PSA - when was the last time you checked your glove box?

[Granny_Weatherwax]

Do you remember a few weeks ago when someone got into our truck and took my school bag? At the time I thought the bag was the only thing taken. Yesterday the car dealership wanted to see proof of insurance so DH and I opened the glove box. All of the important paperwork was missing (registration, proof of insurance). The maps were still there but not the other stuff. We did a thorough cleaning of the truck today and Dh noted some tools are missing as well as the center punch I kept in the center console.

 

All of the cassette tapes are still there!:lol: As are the CDs.

 

The PSA part - when was the last time you did an inventory of your vehicle's contents? Make sure everything is where it should be.

[Mommyof4ks]

Hmm...that is a good idea! I keep my glove box locked, so if it is ever unlocked I check it. I have never just gone through it though. That is now on my list for the weekend.

[Jean in Newcastle]

I'm afraid that I did that all too recently - when our car was broken into. I was reminded esp. to do so though because the glove box was left open and the contents strewn all over the seats. In our case, nothing was taken - I guess because we didn't have any sunglasses. 6 neighborhood cars were hit and all that was taken out of any of them was sunglasses.

[Peggy in Va]

Oh my, that is bad. The only thing in my glove box is the manual that came with the car.

 

I've never kept my registration or insurance info in the car. By law the registration is required to be in the car and if I'm in the car the registration is also in there.

 

Many, many years ago my mother strongly recommended that I not keep the registration in the car. Her reason was that if someone broke into the car it would make it too easy to find out where we lived. I think from her point of view it was more of a safety issue as she and my dad were divorced and there was no male in the house. But ever since then, single or married, I've just kept the registration in my wallet.

[OnTheBrink]

Today, as a matter of fact! I was in the drive-through at the DMV to renew my tags, and had to find my current registration. I literally tossed everything from the bottom glove box onto the seat.

 

I found: the owner's manual (which is hard to miss; it's in a zipper pouch with a first aid kit)

2 year's worth of insurance cards

an old pair of glasses

a spoon (?)

spray air freshener

receipts for oil changes and tire repair

a pair of gloves (imagine that!)

and a coloring page of Hello Kitty.

 

I tossed the old insurance cards, Hello Kitty, and the old glasses. I tucked the repair receipts into the owner's manual pouch, and crammed the rest into the box.

[Nestof3]

Being the OCD person that I am, quite regularly, in fact.

 

In the large glove box, I have sandwich bags labeled with contents: batteries, tissues, napkins, trash bags, adult and children's tylenol, and dusting cloth.

 

Then I also keep:

 

baby wipes (which I refresh with water from time to time)

hand sanitizer

insect repellent

sunscreen

deodorant

spare barrette and scrunchy

travel toilet paper

 

In the skinny glove box, I keep car manual, registration, AAA info, printed directions I want to save.

 

In tiny compartment, I keep GPS, pen, notepad and chewing gum.

 

In bottom compartment, I keep cell-phone recharger, MP3 player recharger, flashlight

 

First aid kit is kept in the back in a small compartment.

 

PS -- I'm sorry about your break-in.

[Violet Crown]

Does anyone actually keep gloves in the glove box anymore? I remember my grandmother taking her driving gloves out of the glove box ever time she got in the car; all she kept in there were driving gloves and a map of Albuquerque.

[MeanestMomInMidwest]

Does anyone actually keep gloves in the glove box anymore? I remember my grandmother taking her driving gloves out of the glove box ever time she got in the car; all she kept in there were driving gloves and a map of Albuquerque.

 

that's funny. One of my kids recently asked why it is called a glove box and the only thing I could say is, "I guess everyone used to keep gloves in the car and needed a place to stash them."

[Violet Crown]

Tell your kids that this is how a lady drives. ;)