In mine, in the front:
–a coconut air freshener
–fuzzy dice
–parking permits
–a sun shield
–a bit of trash
–a soy bar for emergency snacking
In the hatchback:
–a box of car fluids, funnel, rags, jug of water
–my luggage carrier
Front seat - Air freshener
- A few CD carrying cases
- emergency sunglasses
back seat - for my daughter we have - coloring books
- colored pencils
- tissues or napkins
Two of my hubcaps.
A towel.
An emergency book (when stuck in a traffic jam).
Hedgehog repellent.
I’m pretty proud of how clean I’ve kept this car, going on eight years. Previous cars eventually became trash bins.
- Change in the center console
- Mini-sized garage door opener in the ash tray
- Umbrella, between seat and door
- Fairly large subwoofer in the back. This is an RX-7
- Paper napkin in the passenger seat, to protect it from the inevitable residual soft drink on the outside of the cup
- When it’s cold, both a wind breaker and a heaver jacket. Texas weather is variable enough that it’s common to switch from one to another in just a few hours
- A “demonic” charm hanging from the mirror. It’s actually a copy of a cuff-link a friend’s father bought when he was in the orient. But it looks vaguely menacing and I call it demonic just for grins. If I believed in such things I’d be upset at what a poor job it has done protecting the car. Rear-ended once, and an engine fire.
That’s all that’s visible. I also have maps, jumper cables, writing utensils, etc in various small compartments.
um, lets see
change in center ashtry
Paramedic student ID in ashtry
all oh my hockey goalie equipment on an occasional basis…
In my car - Some loose change in the console and a tin of oil and a container of water in the back.
Now my wifes car (a station wagan) is so full of shit I don’t even know whats hidden in there.
I’ll list only the stuff I can think of right now.
On the console;
Two different Swedish licorice tins, one of the salmiak Lakerol and another full of other types of assorted licorice. Also a dispenser of original tic tacs.
Some of my personal business cards and the business card of an optical coatings house that I visited during a vendor qualification on Friday.
A wrapped Central American cigar in a special demo box.
A backup vintage pair of Ray Ban aviator sunglasses (bought at a Goodwill thrift store for $1.[sup]00[/sup]), in case I forget my B&L photochromes.
A pair of impact resistant wire rim work sunglases for outdoor construction.
Some spare parking meter change, a few pens.
Between the emergency brake and the seat;
A half consumed grape-cranberry Snapple.
In the door pockets;
Maps.
Aji oil (hot chile and roasted sesame oil)
Small flaque of Kouros Eau de Cologne.
Pens.
Glove box;
Massive wad of paperwork and all other pertinent documents.
On the passenger side floor;
A box of bolting hardware for the industrial shelving I am installing in my basement.
An AMP brand coaxial cable stripping tool.
On the rear floor;
A free touch tone telephone my work gave to me when they tore out the old phones.
The last few bags of corn chips from a giant Frito-Lay chip assortment box, plus one brand new assortment box as well. (Saves me big bucks on that daily bag of chips [crisps] with my lunchtime sandwich or cottage cheese.)
On the rear seat;
A Sunday newspaper.
A mixed six pack of IBC Black Cherry Soda, Cream Soda and Root Beer.
A Trader Joe’s bag with five twenty-bag tins of Irish breakfast tea for my morning mug at work.
Various paperwork from my last business venture liquidating scientific equipment.
A box of various electronic components.
In the trunk;
An atlas of North American roads.
A Dilbert cartoon book.
A mint condition set of Italian made Bacci balls for lawn bowling.
Two ammunition boxes to hold a small bottle jack, some tools and a set of jumper cables.
An automatic transmission fluid funnel.
Power steering pump hydraulic fluid.
Brake hydraulic fluid.
Engine oil.
Antifreeze.
A windbreaker.
Other tools.
A can of stale unopened beer.
A spare tire.
A 4D cell Mag Lite.
A disposable cleanroom overall set if I need to work on the car in good clothes.
A bottle of still Welsh mineral water.
A classic old red metal gasoline can.
And a whole mess of other crap.
