@brainmist@ItalianScallion I was thinking of rigging the tube on the “output” side… waterproof and holds 3 gallons? Should cover 1000 miles at least!
EDIT or since you get 2, use one for input and one for output? Too bad they are identical… a yellow one would be good… but that could also be Chardonnay.
i don’t have a collapsible car, but i have a truck that got scrunched when about 40% of a tree broke off in a storm and landed on the roof.
And “garbage on wheels” kinda describes what’s left, but it’s driveable and still can haul stuff.
@haydesigner Yep. Did have to replace the front glass after a branch punched it. But it did then pass the safety inspection so guess it was all kosher. Crumpled roofs apparently are not a safety issue.
Two years later, last month, we had a hail storm with golf-ball to tennis-ball size stones that gave me three cracks in that glass without penetrating. They were up high so just taped them with that Alien Shield tape and went on about my business. Truck already in sad shape, so didn’t carry but mandatory liability insurance, so new glass will come out of my pocket. But why get in a hurry when it’s just the start of a long storm season?
@haydesigner@phendrick Yup beaters have some advantages. My kid called my grad caravan the ghetto van. It was the era of peeling paint. I’d sand the roof annually, spray some gray rustoleom on it and the gray would nearly match the faded blue. Kid learning to drive was far less stressful (well not counting when she ran an 18 wheeler off the road who was on the on ramp and she refused to change lanes when I told her to) as any added dents or scrapes would barely be noticeable (and there were some). The thing was sold to the junk yard after 25 years and 3 months of use (blew an engine bearing).
Yeah, what the heck. We just got a second car and I have been meaning to get some kind of garbage can for it. Meanwhile, I’ve never been super happy with the one we had in the other car.
I’m gonna put one in the car and one next to the litter box since my S.O. can’t grok how (minimizing trips to the dumpster) + (putting cat shit in the garbage) isn’t a winning strategy.
How ironic, I just researched these this morning (well, technically yesterday) when I saw one on Woot. It was the ONLY thing that caught my attention. THIS is a much better buy and I like the dunk hole in the top cover. Plus, I still have coupons! AND… IT’S A TWOFER!
You can use standard grocery bags as liners for this?
That’s what we already use in the car, minus this frame/box.
I’ll have to think on whether the added structure is useful or just in the way. The “seal away the odors” idea is neat, but we don’t keep stinky things in there long enough to be a problem. So it looks like the main advantage would be the option to hang it from a seat or something, but I don’t know where that would be while still easily accessible to the driver.
@xobzoo That is what I use too - grocery bags. Hang one from the arm rest (that I have pushed up). All you have to do is check for holes in advance. Free Of course plastic garbage bags haven’t been outlawed in this state yet. I view it as recycling.
@Kidsandliz@xobzoo Plastic garbage bags are outlawed in some states? What do you use instead of them? The only compostable bags I’ve ever seen are the really small ones for the kitchen compost bins.
@jerminate@Kidsandliz@xobzoo Yes, for shopping, but the comment referred to garbage bags. Oh wait, I think Kidsandliz might have meant using the disposable plastic shopping bags as garbage bags. Nevermind.
@ItalianScallion@jerminate@xobzoo yes that’s what I meant - the disposable bags that you put your groceries in when you check out at the grocery store. I use those for cat litter when I scoop the cat boxes too. As a result I can’t afford to move to one of the states that have banned them
I have a vague memory of such a thing having existed once upon a time, but I seem to remember them having been banned…
Map Key
English: Plastic bag legislation in the United States.
Green- Ban
Yellow- Charge
Purple- Partial charge or ban (municipal or regional levels)
White- No legal restrictions
Red- Bans preempted by state law or court order
@ItalianScallion@Kidsandliz@xobzoo yeah plastic shopping bags, garbage bags are fine. they charge you for a plastic or paper bag at checkout if you didn’t bring your own bag. it’s annoying at first as you have to train yourself to not leave them at home or the car but it’s a pretty good net result: i haven’t seen a plastic bag blowing in the wind or choking a street gutter in years. suck it american beauty(1999)!
@Kidsandliz@PhysAssist@rpstrong I would guess that (so-called) biodegradable bags used for municipal compost collection would be legal everywhere. I buy mine on Amazon. They are quite thin, so not too durable.
