Why am I like this? Disgusting car

[StupidFaces]

I’ve always been quite a scruffy person when it comes to housework etc but in the past few years I have learnt to keep my house relatively clean and tidy.

My car however is totally disgusting. Empty water bottles everywhere, crisp packets, yogurt pots, chip wrappers, odd shoes, used tissues, random paperwork … there is nowhere to sit other than the drivers seat. It stinks.

A few weeks ago I had to give someone a lift unexpectedly and I was embarrassed - there was even a used nappy on the floor in the back. She opened the passenger door and gasped. I told her to just Chuck everything into the back but I was mortified. I gave it a proper good clean after that, got rid of all the rubbish, vacuumed it, put an air freshener up … a week later it was back to normal.

I don’t even know how it gets so bad. Am I just a lazy sod? I don’t even seem to see it until someone else needs to get into it (or DH uses it and complains about the state of it)

So you drive your granddaughter about in a dirty, filthy car full of crap?

What do her parents think?

I think it’s easy enough to forget a nappy for an hour or two but days or even a week? Fucking grim. Just pure laziness.

You know you're car is skanky because you were embarrassed to give someone a lift in it. Then you posted on here.

So either learn to clear it out or carry on driving a refuse bin. (But I wouldn't want my DGC in it.)

Your choice.

Yeah...it's really not overreacting to think it's disgusting to leave a wee-soaked nappy in your car for a week 🙄

the over reaction and anger on here is hilarious

Your lack of awareness of what is acceptable is "hilarious"

I don’t have kids, that makes it even worse! It’s just me!

OP this made me cry- laughing, so funny.
As PPs have suggested put s plastic bag in the car or get a car bin.

I’m just going to buy a new car, this one is beyond help 😂

You might be op, but not the car..😅

@StupidFaces Missing the point a bit, but how did you manage to learn to keep your house tidy? This is what I need to know before I even start worrying about my car.

Just have a plastic bag in boot and shove rubbish in at end of day or stop eating in your car

Disgusting. Way beyond scruffy.

Just clean it and then make sure you take the rubbish in every time you use it . It sounds absolutely disgusting .

So was mine till it went for it's mot and then it got its yearly clean out. Although I'm all fairness the majority of mine was actually PPE (unused)

Yoghurt pots! How do you eat yoghurt in the car?

Oh god I didn't see the nappy bit! OP that's gross! Just take everything out whenever you leave the car - maybe keep a roll of freezer bags in there so you can always have a bag to hand?

Buy a roll of small bin bags with handles. Keep them in your glove compartment.

Loop one over your handbrake so it sits between the back footwells.

When it’s full, take it out & throw in the wheelie bin. Replace with fresh one from roll in glove compartment.

I have a 16 month old and a 3 and a half year old. If I didn’t do this my car would look like a rubbish tip.

I'm on the road at 7.30am, I work full time.
If I were desperate for hydration I could stop at a garage. I've never been desperate!

Nope this is just slovenly. I'm not a clean freak but your car sounds like a fucking pigsty. I'd have been mortified to give someone a lift with that level of filth.

Keep a carrier bag as a bin bag in the front passenger foot well perhaps?

Do you work full time driving?

or are you driving 30 minute or so to work to sit in an office/home/building with a kitchen/vending machine etc... where you can get drinks? (in which case working 'full time' has fuck all to do with anything).

I don't believe for one second you work full time from 7.30am everyday driving place to place constantly and have NEVER needed a drink in that time (you would be a bloody medical marvel).

I also don't believe that if you did once in your dehydrated life decide you need one you would pull up at a garage and chug a full bottle like a frat boy so as not to put it in your car.

This is such a weird thing to big up and lie about. 'I don't ever need to drink, I can exist on thin air yet I'm never thirsty' sounds like the bullshittery brag of a 12 year old not an adult. I mean what are you... a camel?

Most people have minging cars. That amuses me. My home is scruffy & my car is actually better. Get it tidied up & keep it that way, remove rubbish each and every time you get out.

My old car used to get in a similar state (minus the nappy), and I just couldn't seem to keep on top of it. I tried a car bin/bin bags but forgot to use them. Plus there was still the issue of kids socks, jackets, shoes, socks, drink bottles, bowls, socks, lunch boxes, oh and did I mention the socks? 😆
I now have a new car, and I just take everything out every time. Turns out it's really not that hard, it's just a matter if making it habit to grab everything.

I mean what are you... a camel?

😂😂

I'm like you OP. My car is gross.

I'm not evil or deranged.

Glad to meet you anyway. Obviously I can't give you any tips but just wanted to say you're not the only one and it doesn't mean any deep flaws exist in you. You just have a very messy car.

I think if it's not harming anyone just relax about it.

You could buy a cheap kitchen bin and put it in the passenger seat then put everything in there.

Of course you'll probably then just drive round with a bin full of stunky rubbish but you could hide it in the boot if you have to give someone a lift.

I work in an office outside the home. I drive to and from work daily. I drive to my family, inlawa etc I don't have bottles of water in the car.
Any more questions?