Empty plastic water bottles and aluminum cans pile up on the floor of my car, then I purge them and start over again. But that’s it. I make sure not to have loose french fries lying around, or anything else that might pervade the vehicle for weeks on end.
newspapers
receipts
envelopes from mail I’ve opened in the car
notes to myself for errands
shopping lists
paperback books
miscellaneous memos from the Front Office
CD’s Mostly. I’ve got two of those CD cases on both sides of my visor. I’ve also got CD’s falling out of the enclosure on my cup holder. I’ve also got them tucked in crease of the seat next to me. Otherwise, that’s it. It’s actually pretty clean.
Water bottles.
Shoes I take off to switch to a more comfortable pair.
Mapquests…usually with the correct directions scribbled on the back after I get lost.
Some sort of wrap, shawl or sweater, for the movies because I never remember that I’ll get cold.
Earrings in that little spot under the CD player obviously designed for something…I decided it was for earrings.
-Work duffel bag that I ceased carrying daily about two years ago, but still contains useful items tying me into little guilt knots when I contemplate throwing it out
-bags containing wrapped birthday gifts riding around until I see the recipient
-empty pop/water bottles
-empty cardboard 6-pack holders from summertime fill-the-cooler activities
-lots and lots of books either from the used bookstore or on the way back
-various coats and jackets because it’s cold when we leave in the morning but not when we come home in the afternoon
-capped bottles of tranny fluid, oil, funnels, tow rope, screwdrivers, etc.
-shoes, I tend to not have exactly the right pair for whatever outfit, but have 1 sister and 1 gf the same shoe size, so I’ll drive there in the wrong shoes on the way to a function, switch them out and forget to bring the old pair in
-years of straw wrappers
Yeah, we haven’t actually used the backseat in years. :smack:
Recyclables. Currently it’s a large box of old magazines that I keep meaning to drop at the recycling drop-off place. Other times it’s been aluminum cans and newspapers andwill soon be all the plastic jugs currently in my garage. Heck maybe I’ll even throw them in with the magazines and kill two birds with one stone.
Receipts
Junk mail Gunslinger’s trash (in his personal pickup, he uses the passenger seat floor as a trash can, and I’m trying to break him of this habit in my truck)
Shopping bags (I’ll use whatever I bought while still in the car, and then the bag floats around the truck for months)
I’ve also had my Christmas decorations in the back of the truck for a month now; we just haven’t gotten around to putting them in the storage closet since we moved to our new place. They’ll probably be there until Black Friday.
Front seat:
Two packages of flexible hooks, to be installed at the barn.
Partially used bag of spring clothespins (for keeping paper towel roll in shedrow from unrolling in the breeze) (on passenger floor)
Handkerchief in cupholder
Cup for cupholder (on floor)
Red Rum roll-on equine wound care container
Oilskin ball cap (on dashboard with lucky sixpence, trail tag, and paper clip)
Empty supplement bucket recycled as wastebasket
Box of baby wipes
Barn dirt (on floor)
Island between seats:
Front pocket: quarters, nail file, several pig-gelding rings, barn dirt
Rear pocket: three double-end snaps, box cutter, pair of scissors, digital thermometer, cell phone, mini-notebook, container of push-pins, Phillips-head screwdriver
Rear seat:
Jacket
Rain jacket
Flannel shirt
Oilskin ball cap
Pair of rubber boots
Spare helmet (temporarily left behind in New Hampshire at friend’s farm)
Saddle pads (to be washed, or washed and returning to barn)
Grocery bag of paper towel rolls
Old feed store bill
Halter and leadrope
Street atlas
Two phone books
Stethoscope
Bag with two salt bricks
Body brush
Hay and barn dirt
Trash piles up in my car like none other. I’m not really sure how I end up with so many fast food bags, napkins, papers, Wal-Mart sacks, packages et cetera in my car.
So every couple of weeks I’ll take all the trash and stuff it into one of the Wal-Mart sacks and tie it shut. But then more trash piles up and I’ll put that trash in another Wal-Mart sack. So by the time I actually get around to cleaning my car thouroughly, I have 4 or 5 sacks full of trash in my back seat. Yes its ridiculous that I don’t just throw them away at the time.