How did the car get so bad?

Recently an employee mentioned that she had to take a friend and her two children somewhere. So when she got off work she was going to have to clean out her car so she could transfer the car seats for the kids to her car. I said something about the car seats taking up a lot of room. She said that actually no one could get in the back seat now because of all the junk in there.

How did it get that way? That is my question. I can see from time to time that you might be hauling something and the back seat is full. But the back seat is not meant to be that way permanently. There is a quick, easy organizational solution.

Don't let it get that way! That seems rather simple, and it is. When you get out of the car, it is very simple to look around and see if there is anything that doesn't belong there. Candy wrappers, pop cans, mail, trash of any kind, papers, etc. If there is something there that isn't needed the next time you use the car, then take it out immediately. If you do that simple task every time you get out of the car, it will never get to the point where you have to clean it out in order to have room for something or someone else.

Keep at it! Train yourself every time you get out of the car to take a quick inventory. Take the extra moment to grab whatever doesn't belong there, and toss it or take in into the house and put it where it belongs. It is easy to hang a plastic shopping bag in the garage for the quick toss of the trash. Or put the trash in the container most of us keep right outside the garage for our trash removal. The benefit to you is that you are always ready to take someone with you without having to first clean out the car. And the car is always clean for you when you get in. Don't you deserve to drive in a clean car? Try it. You'll feel better about your car and about yourself.