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I don't really know how to take care of my landscape or my house. I just never really learned how, not the way I am learning how to detail a car. For detailing, I know what products to use, how to use them, the tools to use and how to use them, the systems for putting all these together to do a task, and I am comfortable there.
I moved to Colorado by myself when I was 18, went into the full time work world, gradually worked my way through college and launched into a full time career in the field of software engineering that lasted really until 2001, when I made a career turn that kept me working at home but for a fraction of what I made before. All that time, I made good money, but there was always pressure, there was always overtime, and it left me exhausted.
It wasn't that I didn't admire beautifully kept houses, beautifully decorated houses, beautifully designed and kept landscapes. I didn't have the energy to do it myself and I didn't make enough to pay the various specialists to do it for me.
So now I feel confident if I see a car that needs to be detailed, I am confident I could do the job and make the owner very happy.
And I confess, part of what I wanted to do was learn how to detail my house! And in fact, I have found tools, products, and processes that have allowed me to do things I never would have thought possible.
So I know it is easy to wonder how someone can own an expensive car or a show car and yet not properly detail it or remove the swirls. But it is easy for me to understand, because before I found MOL, I had no idea how either.
And still, I am hoping some OCD in the car department will carry over into my home and my yard in time, but for now, having a small piece of my world that I feel empowered to accomplish to make it look nice is a step in the right direction.
I moved to Colorado by myself when I was 18, went into the full time work world, gradually worked my way through college and launched into a full time career in the field of software engineering that lasted really until 2001, when I made a career turn that kept me working at home but for a fraction of what I made before. All that time, I made good money, but there was always pressure, there was always overtime, and it left me exhausted.
It wasn't that I didn't admire beautifully kept houses, beautifully decorated houses, beautifully designed and kept landscapes. I didn't have the energy to do it myself and I didn't make enough to pay the various specialists to do it for me.
So now I feel confident if I see a car that needs to be detailed, I am confident I could do the job and make the owner very happy.
And I confess, part of what I wanted to do was learn how to detail my house! And in fact, I have found tools, products, and processes that have allowed me to do things I never would have thought possible.
So I know it is easy to wonder how someone can own an expensive car or a show car and yet not properly detail it or remove the swirls. But it is easy for me to understand, because before I found MOL, I had no idea how either.
And still, I am hoping some OCD in the car department will carry over into my home and my yard in time, but for now, having a small piece of my world that I feel empowered to accomplish to make it look nice is a step in the right direction.
) to some M80 by hand on the dining room table. Yep, M80 on the oak furniture. Hey, Meguiar's started out as a furniture care company back in 1901 (not a lot of cars on the road back then...... not a lot of "roads" either!) and a lot of the old furniture formulations carried over nicely to automotive finishes back in the day. Most cars back then had a lot of wood on them and furniture cleaners/polishes worked great. Even painted surfaces weren't all that different from most furniture finishes, too. M80 was a natural, and it worked great!
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