Of Dogs, Air Fresheners and an awesome Giveaway…
This post brought to you by PERK. All opinions are 100% mine.
So…what do you do when your house and car aren’t as fresh smelling as they should be? Yep, I’m talking about the dog factor. I want to tell you about these great car Vent Wrap air fresheners that I discovered, but first let me tell you a funny dog story. Because, after all, we are a Sitcom here after all…
We have two dogs. There is Ralph, the young one, who is often found chewing unapproved random items such as flip flops, table legs and errant underwear. Don’t let those big eyes fool you. He isn’t as innocent as he looks! Lately he has a thing for an old chess set that I have sitting in the upstairs guest room. One by one, the pieces have made their way downstairs into his bed. Each piece now has his signature toothmarks.
I like to think that he has his buddies over while we aren’t at home for a stimulating game of chess, a bowl of milk bones and a bit of manly dog-like companionship. I guess that at least it keeps him out of the bars…
And then there is Faith, my doggy with an attitude. She is half chihuahua, which entitles her to all kinds of snootiness. It doesn’t take much more than the sound of the ice dropping in the ice machine to set her off on a frenzy of hysterical protectiveness. Faith is the honorary guard to all my blog content. She is the queen of bad breath with a major case of doggy PMS. But we love her just the same.
But doggies sometimes have accidents…there isn’t really a delicate way to put this… Just about every single day when we get home lately, we find a stinky little present in the middle of the throw rug in front of the kitchen sink. Not that I don’t appreciate the thought. I’m sure in dog world, a pile of stinky poop is a huge compliment. Unfortunately, it loses something in the translation…
The husband has an issue with cleaning up doggy doo. He has to go out in the garage, put on a face mask, rubber gloves, bring in the shovel and remove the offending substance, carrying it out of the house as far in front of him as possible while gagging and fussing the whole way. He makes a spectacle of himself. I’m guessing so that I will just throw up my hands, grab a paper towel and handle it myself. Which come to think of it, is what I do. He hasn’t had to clean up doodie in months.
So when the husband and I started carpooling and he drops me off on the way home to go to Ladies Night Out with the girls on Wednesday nights, I was more than a little tickled at the thought that he would have to handle that doggie doo all by his little self when he got home. I would probably have to invest in extra rubber gloves and a biohazard suit and maybe teach him to put a bit of cologne under his sensitive little nose. Poor thing.
Yet, for three weeks now, like clockwork, the only night of the week that there is no steaming present resting on our carpet is Wednesday night.
Really? What the crap? (Pardon the pun).
The husband thinks it’s hilarious. Just how the heck does that dog know it is Wednesday? My husband says that I should take it as a compliment as they only leaves gifts for me.
This week, I plan on throwing them off schedule by loudly announcing it is Tuesday when it really will be Wednesday. Because I have to say that the success of a good relationship is sharing daily duties. And I really hate for the husband to be left out of poop patrol. I’m thoughtful like that.
Hopefully, this does not throw off Ralph’s chess schedule.
And while we may have a stinky issue in the house, the car can be an issue too! With regular visits to the vet, occasional fast food driving incidents, stinky gym bags and shoes, often the car doesn’t smell as nicely as it should. The PERK vent air freshener is a new brand of sleek, innovative auto air fresheners that will make your car smell great!
PERK Vent Wrap is a completely new kind of vent air freshener. Each wrap in individually sealed to preserve the fragrance until you are ready to use it. This tiny little wrap is full of great scent, and the color of it makes it virtually invisible once it is clipped onto the vent in the car. Hidden under the soft black protective cover is a revolutionary fragrance technology. Their patent-pending layered StediScent® technology will provide fragrance that lasts several weeks at a time!
Check out how nice it looks in the car! While you may not notice your Vent Wrap air freshener, you will notice the fragrance. It is Invisibly Fresh! I love how it doesn’t block air flow and allows the vent to function normally.
PERK Vent Wrap is available in a broad range of great fragrances – Lush Valley, Absolute Zero, Golden Vanilla, Clean Laundry, and New Car). New Car! That would be awesome! Ha! Actually, Golden Vanilla is my favorite, but I do have a thing for sugar cookies. Just saying.
You can find PERK Vent Wrap at Advance Auto Parts, Walmart, Target, and other retailers that sell automotive air fresheners!
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i need it because my brother uses the car and it smells like smoke really bad its nasty
heat and body odor
I have more traffic in my vehicle than on a major highway and that can accumulate a lot of smells!
Because my older cars vents are stinky!
I don’t have a doodie problem, but who doesn’t want a nice smelling car.
I live in Vegas, and “Cool Breeze” flowing through the vents when it is 120 degrees, well, need I say more.
LOLOL
Nance
I truly needed because our car reeks of mechanic and tools as that’s where most of my husband’s tools are stored.
Seven, yes I said seven {7} dogs and teenagers and a 5 year old all riding in the car. Enough said about the need for this great sounding and smelling product. Sure hope I win. Thanks, Jackie By the way, 4 of the dogs are chichuahuas and 2 of the other dogs weigh over 70lbs each.
I too have chihuahuas and they love to ride in the car, and all that excitement can be a little stinky, but these wraps look totally amazing! I hope I win, lol!
