A box of skinny pop from Costco. The kiddos wanted it for their lunches. Or if this whole virus thing happens it could be the start of my very own preparation for dooms day. What a way to go
@bleedmichigan Has your Costco been cleaned out of toilet paper and bottled water? The panicked fools around here seem to have deemed those two things as Coronavirus essentials.
@blaineg not yet. When I was last at Costco the only thing they were noticeably out of was potato skins but then again my Costco refuses to carry them.
Seven seedless grapes, forty-two segments of a Spongebob Squarepants foam figurine, three Craps table rakes, a 1984 Donruss Darryl Strawberry Baseball Card, an extender cable for an Amiga tank mouse, a three ounce bottle of used (waste) Oce brand black toner, the spiral bound manual for the replacement of a John Deere Steering Wheel Spinner Knob, a vial with eight milligrams of epinephrine, two eyelashes from my middle school english teacher, and the civil section of the 2007 construction blueprints for the St. Ellis Walk The Path Church of Jesus Christ.
@blaineg@KMakato Thank you! That collection should last about a month …
The 10 fits about 80% of the smaller bolts and nuts on toyotas - usually I lose it when I (dis/re)connect the battery to service something, and leave the socket sitting on the battery brace. I go through a lot of handles also. I found two of them when we had the driveway re-graded.
@KMakato This is why all cars in America should have stuck with the standard measurements and fittings. Who cares about 10mm? Where are all my 1/4" sockets!
Box of reusable grocery & produce bags. Blanket for impromptu picnics or roadside sitting. First aid kit. Three empty beer growlers, 2-64 oz, 1-32 oz, because you never know when you’ll find your new favorite beer.
As an aside what if you don’t have a trunk? My popcorn is in my daily driver escape but beyond that I have a truck bed and technically the only thing in it right now is air and a fifth wheel hitch. Are we counting the truck bed as a trunk? Logistically there are lots of people with lots of junk in there.
@blaineg I love those things. I have 3 that fit perfectly, opened, in the back of my Crosstrek. Then they just fold up when I need them out of the way. I also have some of the Greenmade folding baskets and a folding cooler for food shopping.
@blaineg@rockblossom Some day it would be nice to have several of those. They’d be better than what I am using now. Those look really nice.
Right now in the minivan I have a couple of cracked milk crates and a large rubbermaid container where the lid is long gone (with things in it like a blanket - thank you meh irk, jumper cables, windshield washer fluid and oil, paper towels, used plastic bags, jacket, a cooler, umbrella…). Loose in the car there is stuff rattling around like the toy truck under the seat I haven’t picked up yet to toss in the milk crate and I keep forgetting to fish out the half eaten snack a kid stuffed in the cup holder (that is probably ossified by now).
I have a correct diameter, slightly thinner, spare and the tools needed (30% of new cars come without one and I have a fear of having a flat and being stuck-despite having the manufacturer’s roadside service and AAA), a tire pump, slime (I was advised not to use because of the pressure sensors), jump starter power pack, fuses, small hand tools, blanket for naps in the late night on long trips, folding shovel (not for bodies, but for snow), traction mat, reusable plastic bags, window scraper-brush, rubber kneeling mat (for photography and tire changing). I may have to add to this when I get back home and look in the trunk.
Why are you asking me that? It’s just a rolled up old rug! There is nothing in the rug. The lye and shovel are for gardening. No I don’t know where bill is.
@DennisG2014 If you get the chance, the little lithium battery jump starters will remove jumper cables from your life forever. Much safer for your electrical system too.
Unless you have like 7L Diesel, or something, in which case it might be hard to find one that has enough oomph.
i’m usually pretty neurotic about the car (including the trunk) staying clean and necessities only, but the trunk is…well it’s not messy but it is full of extraneous crap.
preferably it should have a rubbermaid bin with windshield washer fluid, antifreeze, oil, bungee cords, a funnel, shop towels, armorall wipes, invisible glass spray, jumper cables, twine, extra headlight/taillight bulbs, a battery powered lantern/flashlight etc. additionally there will be a snowbrush, small snow shovel, and a couple empty spare ikea bags.
instead, the aforementioned bin is still in my old car that’s waiting to be sold, and the current trunk is stuffed with about six bags of hand-me-down clothes from my sister to my nieces, as well as a massive package of compressed dirt i bought last summer and never used, and a bag or two of christmas presents.
oh and a briefcase containing two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
@Kidsandliz since i live in an apartment where i have neither a shed nor a basement, they do function as those things, yes XD not much of a disguise tho unfortunately!