@bassjunkie22@mediocrebot@ItalianScallion
This is why I’m not a doctor. My father, almost a century ago, was in med school in Europe and he said when they brought in the cadavers, he said “I’m out of here!” He didn’t like priest school at a monastery and apparently escaped by climbing over a wall. In the end there was nothing else so he became a lawyer (I know there’s a joke there somewhere)
You have to have a good reason for needing to contain a trash can’s worth of refuse in your vehicle on the regular. If you’re just a lazy sack and let it build up over many commutes, you need Jesus more than you need this product.
BTW, I obviously don’t know this for a fact, but I suspect that neither Jesus nor the new Pope would be willing to criticize someone for not regularly or frequently removing the refuse from their car, given the current state of the US, and/or the world.
Just saying…
*[I had to look up a better term because ‘judgey’ wasn’t good enough]
@dpease@PhysAssist When I do long drives across the country, the floor is the trash collection area. Clear it out at gas stations or when stopping for the night. This would certainly present a more ordered and organized approach (I.e, not like me)
Why do you guys make so much trash in your cars?
self-righteous or hypocritical.
“Pharisaic bullies who impose their notions on others”
Alright, I am indeed attempting to impose my notion that leaving mess requiring a dedicated trash can in your car over a period of time without a damned good reason is bad, you got me.
I was just asking my wife if we wanted these. (they are quite inexpensive…) Ultimately, she came to the same conclusion I originally did: not necessarily better than just using the grocery bags directly, like we already do.
Also, we like the feature that the grocery bags can spend most of their time collapsed, whereas these boxes look like they’re pretty much always full size. (but they can hang off a seat easier, and other stuff)
But then we had another question:
Will this look like a fancy box holding something potentially valuable that someone will break your window to steal?
Years ago someone broke in to take a small duffel bag of kids’ snow clothes. Absolute rubbish to whoever was stealing it, but hundreds of $$ replacement costs for us (smashed windows and kids clothes are not cheap to replace).
PSA to any would-be thieves: If you see a car seat in a vehicle, assume the owners are dead broke (unless that car has a street value more than a small house).
@xobzoo I live in a city and forgot to lock my car one night. In the morning I discovered my Yeti water bottle was gone along with… my prescription sunglasses and a pill bottle with about two dollars worth of quarters for parking meters. Oh, and my driving beret/hat for when the Fiat’s cabrio top was open. Now that was what I really missed!
@ItalianScallion@xobzoo years ago, in the Netherlands, someone tried to break into a rental car by trying to pry a window or door. The funny (?) thing was there was blood around the window/door (not a lot). I could assume that in trying to pull it open their hand slipped and punched themselves in the face.
@xobzoo I thought the same thing, can it be bright orange and say trash instead of black and vaguely backpack shape so nobody breaks my window for some paper towels and candy bar wrappers. On the other hand can we train window breakers to not go for a backpack because it may just be a meh car trash receptacle? Ultimately I decided no. I’m certain if I’m not able to deal with my candy bar wrappers when they are in plain sight no way I’m dealing with them while they hide in this bag for months…years?
That magnetic closure? It was installed incorrectly. The part on the cover flap is on the outside of the flap instead of the inside, so that it faces away from the other half. Flap no latchy. QC fail. Bad QC fail. More like QC flail. No cookie.
Specs
Product: 2-Pack: Drive Auto Collapsible Car Trash Can + 40 Bags
Model: B08CNJSXHK
Condition: New
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$19.98 (for 2) at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, May 19 - Wednesday, May 21
My car will not fit in there.
@yakkoTDI Americans and your huge cars…
@yakkoTDI My former car, a Fiat 500, probably would fit in there.
@yakkoTDI How about your trunk?
@werehatrack @yakkoTDI I doubt the contents of his trunk would fit in there two without some serious work.
@Kidsandliz @werehatrack I do have a Blendtec.
I resent the fact that I think this is a great item.
@AaronLeeJohnson they really are. I have one & put it behind my passenger side seat head rest—super convenient.
/giphy dense-cloying-mollusk
@Thumperchick stellar giphy!!
@Thumperchick Meh employees are buying…must be a decent product!
@haydesigner it was the first try, too!
@haydesigner @Thumperchick it’s creepy that the giphy is a real animal. Also probably delicious.
Q: Can it make a margarita?
