Welcome to the Bottom of My Checking Account

I mentioned that Blue Truck spent last Monday at Le Salon(s) which set me back $291 and some change. Blue Truck still needs its carrier bearing looked at, but one thing at a time.

The trailer got a little bit of tender loving care this week, too. In preparation for new tires on Monday, I brought the trailer home on Sunday afternoon and gave it a good going over.

I started with this ...

I love having real sheets and towels in the trailer, but the dust on the comforter and pillow shams gets to me which means frequent washings!

And then moved on to a lot of this ...

Pledge and Murphy's Oil Soap - a trailer's version of lotion.

Most of the wall space in this trailer is wood paneling which gets pretty dry, so at least twice a year I give the wood a good conditioning.

Dusting and conditioning all that wood take forever!

There was also repeated uses of this ...

Love the long hose on our shop vac!

Dead flies creep me out, and no matter how hard I try to keep the screen door closed, flies seem to find their way in to die. I think it has something to do with the fact that I "live" 18 inches from a three-horse stall (aka a HORSE TRAILER).

There was also a fair amount of scrubbing here ...

It may be little, but it sure gets dirty!

and a bit of scrubbing here, too.

It wasn't bad, but once a layer of dust goes down, it just looks icky!

I finished off the inside with this ...

Since we have a cleaning lady, I think this was the first time I've ever even used this mop! It worked pretty well.

As the floor dried and the towels and comforter bounced around in the drier, I decided to tackle the outside of the trailer.

Looking good!

Even better on this side!

I won't gross you out with any photos, but I ended up tearing a chunk of skin out of my thumb by using the long handled (5 feet) scrub brush. Part way through the job, I had to run into the house with blood dripping all over the floor to apply a tourniquet. Hubby was napping through the whole ordeal which was probably a good thing as he would have made me STOP WHAT I WAS DOING to properly dress the wound.

In the end, my taped on pressure bandage held, and I finished the job. It hurt pretty good the next day, but it's hard to stitch closed a round hole. And it did quit bleeding by the next day.

I wish you could smell how clean it is!

Cleaning the trailer was of course, free. That's not what lowered my account balance to such a pitifully small number. It was this ...

I was the first customer of the day which was a good thing as my truck was blocking the road into part of Target's parking lot.

Surprisingly, to me anyway, the trailer tires were cheaper than the truck's tires (which I did in June of 2012).

Cheaper, but definitely not CHEAP.

There is a moral to this story: be careful what you wish for. Having my own truck and trailer is awesome; I won't lie, but maintaining them and paying for repairs stinks.