To have a bin in the car?

[BinWars]

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

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.

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

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!

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

This, have had them for decades.👍

my car ends up with multiple water bottles etc

Use a reusable water bottle.

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!!!

My car ends up with multiple reusable bottles everywhere

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!

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

We have one and it is called Jeremy (Carbin)

Brilliant!

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 !

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.

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.

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.

Genius!