Fluff - what is inside your car

Mine is often full of stuff, because I can't carry everything in when I get home, and it is too difficult for me to make another trip down/up the stairs after having just come up them.

But last Tuesday my son & dil cleaned out everything except the very back (leaving just stuff that needed to go to other people), and right now I can tell you that there is NOTHING in my car that shouldn't be there! It's a great feeling.

How about we play the game " Guess what's NOT in the car". We have food and drinks. There is gum for she who used to need to chew gum. There are 2 yoga mats. A dozen or more gym towels, a few water bottles and a good dozen reusable grocery bags. There are also at a minimum 2 dozen pairs of shoes. Yes. In case I need a spare pair I am covered!

I'm like you katlady , my car is very bare. I always carry everything in when I get home, if I create trash it comes with me at the next stop I don't wait until I get home. Even my glovebox and box under the armrest is fairly empty.

In the spot between the seats I keep chargers, a pen, extra sunglasses, wipes and a refillable ice bag for my SI joint; I use all of these very frequently. My glovebox contains the manual, an umbrella, tire gauge and ice on the go bags for my lower bag. In the very back I have a canvas basket with blankets, pillows and an eye mask for my husband for car rides, and my shopping bags. The only time there is anything else in my car is when I have returns or items I want to drop at the goodwill or to friends/family. And those don't stay very long. Oh, and I keep an extendable Swiffer in the driver's side door so that I can dust across the large SUV at long lights, and my reacher (bad back) between the passenger seat and armrest.

To me it is very relaxing every time I get in the car and makes driving, shopping, traveling much more enjoyable. DH and I have to share a car for about a month and my shoulders start tensing every time I climb in. Not looking forward to this!

I really did appreciate it, even if there was an ulterior motive of making room for another carseat in the car so I could watch the kids.

Right now I'm embarrassed by the state of my car interior. It is a mess! The passenger seat tends to be my catch all spot. There is mail that needs brought into the house, an avalanche of receipts and straw covers, a tervis type of drinkware, a box of dehydrated soup. The back seat has two coats, an umbrella, sunshade for the windshield. The trunk as a six pack of V-8, a tarp, a case of protein drinks and a 3 pound bag of onions. Maybe I should finish bringing in the groceries tonight... at least the onions.

Other than the normal stuff in the console like sunglasses, phone charger, garage door opener, and a pen, I like the bare look. Other than an umbrella and ice scraper all that's in the back is a spare pair of flip flops for pedicures.

The front and back seat areas of my car are bare, the back area has two collapsible crates that I use to put grocery bags in so things don't tip over and roll around. There is a box that holds my reusable grocery bags and a car throw blanket. I have two umbrellas and my snow brush/scraper.

My car is pretty bare currently - a pair of wellies and a gilet is all that's in there but will come out today and an umbrella. But I do keep a 'kit' in my glove compartment; hand cleanser, hand cream, tampons, breath freshener, plastic bag, pain killer tabs, pen, piece of paper, lip balm, emery board, tissues....and maybe something else I've forgotten.

In the boot/trunk is a book map and a first aid kit.

Dh is just one of those people who is mostly very neat and precise. (although he does share my penchant for "filing" in piles--working on that with our move and organization for wherever we live next) 

Our car is in incredibly great shape for being 12 years old. We don't leave trash in it and try to keep it organized.

Dh keeps a container of gum in the driver's door pocket, and there's several cords plugged into the console and a phone holder on the dash for the GPS. The seat divider has a little coin holder, lotion, hand sanitizer, a couple of emory files in different grits.

The glove box has two flashlights of different sizes, a microfibre rag for wiping the windshield, the owner's manual has it's own little shelf and we keep the insurance info and vehicle registration. We also keep extra sunglasses in the glove box just in case.

Now that I have two pairs of prescription sunglasses, I'm going to keep one pair in the glove box and suggest dh does the same. There's nothing worse than getting stuck in the bright sun wearing glasses that are burning my eyes like a magnifying glass. I also just bought two pairs of polar fleece gloves on clearance at Walmart to keep in the glove box. My hands get so cold, and I usually keep gloves in my handbag, but I keep these in the car just in case. I keep two pairs so dh has a pair, too. (I also have a choice of what pair to wear with my outfit)

*I also like to keep a few gallon sized ziplock bags in the glove box and the kangaroo pouch on the front of the passenger seat where I sit because with my pancreatitis, when I get sick it happens very quickly and unexpectedly. The gallon sized is big enough for me to put around my face and can be sealed quickly--if I can't throw it out immediately because we're in the middle of nowhere, I stick the bag in another bag.*

The back seat has a brush/ice scraper, a small box of tissues, a few plastic bags, and an atlas book in the pouches on the back of the front seats. Our umbrellas live under the passenger seat where they're easily grabbed from the front seat. 