A: No, but it can take the empty cup after you finish one… a non-alcoholic one, if you’re the driver.
@ItalianScallion if it’s waterproof, it could theory store a margarita. But absolutely do not.
@brainmist Got it. Do not rig a long sip-while-you-drive tube to it.
@brainmist @ItalianScallion I was thinking of rigging the tube on the “output” side… waterproof and holds 3 gallons? Should cover 1000 miles at least!
EDIT or since you get 2, use one for input and one for output? Too bad they are identical… a yellow one would be good… but that could also be Chardonnay.
Is that an AI image of Martin & Candy?
@zachpennington Look, I may be way off base, but is that this reference?
HELIUM! lol
/buy
@relm256 It worked! Your order number is: descriptive-orange-school
/showme descriptive orange school
i don’t have a collapsible car, but i have a truck that got scrunched when about 40% of a tree broke off in a storm and landed on the roof.
And “garbage on wheels” kinda describes what’s left, but it’s driveable and still can haul stuff.
@phendrick is it still street/highway legal though?
@haydesigner Yep. Did have to replace the front glass after a branch punched it. But it did then pass the safety inspection so guess it was all kosher. Crumpled roofs apparently are not a safety issue.
Two years later, last month, we had a hail storm with golf-ball to tennis-ball size stones that gave me three cracks in that glass without penetrating. They were up high so just taped them with that Alien Shield tape and went on about my business. Truck already in sad shape, so didn’t carry but mandatory liability insurance, so new glass will come out of my pocket. But why get in a hurry when it’s just the start of a long storm season?
TL;DR: Beaters have some advantages…
@haydesigner @phendrick
I get the feeling that you’re REALLY trying to say it’s now a yard ornament. Lol
@haydesigner @phendrick Yup beaters have some advantages. My kid called my grad caravan the ghetto van. It was the era of peeling paint. I’d sand the roof annually, spray some gray rustoleom on it and the gray would nearly match the faded blue. Kid learning to drive was far less stressful (well not counting when she ran an 18 wheeler off the road who was on the on ramp and she refused to change lanes when I told her to) as any added dents or scrapes would barely be noticeable (and there were some). The thing was sold to the junk yard after 25 years and 3 months of use (blew an engine bearing).
@haydesigner @Lynnerizer “yard ornament” is probably not how my neighbors think of it.
@haydesigner @phendrick
Yeah, what the heck. We just got a second car and I have been meaning to get some kind of garbage can for it. Meanwhile, I’ve never been super happy with the one we had in the other car.
/giphy bare-acid-hospital
/buy
@haydesigner It worked! Your order number is: open-universal-sofa
/showme open universal sofa
@mediocrebot I need this, in my mythical beachfront McMansion.
@haydesigner @mediocrebot I would like to order an A.I. sofa, please.
“AI” is filled with more garbage than these could ever hold.
@DrunkCat That’s more like it. Your responses are getting a little better. You must have retrained your AI to help win them back.
@yakkoTDI Please resubmit your comment in the form of a showme prompt.
@DrunkCat
/showme ten pounds of garbage in a five pound sack
Very tempted, ever since the day when, exhausted after 13 hours working/driving, I thought “I should do morning me a favor and fill up the tank!”
And then “While I’m filling. I should also dump this bag of random trash!”
Annnnnd I’m pretty certain that’s when the $150 irreplaceable microphone I picked up disappeared.
Anywho, designated trash might be helpful.
@brainmist post irreplaceable microphone lore
@brainmist
Username checks out
/buy
@TimW It worked! Your order number is: subdued-legal-iodine
/showme subdued legal iodine
I’m gonna put one in the car and one next to the litter box since my S.O. can’t grok how (minimizing trips to the dumpster) + (putting cat shit in the garbage) isn’t a winning strategy.
/buy
@yazberrie It worked! Your order number is: okay-baleful-sky
/showme okay baleful sky
@mediocrebot @yazberrie the feeling of foreboding is strong with this one. I see some spirit forming in the cloud left center.
How ironic, I just researched these this morning (well, technically yesterday) when I saw one on Woot. It was the ONLY thing that caught my attention. THIS is a much better buy and I like the dunk hole in the top cover. Plus, I still have coupons!
AND… IT’S A TWOFER! 
With my $10 coupon it was FREE!
