Once the boys had been ferried off to their music session at a local Montessori school and dd1 was happily occupied with a friend upstairs I set about taking some of the clutter out of the car.
Hmmm....It's not good. In fact it's so bad, I have to list the items in order to shame myself that the car wont get this bad again. This is a list of the initial bag of items I have exumated from the car (there is more to come). I'm just wondering how all this fitted into the car (plus 5 people and a dog). Perhaps we've acquired a people-carrier version of the tardis?:
2 chip wrappers (and some left over chips - from today)
A bottle of ketchup (almost finished)
A bottle of brown sauce (very sticky)
two bottles of tap water
a pack of chewing gum
a pair of gardening gloves
two branches (no, not twigs or sticks - huge branches that were jammed across the front passenger seat)
Lots of tissues
A cardboard cloud that belongs to a pop-up Kipper book.
Two packs of sparklers (these are at least 2 years old, though they haven't been on the dashboard qute that long)
A toy car
An empty cassette case of 'driving music'
A slice of cork with a cup hook screwed into it
Two empty coke cups
A child's umbrella
A pair of muddy wellies
Two coats, a mac, a small vest, some pants and a bag of assorted spare clothes, mostly muddy.
An empty box for slides (we don't do slide photography anymore)
A car aerial (not from our car)
A book of local places to go
A spiral-bound road map, torn and muddy
A cassette of 'The Waterboys'
A bus ticket
Empty coke can
A white plastic strip for covering wiring
A tin of sweets (those expensive ones that they sell in motorway service stations)
Three felt-tip pens (mostly with lids missing) and 3 pencils
A dalek-shaped cookie cutter
A ticket to an ice disco (dated 12 December 2007) that we've never been to
A shop display leaflet that dd1 took off one of the display bikes in Halfords
Two black straws
Some unchewed lumps of chewing gum
A Charlie and Lola colouring pack
Two hankies (filthy)
A cassette of 'The Clash'
A felt-tip pen lid
A tescos receipt for Pringles and diesel
3 green shiny foil bottle tops
A box of nappy sacks
A parking ticket from October (stuck to the dashboard)
A discount voucher for ready brek (we don't eat it)
Two empty smartie tubes
A Micromeg purified water cartridge (huge and empty - came from the scrapstore)
A white pump thing with an arrow and 'flow' written on it (plus some weird tubes coming out of it)
A large scratch card (not the winning one obviously otherwise I would have paid for someone else to be clearing the car out)
A crayfish claw
An empty pack that once contained glowsticks
A rubber dart from a toy gun
A cardboard tube from the centre of a cone of machine wool
A birthday candle
A business card for dh
A tesco carrier
A pair of old glasses that are no longer worn
A pair of yellow sunglasses
A plastic boy on a plastic skateboard
A business card from a restaurant I've never heard of
A piece of card from a cigarette pack (we don't smoke)
A price tag from a batman toy (not ours)
A padlock that we don't have a key for
Another cork
A red plastic ball
Lego (assorted items including the head and arms from a Lego skeleton)
A clothes peg
A parking ticket for November
A piece of netting attached to 'missiles'
Some red straw-like things attached to attaching things
A plastic coin
3 pennies and a 20p piece
A small blob of bluetack
3 hazelnuts picked up from the pavement
A piece of flint
A long purple strap, used sometimes as a dog lead
An envelope for collecting pumpkin seeds
If this is representative of my life (or the state of my brain) I think I should be worried!
I sometimes wonder what my car would look like if I didn't have kids, or if I didn't home educate...
5 comments:
I had some really cool emails today that made me smile but as usual reading your blog brought the biggest smile to my face...in fact my son and I laughed out loud!!!
Sounds like my car...will do mine tomorrow and let you know whati find!!!!
Sorry, something else...the best thing is that we all do it and think it but you document it....(and so well)
FANTASTIC!!!!!
Yes I like to keep a record of these things for posterity. Then when my kids grow up and are all in therapy I'll be able to refer them back to the root causes (should make it cheaper for them as they wont have to do so many sessions) It's always reassuring to find others who aren't shocked by the mess that I live in! Perhap I hope by confessing my sins it will bring other sinners out of the closet and make me feel better lol!
LOL - I recently hauled out a huge amount of stuff from our car too; just where does it all come from? ... ;0)
Wow, bet the car looks fab now you've had a clear out!! Elle
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