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To have a bin in the car?

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BinWars · 29/06/2025 13:03

I have a small car. I also have children. I commute an hour each way to work. So the car gets a lot of use!
If I am driving to work, or home, it is often the only time I have for a snack, or more likely, an energy drink after a 10- 12 hour shift.
So I have a small bin in the footwell. It a pop up asda one designed for cars. So literally a car bin!

DH thinks it's odd. He says most people just take their rubbish out at the end of the trip. I say if I am having a snack it is easier to pop it in there and then just empty it when it's full rather than throw it in the footwell. I say they wouldn't exist if it's such a wierd concept!

So aibu to have a bin in the car?

Edited for spelling

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Lollylolo · 01/07/2025 09:43

Sorry but what is a woke custart tart? Is this some term I've never heard of that your DH is calling us, or a typo?!

BarnacleBeasley · 01/07/2025 09:28

I'm going to get one. My car is always full of apple cores, and when I'm trying to unload two small children and all their shit at the end of the day, I don't also want to be gathering up manky apple cores to bring inside.

GentleJadeOP · 01/07/2025 08:50

I have a bin in mine. Always have, even if just a carrier bag over gear knob. When we are carting children and shopping there’s just not enough time or hands to bring everything in every time!

AgnesX · 01/07/2025 07:40

Sounds like a good idea, my door pocket is usually rammed with all bits of junk.

marbledliving · 01/07/2025 07:39

This is such a brilliant idea! I am going to do this! My car is absolutely full of crap!

FrogLion · 01/07/2025 07:37

I have two pop up bins. A big one in the back for the kids, and small one in the front for me. Any big bits I make the kids clear out once we get home, but mainly they're for long journeys England/ Scotland and commuting to work (2 hours each way). Everyone comments on them, thought I was the weird one, but glad to see I'm not 😊

linsey2581 · 30/06/2025 21:21

I’m a community nurse and I have a black bag in the boot of my car. Normally full of empty juice bottles sweetie wrappers and of course gloves.

Readandsew · 30/06/2025 20:40

I cannot imagine leaving rubbish in a car after a journey. So grim. I keep a bag of nappy sacks in the passenger doorwell. Any rubbish produced goes in a nappy sack. Taken out of car at the end of the journey to the kitchen bin. It's really not hard. Cannot bear to think what food rubbish is festering in other cars, especially in this heat

Kjpt140v · 30/06/2025 20:27

I'm so pleased I don't have massive problems like this one.

TheFormidableMrsC · 30/06/2025 19:31

I have a bin 🤷🏻‍♀️

Meredusoleil · 30/06/2025 19:30

redfishcat · 30/06/2025 19:07

My DP bought me one for Christmas a good few years ago. It hooks over the gear shift and hangs into the passenger footwell and is perfect for chocbars and biscuit wrappers. I have a roll of plastic bags in the bottom and it has a clever way to hold the one in use open, and has a magnetic strip to close when not actually being filled . I do have a reusable coffee mug and a reusable water bottle, so it can go months without needing to be emptied,
he gave me other gifts too, just in case anyone thinks this is all I got from him.

This sounds great! Can you post a link or say where it was from please?

Illbefinejustbloodyfine · 30/06/2025 19:10

I have 2. They're too snall really.

BobbieTables · 30/06/2025 19:09

My car is, itself, a bin.

redfishcat · 30/06/2025 19:07

My DP bought me one for Christmas a good few years ago. It hooks over the gear shift and hangs into the passenger footwell and is perfect for chocbars and biscuit wrappers. I have a roll of plastic bags in the bottom and it has a clever way to hold the one in use open, and has a magnetic strip to close when not actually being filled . I do have a reusable coffee mug and a reusable water bottle, so it can go months without needing to be emptied,
he gave me other gifts too, just in case anyone thinks this is all I got from him.

saffy2 · 30/06/2025 18:55

I have a car bin.
i don’t know a single person who takes their rubbish in after being in the car. Everyone I knows leaves it all over the car and then every so often cleans out the entire car. I think if your dh is taking his rubbish out of his car every time he gets out of his car he’s the weird one 😂

MyTherapistSaidImAnAdult · 30/06/2025 18:33

My husband despairs at my Skip On Wheels. But I'm a carer so practically live in my car. No breaks means I eat lunch etc on the go and my car is always a mess. I got in my colleagues car the other day and she had a pedal bin liner in her footwell, handle round gearstick. Genius! So now I have one as well!

ItsBouqeeeet · 29/06/2025 15:35

DisplayPurposesOnly · 29/06/2025 13:28

My car ends up with multiple reusable bottles everywhere

Uh huh. But you don't bin them, you eventually gather them up, wash them and.... reuse them. Clever stuff innit.

Depends. If its plastic, I don't. Plastic and hot cars aren't a good mix.

Not so clever. Innit.

JMSA · 29/06/2025 15:33

Genius!

mondaytosunday · 29/06/2025 15:33

He’s wrong. Many families with young kids have some sort of rubbish container as kids do produce a lot of it! On longer trips I put a plastic shopping bag in between the back seats. The kids could use it and I had something right there to throw anything else in.

ObliviousCoalmine · 29/06/2025 15:24

BinWars · 29/06/2025 13:35

It's escalated 🤣
I said I've put it out to the wider audience. He said my audience was a load of woke custart tarts. He later retracted that when I said it was mumsnet and he said ok that would be fairly balanced.

He says for fairness I should add the kids have approximately one trip per week in my car as they are teens. I say that doesn't stop them throwing their rubbish. Plus it would be more for DD but she says my car is shit (it IS a bit of a banger tbf) so prefers me to use DHs
DH also wants me to add I walk past multiple bins on the way to and from the car. (I don't, the door is first) So I am just disorganized. So disorganized that I need a bin in my car.
I say they complain if my car is messy and this fixes that and how can he call me disorganized for fixing it? I may have told him to fuck off. He then replies he was actually complimenting me, and it's not that deep but if I want to take it as an attack then so be it!
Ffs

Edited

I’d disregard the opinion of anyone who uses ‘woke’ as an insult. A bin a normal thing to use in the car, he’s being a prat.

saltinesandcoffeecups · 29/06/2025 15:15

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 29/06/2025 14:51

I just take any rubbish out of the car at the end of the journey. I don’t know when I’d ever have enough rubbish to need a bin, what are you doing in your car that warrants a bin?

Is this really that confusing? Not everyone wants to to throw stuff away after a car ride. You have a bin, you use it, you empty it periodically 🤷‍♀️

Do you have a bin in your kitchen that you empty in the outside bin periodically… it’s the same concept.

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 29/06/2025 14:51

I just take any rubbish out of the car at the end of the journey. I don’t know when I’d ever have enough rubbish to need a bin, what are you doing in your car that warrants a bin?

ScottBakula · 29/06/2025 14:44

When me and db were growing up ( 40+ years ago) our dh made a bin for our car.
It was a plastic plant pot , he used a old strip of material ( actually part of a old tent ! ) made a smallish pocket on either end and filled them with sand and fastened it to the plant pot . This was then placed across the back bit of the center console between the front seats the sand pockets ensured the plant pot was balanced and didn't fall over.
That bin moved from car to car for many years !

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BinWars · 29/06/2025 14:24

OrdinaryGirl · 29/06/2025 13:54

We have one and it is called Jeremy (Carbin)

Brilliant!

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OrdinaryGirl · 29/06/2025 13:54

We have one and it is called Jeremy (Carbin)

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