@jerk_nugget What no matches in that briefcase? I presume the bottles are open but in a paper bag. But officer, all of that stuff is so someone doesn’t steal the stuff I really need that is stashed in my shedbasement car, rather they will just take the briefcase. Right?
Well - i have a minivan… but in the back is a tub with: replacement headlight bulbs, photo gloves (to protect bulb), screwdrivers, wrench set, blue tarp, towels, gloves (leather and nitrile), first aid kit, road flares, fire starter (magnesium block and flint/scraper), towels, blankets, paper towels, diaper wipes, flash lights, knife & multitool, and chains. Outside that i have driving gloves, a gallon of water, and my AAA card
Besides the usual stuff mentioned somewhere above, the best thing in there (minivan) recently was a brand new, with tags, winter coat made by Timberline (that was in one of the 2 bags of good stuff City Thrift had thrown out I hadn’t dropped off yet at Good Samaritan as they give things to people in need, I was going to sell the jacket). When that transmission whatever it is called thing fell off the flat bed truck and hit my car last month the guy helping me get the mess away from the wheel so I could drive the car said he was cold. I told him I could do this now that I had a crowbar, go inside (I had pulled over by his driveway). He said no he’d do it. I said well go get a warmer jacket on I’m in no hurry. He said he didn’t have a warmer one. That new jacket fit him perfectly.
And that is my justification for having my minivan often look like a road side gypsy mobile thrift shop in the back. Never know what will come in handy. Right?
Don’t you mean who?
@therealjrn Don’t answer that.
@shahnm @therealjrn I’ve got a Camaro, according to Jeremy Clarkson there’s a dead body back there.
@blaineg @shahnm @therealjrn That dead body must be mummified back there if you don’t smell it yet so you are probably safe.
@blaineg @Kidsandliz Dead? Who said anything about dead?
Um…under advice from my counsel @shahnm I can’t offer any more information, sorry, I probably said too much already.
@blaineg @Kidsandliz @therealjrn You’ve said too much already…
I think I keep a pair of gloves back there.
You’d think I ought to have those in the glove compartment, but that’s actually where I keep the headlamp from this ages-ago deal.
You’ll need a warrant or probable cause, officer.
yeah… the cops tried to make me answer this question too
It’s an SUV, it doesn’t technically have a trunk.
@cinoclav crossover so… ditto
He won’t say.
I have a van and pickup truck. No trunk.
@katbyter Even old fat men have trunks. Don’t ask how I know.
A little of this, a little of that
@tinamarie1974
Sounds like what I have in my purse. Or more like evevythin but the kitchen sink!
I’ve been a van owner since 1979. What’s a trunk?
those, only another brand, and another color… then you know one of those jump charger battery thingers and random crap.
The pic is from stayhold.com for those wondering.
They do for your trunk what bookends do for a bookshelf.
She refused to show me, again.
As of late, a bunch of reusable shopping bags…and I still leave them in there when I go in the store.
A box of skinny pop from Costco. The kiddos wanted it for their lunches. Or if this whole virus thing happens it could be the start of my very own preparation for dooms day. What a way to go
@bleedmichigan Has your Costco been cleaned out of toilet paper and bottled water? The panicked fools around here seem to have deemed those two things as Coronavirus essentials.
@blaineg not yet. When I was last at Costco the only thing they were noticeably out of was potato skins but then again my Costco refuses to carry them.
@bleedmichigan Probably thinking that toilet paper can be turned into erstaz breathing masks…
Earlier today, a life size inflatable Balto pooltoy. Pretty on-point for me, no?
Seven seedless grapes, forty-two segments of a Spongebob Squarepants foam figurine, three Craps table rakes, a 1984 Donruss Darryl Strawberry Baseball Card, an extender cable for an Amiga tank mouse, a three ounce bottle of used (waste) Oce brand black toner, the spiral bound manual for the replacement of a John Deere Steering Wheel Spinner Knob, a vial with eight milligrams of epinephrine, two eyelashes from my middle school english teacher, and the civil section of the 2007 construction blueprints for the St. Ellis Walk The Path Church of Jesus Christ.
Why did you want to know again?
@Tin_Foil Amiga? Cool!
@blaineg @Tin_Foil Amiga - have one in the attic!
@Tin_Foil @ybmuG An A3000 in the closet, and an A500 in the shed.
And a LOAD of floppy disks.
