswade]

Argh I hate dirty pram wheels! Not so much because it gets the car dirty but because it can make the pushchair fabrics muddy. I used to chuck an old towel/blanket over the wheels to stop them touching the fabrics

[Toomanyspotsforagrownup]

I’m so please someone else uses the word pantaloons!!

[LoveBeingAMum555]

Sunday mornings when my boys used to play footie there would be parents stripping their kids in the car park after a match while the kids shivered with their teeth chattering. I couldn't care less, my kids just jumped in our car wrapped in an old towel if needs be. Explains why I never had a decent car I suppose.

[PovertyPain]

I could stir my house with a stick but my car is immaculate.
😆 If I left my mucky car parked for two long, someone would think it was abandoned! 😳😁

[Handygarrottes]

Now making your dc wear rubber gloves for painting is really sad .... sad....just ...sad.

[MrsKnightley]

We just throw away our cars when they get too dirty! Works for us.

(Disclaimer - we only buy really, really old cars and then run them into the scrapyard.)

[lemureyes]

Good idea, but have to say I'm a bit lazy for scrubbing them.

I'd probably put a shower curtain the the boot (thanks PP) then use one of those bottles of water with a pump to increase the pressure. Can't think what they're called now but you can get them from gardening shops. Then I can have a mini pressure washer for in the car. 😀