The Stink Car.

{My car view at the dump today}

I often have these grand ideas, on ways to fix a problem or take a short cut. And more than not....my grand ideas turn terrible!

Like the time I had run out of dishwashing tablets. "No worries" I thought. "I'll just put dishwashing liquid in instead!". To then find my whole kitchen flooded in metre high bubble froth 30 minutes later!

Or the time, I thought I'd sterilise all of Ella's plastic toys, containers etc {when she was a baby} to rid all germs. My grand idea kicked in "I'll sterilise the small ones in the microwave steriliser that I clean her bottles in"  Yeah, great idea until I head zapping & crackling. There was a silver based label on one of the containers. {and as you know: microwaves & silver don't go well together!!} Bolts of electricity where flying around the microwave. I ended up melting & burning the said container as well as everything else I'd put in there! Her dummies smelt like burnt rubber & the steriliser unit was a goner! Great job Mummy!!

Today, I had one of my grand ideas to quickly solve a problem.

This morning, I remembered it was bin collection day. Yay...both our wheelie bins are FULL to the brim. I head out front to take the bins to the curb, to discover they were parked in behind one of our cars. I went inside & searched high & low for keys to this car. I ended up texting Chris who had left for the airport at 5am this morning for a big, busy day in Sydney. He wrote back "Sorry, I have the keys here on my keyring!"

Great Just Great!

I go back out & examine the situation. There is no humanly possible way to get these bins out. They were enclosed by a retaining wall, the side of our house, a red car & big yellow jetski! Argh!

I desperately want them emptied. We can't go another week without emptying them. They were beyond full....with some more bags awaiting a spot to go in too!!!!

I sneak up to the neighbours bin which is already out on the curb, it's also full to the brim. I rudely squeeze one of our bags in & dash off before I'm spotted in my pj's tampering with people's bins! {great way to meet the neighbours here in our new street}

Ella comes out to help. She has great 4 yr old ideas. "We can push the car out the way with this strong stick Mummy!" as she points to a twiddly little twig about the size of a coffee mug! "No honey, I don't think that's gonna work! Great thinking though!!"

I come up with my grand idea - We'll have to do a dump run! So I line the boot of my car {which I have keys for lol} with the plastic back of the picnic rug and start transferring bags of rubbish from the bin to the car. They were all tied & no leaking goo....but still gross all the same!! I fill the boot, put a blanket over the top, pile the kids in the car & we start driving!!!

Oh.My.God. The smell!!!! My car was a stink bin on wheels! So so gross!

Yeah, great idea Claire! Just Great!

So, with all windows down & the air con blaring I fanged that car as fast as possible to the dump 15mins away & happily unloaded the stink. Ella gagged. Ryder smiled {typical boy}. I soaked my hands in sanitizer & off we went.

Annoyed that I had to pay $6 to load off my garbage.....and embarrassed that I put my kids through my stench of an idea.....but happy that we now have some bin space for the rest of the week :)

Do any of your grand ideas go terribly wrong? Please enlighten me with your stories....don't leave me hanging here thinking I'm the only 'silly' one :)