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

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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....

I could stir my house with a stick but my car is immaculate.

I more often have people in my car than my house and the car is much smaller and easier to keep than my house :)

I used to have a massive mountain buggy and two big hairy shedding dogs to walk around twice a day in the park and initially I used to brush the worst off with a dustpan and brush kept in the car for the purpose. However eventually I just thought g&t£@? It and embraced the mud. Things have been better since then !

Which reminds me of the time my dd threw up in the back of the car, and because the floor was so covered in rubbish none of the sick touched the car interior, I just had to bag up the sick covered rubbish. Reasons to be untidy No1

Woman after my own heart, didnthappen! No good ever comes of being tidy.

Some people are just so fabulous at every single aspect of adulting aren't they?

Yep.

Yep I don't mind a bit of mud and dirt! It's a bit like people who don't like kids playing in sandpits

I am firmly in team 'old banger covered in mud'. Cheaper, less effort, less stress still envious of that level of organisation and cleanliness though

I used to just let the car get filthy. Worked for me.
ditto

Shower caps over each wheel.

I ordered that boot cleaner thing linked above (thank you ) for DH for Christmas for his walking boots - I expect he'll make this face . But it's more for at home (he doesn't car his car his filthy) it might stop him washing his boots in the bloody sink!

I suspect the mud is what's holding my car together..

Although if I put some kind of giant shower cap (extra large Femidom? ) over ds that would solve most mess problems..

Seems easier and more effective to just keep an old towel or sheet in the boot.

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. 😀

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.)

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

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! 😳😁

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.

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

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

You hoover a car boot?

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

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

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!

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

Anyone?

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