In the trunk:
-a car kit ($20 from Walmart), complete with everything i could ever need in case of an emergency
-a blanket
-spare tire (i think it’s still there…)
-jumper cables
In the backseat:
-my purse, wallet, and misc money floating around
-CD carrying case
-2 atlases, one of just Massachusetts cities, and the other of the US
-directions to New York from Mapquest (I haven’t cleaned my car out in a while…)
-at least 2 of those drink trays from fast food places
In the front:
-tons of random change
-flashlight in the glovebox
-speeding ticket from the NY trip
-my work keys (so I don’t forget them)
-sunglasses
-tons of pens
-more CD’s (I have tons!)
-cell phone charger, and occasionally cell phone
I’m sure I forgot some things, but that covers the basics…
a rain suit, motorcycle cover, and a spare helmet
Front seat: Aluminum Softball Bat.
Back seat: Golf clubs, Baby Seat, Leather Jacket, snow scraper, Emergency Kit, auto jack and tire iron.
Amen, Manservant Hecubus- golf clubs, never go anyplace without 'em!
front- portable cd player, antibacterial hand lotion, ice scraper, map of southern New Hampshire towns, box of kleenex
2 baseball hats
back- aforementioned golf clubs, blanket, windshield washer fluid, jumper cables, flare.
My car is always a pit. Right now, in the passenger seat are:
[ul]
[li]a couple of books on tape from the library (both going back later today)[/li][li]a copy of Jeremy Campbell’s Grammatical Man[/li][li]a copy of Patrick O’Brian’s biography of Sir Joseph Banks[/li][li]disk and registration card for a software product called MacDrive98 that allows you to read Mac disks on a PC[/li][li]the cigarette lighter adapter for my cell phone[/li][li]a portable CD player and cassette player adapter for it[/li][li]The Undertones’ eponymous first release on CD with additional bonus tracks[/li][li]Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque[/li][li]the receipt for the money order I used to pay for my eBay purchase of the import reissue of Dexy’s Midnight Runners’ Searching for the Young Soul Rebels[/li][/ul]
Shoved into the gaps between the seats and the transmission hump are a Dr. Pepper can and a variety of snack food packages.
On the floorboards in front of the back seat:
[ul]
[li]A cassette box and forty or fifty cassettes, mostly loose on the floor.[/li][li]Box and manual for a copy of FileMaker Pro 4.x[/li][li]One vintage cloth diaper[/li][li]Kinkos services brochure[/li][/ul]
On the back seat itself, the only item currently is a child’s car seat, buckled into the middle seating position.
In the trunk:[ul]
[li]A Pentium 90 PC I got from my previous employer in an obsolete equipment giveaway that I haven’t yet found a good place for at home[/li][li]A thick down-filled jacket[/li][li]A canvas barn jacket[/li][li]a half-dozen magazines[/li][li]A copy of Frank Braswell’s Inside PostScript[/li][li]A copy of More of the Straight Dope[/li][li]Two soft-sided attache-type bags, each crammed full of papers, magazines, etc that I gathered up in cleaning out my office at my previous job[/li][li]The spare tire, jack, jack handle, etc. – none of them secured in their proper place.[/li][li]Judge Crater[/li][/ul]
In the front: A CD case, an empty box of tissues, two empty coke cans in the cupholders, a couple pens, and a pair of sunglasses.
Under the seats in back (it’s a minivan, so I cram stuff under the seats in an effort to keep the back cargo area clean): Four folding camp chairs (never know when you’ll be watching a kids’ soccer game), a socket set, a canvas tarp, an emergency kit, probably several empty Burger King bags.
In the back cargo area: Two baseball gloves (one adult size and one kids size), a bat, a couple tee-balls, a kid-sized batting helmet, a Pack and Play portable crib, a blanket, and a bunch of jackets.
Currently in truck:
1 Reverend Horton Heat album (in tape deck)
1 set of jumper cables
1 empty fuel canister (in back)
Currently taking up space in my car…
Several CD jewel cases with 2 discs crammed into each
A zip-up CD binder
Spare change and the round window-handle thing (lol)
My spare glasses in the glove compartment so I can tell the difference between garbage cans and pedestrians.
