Comments on: What’s in Your Car?

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:32:00 +0000

Ttrunk has an array of emergencyish equipment – shovel/scraper/kitty litter (in winter), oil, flares, flashlight, umbrella, etc. Backseat has trash bag (I stretch a grocery store plastic bag over the passenger side headrest so the bag is in the back – perfect for me to reach, and I rarely have three passengers so it’s not in anyone’s face), pillow and blanket, bag with coloring books/crayons/little dinky toys for when I’m taking my little brother and sister on longer rides, Spanish 5 textbook from last year (I still use it! not junk!), coat, change of clothes. Center console has pen and paper, change, a couple CDs, gum, and chapstick. Glove compartments (there’s one drop-down and one in the higher dash part) have nail clippers, plastic utensils, napkins, tissue, license/registration stuff, car manual, in case of emergency info, mints, washcloth, flashlight, and maps of the US, Canada, our state, and the next state over, I’m there semi-frequently.

There really isn’t much miscellaneous crap, that’s in my purse. now THAT would be a horrifying list ;)

By: Chris Higgins

Chris Higgins — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:07:00 +0000

Wow, I guess I forgot some stuff. I do have an ice scraper and a bunch of change, and I think a tire gauge. I used to work in a place that was formerly a tire warehouse, and one day we got a shipment of literally hundreds of promotional tire pressure gauges from some tire company…they didn’t seem to want them back. (There was also an inflatable stand-up tire display and stuff.) So there are a lot of those gauges still floating around. I think somebody made a mobile out of them.

By: AG

AG — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:48:00 +0000

I’m a bit shocked there’s no jokes about bodies in the trunk.

By: steph

steph — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:58:00 +0000

travel dog bed and blanket
replacement toilet seat bought 2 months ago
3 copies of my resume
2 frozen solid bottles of laundry detergent
a crockpot
indeterminate number of books and puzzle books
at least 2 umbrellas
spare sneakers
a map of New England
cassette adapter for iPod (’97 Subaru not worth a new stereo)
a Wiccan protection spell cord bought 12 years ago

By: dave

dave — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:47:00 +0000

These items are in the car year round, not necesarily for a road trip:

-Tent
-sleeping bag
-BB gun rifle (.20 caliber)
-BBQ
-coconut husks (for kindle)
-s video-to-rca cable
-audio cables
-chart of whiskeys categorized by fruityness and smokyness
-Armani trench coat
-umbrella
-telescopic police baton
-carton of cigarettes
-2 recycled shopping bags
-one plastic hanger
-one wire hanger
-needle nose pliers
-duct tape
-emergency blanket
-soccer ball
-pool cue
-knife (on my person at all times)
-GPS (on the my ring)
-plastic police badge (from the bowling alley)

By: pam

pam — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:59:00 +0000

I have a truck, so stowage is small…
*roll of paper towels
*three umbrellas
*fabric grocery bag
*a still wrapped b-day gift I received in July!
*owners manual
*receipt for new battery and tires

By: Andrea in Alaska

Andrea in Alaska — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:11:00 +0000

My car’s new (to me) so there isn’t even anything in the glove box. But I do have:

-Full sized kitchen broom and dust pan (used to get the snow off of my car in the mornings)
-Reusable cloth grocery bag
-Pair of removable cleats to keep from slipping on the ice

By: Cassie

Cassie — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:57:00 +0000

Let’s see… I just got a new car, so there’s not much in there.

*2 bottles of perfume
*4 tubes of chapstick (all different kinds) i take a different one into work with me each day depending on my mood
*survival blanket which I use to protect the back seat from the dogs when they’re wet or muddy
*chinese food menu
*lighter
*pictures of my nephew taped inside my visor and to the dashboard
*4 or 5 books
*ice scraper (stays in all year round, i’m from new england, after all)
*numerous cds
*2 pairs of sunglasses
*hang tags and parking lot clickers for work
*a poo load of change
*sirius radio which is shoved in my glove compartment because it shit the bed
*5 broken pieces from the car my friend crashed and died in 3 years ago (it serves as a reminder to me to drive safely)

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:47:00 +0000

I forgot add:

What’s more interesting than what’s in my car is what’s on my car. I have a 92 Ford Tempo, so it’s not a car I really need to keep nice, as I’m probably going to drive it until it dies. Which means I’m free to put on any kind of bumper sticker I want. I have a bunch of stickers from local, quirky businesses, a sticker saying “create art” (made from cut up “ear x-tacy” [a record store] stickers), and the best one: a Richard Nixon bumper sticker that says “President Nixon.”

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:16:00 +0000

Right now?
1. parking pass
2. ash tray full of fake m&m candies (came in a trail mix but I didn’t like them)
3. tape adapter (basically a cassette tape with a cord attached to plug into headphone jacks)
4. trash
5. yarn/fabric/pins
6. two sets of jumper cables
7. things to be recycled
8. spare change
9. mix tapes
10. first aid kit

I’m almost certain there’s more, but I can’t think of anything else.