Dedicated space for trash and tissues and overall cleanliness?

[Scoutsie]

This may be a user discretion thing, but I have always wondered why there isn’t a dedicated space in an automobile for trash (or recyclables). Stuff like snotty tissues, used napkins, used wipes, or other gross stuff that you can toss into a trash can at your earliest convenience. It would similarly be handy to have a spot to stash tissues or wipes or what have you without them getting knocked around, stepped on, or otherwise beaten up (they always did in my car without a means to keep them secure). Maybe this is a me issue, but as a person with seasonal allergies I am surely not the only one who often travels with a yuckbag or needs readily-available access to hand sanitizer and tissues because I don’t love being a vector of disease. I live with an elderly person and have a weakened immune system, have friends with active cancer diagnoses, and I am all about cleanliness and don’t want to accidentally kill the people I love (or people who other people love) by giving them the flu.

I am not alone or crazy in wishing cars had some kind of trash management. The Volvo XC40 apparently did both of these things (damned if I could find a picture of the tissue box).

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[J Alynn]

I just hang a plastic shopping bag handle (regretfully you'll always have one around) from the glove box door next to the console in the passenger footwell. Easy change out and not too intrusive for the passenger.

I'm also a recyclemaniac and actually use the shopping bag/purse hangers from Amazon to hang two bags off the back of the passenger headrest for major recycling in one and the bag/wrapper recycling in the other.

Stuff a bunch of empty bags in the map pocket and good to go if you need to change out mid trip.

But it could be an option that compliments the interior rather than the crappy plastic bags. The Scouts deserve more

 

[Scoutsie]

But it could be an option that compliments the interior rather than the crappy plastic bags. The Scouts deserve more

That’s my problem. There’s nothing to keep a crappy plastic bag secure while you’re driving and it looks ugly. There’s nothing to prevent trash from flying out of it. That’s what makes my very mildly obsessive-compulsive heart go pitter-patter. Even if I can’t have the order I want elsewhere in my life, can I please have it in my intelligently-designed new car? Can I please have it say “I am not an open trash can for passengers and I am better than plastic bags from the grocery store?” WE ARE WORTH NICE THINGS.

 

[Logan]

That’s my problem. There’s nothing to keep a crappy plastic bag secure while you’re driving and it looks ugly. There’s nothing to prevent trash from flying out of it. That’s what makes my very mildly obsessive-compulsive heart go pitter-patter. Even if I can’t have the order I want elsewhere in my life, can I please have it in my intelligently-designed new car? Can I please have it say “I am not an open trash can for passengers and I am better than plastic bags from the grocery store?” WE ARE WORTH NICE THINGS.

As a side note, those "crappy plastic bags", aren't as ubiquitous as they used to be.

We get the heavy duty ones that you have to pay for, and that are supposed to be reuseable, not the thin flimsy ones that existed for the last forever.

 

[Scoutsie]

As a side note, those "crappy plastic bags", aren't as ubiquitous as they used to be.

We get the heavy duty ones that you have to pay for, and that are supposed to be reuseable, not the thin flimsy ones that existed for the last forever.

Depends where you shop? I definitely still get the crinkly plastic ones… not as much, but I do get them. I have a fleet of reusable shopping bags, but I am really good about forgetting to take them with me when I go shopping.