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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

OP posts:
InfoSecInTheCity · 29/06/2025 13:50

I have a couple of s-hooks on the stalks of the passenger seat head rest and use them to attach a plastic bag.

saltinesandcoffeecups · 29/06/2025 13:42

I have a plastic woven basket thing. It’s the only way to keep a car clean in my world so yeah, team car bin here!

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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

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HeddaGarbled · 29/06/2025 13:34

It’s a good idea but I’d still be taking it all out of the car daily.

susiedaisy1912 · 29/06/2025 13:29

I have a pop up bin in the car that I hang from the glove box it fills up surprisingly quickly. Before i got it i used to just chuck it all in the passenger footwell and my car looked a right mess

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.

DoingItForTheKids25 · 29/06/2025 13:27

What a great idea, off to look into this! My car (despite my best efforts) is a disaster zone and DC are rubbish at taking their crap out with them!

Meredusoleil · 29/06/2025 13:25

Both dh and I hang a small plastic bag over our car gear sticks which we use for all the rubbish and then bin every week or two whenever it gets full.

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BinWars · 29/06/2025 13:23

I would put it on the back of the other front seat like a pp, but it only has this little elastic hanger thing, so I have twisted it around a knob on the centre console. Now, my commit eis set up perfectly with my sat nav, music, bin, everything within easy reach!
I KNEW I wasn't unreasonable!

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Optimustime · 29/06/2025 13:21

DisplayPurposesOnly · 29/06/2025 13:19

my car ends up with multiple water bottles etc

Use a reusable water bottle.

My car ends up with multiple reusable bottles everywhere

ScrambledEggs12 · 29/06/2025 13:19

I was about to say that cars always used to have bins in when I was a child, but now I think about it, they were actually ash trays!!!

DisplayPurposesOnly · 29/06/2025 13:19

my car ends up with multiple water bottles etc

Use a reusable water bottle.

Nourishinghandcream · 29/06/2025 13:18

dementedpixie · 29/06/2025 13:06

I have a bin that hangs on the back of the front seat of the car. It's very handy to have

This, have had them for decades.👍

dudsville · 29/06/2025 13:07

this is a great idea. Off to buy one for my mum!

AmyDuPlantier · 29/06/2025 13:07

Oh my god why have I never done this?! I have a really long commute too and my car ends up with multiple water bottles etc in it. Stealing this idea!

dementedpixie · 29/06/2025 13:06

I have a bin that hangs on the back of the front seat of the car. It's very handy to have

ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 29/06/2025 13:05

I have one. Not an actual bin, but a large Tupperware tub with a lid solely for rubbish. It’s such a useful thing, months go by when I don’t use it, but when I have a long journey it gets used a lot.

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