My beagle likes to go riding to town with me to get treats at different stops and then we get home my kitty cat wants to jump in the vehicle and lay on the dash board so between them and my mess I surely would use this very well,,,,,and yes I always triple check to make sure my kitty is out the vehicle and safely back on porch…TY
Would love these for my car—especially when hauling around my St Bernard! 🙂
Nice clever idea, but when I first looked at your article I thought it was something to hook on the dogs collar. lol
I had to lol about your poo problem!!! Seems there is no age for doggie accidents…earlier this winter my 12 year old lab-boxer mix was eying the cat’s litter box …with it being -35, it was understandable. One morning hubby got up to a nice little gift on poochie’s bed (better than ours!), the 16 year old well he misses the litter box altogether. We too sometimes wonder if they party away while we are out! When we first moved to our brand new house, the dog thought he would decorate the house by emptying the garbage can aaaaaallll over the house! Till this day we now put the garbage can behind a closed door! Good thing we love our babies!!!
Could really use the PERK Vent Wraps for my husbands truck. He smokes, so hopefully these would make the inside of his truck smell so much better. Nothing else has helped.
Thank you for this opportunity
My car smells like a dog because my huge 55Kilo Sar insists on coming along on my errands with me! She is an old girl so is a little incontinent and needs a seat cover over the seats at all times. I also put down an old sheet but don’t take that sheet out quite often enough to keep the smell away. I would sooo love a six month supply of anything that could make my car smell better!
Thanks so much, Lisa
My dog loves to ride in the car and that is why we need the vent items .. LOL Her umm fluffs are a little unbearable at times !LOL Along with the hub’s wrappers & his work clothes it stinks a bit . 🙂
I laughed at your umm poo problem ! I have the same but we have only one dog. Alas my DH will pick up the poo, once a week in the backyard with a long shovel .. LOL and a 5 gallon bucket.
I too would love to know about your Tuesday/Wednesday umm change in poo .. LOL Lots of poo going around for sure !LOL
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I don’t need any vent fresheners as my car doesn’t get used much but I really want to know if your Tuesday ploy worked!!!
Lets see my car needs PERK Vent Wraps because, 4 boys, 1 very large Labrador/Golden Retriever mix, 2 Pit Bulls, l Beagle, and numerous neighborhood kids etc. I also have to put up with kids dropping food, french fries, half eaten hamburgers, gym bags, smelly shoes and socks.
My car NEEDS this for sure. I work in a chicken production plant. Yea we make chicken nuggets and chicken strips. All of which smells nice in a restaurant but by the multiple thousand pounds worth it smells very, very, VERY bad. After 40 hours a week of that, the poor car needs alot of attention. Even if my dog would rather me not get rid of the smell. I would love it to be gone. lol Thanks for having this giveaway. Your blog always makes me smile.
I absolutely love a fresh smelling car and this would be perfect for my husband’s truck. We own a restaurant and many times his truck is left to smell like the meal he brought home the night before. The food is great but, who wants to smell it for days on end.
These look really cool and there is nothing like the smell of fresh laundry off the clothesline, so I think the Clean Laundry one will end up being my favorite. My daughter learned to drive on my car and got her own 1 1/2 yrs ago when she started college when she drove mine she kept mine pretty good. I could always tell she smoked when she would drive to school or work. Hey, we’ve had the smoking talk more times than I can shake a stick at and she’s and adult now so I can’t say much. Anyway, she would always leave my car smelling like stale smoke and Victori’s Secret perfume layered over the top of it. Needless to say it smelled like an all-ages night at the clubs down by Yale.
That’s very respectable compared to the way her own car is. It’s full of empty water bottles, food wrappers, empty cigarette packs, straw wrappers, text books, papers, you name it. Last time she cleaned it out she filled up an entire trash bag of stuff. Mind you she commutes to school AND holds down two jobs, all of her own free will. She always has at least a half dozen of those little trees hanging from her mirror and those little waxy, vent clippy thingies on all the vents and all it does is mask the odors. The only thing that really does the trick is driving with the windows down, but with the temps below zero, that ain’t happening for about six more weeks. She could most likely benefit from a couple packages of these bad boys too. So if I win, I will definitely share them with my lovely daughter.
Lisa
PS. Suzy your Boys are adorable and I’m really sorry that DH has issues with poop. I can sympathize, in that vomit (human or animal) makes me ill, so it happens to the best of us.
My oldest daughter uses my car to get back and forth to work. She sees nothing wrong with leaving old hamburger wrappers from that great Scottish restaurant, McDonalds, in the car. For days. When I finally get to use the car, I open the door and am greeted by six-day-old greasy cheeseburger wrappers, stale french fries, and my personal favorite, “aged” onion rings. It’s quite a combination at 6:50am, believe me.
I would love to try this, I have three dogs that love to ride in the car, but they aren’t just little dogs, they weigh 60 pounds each!
I LOVE your blog!!!!!
Oh my gosh. I have a teenage son. I think this would be awesome in my car. 🙂 Would love to give them a try. 🙂 On long car rides he thinks he can take off his shoes and relax….NO….don’t ever let him take his shoes off. Yikes! That is the worst smell I think I’ve ever smelled. :0 Glad he doesn’t read this blog….I do love him. 🙂