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)

Yes, Do you understand that other peoples lives are different to yours?

And you do not seem to have answered how long these drives are. One hour or less fine. Others like me who commute multiple hours need water in the car.

This.

I don’t understand you are asking us why you are like this! You are obviously like it cos that’s the way you are, you don’t have a problem chucking things on the floor in your car! And leaving them there to stink

Agreed

For safety reasons please empty your car.
A guy went out one eve for a jar of coffee,junk in car,just yards from home he braked hard to avoid a cat.some rubbish slid forward and got stuck under brake pedal and he drove into his neighbours house as could not stop.
It is potentially lethal to have all that deal in your car and it is not worth it,what if you had dgc inside?do it for them.🚙

My DC often leave papers in the car, I'll have a drink. When I go to get fuel or to the shop I take the rubbish and put it in the bin. Stops anything building up. Can you get into the habit of something like this. Could even be once you get home each time you use the car you bring the rubbish out.

Couldn’t he pull up his handbrake to stop? Although I suppose the rubbish bag swinging from it probably would have impeded him.

I still think it’s grotty to eat yoghurts then chuck the pot and spoons onto the car floor amongst the dirty nappies/rubbish type stuff. I mean it would never occur to me at home to finish a yoghurt then drop the spoon on the floor and walk away.

I cheerfully drive around a lot without a bottle of water in my car, I’m neither dehydrated or a camel. Can’t get over the obsession of having to take water with you wherever you go.

I would take water on a drive that could potentially last longer than two hours. I have family that are a four hour drive away, so I would take water then, but for family living two hours away I don't.

Thank you!
I don't get the obsession either.
I'm a child of thr 80s, when we went for our weekly Sunday outing with parents we had a picnic in the boot. (Sandwich and large bottle of lemonade between 8 of us-we sat on each others laps I the car, no seatbelts). We ate at the beach, park, forest mountain etc not in the car!

I find this repulsive. 2 of my friends have cars similar and I struggle to grasp why anyone would let it get this bad. Worse still you know it gets bad, but choose not to empty it once a week. So that's pure laziness.

My colleague has loads of rubbish in her car as well and I'm afraid to say I judged. We were going to the pub as a group and I said if you drive I'll drive next time. She seemed reluctant and i realised why when I saw her car. I just said it was fine though and got in. She smokes in her car as well 🥴

The only time I eat in the car is if we stop at McDonalds at Durham services. When we finish our food one of us takes the rubbish out and puts it in one of the bins in the car park before we set off again. It isn't difficult.

I don't want my car smelling of food.

I had something similar and it was NOTHING to do with a dirty car.

Someone pulled out of a junction in front of me and I had to emergency break, it was a 60 mile an hour road so there was some force in the stop. Im short sighted and have to wear glasses to drive legally but I don't wear them for anything else so I keep a pair in a glasses case in my door pocket. When I breaked the glasses case shot out of the door pocket and under the accelerator so I had to put it in park (in the middle of the road where I stopped) to retrieve the glasses case. I hardly think keeping your glasses case in the door pocket is bizarre or untidy though.

Anything lose in a car can be a dangerous projectile, my dad crashed and was hit on the head by his work lunch box once and he kept his car immaculate but things are logically needed in a car in day to day life.

It’s vile and profoundly dangerous to have any object in your car. I myself have never kept so much as a parking ticket in mine. I also manage to give it a quick hoover and exterior shampoo every time I go outside - and I have a full time job and a family of 10, so why you can’t is a mystery OP.
As for having a water bottle on a long drive - you do realise that once you’ve taken a sip from it that bottle will have your saliva on it? And you’re prepared to drive sitting in filthy saliva ridden air? You must be fundamentally defective.
Either that or you’ve got a touch of undiagnosed ADHD and you’re really busy with your mind on other things a lot of the time, and you live in a society where a certain type of people like to point-score against each other by finding increasingly ordinary things, like lying in bed in some clothes you’ve been outside for a walk in, ‘gross’. These people are generally screwing the planet up at ten times the rate of the average household by washing their sheets daily, using cleaning chemicals at a rate of knots, and throwing away anything that’s been touched by human hand. They are, in fact, turning the bits of the world they can’t see into the biggest shit-tip you can imagine - it’s just that they’re keeping it out of their own house and car so they think they’re Mary fucking Poppins.
Maybe don’t repeat the nappy scenario if you can help it, take food packaging out as soon as you can, but remember urine can be used to clean wounds when nothing else is available - it’s really not the same as poo - and nobody is in any danger from anything you’ve described. Tidy it so that it’s nice to sit in if you want, and if you do let it get a bit mad sometimes, don’t beat yourself up.