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Tackle It Tuesday – Week 15

September 4, 2006 by Janice

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Tackle it Tuesday

Project to Tackle: Washing Our Van

I never wash my van by hand. I wait till I can’t bear it anymore and then I go through a car wash. On a rare occasion my husband will wash it for me. But pretty much I am a car wash kind of girl.

Now what makes this funny is that my when we were first married, and I had a second hand, but very cute, black Acura Integra, my husband told me not to go through car washes because they weren’t good for the car. (Well, what did he expect me to do – wash it by hand?!? We lived in an apartment complex with underground parking for goodness sakes.)

So off I headed to the car wash. And all would have been fine except I decided to listen to the radio as I sat there enjoying life as the giant brushes scrubbed my car. Oh – you mean I am supposed to turn off my radio and put down my antenna? Oh. I didn’t know that…Yes. I broke my antenna. So for the rest of our life with that car, I drove around with a bent antenna that only went half way down. (It is remarkable how many people will ask what happened when they see a mangled antenna.)

Now you would think that one car wash incident would be enough for me — but no — I am that dumb!

With our next car, which was a very old Acura Legend, I forgot to put the lid back on the gas cap and shut the little door. No big deal right? Happens to you all the time? Yes, well I decided to go through the car wash and I had no idea that my gas lid was undone and open.

Yes.

The car wash ripped of the little gas door thingy (what is that thing called?) Boy was I embarrassed to come home and show my husband that one! (Fortunately that car was on its last legs, so I wasn’t nearly as traumatized as when I damaged my other car.)

I haven’t had any problems yet with our minivan, but I imagine I will have some sort of incident soon enough.

But today the sun was shining and my van sat filthy in our driveway.

So Jackson and I tackled the van.

Unfortunately it wasn’t until Jackson started spraying the van down that I realized that this could be tackle-worthy. So I ran and grabbed my camera and started shooting, but not soon enough for a “before” picture. So close your eyes and picture a really dusty van with a lovely gift from a pigeon on my driver side window.

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Jackson had a blast soaking himself…

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I had a blast taking photos…

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And our van soon sparkled!

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Because I needed to make sure that it was impressive enough for you all, I did a very thorough wash, rinse and hand dry. I even cleaned the inside windows!

Do I rock or what?!?

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Each week on Tuesday, we are posting before and after pictures of a project or trouble area that we tackled this week.

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The project can be little or big – whatever you want. Basically, Tackle It Tuesday is about giving ourselves incentive, deadlines and satisfaction in getting our household tasks done.

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26 Comments

  1. MoneyDummy says

    September 5, 2006 at 7:22 pm

    Awesome! I love this meme! Just an FYI, the second and third links go to online stores.

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  2. turtle-hope says

    September 5, 2006 at 6:36 pm

    Kids washing the cars make the best pictures don’t they. Unfortunately, my kids have decided this year that they are too big to wash the car. I’m very sad. Well, they didn’t really say that, but every time I ask if they want to wash the car or I complain about how much it needs a bath and wouldn’t it be fun to wash it at home, I get a few grunts or silence. Oh well, maybe I’ll just do it and then splash them! Tee hee.

    BTW, my TT is up.

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  3. Rena says

    September 5, 2006 at 5:11 pm

    Those pictures are amazing!! Great job.

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  4. Tizzie says

    September 5, 2006 at 2:39 pm

    I’m a first timer, and to begin with I wondered what I had been thinking, but it sure feels good now!

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  5. Erna says

    September 5, 2006 at 12:45 pm

    Looks like lots of fun! I’m having issues getting photos to work with Blogger . . . seems to always be the case with me on Tuesdays. Maybe I’m just not meant to be tackling anything . . . ha ha ha! Tackling Blogger is more my issue. ;0) I hope to have it up later. I could just write about it but I like having the pics.

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  6. The Family CEO says

    September 5, 2006 at 9:29 am

    I did my first Tackle It Tuesday with the sports equipment organizer in our garage. Thanks for the motivation!

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  7. Barbara H. says

    September 5, 2006 at 9:25 am

    Thanks for all your hard work, Susan! I saw the “Faith Lifts” banner, but haven’t checked it out yet — but I will!

    Looks like Janice and Jackson had fun as well as got a job done. That’s the best way to go!

    I just got my project for the day done: putting labels on CD jewel cases.

