Tips to De-Clutter Your Car
by Leh'Chantel Thompson

Description: Tips for cleaning up the clutter in your family car.

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If you have children you are most likely a referee, consultant, chef, maid and chaufeur all in one. With all the different activities that the children have these days, that WE the parent no doubt have to drive these little crumb angels to. By the end of the week the car looks like it has been in a wreck on the inside, with all of the papers that have been left behind. To help with the snack bags and the drink cups and just the basic clutter that happens in the daily use of the home away from home also known as the car. Here are some useful tips:

1. Tuck plastic bags (grocery store bags or Walmart bags) in the pockets behind the passenger seat. When you need them they are there, whether its for trash or to double bag that bag of groceries that the bag boy overfilled. This also works great for those rainy days, just shake the wet umbrella off and stick it in the bag until you get out again, no more puddles on the front seat.

* Remember to take the used trashbag out of the car daily.

2. Keep those extra napkins that you get from fast food restaurants and store them in your glove box. These come in handy for those accidental spills. They are also thicker than the regular kleenex that we all have sitting on the dashboard, they obsorb more!

3. Place a small box or a crate in your trunk for all of the extra jackets or tennis shoes. This will also keep them from being stepped on when just thrown around in the car. No more grease stains because it keeps the items separated from the jack iron and the spare tire in the trunk.

4. Keep straws in the side pockets of your doors this will save on dreadful mishaps when little Michael is suddenly soaked because as he was turning up his drink you went over the railroad tracks. Plus, the kids get a kick out of blowing bubbles in their drinks. I'd rather listen to the bubble blowing than an argument over who hit who first anyday.

5. Last but not least, keep a small cooler in the back of the passenger seat on the floor. Stock it with their favorite juices or drinks that way when you pick the children up from school or daycare if they are thirsty, voila! If they'd rather have snacks than drinks use the cooler minus ice for their favorite pretzels, cookies or chips. I usually buy the big bags of snacks and then fill sandwich bags individually with each snack and stock the cooler. Works great for those days traffic is thick and its getting close to dinner time.

These are just a few of my lifesaving daily DO's for a neater me.

A tip a day keeps the clutter away!

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