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Moms View Message Board: General Discussion: Archive October 2004: What does the inside of your vehicle look like??
Just curious, as I couldn't believe how dirty the insides of peoples' cars were when I worked at a Car Seat Check today. We're not clean freaks by any means, but our vehicles look immaculate compared to cars I worked in today. I can understand dirt/sand/crackers, etc. from normal wear and tear but the TRASH floating around was just gross! Also lots of loose items that are potentially very dangerous during a crash. Yikes!
I keep the inside of my van clean and neat. There are no loose items lying around at all. I do have a few things in the side pockets.
LOL. It's pretty clean *now*. Now that all my younguns are grown. I used to say - "I can't wait for ya'll to drive so I can trash your car".
My car gets messy with paperwork etc. but I try to keep all trash cleaned out each time we exit the vehicle.
Mine is clean! I hate clutter in the car as much as in the house!! LOL
It's probably cleaner than my house right now! LOL
Mine is clean. I try to vacuum it every week or two.
Mine is actually spotless. I just had my carpets shampooed, its been washed and waxed and pretty much looks brand new. But I am always picking up trash and crumbs out of it keep it looking new.
Right now mine is pretty clean...but only because DH took it to get cleaned out.
Nearly spotless
Generally clean, with a few papers and a little bit of grass in the floor.
clean, clean, clean, inside and out. DH cannot stand a dirty car or house. There is never trash in it, but sometimes it does get extra clothes in the floor. oops.
Clean. I am very particular about my vehicle. Kids can only drink bottled water in car. No sodas. I try to limit food in car too.
Cleaner since I read this post!
I wouldn't say our car is disgusting, but not super clean either. I always have something in our car! I have two outfits in ziplocks, a small pillow for DD, a roll of paper towels for car sickness, my umbrella, box of tissues, oh and some happy meal toy. I usually have a leftover coffee cup or water from the day before. There sometimes are shoes because DD always takes them off. I just brought in 2 pairs yesterday.
You sound like me Eve.
Right now it is nice and clean because i cleaned it out and vacuumed yesterday. It is usually not really a mess either, the most i have in it is the kids umbrellas in the pockets behind the front seats and my umbrella in the pocket of my door. There may be a water bottle from the day before too, but thats about it.
Right now it is clean. Chris cleans my car all thee time. The only things in mycar are a bokk and two dvd cases that are all Rylee's.
Mine is clean. DH is a clean freak when it comes to our cars. He cleans them both every Saturday.
Glad to hear there are clean cars out there!
My caravan is pretty clean, but of course like Eve and Marg, we always have stuff in the car for emergencies. Since it is a caravan, there is not a trunk, so the carriage and the potty are usually in the back, too. Should I be securing these somehow?
I do clean out *trash* each time we pull in the garage. Kids are all told to *get their things and take them in* each time we get home.
Anything that's not soft and squishy (like a stuffed animal) should either be in the trunk, back of the van, in pockets/storage areas or secured somehow. Many SUVs and minivans have cargo hooks for that very purpose. Loose objects become dangerous projectiles during a crash. Common sense comes into play. Yesterday a mom had a screwdriver on the seat between her two kids. She seemed surprised when we told her that wasn't safe and moved it to the trunk. Argh!
I have a dear DH who is a neat freak when it comes to our vehicles. His Caddy is always spotless inside and out. He details my van about once a month. We are always careful about food and drinks in our vehicles. Except for sand on the mats, my van is usually very clean.
My car is pretty clean. We have a little habit when we get out of the car, I tell the kids, "get ALL your stuff, toys, books, whatever...and take it inside the house...." They are pretty good about it, so there's not a lot of pile up. AJ
No one wants to fess up to a messy vehicle?? LOL! When I got in mine today, I picked up my trash. LOL!
LOL, Eve! Well, I can honestly say my van usually looks better than my house. How's that for a fess up?! LOL!
Mine is dirty, needs to be vacuumed, but not full of trash. We try to throw away any trash a couple times a week at least. But my car is still pretty dirty, and driving me nuts. LOL
Mine's clean at the moment but usually there are old french fries that have settled to the floor along with small toys, hairclips,chocolate bar wrappers, change and furtively removed socks. Above that are the water bottles, which get 5 cents at the local depot so at anytime we've got a small fortune in there. Above that are the sweaters or coats abandoned in warm weather. There's also always a bag of clothes from my daughter's latest overnighter at the GPs. The top layer consists of the bags the above mentioned french fries originally came in, stuffed animals, newspapers, junk mail and books, books and more books.
I keep it pretty clean, but after we get home from a road trip (parents and in-laws live about an hour away) then I have to go thru and totally clean out the car- toys, trash, food, and everything.
Mine is NOT clean. It is pretty messy actually. I have 2 cars, the one I use the most is my company vehicle. Its has alot of work related stuff..papers,supplies etc..
LOL EVE...I read this post...went out and cleaned it and then came back and posted about my clean van!
I'll fess up...mines a mess. I try to vaccum it every week or so but that doesn't always work out. I let my kids eat in the car and if I lift their car seats up....there are crumbs. There are kid shoes, socks, school papers, toys, backpacks, soccer chairs, baseballs, etc. My car has always been this way, ever since I started driving but now I have a van and their is more room. I just told the kids today we need to clean out the car tommorrow.....you guys have guilted me into it with your clean cars.
Finally, some people whose cars aren't that tidy! Maybe I'll clean mine out this weekend. there is some trash and it probably could get vacuumed. I have to work tomorrow morning and it depends what time I get done. Clinic is open from 8-12, but sometimes done around noon, sometimes done around 2pm! So, I might not care by afternoon what my car looks like.
Might currently is picked up, but far from clean. I will admit there are times that I have taken a garbage sack and a laundry basket to clean out my car. We live in my car sometimes, we have girl scout stuff, boy scout stuff, PTA stuff, baseball stuff, swimming stuff, etc, filled up in the car, because we have times that we don't run home. Oh and we eat in the car way too much. I keep a first aid kit, I keep a phone book, and a hurricane kit under the front seat of my van, so those are stuffed too. I once took my van camping with the gs, I had a gallon of blue drink that had a leak in it, well 2 hours later we get there, no blue drink, but the back of my van will never be the same. I blotted it up, when I got home I shampood it, but it was too late, it is the ugliest looking stain, looks like mold, but it isn't. So there is that, I win messy van awards! When I taught I loaded kids into their cars on the front porch, someone that had a child there had bought my old car, I thought I kept it messy, well not in comparison, there were cigarette butts and who knows what on the floor board...eww. I will say my van can get to be a huge mess, but I do attempt to clean it out once a week, not including vacumming though.
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But we have had drinks spilled on vacation, a mystery piece of candy stained a spot, etc...And thats WITH clear rubber mats *protecting* the foors. The leather seats are very easy to keep clean. But if I had it to do over again I would spend the extra money and have my floors scotch guarded!!!