# What's hanging from your rear-view mirror ?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416 "2011-12-16T15:34:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/21 "2011-12-16T18:38:17Z")
My wife’s lanyard with her work badge. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/22 "2011-12-16T18:38:41Z")
Nothing. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/23 "2011-12-16T18:48:03Z")
> [@Labtrash](#): > > Legality aside, what’s hanging from your rear-view mirror? > [Here’s what both my wife & I have on ours](http://www.amazon.com/My-Neighbor-Totoro-Kurosuke-suction/dp/B000ABVL3Y) AHHHHHH! Love. My answer: my graduate school tassel. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/24 "2011-12-16T19:00:59Z")
Nothing because it’s illegal and my wind sheild is small enough! I do have about thirty different lucky charms hanging from the air vent. I like their history and the thought a tiny bell or blue bead will help amuses me. Plus they’re pretty. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/25 "2011-12-16T19:03:13Z")
Nothing. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/26 "2011-12-16T19:15:17Z")
My boyfriend’s parking tag. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/27 "2011-12-16T20:27:04Z")
On second look at my link, that was for a BIG 8 inch soot sprite. [The smaller, 2 inch one I have is here (for the same price - weird)](http://www.gkworld.com/product/GKW50978/Totoro-Studio-Ghibli-Soot-Sprites-Plush-w-Suction-Cup-50708.html) ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/28 "2011-12-16T20:45:41Z")
A pair of purple fuzzy dice - a gift from the director of our community theater production of ‘Guys & Dolls’ last year - and a small blue and gold glass starfish on a chain, cuz i’m a scuba diver and starfish are cool. (fezzes are not) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/29 "2011-12-16T20:51:42Z")
My parking pass, a small plastic shark, and a small [Maneki Neko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki_Neko). ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/30 "2011-12-16T21:33:00Z")
Nothing, here in my middle-age. In my teens and 20’s though? Lookout… I started with the standard bandanna tied in a loop, which acted as a seat for a stuffed Opus the Penguin. I had a rule – the second time you were a passenger in my car, you had to contribute something to the hanging collection. By the time that car was junked (from too many accidents…hmmmm, wonder if there was anything distracting me?), that thing took up as much room as if I had mid-size pre-teen hanging there. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/31 "2011-12-16T21:41:00Z")
An air freshener (the car used to be my Dad’s and it sometimes still smells like White Castle) and a dog-tag kind of thing with my hockey team’s logo on it. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/32 "2011-12-16T21:43:26Z")
Nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/33 "2011-12-16T21:46:35Z")
Just my parking pass. ---
**Author:** ![Yaxche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8dc957/32.png) [@Yaxche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yaxche)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/34 "2011-12-16T21:48:19Z")
A small, round picture of my boys (think key chain), and a collar and tags from my dog who died a few years back. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/35 "2011-12-16T21:48:24Z")
lanyard with work badge as well. If I didn’t I’d forget it constantly. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/36 "2011-12-16T21:48:33Z")
Nothing…it’s illegal where I live (falls under “obstructed vision”) and I don’t like having things swinging around in my field of vision while I’m driving anyway. I do have a little wooden giraffe and a tiny plastic fox that ride on the plastic trim ledge under my instrument panel though. ---
**Author:** ![Hbns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hbns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbns)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/37 "2011-12-16T21:59:22Z")
Nothing. ---
**Author:** ![applebetty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@applebetty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/applebetty)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/38 "2011-12-17T02:57:33Z")
A parking pass and a pair of earplugs on a cord. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/39 "2011-12-17T03:10:29Z")
A very ugly and mismatched bead bracelet my son made me in school. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416/40 "2011-12-17T04:32:04Z")
A Turkish good luck charm given to me by a friend, made of beads like [this](http://cdnstatic-2.mydestination.com/istanbul/Pictures/PageEditor/Shopping/evil_eye.jpg) . Supposed to guard against the evil eye. I never wanted anything hanging from my mirror for fear that it would obstruct my vision, but when I hung my evil eye repellent object I found that it really didn’t get in the way at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-hanging-from-your-rear-view-mirror/606416.md?page=3)