Oh sure, we have a garage. Big enough to fit one car in, too. But instead of a car, our garage holds, well, other stuff. Recycling and big empty cardboard boxes and the kids’ bikes and old toys and Chris’ table saw thingy, that sort of stuff. So we park our vehicles outside. Which means that on mornings where the temperature has been below freezing overnight, the windshield of my van looks like this:

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In my 25 years as a Michigan driver (I don’t mind if you do the math in your head, really), I don’t know how many hours I have spent trying to scrape hard frost off my windshields. See, for those of you in warmer climates, there is slushy frost that just scrapes right off, and then there is hard frost, which is like little dry ribbons of ice stuck all over the windshield, and has to be scraped off in tiny sections, especially if you don’t have time to start the vehicle and turn on the defroster and wait the fifteen minutes that it takes for a van windshield to warm up.

Parent Bloggers Network sent me a product to try made by Prestone, called Windshield De-Icer, and, well, you need to click over to MomReviews to see how it worked on the above-pictured windshield. It’s pretty much the best thing ever. I also reviewed a fluid that goes in with your windshield washer fluid and boosts it’s performance, and you can read about that as well.

Unless you enjoy scraping your windshield, that is.