As I was looking through submissions of beautiful snow photos to my group, Absolutely Everything Winter, I was reminded of an age old dispute that I've had with my darling husband since our first date.
It snowed that evening, and as I watched him scrape snow and frost from his car windshield with a credit card, I wondered Why? Why would anyone who lives in a state with up to six months of snow not have a scraper?
I married him anyway, but for years we waged the Battle of the Snow scraper. I maintain that this small, indispensable, snow & ice scraper takes up so little room that it should be kept in the vehicle permanently. He contends that snow scrapers should be banished to the garage for summer storage, where they will be lost or used by kids as light sabers and need to be replaced in November, usually after the first snow.
I've interviewed friends. Most women agree with me. Men are more likely to side with Bill, although I have yet to hear a good reason cited for removing the scraper.
What do you think? Keep it in the car or stash it in the garage?
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Although I live in VA, and if it snows enough to need an ice scraper(ie about 2 inches or more), VA becomes completely crippled and you pray you have enough groceries to last until the store opens again. :)
I store it in the garage until November!
Of course if you don't put it in the car on time, you do have backup. You can clean the windshield with the credit card to demonstrate a clear vision of your financial opportunities.
...priceless!
I live in very snowy country, so I also have one of those gadgets with a scraper on one end, a long handle, and a brush on the other. It's usually mid summer before I remember to toss it in the trunk.
I have a long walk from my where I park to my office building, so I also keep an umbrella in the trunk, big enough to house a 3-ring circus.
So my trunk always has an umbrella, a shovel, a bag of sand and an old blanket for traction, a set of those battery-starting cables, as well as a fold-up chair for impromptu summer outdoor concerts. Oh, and for the kids: a couple of squirt guns, a diving mask, rocks picked up from a Lake Superior shoreline, and a very sharp brass arrowhead that they found while on a ramble through the woods by my folks' northern cabin.
I'm a clutter freak. Clutter bugs me, except in my studio. If I won't need it all summer, it goes under the work bench. If I forget to put it in before the first frost, I use a credit card, then put it in. Do you carry an extra pair of Muck lucs just in case?
Rest easy
After a heavy snow, scraping isn't usually necessary, so I head out with the push broom.. nice soft one... and push the snow off all the vehicles, then hop on my yard tractor and plow away.
In cleaning out the car and truck, I've found ice scrapers from two years ago, under the seats.
You would start me talking about snow... now I suppose it'll snow for a week straight. ( I hope so anyway.. it'll hide all the leaves I have as yet to rake. I'm still enjoying the "fall" part of trees and to heck with the neighbors! )
Knowing what the garage looks like, I can very well agree with you on keeping the scraper in the trunk! Maybe if Jason came up and organized again then Dad could make a better argument for giving the scraper a summer vacation in the garage. Mine stays in my trunk except for those snowy winter months!
And to the person who said to let your wipers do the rest of the work for you, heavy snow and ice WILL damage wipers. If there's enough accumulation to warrant scraping, best to do the scraping yourself and save your wipers for the light stuff. That's a lesson I learned from my Dad (and I kindly ignored the one about retiring the scraper to the garage during the summer months!)
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Everyone living where it snows needs a scraper in the car. (One of these days I'll get one for mine again. Lost it years ago when my son got his first car. lol)
Of course, we don't own a garage, so that's a moot point anyway.
hugs dear heart,