People are being awfully cocky about winter around here.

People are being awfully cocky about winter around here. I mean, in a normal year it wouldn't really be a thing until mid-November, but we've had horrible weather in October or November like, every other year since I moved back here. They are only just getting salt into the stores and I cannot find anything smaller than a 50 lbs. bag of the regular old halite. We really do not get temps that are so cold you need the fancy stuff on any regular basis, and while I do love the doggies, the roads are gonna have salt salt on 'em, not magnesium chloride, so spending loads more money on something that will not help them anyway is also simply silly.

In addition, nobody has any plain old car brushes. Everything is these $10 and $20 or more fancy things that are just silly. I've used boring old wooden handled brushes and squeegees and the occasional ice scraper and they last for like 10 or 20 years for me. It's a good thing, too, because the kind of squeegee/ice scraper I use and like apparently no longer exists and I still have the one I got over 10 years ago. The brushes are so expensive that the only thing I'm thinking of doing is maybe getting a small push broom because it works great to get piles of fluffy snow off your car quickly. I just have to see if I can get a whole push broom in my trunk.