Do not leave your paint in the car even in winter!

Another painter has had a lot of her paints due to this. Here is my message to her.

"It was def. the heat. What you have to understand it that cars act essentially as a solar oven when parked in the sun over time-no matter what the temp outside. Solar ovens can get up to 400 degrees even in the winter. Do you have black interior? That makes it even worse.

Old cars can be used to dehydrate fruits so they get darn hot.

I have a solar oven and I can bake bread in it, so imagine what hot cars due to your paints."

-Metina

PS DON'T leave your balloons in the car either!

And if you want winter stories...

Plastic tool boxes do not freeze well... the plastic becomes very brittle and dropping them in the parking lot will make your kit break.

Water inside plastic buckets freezes. Dirty water and sponges inside an ice cream bucket, with a little rubbing alcohol also dumped in, turns into a "chocolate" milkshake, and when the bucket cracks from the cold...you get a slushy mess in the trunk. Luckily it stays cold so you can scoop it out.

Glitter gel will not flow...it may loosen a little once you get inside, but you need to have a metal palette knife to scrape it out of the bottle and spackle it on... and the kids will complain about it being cold (little complainers...)

Also don't face paint in direct sunlight... paints turn to mush & are useless.

Shannon, you typed all that with a straight face didn't you? LMAO Not far enough removed from the experience to see the humour in it? Ha ha ha

Oh yeah... funny. I can tell the stories and get the laughs, but... still is annoying.

I dropped my rolling toolbox on the frozen parking lot while taking it out of the back of the RAV... shattered the lid and handle right off. I had to then get the damn thing into the arena and get set-up (arena... meaning right at ice level at the zamboni gate... so nothing thawed out at all. Then had to get it all back to the RAV without spilling anything...

And the buckets... did a FP gig, then went straight to the theatre from there... then to a cast party... got home late. Next morning go to unload my stuff (it was winter, and around -40C) out of the trunk of the loaner (It was an Echo)... I opened the trunk and there was chocolate milkshake all over the carpet... could NOT figure it out. WHERE did a chocolate milkshake come from??? I was able to pick it up and dump it on the ground with my hands... finally figured out my icecream bucket with the lid, that had my dirty sponges, dirty water and where I had dumped out the alcohol from sanitizing at the end of the gig, had cracked in the cold... and leaked out the milkshake. I'm glad it wasn't warmer as the dealership may have been annoyed when I gave them back the loaner...

And kids... they are wusses. A little frozen gel on their skin and you'd think you stabbed them in the eye or something.

Ha, I did the frozen water/sponge bucket once. Left it overnight and had to bring it inside and let it thaw before I could get my sponges out. Oops! Still, at least mine didn't crack. That would've sucked.

I did have one thought....leaving paint in the car may be preferable to exploding paint in the microwave... it still ends up soft without the guess work hehe