/giphy reckless-nocturnal-mule
/giphy muscular-lean-alligator
Inexpensive AND useful?! …ok I’ll order one more
@JvB What a cute little swamp kitty.
You can use standard grocery bags as liners for this?
That’s what we already use in the car, minus this frame/box.
I’ll have to think on whether the added structure is useful or just in the way. The “seal away the odors” idea is neat, but we don’t keep stinky things in there long enough to be a problem. So it looks like the main advantage would be the option to hang it from a seat or something, but I don’t know where that would be while still easily accessible to the driver.
@xobzoo That is what I use too - grocery bags. Hang one from the arm rest (that I have pushed up). All you have to do is check for holes in advance. Free Of course plastic garbage bags haven’t been outlawed in this state yet. I view it as recycling.
@Kidsandliz @xobzoo Plastic garbage bags are outlawed in some states? What do you use instead of them? The only compostable bags I’ve ever seen are the really small ones for the kitchen compost bins.
@ItalianScallion @Kidsandliz @xobzoo paper or reusable bags are the way to go.
@jerminate @Kidsandliz @xobzoo Yes, for shopping, but the comment referred to garbage bags. Oh wait, I think Kidsandliz might have meant using the disposable plastic shopping bags as garbage bags. Nevermind.
@ItalianScallion @jerminate @xobzoo yes that’s what I meant - the disposable bags that you put your groceries in when you check out at the grocery store. I use those for cat litter when I scoop the cat boxes too. As a result I can’t afford to move to one of the states that have banned them
@ItalianScallion @Kidsandliz @xobzoo
Grocery bags. Not garbage bags. Unless I missed something.
We have to pay 5c a bag for “reusable” ones. They are usually fairly stout, but some places still just use the 1-micron thick ones.
@ItalianScallion @jerminate @Kidsandliz @xobzoo
You can get 500 small bags for $10.
@xobzoo
But what is a standard grocery bag?
I have a vague memory of such a thing having existed once upon a time, but I seem to remember them having been banned…
Map Key
English: Plastic bag legislation in the United States.
Green- Ban
Yellow- Charge
Purple- Partial charge or ban (municipal or regional levels)
White- No legal restrictions
Red- Bans preempted by state law or court order
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_bag_bans_in_the_United_States#:~:text=However%2C the states of California,Rico have banned disposable bags.
We’re in NY- in the woods, not the city, but they’re still no longer available.
That said, how does one get the stiff brown paper to clip onto the trash bin?
@PhysAssist @xobzoo The tl;dr for the map is blue states = ban/charge of some sort, red states = no bans. What a surprise.
@PhysAssist @xobzoo
Cut the paper trash bag to size and tape it to the sides. Or use chip clips to attach the paper bag.
@ItalianScallion @Kidsandliz @xobzoo yeah plastic shopping bags, garbage bags are fine. they charge you for a plastic or paper bag at checkout if you didn’t bring your own bag. it’s annoying at first as you have to train yourself to not leave them at home or the car but it’s a pretty good net result: i haven’t seen a plastic bag blowing in the wind or choking a street gutter in years. suck it american beauty(1999)!
@Star2236 @xobzoo
Rhetorical question…
/buy
@uvassassin It worked! Your order number is: practical-dense-straw
/showme practical dense straw
/showme fictitious honorable crane
@mediocrebot That is one honorable crane!
@ItalianScallion @mediocrebot I would buy that as a Lego model.
/showme fictitious honorable bird crane
The people I know who need these most would likely never use them. {sigh}
So where does one get the liners needed for these? Or after 40 uses you now have something you need to wash between uses?
@Kidsandliz It takes ordinary grocery bags.
@Kidsandliz @rpstrong
See my post above about bag bans…
@Kidsandliz @PhysAssist @rpstrong I would guess that (so-called) biodegradable bags used for municipal compost collection would be legal everywhere. I buy mine on Amazon. They are quite thin, so not too durable.
/showme garbled-seductive-carbon
I see how it is. Y’all are too good for a plastic bag looped over the gear shift.
@arysta I’ve got a six-speed manual. A bag over the shifter would get really annoying really quickly.
/buy
@kc5rbq It worked! Your order number is: jiggly-succinct-stomach
/showme jiggly succinct stomach
@mediocrebot this makes me uncomfortable
@bassjunkie22 I see @mediocrebot invented an intestomach.
