Ayy Just Put Some Windex on It!

     Hey guys! Alex here.   So the other day I went out to give my car a much overdue wash.  It had been an unacceptable amount of time since it had its last bath and well, it needed a lot of work. I made sure I had plenty of time to clean because honestly, once I start cleaning my car it takes about three hours. 

      Anyway once I had my car washed, waxed, Rain-X'd, Vacuumed, and had pretty much finished detailing it, I took a look at the floorboards.  They were in a pretty rough state.

      About 4 years ago, two weeks after I first bought the car I had a bunch of friends riding with me.   I was lax enough to allow them to bring food in with them and someone brought in a root-beer float.  As it's pretty easy to guess, they spilled the whole thing over my entire back seat's floor boards.  We soaked up as much as we could in the moment, but it left a huge stain in my car and I never really got around to truly cleaning it.

      Jump ahead to now and I'm looking at this huge ugly stain in my car and I decide to try to tackle it.  Looking through the house I couldn't find any carpet cleaner and really nothing else that made sense to clean carpet with.  So I called up Mom and asked her what she thought I should do.  Her response.  "Windex."  I kind of giggled and asked her "I'm sorry what?"  Once again "Windex."  I just kind of wait for a second before I asked her "Are you telling me to put some Windex on it?"

      My Big Fat Greek Wedding is one of our favorite movies and anyone that has seen that movie can understand where I found the funny.  After laughing at her earnest explanation that it's all she uses on her own carpet I decide to give it a try.  I mean what could it hurt?  Oh boy am I glad that I did.  The only way to adequately portray this is to show you the pictures.

So this is the stain on the actual floorboards.

  The stain was on both sides of my little hump and on both floor mats.  I sprayed it generously with Windex and let it sit for a couple of minutes.  After it had spent a little time soaking in I started to scrub it with a hard-bristled brush.

 

      Almost immediately the stain started to come up.  Eventually my arm got tired so I didn't get to scrub as much out of it as I would have liked.  But sweet lord did it look better after about a minute of scrubbing.  

   

       I laughed at Mom for suggesting it, but now I don't think I'll ever use anything else again.  The Windex did such a great job cleaning the floorboards.  I don't think there's anything else that I could get for so cheap to do that great of a job.  Thank you for the suggestion Mom! You were right as usual.  :)