Dirty shovel, pickaxe, some bits of rope, trace fibers and a roll of quarters for the gas station vacuum.
@yakkoTDI so who did you dispose of?
A thick winter coat, an Adidas tracksuit, and a flat cap.
Almost enough tools to rebuild an entire car, except I’m missing a 10mm socket
@KMakato I always lose that one , too. Seems like I’m always buying replacements.
@KMakato @stolicat Here you go:
@KMakato Too bad-the 10 seems to be necessary very frequently.
@blaineg @KMakato Thank you! That collection should last about a month …
The 10 fits about 80% of the smaller bolts and nuts on toyotas - usually I lose it when I (dis/re)connect the battery to service something, and leave the socket sitting on the battery brace. I go through a lot of handles also. I found two of them when we had the driveway re-graded.
@KMakato This is why all cars in America should have stuck with the standard measurements and fittings. Who cares about 10mm? Where are all my 1/4" sockets!
@KMakato @stolicat
Well according to a woman who was on the Click and Clack brothers her VW bug trunk was an extension of her purse. I’ve always loved that response.
Box of reusable grocery & produce bags. Blanket for impromptu picnics or roadside sitting. First aid kit. Three empty beer growlers, 2-64 oz, 1-32 oz, because you never know when you’ll find your new favorite beer.
I have a Tacoma pickup and a 4Runner SUV, and I couldn’t begin to list what’s back there in the two of them. I have most things - what do you need?
@stolicat A 10mm socket?
Would you believe a spare tire (midget size – if it were a candy bar they’d call it the “fun size”) and a jack and other tools for changing it?
I think all the above folks are in for a surprise when they get a flat. Even AAA or other service will be expecting a spare with some air in it!
@phendrick GM says no spare for me, just a combined goo dispenser and air pump.
@blaineg I guess that info makes me glad I drive an older model.
@phendrick Apparently after designing the hole in the trunk for an 18" wheel, they put 20" wheels on the SS.
The spare was available for the 5th gen V6’s.
I believe the 6th gen Camaros don’t even have a space for a spare.
Various work-related things, like tools I don’t use very often, assorted cables, a little Ethernet switch, etc.
First aid kit
Jump starter thingie
Packing tape and handle
Snow brush/windshield scraper
Car?
Snow brush/squeegee with a telescoping handle; reusable grocery bags; collapsible dog waterbowl.
I put a box of old crap in my trunk in the hopes that I’ll have it when a means of disposal presents itself.
You’re not supposed to just trash laptops and batteries, I guess.
@InnocuousFarmer Sounds like white elephant gifts to me.
@InnocuousFarmer Check with your local Best Buy… they have a recycling program and will at least take the laptops.
@InnocuousFarmer Goodwill is the largest ewaste collector in the US. Just drop your stuff off at one.
@blaineg hahah. Only if I throw in like, an empty bottle of ketchup and a couple wadded up napkins on top.
@kalma They made me pay last time I tried to drop off a dead graphics card.
all the drones I bought from MEH that don;t work
Jumper cables, battery pack that can be used to jump-start, first aid kit, air compressor to inflate tires.
The back seat is where I keep a jacket and reusable shopping bags and full-size umbrella.
Reusable grocery bags, a trunk organizer and misc crap above and beyond what is in said organizer plus a can of Fix-a-Flat.
The trunk organizer doesn’t work. I was hoping it would organize the trunk itself.
@rtjhnstn Might want to rethink the Fix-a-Flat.
A trunk monkey
@rtjhnstn I love trunk monkey commercials!
Got cargo space instead of a trunk and it harbors ye ole grocery bags and an golf umbrella (I don’t golf but do enjoy not getting wet in a deluge).
Monkey!
As an aside what if you don’t have a trunk? My popcorn is in my daily driver escape but beyond that I have a truck bed and technically the only thing in it right now is air and a fifth wheel hitch. Are we counting the truck bed as a trunk? Logistically there are lots of people with lots of junk in there.
My wife’s van has a couple of these:
@blaineg I love those things. I have 3 that fit perfectly, opened, in the back of my Crosstrek. Then they just fold up when I need them out of the way. I also have some of the Greenmade folding baskets and a folding cooler for food shopping.
@blaineg @rockblossom Some day it would be nice to have several of those. They’d be better than what I am using now. Those look really nice.