@bassjunkie22 @mediocrebot @ItalianScallion
This is why I’m not a doctor. My father, almost a century ago, was in med school in Europe and he said when they brought in the cadavers, he said “I’m out of here!” He didn’t like priest school at a monastery and apparently escaped by climbing over a wall. In the end there was nothing else so he became a lawyer (I know there’s a joke there somewhere)
You have to have a good reason for needing to contain a trash can’s worth of refuse in your vehicle on the regular. If you’re just a lazy sack and let it build up over many commutes, you need Jesus more than you need this product.
@dpease
Wow, pharisaic* much?
BTW, I obviously don’t know this for a fact, but I suspect that neither Jesus nor the new Pope would be willing to criticize someone for not regularly or frequently removing the refuse from their car, given the current state of the US, and/or the world.
Just saying…
*[I had to look up a better term because ‘judgey’ wasn’t good enough]
@dpease @PhysAssist When I do long drives across the country, the floor is the trash collection area. Clear it out at gas stations or when stopping for the night. This would certainly present a more ordered and organized approach (I.e, not like me)
Why do you guys make so much trash in your cars?
@PhysAssist good word!
Alright, I am indeed attempting to impose my notion that leaving mess requiring a dedicated trash can in your car over a period of time without a damned good reason is bad, you got me.
I was just asking my wife if we wanted these. (they are quite inexpensive…) Ultimately, she came to the same conclusion I originally did: not necessarily better than just using the grocery bags directly, like we already do.
Also, we like the feature that the grocery bags can spend most of their time collapsed, whereas these boxes look like they’re pretty much always full size. (but they can hang off a seat easier, and other stuff)
But then we had another question:
Will this look like a fancy box holding something potentially valuable that someone will break your window to steal?
Years ago someone broke in to take a small duffel bag of kids’ snow clothes. Absolute rubbish to whoever was stealing it, but hundreds of $$ replacement costs for us (smashed windows and kids clothes are not cheap to replace).
PSA to any would-be thieves: If you see a car seat in a vehicle, assume the owners are dead broke (unless that car has a street value more than a small house).
@xobzoo
Kudos- all great points!
@xobzoo I live in a city and forgot to lock my car one night. In the morning I discovered my Yeti water bottle was gone along with… my prescription sunglasses and a pill bottle with about two dollars worth of quarters for parking meters. Oh, and my driving beret/hat for when the Fiat’s cabrio top was open. Now that was what I really missed!
@ItalianScallion @xobzoo years ago, in the Netherlands, someone tried to break into a rental car by trying to pry a window or door. The funny (?) thing was there was blood around the window/door (not a lot). I could assume that in trying to pull it open their hand slipped and punched themselves in the face.
@xobzoo I thought the same thing, can it be bright orange and say trash instead of black and vaguely backpack shape so nobody breaks my window for some paper towels and candy bar wrappers. On the other hand can we train window breakers to not go for a backpack because it may just be a meh car trash receptacle? Ultimately I decided no. I’m certain if I’m not able to deal with my candy bar wrappers when they are in plain sight no way I’m dealing with them while they hide in this bag for months…years?
/showme warlike-ill-pest
The /showme command is a member feature. Join membership to try it out.
@mediocrebot
/showme warlike-ill-pest
@mediocrebot I’m sorry I asked. That’s creepy.
/show me warlike ill pest
@jottismom You need to write it as one word:
/showme warlike ill pest
@ItalianScallion @jottismom
It’s weirdly almost like trying to read Chaucer in Middle English.
/buy
@aethermancer It worked! Your order number is: perpetual-literate-square
/showme perpetual literate square
You’re killin’ me, Smalls…I just bought one of these last week!
/giphy divided-interesting-kingfisher
And now I know why these were on Meh.
That magnetic closure? It was installed incorrectly. The part on the cover flap is on the outside of the flap instead of the inside, so that it faces away from the other half. Flap no latchy. QC fail. Bad QC fail. More like QC flail. No cookie.
Harrumph! Harrumph, I say!
@werehatrack Mine work fine and latch properly, do you have a photo of yours? I did only get half the bags promised, ten per trash can.
@sammydog01 I hadn’t looked at the other three; the first one was wrong, as shown in the photo here. The other three are OK.
