Winter Wonderland: Tools of the Trade

Since I live in Florida, I don't have access to a lot of anti-ice devices. Screwdrivers and hairdryers really aren't cutting it for me, as yesterday's events demonstrated. My ankle hurts from where I scraped it. It's not infected or anything, but it throbs whenever I walk. I can't exactly tell my parents that I've stabbed myself with a screwdriver, so I don't even get sympathy points from them. Of course, I'm totally lazy, so the not-walking thing is well within my normal range of activity.
I've been researching ice management online. The options so far are salt, antifreeze, and windshield scrapers. I'm not going to go for something disgustingly expensive like those automatic thermal coils in Vector's suit. Unfortunately, odds are I can't physically buy anything but the salt. I don't believe there is a single auto shop in South Florida that sells ice scrapers, and I don't really own a car or have any interest in cars at all, so that might seem a tiny bit suspicious. In Florida, cars don't freeze. They spontaneously combust. And they spontaneously get melted by Firecracker during his collateral-heavy throwdowns with the local goons. One of the reasons I don't own a car is because the insurance down here is truly obscene.
Antifreeze doesn't sound particularly useful. The whole point of it is to prevent things from freezing, which is kind of counterintuitive seeing as I'm a cryogenetic and all. Plus, I don't particularly want to expose myself to too much of it. Salt seems like a better choice. It does melt ice a little bit, it's not going to kill me, it's easy to find, and nobody will ask questions if I buy a box or two of it. Plus I can totally make my own ice cream with it. I'm going to rescue that empty coffee can from the recycling bin and make ice cream tomorrow. I learned how to make it in chemistry class. I think it was supposed to be educational, since we did a token lab report afterwards, but mostly it was a bunch of kids kicking coffee cans full of ice around and eating ice cream.