Mama Says…

When I’m not up to my eyeballs in laundry, stepping on half-eaten clumps of grilled cheese and trying to keep my house clean, I’m in my van, which used to look more like a preschool on wheels than a vehicle.* There were enough Cheerios, toys, sippy cups and wadded-up Kleenexes in my van to sink a ship, and my children could hardly see out the side windows due to the sticky fingerprints and what the hell is that? smeared all over them. It’s safe to say that my van is my home away from home. It’s also safe to say that it was a total pigsty.

*Keywords in that sentence: used to.

So you can imagine how stoked I was to get a big box of Blink products to review. Targeting the busy mom on the go, these products – Toss Outs, Tidy Totes, Spill Grabbers, Mess Lifters and Smudge Cleaners – are designed to help keep the inside of whatever you drive clean and organized, so it looks less like a playroom and more like an actual…gasp! vehicle. (Although, I think just about anyone with a vehicle could benefit from these products.)

Before I even put the products in my van I was struck by how compact they were – they’re designed to either clip on seat/door pockets and visors or fit in the glove compartment, so they don’t take up a lot of space. The small Toss Out trash bags hang from prongs on the front of the package and the Smudge Cleaner houses the spray cleaner and twenty wipes all in one, features that I thought were quite ingenious. I was disappointed to find that I couldn’t use the Tidy Totes, the product I was most excited about, because my captain’s chairs don’t have seat pockets and there is nowhere else for it to clip on and be easily accessible. However, my husband has it in his truck and is really enjoying it.

The Mess Lifters, wet interior wipes, do quite a good job of eliminating set-in stains – I used one of the wipes on an old coffee slop on the passenger’s seat and was surprised at how well it worked. And I didn’t stop at stains – while waiting for a train to go by I grabbed a wipe and used it on my dusty dashboard and console. It made quite a difference and cleaned up the rather large bug that’s been smushed above my steering wheel for months quite nicely.

Spill Grabbers are dry, absorbant wipes that I’ve used them on coffee and sippy cup spills and they’re tucked in the side pocket of my door for easy access. But my two favourite products are, hands down, the Tidy Toes and the Smudge Cleaners. I’m not kidding when I said you could barely see through my side windows. My kids had done a number on them but a few squirts and a wipe later, the Smudge Cleaner had them lookin’ good as new. I just wish the wipes were a bit bigger; it took me two wipes to clean each side window in my van.

All hail the Tidy Totes – finally I have a solution for all of the loose crap that’s been rolling around my van. I’ve got one filled with CD cases, one with books for the kids and another that has a few toys (for those for the love of god take this toy and please stop screaming moments), extra diapers, wipes and a couple bottles of water. They’re mesh, so it’s easy to see what’s inside, they’re durable, and the drawstring top keeps them closed.

Mama Says: These products are pretty much awesome. The slogan ‘Blink…and it’s done!‘ is bang-on; they’re quick and easy to use and are a large part of the reason why my van is (finally) clean. Two triumphant thumbs up!

This entry was posted on Monday, March 26th, 2007 at 7:35 am and is filed under Organization, Your vehicle.
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