hi welcome back everybody I am Andrea Jean for all your cleaning organization
inspiration and ideas and today we are cleaning out the minivan yes that's
right after a long winter it's time to finally really get in here and deep
clean that so if you're interested in that let's get into it
in order to make this a very satisfying car clean out I have to show you the
before and some of you might be asking yourself where is all your garbage and
to tell you we have a garbage can right outside the van when you pull into the
garage so whenever we're getting out of the van or into the van we're always
putting garbage in there so that just helps make things a little bit more
maintainable also our kids don't have a ton of toys that we let them bring in
here because they end up dropping them of fighting over them so it just makes
it overall easier the first thing I decided to do was take out all the
little garbage that we had but all the things that have just accumulated we did
have some baby toys in here we had hair stuff from my daughter we had blankets
extra clothes diapers things that no longer needed to be in the van now I'm
not finding a home for those items just yet my main focus is just getting it out
of the van and I'm gonna worry about it later you can see that white garbage can
that I was referring to later that's the exact one that we use it's right outside
the van right before we enter the house now when I originally thought about
doing a van clean out our car clean out today I thought you know what I'll wipe
everything down and then I'll go in and vacuum it out but what I found to be a
bit more efficient in my case rather than having to unplug the vacuum is I
divided the van into two parts I did the left side first and then I went on and
did the right side
now that I've gotten the extra junk out of here I'm just taking these car wipes
and wiping down the surfaces you all I have to tell you something about this
van it is old not extremely old but old enough this was our first all-cash
purchase after we became debt-free and following the Dave Ramsey plan so we've
had this van for two to three years I can't remember time goes so fast but you
will I am gonna drive this van until the wheels fall off the engine who falls
through the bottom I just I have a lot of sentimental value of what this van
symbolizes for us but I absolutely love it it's aged its glory and I have to
tell you my cousin has a sticker on her van and it says I used to be cool I
totally have to get that I remember telling my colleagues and my 20s that I
would never drive a minivan don't mind my husband there he's always up for a
good joke
here we are moving on to the trunk you see those bags there I always keep them
for miscellaneous things for grocery shopping if something disgusting you
know what with three kids needs to go home in it and then we always have to
fleece blankets that we keep for a variety of reasons one it's really nice
in the summer if you're at the park and you need some place to sit on and two in
the winter in the Midwest here it gets so cold and you never know what could
happen so I just always tried to be prepared and so that's why we always
keep those blankets back there now if you are looking for some cheap car
cleaning materials I went to the dollar store recently I'm going to link the
whole video here in the description and at the end and they have a ton of great
car cleaning stuff you should definitely check it out
it feels so nice to finally get this van whipped into shape I have been
contemplating cleaning this out for several weeks now and today I had a
strike while the iron is hot and I said honey can you watch the kids while I get
this done and it probably took me about 30 minutes or so so not that much time
my daughter so desperately wanted to help me out here and so I told her at
the end she can help me spray the windows so you'll have a sneak peak of
that
not too shabby it is smelling real good in here and all that dust is gone and
the majority of the dirt is cleaned up I'm liking that we got some carpet
stains there I'm a tack those another day but generally it is all shiny now
ready to get all dirtied up for the summer thank you so much for joining me
here today I hope I gave you some inspiration to get your wheels cleaned
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