<h1>How You Can Keep Your Car Clean</h1>
Today, we are going to talk about the area that all of us have to address at some point or another...your car! Yes, the space most of us spend at least 20% of our time in, if not more.  This is a space that can easily get out of hand  if we don't create a system that works. Well, for the past couple of months I have really been focusing on this space, because it was driving me nuts!  You see before I had my daughter my car pretty much stayed organized.  Now, don't get me wrong...it was never spotless, there were always the random runaway fries under my seat or dust on the dashboard, but <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4923" src="http://thehappinessbucket.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/refuel-2157211_640-300x199.jpg" alt="Refuel Gas" width="300" height="199" />the car itself was organized and clean.  Well, fast forward to almost a year and a half later and I was about to lose my mind...my car seemed like it was
always a mess.

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So, I created a plan...I decided every time I stopped for gas I would do a clean sweep of the car.  This entailed throwing out any trash I could see -receipts, cups, napkins, etc. I had purchased a collapsible trunk organizer that had two compartments and several mesh pockets along with Velcro strips on the bottom. I put anything that didn't have an immediate need, was a return or needed to go into the house in one of the two compartments. I also cleaned out the door pockets and inner console and designated what went in each...again assigning an address to my belongings. So...once all this was determined the key question is did I stick with it...

Yes! And it has been great! By using the gas filling time to maintenance the inside of my car I knew I would do it at least once a week. It gave me a small window of time to knock it out and I always knew where everything was in my car. Now, this still didn't address the runaway fries, which now had multiplied because there were mine and my daughters in there, but we can only tackle one thing at a time lol. I can say that as of the writing of this post all runaway fries and other things lint and dirt that sneak under your seat, have found there way to the inside of a vacuum.  Apparently I got a bee in my bonnet about seeing all that stuff lol.

One other thing I do is I now keep a few plastic grocery bags in the pocket of my backseat. This is really helpful when you are stuck in traffic to gather trash or to go through your glove compartment.  You can also use them when corralling toys or other things to take in the house.

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