Sometimes dh has some computer stuff in the back seat that he's taking somewhere.

The trunk is organized with a stretchy cargo net. Dh does like to keep his big honking golf bag and clubs in the trunk along with the bags for his two pairs of golf shoes (his nice pair and an older pair to wear when the course is muddy) 

We also have a "survival kit" that my mom gave us one year for Christmas. It has a first aid kit, one of those space reflective sheets, an air pump that plugs into the 12 volt adaptor, and some granola bars and water. We took them out when we moved away from the North, but we used to also have a couple of big blankets in case we got stranded. 

glove compartment: gloves, owner's manual, hand sanitizer, handicap tag and paperwork for handicap tag (thankfully do not need it anymore but it does not expire for 2 more years so I keep it just in case.)

front- throw up bag, change, tweezers, safety thingy with alarm, flashlight, and window breaker

back- throw up bag, blanket, small tote with a couple books, extra throw up bags, small candies, and napkins

trunk- windshield ice cover that I have never used, ice scraper, several reusable shopping bags, roll of paper towels, a few umbrellas, and a quilt

Too much! 

On the shelf thing in the middle of the front seats I have gum, pen and paper, car gloves, moisturizer, an EZPass (had to take it off the glass when we had to have the glass replaced and have never stuck it back up), miscellaneous coins, receipts, etc.

On the front seat is choir music and a water bottle.

We've taken out the seat that's directly behind the front-seat passenger, and the back row has been folded down. So we have this big cargo space that tends to fill up with stuff. At the moment are (just off the top of my head):
-- reusable grocery store bags
-- a jug of water for the dog
-- portable dog bowl
-- a few water bottles (these tend to migrate out there, then every once in awhile I gather them all up and bring them in the house)
-- extra plastic grocery bags
-- window cleaner
-- paper towels
-- box of granola bars
-- dog biscuits
-- sweatshirt for me
-- kitty litter (we keep this in the winter in case we need it for traction on ice)
-- snow scraper
-- a couple old towels
-- kleenex

Those are all things we always carry (well in the summer we don't keep kitty litter and the snow scraper...lol)

Extra stuff that's there at the moment are:
-- about five bags heading for Goodwill
-- a Costco-sized pack of toilet paper
-- two grocery bags of non-perishable food that's heading for the food box at my church 
-- a large bag of dog food that I couldn't carry in with the other groceries

I think that's it. oy... It's a wonder that there's room for the dog when she's in there. Well, actually she sits on the passenger seat right behind the driver so she doesn't care what else is in the van. lol

eta: in my defense, lol, all the usual stuff (the stuff we carry all the time) is contained. So it's not like it's all rolling all over the van. 

My old car...Expedition...always had baseball stuff in the way very back. It did not look messy because you couldn't see it,but I knew it was there. Drove me nuts. 

Dd now has my precious Expedition. I miss that dang car so much. Sometimes on the weekends I take her for a ride just because I miss her. Her being the car. 

My new car is a Chevy Silverado with the extended cab. I hate it. Dh bought it for himself and then decided it didn't work well in the parking garage at his work. So, he kept his honda that was supposed to go to dd, she got my baby, and got the truck. 

It is too tight to have anything extra in it. We keep this truck sooo clean. 

After driving mini-vans for years, I recently bought my son's car. The one deployed had a Honda Accord and decided to sell it so he could buy a truck post-deployment. I bought it from him and have had to adjust again to driving a small car after 25 years of vans and SUVs. So I am going minimalist in the car these days - umbrella, scraper, yoga mat, my Aldi's quarter, and two reusable shopping bags.

Pretty much nothing. The manual is in the glove compartment and a microfiber cloth, insurance and registration, a pen, my business cards and a few paper towels are in the console. Oh, a Spider-Man folder with coupons/coupon book is in a storage compartment the hatch back area. Like an empty ride.