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  8. flipflopmamma says

    September 5, 2006 at 7:35 am

    My poor car rarely gets a real washing. Rainstorms are the closest thing to a wash it’s gotten in quite some time.

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  9. Jessica Duquette says

    September 5, 2006 at 7:03 am

    great photos! I know, I am so lazy about washing the car, too. I could have used some ‘fun with water’ this weekend!

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  10. Jenn says

    September 5, 2006 at 6:11 am

    OH WOW…you two are always crazy busy!!! I can relate! 🙂

    Good for you on that van, wanna come do my car after all this rain stops?! Man 6 weeks with no rain then WAHM rain all day every day! I’m sick of it! 🙂

    Working on getting mine up now! 😀

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  11. Jessica says

    September 5, 2006 at 5:28 am

    How cute is that?!? He looks like he is having so much fun!!! LOL Too bad I don’t have that much fun cleaning the car…I guess that’s the reason dh usually does it!

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  12. Erin says

    September 5, 2006 at 5:13 am

    I have my Tackle It Tuesday up! I did our daughters’ bathroom – it needed it! Take care!

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  13. Mom2fur says

    September 5, 2006 at 4:59 am

    Wow, great job! The van looks like it just rolled off the assembly line!

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  14. Friday's Child says

    September 5, 2006 at 4:26 am

    Not a member but you sure did a good job. Jackson sure had a lot of fun spraying that car and sure is shiny. Can even see the inside. Good Job.

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  15. eph2810 says

    September 5, 2006 at 4:12 am

    Just wanted to let you both now. The second and third link do not have tackles…

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  16. MamaDuck says

    September 5, 2006 at 3:55 am

    Wow, it looks great!! I’ve done a similar thing with an antenna and a car, I think I can count on one hand the times I’ve taken any car through a real car wash, actually ;). Come on over and wash both of mine now, ok? 😉

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  17. eph2810 says

    September 5, 2006 at 3:47 am

    Way to go Janice. I love how you had a helping hand with Jackson. Your van looks so shiny :). Care to come done and wash another car?

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  18. Fruitful Spririt says

    September 5, 2006 at 3:36 am

    I have seen this over at Iris’s for months now so I thought I would add my tackles now and then. Seems we all have plenty. I did two this week, one has been on going for over a month and finally done so I had to share!

    For some reason once I got married my truck only gets washed once a year! And since hubby now drives it all the time, well, I wish my boy was little again and willing to wash!

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  19. Jodi says

    September 5, 2006 at 2:41 am

    What a great car washer you have! Can he come over and do mine?

    Happy Tuesday!

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  20. Renee says

    September 5, 2006 at 1:27 am

    I did my first Tackle it Tuesday! Thanks for the motivation.

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  21. :ass the Torch says

    September 5, 2006 at 12:54 am

    That’s a cute story! You may never need to go to a summer car wash again — looks like your son doesn’t mind helping out at all!!

    Oh, and the gas door thingy? It’s called a “gas door thingy”;)

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  22. tanyetta says

    September 4, 2006 at 9:48 pm

    I tackled my stove! The ins and out. It sparkles now 🙂
    I didn’t take any BEFORE and AFTER photos though 🙁

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  23. Shereen says

    September 4, 2006 at 8:58 pm

    Hi Susan, I know how hard it is to find the time for things. Well, Janice did a great job with that van. Do you think she’ll want to come over and do our cars? lol ;0) I hope she really enjoys her away time.

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  24. Susan says

    September 4, 2006 at 8:05 pm

    Hi Everyone,

    I just wanted to mention that Janice is actually still away on her long weekend in the wilderness. She wrote this Tackle It Tuesday before she left and I have posted it for her.

    She will be back late Tuesday night and so she’ll visit all your Tackle It posts on Wednesday.

    I am also sorry that I haven’t been doing much blog visiting in her absence… I have been swamped with other work here on the site and on our new projects. Including the just released Faith Lifts – have you checked it out yet? Isn’t it great. Heather and Laura basically did all the work… I just took too long to install the blog and start getting it set up. Then practically as soon as I handed it over to them — Presto — it was done!!! They are the fastest designers and writers I’ve ever met. If I could just do stuff as fast as they can, I’d have all day to spend blog visiting.

    *Sigh*

    Now I have to get back to adding blogs to Our Readers Blogs directory. We have great blogs being added there all the time, so remember to keep checking back.

    Talk soon,
    Susan

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