Currently taking over the Z24 (his name is kitt, though he’s nothing like the knight rider car):
– A zip-up box of CDs (holds about 15 jewel cases)
– An AC/DC double live album that didn’t fit in the box
– Ceramic hula man
– Bookbag
– The dirt-tracking kit (canvas bag containing Navaho blanket, mittens, goggles, mechanix gloves, and my team ID in case I want to go in the pits)
– A black t-shirt I forgot back there and keep not taking out
– Some overdue library books
In the trunk:
– Emergency kit (flares, socket wrenches, first aid stuff, etc)
– Full-size spare that I mounted myself, ignoring arguments from the mechanics who said it wouldn’t fit the rim and I didn’t know how to work the (clearly-labeled) machine
– The donut that used to be on the spare rim
– Four-way tire iron
– My father’s old work jacket
– A big plastic Tupperware container with jumper cables and a jack in it (the trunk leaks, and I don’t want those to get rusty)
In the front:
Cell phone stuff (cigarette adapter, leather case and instruction book)
Change in the ashtray
Wild Berry cardboard air freshener
Travel pack of Kleenex
Little Snoopy figurine on the dash, with Snoopy dressed as the WW1 Flying Ace
In the console:
Cassettes (Disney’s Children’s Favorite Songs, Vol. 1 & 2, George Winston’s Summer, Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Come on, Come on, Pachebel Pachebel’s Ocean and Amy Grant’s The Collection.
Couple of pens
Assorted business cards
Sunglasses
In the back:
Two brown grocery bags full of old newspapers that I keep forgetting to take in to school
Jumper cables (never used)
Big cardboard window shade thing
Ice scraper
Extra school bag with old lesson plans, stencils, stickers and coloring pages
In a box in the back:
Several travel packs of Kleenex
Ziploc baggy with fast food napkins
Individual packs of wet wipes
That made me laugh.
In my maxima:
[ul][li]8-foot conduit pipe for 6 mist net set-ups. They just fit through the ski-hole, with a couple of inches to spare.[/li][li]Rebar.[/li][li]“Thor,” my sledgehammer.[/li][li]Muck-out boots and slicker.[/li][li]Banding box with bands, pliers, Peter Pyle, NG/Sibley/Peterson field guides.[/li][li]Bleeding box with lancets, #1 Wattman filter papers, syringes, microtainers, gloves, datasheets.[/li][li]Biohazard container.[/li][li]Folding table and chair.[/li][li]Sunglasses.[/li][li]Lipstick.[/li][li]Maps.[/li][li]Binoculars.[/li][li]Parking permit & keycard.[/li][li]Parkway tokens.[/li][li]An extra tire (along with the donut) that still has usuable tread along with other sundry car things.[/li][/ul]
The mist netting equipment in is my car now that the field season has begun for the rest of the department and they have decided to implement a policy that forbids more than one person doing mosquito research to use departmental vehicles. So, the Explorer sits, unused, in case anyone needs it. :rolleyes:
All I can think of as I read all of our miscellaneous items is: what does this say about each of us anyway??
Front seat: tissue in each door pocket. Loose change in ashtray. About 20 cassettes in between bench seats, with pens, Blistex, paper clips {we ALL need these things!} rubber bands, and post it notes.
Glove box: Atlanta maps, tire pressure thingie, screwdriver, AA batteries, Soap bubbles {I get bored when stuck in traffic, and will blow bubbles out the window} small tool kit and owner’s manual with a list of all the repairs that have been done to my Crown Victoria for the last five years.
Back seat: in the back pockets on the front seats, flash light, binoculars, restaurant guide, Bounty, glass cleaner, a bag of stationery items: tape, staples, scissors, {I mail a lot of stuff on short notice} a copy of ‘Dracula’, my son and I read that on “Park Day” every Tuesday. Oh yeah, plus a dictionary, we just finished ‘Frankenstein’ and would have been lost without that!
Trunk: jack, jumper cables, a green knee cushion, first aid kit, stretchie thingies to shut the trunk, a insulated freezer bag to bring home cold things from the store, a bag containing a frisbee, baseball, and our mitts.
Boy, does this sound anal retentive, or what?? 
I don’t see how some of you have room to sit in the vehicle.
In my small pickup truck:
1 1/2 packs of Marlboros
Spare Bic lighter
A few tapes
Insurance & registration
Extra thermos
Maps
Box and a half of ammo
Pistol
Spare magazine for pistol
Mag Light
Bottle Jack
Breaker Bar with 3/4 Inch Socket
Small bag of really big fishhooks
Prescription sunglasses
Spare change
Small roll of paper towels
Bottle of Listerine
Damn. Wondering how all that fits in there.