Right now in the minivan I have a couple of cracked milk crates and a large rubbermaid container where the lid is long gone (with things in it like a blanket - thank you meh irk, jumper cables, windshield washer fluid and oil, paper towels, used plastic bags, jacket, a cooler, umbrella…). Loose in the car there is stuff rattling around like the toy truck under the seat I haven’t picked up yet to toss in the milk crate and I keep forgetting to fish out the half eaten snack a kid stuffed in the cup holder (that is probably ossified by now).
@blaineg Me-thinks meh should get right on these!
@LittleLulu They show up at Costco from time to time, that’s where we got them. To carry our stuff home from Costco, of course.
@blaineg @LittleLulu Confirm the Costco sighting about a month ago. Check the website.
@blaineg Thanks. I’m a member. I was mainly giving meh buyers a heads up for a good product to sell. Are you listening Snapster?
@blaineg I meant @snapster
I have a correct diameter, slightly thinner, spare and the tools needed (30% of new cars come without one and I have a fear of having a flat and being stuck-despite having the manufacturer’s roadside service and AAA), a tire pump, slime (I was advised not to use because of the pressure sensors), jump starter power pack, fuses, small hand tools, blanket for naps in the late night on long trips, folding shovel (not for bodies, but for snow), traction mat, reusable plastic bags, window scraper-brush, rubber kneeling mat (for photography and tire changing). I may have to add to this when I get back home and look in the trunk.
Soon many tools…
Why are you asking me that? It’s just a rolled up old rug! There is nothing in the rug. The lye and shovel are for gardening. No I don’t know where bill is.
In my hatchback:
Air compressor, jumper cables, folding camp chair, windshield sun-shade, snow-brush/ice-scraper.
@DennisG2014 If you get the chance, the little lithium battery jump starters will remove jumper cables from your life forever. Much safer for your electrical system too.
Unless you have like 7L Diesel, or something, in which case it might be hard to find one that has enough oomph.
i’m usually pretty neurotic about the car (including the trunk) staying clean and necessities only, but the trunk is…well it’s not messy but it is full of extraneous crap.
preferably it should have a rubbermaid bin with windshield washer fluid, antifreeze, oil, bungee cords, a funnel, shop towels, armorall wipes, invisible glass spray, jumper cables, twine, extra headlight/taillight bulbs, a battery powered lantern/flashlight etc. additionally there will be a snowbrush, small snow shovel, and a couple empty spare ikea bags.
instead, the aforementioned bin is still in my old car that’s waiting to be sold, and the current trunk is stuffed with about six bags of hand-me-down clothes from my sister to my nieces, as well as a massive package of compressed dirt i bought last summer and never used, and a bag or two of christmas presents.
oh and a briefcase containing two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
@jerk_nugget So what you are really saying is that your cars are really a shed or a basement in disguise?
@Kidsandliz since i live in an apartment where i have neither a shed nor a basement, they do function as those things, yes XD not much of a disguise tho unfortunately!
@jerk_nugget What no matches in that briefcase? I presume the bottles are open but in a paper bag. But officer, all of that stuff is so someone doesn’t steal the stuff I really need that is stashed in my
shedbasementcar, rather they will just take the briefcase. Right?@jerk_nugget @Kidsandliz No point mentioning these bats I thought. Poor bastard will see them soon enough.
I got junk in my trunk.
Well - i have a minivan… but in the back is a tub with: replacement headlight bulbs, photo gloves (to protect bulb), screwdrivers, wrench set, blue tarp, towels, gloves (leather and nitrile), first aid kit, road flares, fire starter (magnesium block and flint/scraper), towels, blankets, paper towels, diaper wipes, flash lights, knife & multitool, and chains. Outside that i have driving gloves, a gallon of water, and my AAA card
Besides the usual stuff mentioned somewhere above, the best thing in there (minivan) recently was a brand new, with tags, winter coat made by Timberline (that was in one of the 2 bags of good stuff City Thrift had thrown out I hadn’t dropped off yet at Good Samaritan as they give things to people in need, I was going to sell the jacket). When that transmission whatever it is called thing fell off the flat bed truck and hit my car last month the guy helping me get the mess away from the wheel so I could drive the car said he was cold. I told him I could do this now that I had a crowbar, go inside (I had pulled over by his driveway). He said no he’d do it. I said well go get a warmer jacket on I’m in no hurry. He said he didn’t have a warmer one. That new jacket fit him perfectly.
And that is my justification for having my minivan often look like a road side gypsy mobile thrift shop in the back. Never know what will come in handy. Right?
The toolbox in my trunk. Yes, I’m easily amused, why do you ask?
@blaineg Very appropriate. Automobile repair can be a very rewarding pastime.