Tank Sprayer For After-Beach Clean Up: A Must-Have for Summer!

How great is this idea?  I can say that because it came from a friend.  It’s seriously genius, though!

If you live near the beach, like we do here in Savannah, then consider this part of the essential list of things you own for your trips to the shore.  Right along with your chairs, umbrella, towels, and boogie boards, you need a deck (tank) sprayer that you fill with water and put in the back of the car when you head to the beach.

We went to the beach a few weeks ago with our neighbor, Misty.  Not only did she make us delicious ham sandwiches (because she’s an *amazing* friend), but she had one of these sprayers in the back of her van, and when the time came to head home, instead of waiting forever for all of these people to rinse off first:

We just walked to the car and sprayed the sand off of everything we owned (including all of the kids!).

When I told Misty what a brilliant idea it was, she modestly confessed that she had gotten the idea from our friends Mike and Laurie, who in turn said they’d gotten the idea from our friends John and Christy, who were recently stationed in Hawaii.  It all started to make sense…both John and Mike are command sergeants major (CSMs) and everyone who knows the Army knows that if you need to get something accomplished efficiently and thoroughly, you give the job to a CSM!  

I asked our friends at HomeRight to send me their 3-Gallon Deck-Pro Tank Sprayer, knowing exactly what I was going to do with it.   Since I didn’t want to ever use this particular sprayer for stain, varnish, pesticides, or all the other things it was actually created to hold, I designed a vinyl decal using my Silhouette Cameo so we’d be sure just to use it for water.  By the way, if you’re a Silhouette user and are interested in a post on how to make this decal, just leave a comment and let me know and I will get on it!  Update:  click here for the vinyl tutorial, or here if you just want to buy it in our Etsy shop.

The HomeRight sprayer is neat in that it has a carrying strap, plus its navy and white colors are perfectly nautical, too!  Here are links for the 3-gallon sprayer and the 1-gallon sprayer:

It’s a snap to stash in the back of your car, and by the time you come back later, the sun has warmed the water so that it feels great.  I suppose you could throw some ice cubes in there if you like cold showers, though.

The water stream comes out with enough power to clean the sand off of EVERYTHING, and of course there’s no clean up whatsoever (love!).

Here’s another super idea from Lindsay at Makely School for Girls–use it to fill water balloons!  Read more {here}.

Or, use it as a soccer sprayer {here}:

HomeRight is giving away a 3-gallon sprayer to TWO 11 Magnolia Lane readers, and I am giving away a set of vinyl to each winner, as well, so you can trick out your sprayer just like mine.  Even if you don’t live at the beach year-round, it’s a great to take with you on vacation!

Or, I suppose you could be boring and stain your deck or fence with it, or spray for bugs, but that just doesn’t sound as fun, now does it?

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